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David R. George III has written more than a dozen Star Trek novels, including Ascendance, The Lost Era: One Constant Star, The Fall: Revelation and Dust, Allegiance in Exile, the Typhon Pact novels Raise the Dawn, Plagues of Night, and Rough Beasts of Empire, as well as the New York Times bestseller The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins. He also cowrote the television story for the first-season Star Trek: Voyager episode "Prime Factors." Additionally, David has written nearly twenty articles for Star Trek magazine. His work has appeared on both the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists, and his television episode was nominated for a Sci-Fi Universe magazine award. You can chat with David about his writing at Facebook.com/DRGIII.
STEVE MOLLMANN is studying for a Ph.D. in English at an unknown university at an unknown location in the United States. He is not being coy; at the time this was written, he simply had no idea where he would be by the time you read this. He obtained his M.A. in English at the University of Connecticut, and hopes to pursue a career as a scholar, specializing in British literature, especially its intersection with science and technology. Also in that gap of time, he will have gotten married to his then-fiancée, Hayley. He has met Michael Schuster on more than one occasion.
MICHAEL SCHUSTER lives in a picturesque Austrian mountain valley, with half a continent and one entire ocean between him and Steve Mollmann. A bank employee by day, he likes to come up with new (or at least relatively unused) ideas that can be turned into stories with loving care and the occasional nudge. With Steve, he is the co-author of two short stories in the anthology Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Sky's the Limit. Their first novel, The Tears of Eridanus, will be released as part of the collection Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light this December. Currently, the two are hard at work building their own universe-sized sandbox to play in. More information about them (including annotations for The Future Begins) can be found at http://www.exploringtheuniverse.net/.
Scott Pearson contributed stories to Strange New Worlds VII and Strange New Worlds 9 as well as to the Star Trek: The Next Generation twentieth anniversary anthology The Sky's the Limit. His novella Honor in the Night is in Star Trek Myriad Universes: Shattered Light. Most recently he has had stories in three ReDeus shared-world anthologies alongside many other Star Trek writers. He lives with his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Ella, in personable St. Paul, Minnesota, near the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, fabled in story and song, where he endeavors to make a living as a freelance writer/editor. Visit him on the web at YeahSure.net and GenerationsGeek.com. You can also find him on Facebook and Twitter. You can listen to Generations Geek, the podcast he does with his daughter, at Chronicrift.com and on the iTunes he's heard people mention over the water cooler.
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Star Trek® Myriad Universes
Like the waters of a vast ocean, the voices threatened to drown him. They surrounded him, weighed him down, pulled him inexorably into their midst. As uncountable as sea waves and as unsympathetic, they battered him from all sides.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard lay on his back, the metal table beneath him once cold and hard, but now beyond his ability to feel. He stared blindly upward, no longer seeing the complex equipment pervading the alien vessel. Numbness suffused his body, a welcome release from the thousand natural shocks to which his flesh had been heir.
A glimmer of recognition darted through Picard's awareness. Shakespeare, he thought, grasping for the paraphrased fragment of dialogue, desperate to latch onto something—anything—familiar. Shakespeare, The Tragedy … The Tragedy of …
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, said a voice in his head—said all the voices, knit together as one. Hundreds of Borg—perhaps a thousand or more—spoke in unison, a chorus of unremitting pressure. Until now, their refrain had articulated only pronouncements of conquest: Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
A single voice loosed itself from the whole and spoke to him through the continued din of the aggregate. To die, to sleep—no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. The words came in flat tones, devoid of emotion, the cadence robotic. Act Three, Scene One, of Hamlet.
How do they know that? Picard wondered. Had they extracted the information from his brain, or had they gleaned it from some other source? Even as he posed the question, he understood the answer. Though he and the Enterprise crew had discovered from their first encounter with the Borg that the physically augmented humanoids procreated, it had grown clear just how they added the "biological distinctiveness" of other species to their own: by brute force. The restraints that bound Picard prevented him from peering down at himself, but earlier he'd heard the awful sound of a drill penetrating the side of his skull, he'd felt the strange sensation of tubes pushing into newly opened holes in his torso, he'd watched a dark, plated mechanism being secured to the right half of his face.
