Uncertain Logic - Rise of the Federation

Informationen zum Autor Christopher L. Bennett Klappentext An original novel continuing the saga of the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise-featuring Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise!Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic 1 February 23, 2165 U.S.S. Pioneer NCC-63 “JUST LOOK AT THOSE STARS.” Lieutenant Commander Travis Mayweather sighed in satisfaction at the sheer unfamiliarity of the star patterns outside the viewports of Pioneer’s mess hall. “Uncharted territory,” he went on. “It’s been a while.” “Well, of course it’s been charted,” said Doctor Therese Liao from her seat across the circular table. “I mean, we can see it all from Federation space. We have telescopes. It’s not like there are any horizons to sail over out here.” Mayweather threw the diminutive, middle-aged chief medical officer a sour look. “You know what I mean. We may know the lay of the land, but we don’t know who lives out here. We haven’t mapped the planets and systems in detail. And that’s not even counting what we might find in the dark spaces between the stars,” he went on in more dramatic tones, shifting into storytelling mode. “Rogue planets, derelict ships, subspace anomalies, you name it. Why, once on Enterprise, we were intercepted by this huge ship that swallowed us whole like a manta ray devouring its prey. Its crew turned out to be—” “Non-corporeal ‘wisps’ who wanted to snatch your bodies. You told me that one before,” Liao interposed. He heard the disbelief in the older woman’s tone. “This wasn’t one of my ghost stories, Therese. It’s in the logs!” “I’ll believe that when you explain to me what creatures without bodies needed a starship for.” “They couldn’t live in space.” “Then how did they operate the thing?” “I never got around to asking, okay? The point is,” he went on with a chuckle, “we’re finally out where we belong. No more experimental upgrades, no more diplomatic missions to known worlds, no more follow-ups of old pre-war surveys. Just this.” He spread his arms to take in the vista beyond the port. This sector of the galaxy had been inaccessible to humans and their neighbors in the past, blocked by Romulan patrol fleets and Vertian experimental raids in the intervening space. But now the Romulans were confined behind the Neutral Zone and the Vertians had agreed to cease experimentation on sapient beings, enabling safe passage to the territories beyond. The members of the expansive Rigelian trading community were already clamoring to seek out commercial opportunities in the new reaches, and since Rigel was now a brand spanking new member of the United Federation of Planets, it was up to Starfleet to serve as their vanguard. Thus, Admiral Archer had assigned Pioneer to live up to its name. “Going where no man has gone before,” Mayweather finished. Liao gave him a sidelong look. “Cochrane stole that line from Davida Rossi, you know.” She furrowed her brows. “Or was it D. F. Black? A Boomer, anyway.” “Rossi and Black were the generation before the Boomers,” he reminded her. “But they made us possible.” “So did Cochrane.” “Until he sold out the ECS and shared his Warp Five plans with UESPA instead.” Mayweather smirked, knowing Liao wouldn’t be in Starfleet if she sincerely clung to the old rivalry between the “Space Boomers,” the generations of humans born and raised on Earth Cargo Services freighters, and the government-run United Earth Space Probe Agency—a rivalry that had only intensified when UESPA founded its Starfleet arm and brought stronger regulati Zusammenfassung An original novel continuing the saga of the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise-featuring Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew...

Product details

• Authors: Christopher L Bennett, Christopher L. Bennett
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.03.2015
• EAN: 9781476779119
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-7911-9
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 175 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Star Trek - Enterprise; Star Trek: Enterprise
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy