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(P921)
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(Q7167)
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(P1683)
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"April heard what she was saying. “You fear the colonists are exploiting the locals?” “Wouldn’t be the first time in history,” she replied. “Sad to say.” “Nor the last,” he admitted. April was an optimist, but he was also a realist. When a more technologically advanced culture moved into territory occupied by a less developed people, the results were often tragic for the latter. “Particularly if that new territory has resources to exploit.”" (language: en)
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(Q332768)
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(P1683)
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"Even Una, who was doubtless still upset over Eljor’s failure to rescue Martinez and the others, appeared moved by the Jatohr’s fervent plea. April guessed that, after what had happened to her landing party, she understood too well what it was like to be haunted by a mistake you couldn’t take back. He hoped she could forgive herself in time." (language: en)
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(P792)
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Fourteen
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(Q2434238)
(Q129485341)
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(P8371)
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(Q5251725)
(Q619989)
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(P248)
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(P304)
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10
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(P1683)
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"Kirk guessed that she was referring to their former captain, Christopher Pike. Only a year had passed since Spock had temporarily hijacked the Enterprise to provide one last service for Pike, delivering him to a better future on the…" (language: en)
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(Q637802)
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(P248)
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(P304)
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172
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(P1683)
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""Do not attempt to leave orbit," Woryan replied finally, "or risk certain destruction." "No one wants that," April replied. … Based on the concept of mutual assured destruction, April thought." (language: en)
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(Q3312529)
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(P1683)
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"Reviewing the classified logs and reports on Kirk’s recent visit to a barbaric alternate universe had been the breakthrough she’d needed to push past the obstacles that had been blocking her. Not only had that bizarre transporter accident provided her with concrete data on the physics of how exactly beings from one universe could, under the right confluence of events, pass over to another, parallel reality, but Kirk’s description of the “Tantalus Field” he had encountered in that universe bore a provocative resemblance to the transfer field the Jatohr had used to eliminate their enemies, suggesting a similar mode of operation." (language: en)
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(Q1984117)
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(P248)
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(P1683)
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"The persistent, vaguely mechanical rumbling in the background reminded Kirk of a classic science-fiction story from the twentieth century about an automated house that kept on running long after its inhabitants had been vaporized by an atomic blast." (language: en)
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(P304)
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297
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(Q220331)
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(P1683)
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"“Another universe,” McCoy murmured. “I still have trouble wrapping my head around that, despite that unsettling business on the other side of the looking glass a while back.” He regarded Spock with a critical eye. “For the record, I still think you looked better with a beard.”" (language: en)
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(Q7760733)
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(P1683)
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"“Computer. Specify location of Captain James T. Kirk.”“Captain Kirk is presently on the bridge,” the computer responded. Despite the seriousness of her mission, Una was amused to hear a rather robotic version of her own voice answer her; apparently no one had altered the voice parameters since she and Spock had installed them, using her own voice as a baseline, several years ago. “And First Officer Spock?” “Commander Spock is also on the bridge.”" (language: en)
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(Q3488859)
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(P1683)
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"It was less than a year since the Federation and the Empire had nearly gone to war. If not for the unexpected intervention of the Organians, the Enterprise might well be flying into battle now—or perhaps already have become a casualty of war. The current cease-fire was a tense and fragile one, marred by occasional provocations on the part of the Klingons, but it had held so far. Kirk was aware that a major conference to finalize the Organian peace accords was already in the works and that much depended on that conference going smoothly. The last thing anyone needed was Captain Una endangering the peace by entering the disputed region for unknown purposes." (language: en)
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(Q5252917)
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(P1683)