And he had begun to hear their voices, no longer without, but within, side by side with his own thoughts. As he resisted, they continued to tell him that he had been chosen to speak for the Borg in all communications, in order to facilitate their introduction into Federation societies. The Borg would make him one of their own, both physically and mentally—just as they had with so many others. Their knowledge of Shakespeare had not come from him, but from some other individuals they had incorporated into their hive.
When did you learn Shakespeare? came another lone voice, barely distinguishable from that of the Borg mass, yet divergent enough to impose a primacy of attention.
Where did you learn Shakespeare? asked a second.
Why did you learn Shakespeare? demanded a third.
Picard did not intend to respond in any way, but his mind's eye conjured the image of a classroom. He saw himself in school at the age of fourteen, listening to Ms. DeGiglio, his literature instructor. He knew at once that the Borg had in that moment ascertained the answers they'd just sought, and more: the appearance and name of his teacher. The mere act of hearing their questions had amounted to an irresistible interrogation.
More voices peeled away from the ongoing swell of Borg thought rushing through Picard's mind.
What else did you learn?
What scientific concepts did you learn?
What scientific applications did you learn?
Though he made no conscious effort to do so, Picard thought about the warp-field effect, about the equations he'd studied during his years at Starfleet Academy. He envisioned the classroom, the campus in San Francisco, diagrams in textbooks, and schematics he'd seen in Enterprise's engineering section. Distressed by the idea of the Borg gathering any information at all about Starfleet and its abilities, Picard attempted to blank his mind. He understood that the human brain did not function as a computer did, or even as Data's positronic brain did. The Borg could not simply download his organic intelligence and memory, so that they could then scour the data for useful information, but after connecting their collective mind to his psyche, they could "see" and "hear" his waking thoughts. If they could compel him to think of some particular detail, then they could incorporate that detail into their own body of knowledge.
Despair washed over Picard like the tide, carried along by the unrelenting voices of the Borg. They had already exhausted his body and his mind, leaving him with a faltering resolve that he knew he couldn't maintain for much longer. He had promised to resist the Borg with his last ounce of strength, but once they had worn him down, what then? It required no guesswork to determine the information they wanted most—information he retained as the captain of Enterprise.
No! Picard cried without opening his mouth. He would not think of his starship. Instead, he struggled to envisage the night sky above his childhood home in La Barre. As a boy, he'd often stood out in his family's vineyard, gazing upward and identifying the constellations and stars that so fascinated him. He'd spent more than a few nights imagining himself aboard a starship, warping through space.
Your vessel possesses warp capabilities, stated a Borg voice. What other technologies does it employ?
Cepheus, the constellation of the King, Picard forced himself to think. He recalled the formation of stars from memory. Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, he thought next. Draco, the Dragon.
What are your vessel's armaments?
Alderamin and Errai in Cepheus, Picard recited to himself—to himself and to the Borg. Polaris and Kochab in Ursa Minor. Eltanin and—
What are your vessel's newest technological developments?
Newest, Picard echoed, the word shining in his mind bright as a nova. Newest, he thought again. The newest technological developments aboard Enterprise.
His thoughts drifted backward to—when? Hours ago, perhaps? Or had days passed? The perception of time had slipped away from him beneath the constant assault of the Borg intelligence. Still, whenever he had last been aboard Enterprise, he'd witnessed firsthand his crew's most recent technological achievement. In a flash, related sights and sounds, thoughts and feelings, emerged from his memory.
The Borg saw everything.
The turbolift glided to a stop, its doors easing open with a whisper. Captain Picard stepped out onto deck twelve and strode purposefully down the corridor, headed for one of Enterprise's numerous science laboratories. His presence there had been requested by Commander Riker, who had just contacted him about a highly unusual—and wholly unauthorized—project undertaken by Lieutenant Commander Data. Unclear as to precisely what he would find in the lab, the captain feared the worst-case scenario, already rehearsing what he would say to Starfleet Command in such a circumstance.
