Takashi Kimura was established in production art for ENT: “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II,” by Mike Sussman, as the future husband of Hoshi Sato, and introduced as a MACO major in The Romulan War. Thomas Vanderbilt was named as the first Federation president in a piece of unused production art for Star Trek Generations and established in The Romulan War as Earth’s defense minister. Caroline Paris was alluded to in Voyager: Mosaic, by Jeri Taylor, as an ancestor of Tom Paris. While Tobin Dax was referenced in various episodes of Deep Space Nine, his physical description is drawn from Jeffrey Lang’s “Dead Man’s Hand” in the anthology The Lives of Dax, although the specifics of that story have been superseded by Enterprise screen and prose continuity. My description of the Malurians, whose true faces were only partially glimpsed onscreen, is influenced by the artwork of Bettina Kurkoski in “Communications Breakdown,” a story in Tokyopop’s Star Trek: The Manga—Kakan ni Shinkou.
The “Columbia class” is essentially the conjectural NX-class refit designed by Doug Drexler and depicted in the Ships of the Line 2011 Calendar, although I have positioned the shuttlebays slightly differently. Drexler’s “Drex Files” blog at drexfiles.wordpress.com provided valuable reference for alien ships and species from the ENT era. Star Trek: Star Charts, by Geoffrey Mandel, established the primary stars for systems including Sauria, Orion, and Deneva and introduced the “Beta Rigel” concept; the StarMap site at www.whitten.org/starmap identifies “Beta Rigel” as Tau-3 Eridani based on its placement in Mandel’s book. The physical attributes of Saurians were established by Robert Fletcher in his costume-design notes for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and have been developed in prose by myself and David Mack.
Thanks to Dave Mack for offering valuable insights on Tellarite psychology and explaining the qualities of a good brandy to this teetotaling author. Thanks to Kevin Dilmore and Kirsten Beyer for their input on the story outline.
A final note: This book is not in continuity with the book Federation: The First 150 Years, by David A. Goodman. I did not have the opportunity to peruse Mister Goodman’s work while writing my own, and he chose to depict this era of Federation history differently than the Pocket novel continuity had already done in previous volumes. It’s worth remembering that Star Trek tie-in novels, comics, and games over the decades have often depicted multiple alternative versions of a given event, which I think is a good thing, because it gives the readers more choices and a more interesting mix of ideas than a single, uniform continuity would provide. It is the lesson of Star Trek, after all, that diversity in combination is something to be celebrated.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor’s degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed Star Trek novels as Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels Orion’s Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, and the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, Prophecy and Change, and Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines. More information and annotations can be found at http://home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett/, and the author’s blog can be found at http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/.
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Contents
Epigraph
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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