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"“Slingshot,” he said, looking up from his own sensor readings. Even his perpetually calm voice sounded hushed by the revelation. “She means to achieve a slingshot effect.”Kirk couldn’t believe his ears. The slingshot maneuver was an incredibly risky and frankly desperate stunt that involved flying a vessel at high speed dangerously close to a star and then breaking away at the last minute, so that the star’s intense gravitational field would accelerate the vessel away from the star with tremendous force. Rarely attempted, and only in the direst of circumstances, a slingshot effect could even break the time barrier and propel a ship into the past or future.“To travel through time?” Kirk asked.“Possibly,” Spock said." (language: en)
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(Q2629417)
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(P1683)
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"Almost a century had passed since the Broken Bow incident, and relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire had hardly improved since that tumultuous first contact. With the Federation expanding by means of diplomacy and exploration, and the Empire aggressively extending its borders through naked conquest and subterfuge, the two galactic superpowers seemed to be on a collision course, with occasional border skirmishes becoming more and more frequent." (language: en)
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(Q102357156)
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(P1683)
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"“Another universe,” McCoy murmured. “I still have trouble wrapping my head around that, despite that unsettling business on the other side of the looking glass a while back.” He regarded Spock with a critical eye. “For the record, I still think you looked better with a beard.”" (language: en)
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(Q2406293)
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(P1683)
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"Suppose it fell into the hands of the Klingons or the Orions or even someone like Kodos the Executioner. Imagine what Kodos could have done with this Key. How easily he could have ‘removed’ those he deemed unfit to survive.”Only a few years in the past, the tyrant’s genocidal atrocities were still spoken of in horror throughout the Federation. The Enterprise had been one of the first starships to arrive on the scene in the wake of the massacre, bearing food and medical supplies that arrived too late for the half of the population that Kodos had ruthlessly put to death" (language: en)
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(Q3488489)
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(P1683)
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"From everything she knew of Kirk, he wasn’t the kind of captain who would just let this go or choose to play it safe. He’d even crossed into the Romulan Neutral Zone last year, risking interplanetary war, because he deemed it necessary. She couldn’t imagine that he would just let her get away with the Key." (language: en)
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(Q47088406)
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(P1683)
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"The Korinar Sector, which included the Libros system, had not been claimed by the Klingons all those years ago, but times had sadly changed and the Empire had expanded since her early years aboard the Enterprise under Captain April." (language: en)
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(P792)
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Fifteen
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(Q25366)
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(P1683)
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"Kirk knew that despite his dispassionate tone, Spock had to be hoping for just such an outcome. He didn’t envy Spock having to treat an old friend and crewmate as a fugitive. Kirk had felt the same way when Spock had defied Starfleet to rescue Pike from a living hell, and when Gary Mitchell had been driven insane by cosmic forces. Accepting that Gary had become an enemy had been one of hardest trials of Kirk’s early captaincy; he still missed the friend he once would have trusted with his life." (language: en)
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(Q3487169)
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(P1683)
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"Her ribs felt like a mugato had pounded on them. How long had she been running anyway?" (language: en)
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(Q3487465)
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(P1683)
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"Probably much the way he would feel if he returned to Tarsus IV, where he’d once been among the sole survivors of a genocidal massacre, or if he set foot once more on Tycho IV, where so many of his fellow crew members had died unnecessarily." (language: en)
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(Q3178411)
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(P1683)
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"Kirk could see where McCoy was coming from. Starfleet was still coping with the revelation that the Romulans had developed a working cloaking device. The Key had the potential to dramatically shift the balance of power in the galaxy if it fell into the wrong hands—or even the right ones." (language: en)
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(Q54802759)
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(P1683)
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"“Just be careful,” she added.“When am I not?” “Do you really want a list?” she said, smiling wryly. “To start with, there was that carefree jaunt into the Neutral Zone . . . ”He held up his hand to forestall a longer recitation of his crimes against caution. “Point taken, love, but I’ve always come home safe and sound, haven’t I?”" (language: en)
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(Q3487426)
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(P1683)
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"Kirk recalled that Spock had once managed to use a communicator to start an avalanche. Come to think of it, they had been pursued by Klingons then too." (language: en)
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