Picard approached Room 5103 and reached for the door control. The panels parted before him to reveal Riker standing beside Data and Counselor Troi at the periphery of the raised octagonal platform that dominated the space. Lieutenant Commander La Forge and Ensign Crusher stood off to one side. Each of the officers faced the experiment chamber at the center of the room, though they all peered over at Picard as he entered. Whatever conversation they might have been having immediately ceased.
Gesturing toward the chamber as Picard mounted the platform, Riker said, "Captain, this is Data's—" He hesitated, seeming to search for the appropriate word. "—creation," he finished.
Picard regarded the humanoid figure. Slight of form, perhaps a meter and a half tall, it projected a neutral, unfinished appearance. It wore no clothing, and its bronze skinlike covering showed neither hair nor sexual characteristics. Its nose had no nares. Narrow slits formed its eye sockets and mouth.
"Lal," Data said, "say hello to Captain Jean-Luc Picard."
The android looked first to Data, then to Picard. Its head did not turn smoothly, but incrementally, much as Data's often did. "Hello, Captain Jean-Luc Picard," it said, its voice possessed of a vaguely electronic quality, not really masculine, not really feminine.
Picard did not reply. Of Data, he asked, "How similar is this android to you?"
"Lal is very similar to me," Data said, "though I have attempted to improve those design elements I could."
Any hope Picard nurtured for an uncomplicated resolution to the situation vanished. He studied the android, and began slowly working his way around the experiment chamber to examine it further. It had not been so long ago that Picard had fought Starfleet to establish Data's own rights as an individual. While a reasonable argument could be made to apply that decision to Data's new creation, the captain doubted that Command would agree so readily.
"Lal has a positronic brain much like my own," Data continued. "I began programming it during my time at the cybernetics conference on Galtinor Prime." Data had attended the conference more than a month earlier.
"Nobody's ever been able to do that," said La Forge. "Not since Doctor Soong programmed you, anyway." Soong had constructed Data three decades earlier, not long before the doctor's death.
"That is true," Data agreed, "but at the conference, I learned of a new sub-micron matrix-transfer technology. The process intrigued me. As I studied it, I discovered that it could be utilized to set up complex neural-net pathways."
"So you used your brain as a template," Ensign Crusher said, "and transferred the setup to Lal's brain."
"That is correct, Wesley," Data said. "With this advance, I realized that it would be possible to continue Doctor Soong's work. The initial transfers proved promising, and so I brought Lal's brain back to the Enterprise with me. Several more transfers will be required in order to complete the process."
As Picard completed his circuit around the new android, Riker asked, "Data, why didn't you tell anybody about this?" The question bespoke the captain's own thoughts.
"It was a personal experience," Data said. "I have not observed members of the crew involving others in their attempts at procreation."
Riker's eyebrows arched as he glanced over at Picard. Data's characterization of his building the android as an act of reproduction signaled an added complexity to what Picard had already assumed would develop into a difficult situation. The captain needed to understand everything he could about Data's invention before the inevitable inquiries from Starfleet Command. "Commander Data, I would like to speak with you in my ready room in one hour."
"Aye, sir."
"Commander Riker," Picard said, bidding his first officer to follow him. "Counselor." The captain exited, headed back to the bridge, his two officers in tow. Once in the corridor, Picard asked, "Why did we not know about this?"
"Technically, Data hasn't done anything wrong," Riker said. "He may have conducted his efforts privately, but he didn't violate any regulations about personal, off-duty use of the ship's facilities."
"Even so," Picard said, "his operating in secret precluded the possibility of us preventing this from happening."
"I don't think he meant to deceive anybody," Troi said. "You heard him: he views Lal not as his invention, but as his child."
"An outlook we must discourage," Picard said. "This android is an invention, not a child."
"I'm not so sure," Troi said. "Is biology necessarily a determining factor in what is and what isn't a child? Data has created an offspring, a separate life based at least partly on his own being. That suggests to me that Lal is his child."
"A child that can perform sixty trillion calculations a second and could lift me over its head with one arm," Riker observed wryly.
"An exceptional child, perhaps," Troi said, "but a child nonetheless."
The trio arrived at a turbolift and entered. The captain specified their destination, and the car started upward. Thinking beyond the new android's capabilities, it occurred to Picard that Data's motivations might help inform the situation. "Counselor, I'm recollecting Data's experiences during the past couple of months. Could his decision to do this be a reaction to what happened on the Jovis?"
"You mean his abduction by Kivas Fajo?" Troi asked.
"And the faking of his death," Picard said. Fajo, a Zibalian trader and a collector of rare and valuable items, had staged a shuttle accident in order to cover his kidnapping and detention of Data. "Could his facing indefinite confinement have contributed to his desire to construct another of his own kind? Or could his potentially having to kill his captor in order to escape captivity have contributed?"
"It's possible," Troi allowed, though with a tone of skepticism. "Post-traumatic stress can sometimes drive individuals to life-affirming actions, such as having a child. But I think such circumstances imply the presence of emotion, so I'm not sure this would explain Data's behavior."
"The conference was postponed a few months because of severe weather around the cybernetics center on Galtinor Prime," Riker said. "Do you think if it had taken place as originally scheduled, prior to the incident with Fajo, that Data still would have constructed Lal?"
"Provided that the technology he learned about was available at that time," Troi said, "yes, I do."
The turbolift reached the bridge, depositing Picard and his officers on the lower level, beside the door to the captain's ready room. "Counselor," Picard said, "I'd like you to look into that more. See if there's any basis for post-traumatic stress and related actions without an emotional component."
"Yes, sir," Troi said. She padded across to her position.
"Number One," Picard said, and entered his ready room. Riker followed. Inside, the captain crossed to his desk and took his chair. His first officer sat down opposite.
"Will, do you still have whatever research you conducted for the hearing on Starbase One-Seven-Three?" Picard asked. A year and a half earlier, Commander Bruce Maddox, a cyberneticist attached to the Daystrom Technological Institute, had moved to dismantle and reverse-engineer Data. Maddox hoped thereby to complete his own research so that he could then manufacture Soong-type androids for Starfleet. Data refused, causing the judge advocate general in the sector to decide on his legal status. When the JAG declared Data property of Starfleet, Picard challenged the ruling. The captain argued on Data's behalf, and because the judge advocate general's office in Sector 23 had just been set up and had yet to be fully staffed, it fell upon Riker to prosecute the case against Data's freedom. Picard and Data had prevailed, but Riker—unwillingly, but with little choice in the matter—had made the case for the opposing viewpoint quite convincingly.
Riker sighed. "That's not information I made any effort to keep, but I'm sure it's still in my files," he said. "Do you think we're going to have to wage this battle again?"
"I don't know," Picard said, "but I want to be prepared if we do."
The door chime sounded precisely on time, exactly one hour after Picard had asked Data to report to the ready room. The captain reached forward and blanked the display on his computer interface, on which he had been reviewing the transcript of the hearing at Starbase 173. "Come," he said, and the panels retracted into the bulkhead to admit Data. "Have a seat, Commander."
Data sat down across the desk from Picard. "I perceive that you are upset with me, Captain."
"I am not upset with you, Mister Data," Picard said, "so much as I am surprised and concerned. I had no notion at all that you were even considering such a venture, much less actually embarking on one."
Data's eyes shifted, and he turned his head slightly to one side, just as Picard had seen the new android do earlier. When Data looked back over at the captain, he appeared to have reached a conclusion. "Since you have always known me to aspire to truly understand what it means to be human, of which procreation is frequently a part, I gather that your surprise must originate from you being unaware before today of the sub-micron matrix-transfer technology and its application." He paused, then added, "And I presume that your concern mirrors what you feel for other crewmembers who welcome a new child into their families."
"No, Data. I am surprised—I am in fact dismayed—because you told no one of what you were doing," Picard said. "Your creation of an android like yourself—your creation of a sentient being—will have serious repercussions."
"I am sorry, Captain," Data said. "I did not anticipate your objections. Do you wish me to deactivate Lal?"
"Data, we're talking about a living being," Picard said, his voice rising with his frustration. "It can't simply be deactivated." In truth, Picard wished that the complications sure to arise from Data's deed could be avoided by way of such an effortless solution. "What you have done, Data, is of serious moment. Have you considered how Starfleet will react when they learn of this?"
"Captain, I have violated no regulations," Data said. "I also understand the significance of this accomplishment. For that reason, I intend to notify Starfleet Research and Development about Lal, and to keep them apprised as we progress."
"I can only hope that will satisfy Starfleet," Picard said. He pushed back from his desk and stood up, intending to ease his apprehensions with a cup of tea. "You have certainly taken on quite a responsibility, Data." Picard started toward the alcove that contained his replicator.
"Indeed," Data agreed. "In preparation, I have scanned all available literature on parenting." The last word stopped Picard, and he turned back toward Data. "There seems to be no consensus on this issue. Human approaches range from punitive to laissez-faire, while other species, such as the Tellarites—"
"Data, I am not talking about parenting," Picard interrupted. "I'm talking about the tremendous consequences of creating a new life."
Again, Data regarded the captain quizzically. "I do not understand," he said. "Does that not describe what it means to become a parent?"
Picard waited a beat, inhaling deeply and exhaling slowly in an effort to quell his mounting exasperation. After a moment, he returned to the chair behind his desk. "Data, you are striving to achieve what only one person—your creator—has ever been able to achieve: to make another functioning, sentient android—to make another being like you."
"I am aware of that, sir," Data said. "That is why I must do this. Reproduction is a necessary component of humanoid life; without it, a species cannot sustain itself. Since the loss of Lore, I am the last of my kind." Created by Dr. Soong prior to Data, Lore had been located and reactivated more than two years ago, but when he tried to sacrifice the Enterprise crew to a powerful alien entity, he'd been transported out into open space. "If I were to be damaged or destroyed," Data went on, "my lineage would end, but if I succeed with the creation of Lal, then it will continue."
Picard nodded. "You do make a compelling argument, Mister Data."
"Thank you, sir."
Unsure what else he might need to know, and wanting more time to reflect on the unexpected state of affairs, Picard dismissed his second officer. Data rose and headed toward the door of the ready room. Before he reached it, the captain called after him. "Keep me informed of your communications with Starfleet Research."
"Aye, sir."
Data exited, and Picard watched him go. The captain felt that he better understood Data's motivations in creating the new android, but his grasp of what drove Data did little to alleviate his concerns about what might follow. Picard recalled a conversation he'd had with Guinan during the time of the hearing on Data's legal status—a conversation in which his old friend had highlighted Data's value to Starfleet. A second android, not a member of the service and with no life experience, could actually prove even more valuable, should the recentness and the circumstances of its manufacture allow Starfleet to seize control of it.
Picard got up and walked over to the alcove. He peered down at the replicator, but then decided against a cup of tea. Instead, he returned to the bridge and resumed his duty shift.
Picard sat on the sofa in his quarters on deck eight, a glass of 2364 Chevalier de Bayard on the low table before him, an old-fashioned hardbound book propped open on his knee. He'd owned the antique volume since his days in secondary school in Moulismes. Picard had enjoyed the collection of French plays often over the years, though not in some time. He'd read halfway through Sartre's existentialist opus, Huis Clos, when a short sequence of electronic tones signaled a visitor calling on him.
"Come," he said. When the door opened, it did not surprise him to see Commander Data standing in the corridor with his new charge. In the days since he had created the android, Data had informed Starfleet Research of his efforts, then had followed up by transmitting regular status updates to the division's facility on Galor IV. The personnel there had twice requested additional information from Picard, but he anticipated that as time passed, they would seek more than just an observer's role; they would want to manage Lal's development. He remembered all too well Commander Maddox's intense interest in learning how to produce more Soong-type androids. Consequently, the captain had chosen to keep himself educated on the new android's progress, offering his own, minimal counsel in the hope that his labors could forestall any efforts by Starfleet to take direct control of the situation. He had therefore asked Data to report to him periodically.
"Would this be a good time to see you, Captain?" Data asked.
"Yes, come in," Picard said, setting aside his book. He watched as the two entered, the occasionally stiff, not-quite-human movements of the new android echoic of its—of her—creator. Data had allowed Lal to elect her own gender and appearance from among several thousand composites he had programmed in the holodeck. She had opted for the form of a human female, aged twenty-five or so years, with short black hair and dark eyes. Her pale skin approximated flesh tones far more realistically than did Data's. She wore a lavender vest and matching ankle-length skirt, over a long-sleeved purple blouse. "Please sit," the captain said, indicating the two oversized chairs facing the sofa. The pair took the seats, Lal watching Data as she did so, then moving with a deliberateness that seemed awkward, as though she had only just learned how to sit down—an accurate description, Picard realized.
"Good evening, Captain," Data said. Looking at the book Picard had placed beside his half-filled wineglass, he said, "We did not intend to interrupt your reading."
"Not at all," Picard said. Shifting his attention to the new android, he asked, "How are you, Lal?"
"I am functioning within normal parameters," she replied stiffly.
"Lal," Data said gently, "you are fine."
Lal peered at Data for a moment and seemed to process the information, then turned back toward Picard. "I am fine," she said.
Picard felt the side of his mouth curl up in amusement. As difficult as he found it to credit the view of Lal being Data's child, he could certainly see something resembling a father-daughter dynamic in their relationship. She seemed receptive to his efforts to teach her, with an eagerness that belied her emotionless existence.
"I am endeavoring to assist Lal in improving her conversational skills," Data explained.
"A worthwhile venture, but not a simple one," Picard said. "Good conversation requires not just skill, but art."
Art," Lal said. "The production, quality, or expression of beauty or significance according to aesthetic principles."
"That is correct," Data said.
"But people speak to each other with great frequency, merely for the purpose of imparting information," Lal said, confusion tingeing her voice. "How can that require art?"
"There are different forms of conversation," Picard said. "I did not mean to say that all such forms require art. But depending on the setting and the interests of the participants, personal dialogue can engage and even stimulate the mind. It can possess movement, like dance; it can flow, like writing; it can arouse visualization, like painting or drawing."
"I … do not understand," Lal said. "People converse … to create works of art?"
"Not precisely, but I have observed examples of that which the captain is describing," Data said. "In fact, Lal, are you intrigued by the premise of conversation as art?"
"Yes, I am."
"Then perhaps Captain Picard has just demonstrated an example of it," Data said.
Lal looked to one side, neither toward Picard nor toward Data, as though gazing into the middle distance. "Yes," she finally said, turning back to the captain. "Tell me more."
"How about we simply talk?" Picard said. "As many a philosopher has noted, the best education lies in the doing."
"Indeed," Data said. "In his Ethika Nikomacheia, Aristotle wrote, 'For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.'"
"And because he wrote this, it is so?" Lal asked.
"Not necessarily," Picard said. "One can certainly seek wisdom in the words of others, but be wary. As the English writer Somerset Maugham observed, a 'gift for quotation' is but 'a serviceable substitute for wit.'"
Data and Lal glanced at each other, as though searching for guidance. "That would seem paradoxical," Data said. "You decry quotation by repeating another's words."
"And that," Picard said, "can be described as dry humor."
"I … do not understand humor," Lal said. "I do not understand humor of any kind, dry or wet."
"I do not believe that there is such a thing as wet humor," Data told Lal. "But do not concern yourself that you do not understand humor. I do not understand it either. In this especially, we can make our journey together." The two androids sat quietly for a moment, perhaps contemplating the concept of human comedy.
"So, Lal," Picard said into the silence, "how do you find the Enterprise?"
"I do not need to find it," Lal replied. "It is right here. We are aboard it."
"Lal, I believe you are interpreting the word find differently than Captain Picard intends it," Data said. "When he—"
"Bridge to Captain Picard," came the voice of Commander Riker.
"Go ahead, Number One."
"Captain, we've received a distress signal from New Providence," Riker said.
"That's one of the Federation's outermost colonies, is it not?" Picard asked.
"Yes, sir. It's on Jouret Four," Riker said. "The message provided little detail before it cut out, but indications are that they might be under attack."
"Attack?" Picard asked, glancing over at Data. "By whom?"
"Unknown," Riker said. "But we're the nearest starship."
"Best possible speed to the Jouret system," Picard said, standing up from the sofa. "Inform Starfleet Command. I'm on my way. Picard out."
Data rose from his chair as well, and Lal followed his lead. "Captain," Data said, "though much closer, Jouret Four lies in the general direction of our encounter with the Borg."
"I know, Data," said Picard, anxiety welling within him. The Enterprise crew had first encountered the Borg fifteen months earlier, but more than seven thousand light-years from Federation space. Starfleet had begun preparations to protect against a possible invasion, but had anticipated a lead time of at least three years to allow for the design and production of new armaments and defenses.
"Captain, if the Borg have already reached the edge of Federation territory," Data said, "then their vessels must possess a source of power considerably more advanced than our own."
"Yes, I know, Data," Picard repeated. He also knew that, if the eve of combat with the Borg did loom, the enemy would find Starfleet ill-prepared for battle.
The alert reached him through the shared consciousness of the Borg, overtaking his concentration on Data and the construction of Lal. He opened his eyes to see the overhead lights flickering, and he knew—because others knew—that the vessel, headed for the heart of the Federation, had fallen out of warp, its power distribution network damaged. An instant later, a rash of prioritized thoughts flowed to him, and through him, identifying the nodes that had failed: a cluster of three that had come under attack.
Phaser fire, he thought, reflexively recalling that the Enterprise crew had retuned the frequencies of both the ship-mounted weapons and their handheld units. He immediately tried to direct his thoughts elsewhere—back to Lal, back to La Barre, back to anywhere but aboard his vessel. He did not want to give up the technical specifications of the adjusted phasers, did not want to aid the Collective in adapting to the modified weaponry.
Too late, he realized, as he glimpsed through the eyes of several drones personal forcefields snapping into place, absorbing varicolored phaser beams. Tendrils of smoke drifted to his nose, while the whine of energy weapons and the flare of sparks resounded in his ears. Only when he had to step across the body of a fallen drone did he become aware that he no longer lay supine atop a Borg operating table.
Up ahead, several drones turned into a corridor from which emanated the high-pitched hum of phasers. He heard a voice—"They're adapting to the new frequencies"—and knew it belonged to Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Shelby of Starfleet Tactical. He thought to call out to her, but could not manage to do so. He felt himself moving his own body, his brain sending impulses to his muscles, but he no longer controlled his own volition. He came abreast of the corridor and halted.
"Jean-Luc," beckoned another female voice.
Crusher, Beverly, he thought, spontaneously supplying information to the Borg hive mind. Commander, chief medical officer, U.S.S. Enterprise. Human.
He turned to face her, and something in him reveled at the sight of her long red hair. I'm here, Beverly, he thought, understanding that he could say nothing, could do nothing. I'm here. It's me, Locutus.
"Captain!" called Worf. Lieutenant, chief tactical officer, U.S.S. Enterprise. Klingon.
Yes, I'm the captain … Captain Jean- … Captain Jean-L—… Jean-Luc—
Worf rushed down the corridor toward him, obviously bent on retrieving him and returning him to Enterprise.
Yes, yes, take me back! he screamed with his mouth closed, his face immobile. His personal forcefield flared green when Worf struck it. The security chief fell backward, striking the deck hard.
"Enterprise, get us out of here now," Shelby barked into her communicator.
He watched Worf climb back to his feet, then disappear with the others—Shelby, Crusher, and Data—amid the dulcet purr and white sparkle of a Federation transporter beam.
Reroute, the Borg said as one. Decentralized systems permitted the redirection of power throughout the vessel, facilitating the bypass of nonworking equipment. He closed his eyes and watched as those Borg sufficiently specialized to execute such a task moved throughout the ship, throwing switches and realigning the currents of power through conduits. It would require only minutes before they restored warp capability.
Repair. In his mind, he saw other Borg retrieving materials and approaching the locations where power-distribution nodes had been destroyed. Drones utilized their individual, specialized tools to begin replacing the demolished machinery.
Recycle and complete termination. Eight Borg had perished during the attack by the Enterprise away team. Other drones approached the corpses and recovered various technological components from them, triggering the dissolution of those fallen.
Communicate. He opened his eyes, understanding that the imperative had been targeted to the lone Borg who satisfied the criteria necessary for the delivery of the final message to the Enterprise crew: Locutus … Picard himself. Above, the lighting continued to flicker, but less frequently as drones redistributed power throughout the ship. A group of Borg neared, and he understood that they would accompany him to the nearest communications terminal.
He fell in behind the eight drones and marched with them through the ship. At last, they turned down a corridor, at the end of which hung a viewscreen. The Borg stepped aside to allow him an unimpeded line of sight. The screen flickered to life, revealing Commander Riker and Lieutenant Commander Shelby standing together at the center of the Enterprise bridge.
"I am Locutus of Borg," he said, even as he exclaimed, I am Picard, inside his head. "Resistance is futile," he continued, hearing an unnerving robotic quality in his own voice. "Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us." He saw the horrified expressions on the faces of the people who had become his family: Beverly and Wesley, Deanna and Worf, even Data appeared gripped by the unfolding events.
Riker stared, stone-faced, from across the gulf that separated the Borg and Federation starships, and Picard knew what his former first officer would do—what the new captain of Enterprise must do. In that moment, the Borg also knew, but too late. They had sought the information from Picard, had searched for whatever new weaponry the Starfleet crew might have improvised, but he had managed to hide it from them until now.
"Mister Worf," Riker said, "fire."
A thousand Borg minds functioned as a single entity, studying the information Picard recalled from his meeting with his first officer. Geordi and Data want to install higher-capacity power transfers to the deflector dish so that they can generate a concentrated energy burst at a specific frequency, Riker had informed him. The Borg systems showed susceptibility to the phasers when they fluctuated into a high, narrow band. A thousand drones focused on conceiving an adaptation, a means of thwarting the efforts of Picard's crew.
"Deflector power approaching maximum limits," La Forge said at a rear station on the Enterprise bridge. "Energy discharge in six seconds."
Six seconds, Picard thought, whatever part of him that had become Locutus of Borg agonizing at the too-short time frame.
"Firing, sir."
The part of him that remained a Starfleet captain rejoiced at the words. He heard the growing hum permeating the Enterprise bridge, then felt the jolt as the high-intensity deflector discharge slammed into the Borg vessel. As systems overloaded, the collective consciousness of a thousand drones raced to find a solution. A titanic blast ripped through a section of the Borg ship to Picard's left, exposing its interior to space. He saw scores of Borg blown out into the void even as emergency forcefields crackled into existence to protect the rest of the vessel.
For just an instant, Picard saw out in space the forward starboard quadrant of Enterprise's primary hull. Then another explosion tore through the Borg ship, and then another. The hive mind crumbled as the infrastructure supporting their communications collapsed. Unexpectedly freed from the embrace of the Collective, Picard regained full control of his mind and body.
In the last moment of his life, knowing that the Enterprise crew—his crew—had vanquished the Borg, Picard smiled.
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The first in this anthology, "The Embrace of Cold Architects" by David R George III, shows what would have happened had Commander Riker been able to defeat the Borg at Wolf 359 and Data had preserved his android daughter, Lal. While this may seem to be two what-ifs in one, it's explained early on that a sudden storm on Galtinor Prime (the planet where Data learned of the cybernetic technology that inspired him to create Lal) accounts for both. The changes are considerable and well thought out; with Captain Picard's death, Riker is given control of the Enterprise, and Data learns the complexities of being a father, which get even more complex when Star Fleet intervenes with their own plans for his `offspring.' Being a Data lover, I got a lot out of this story, and it also makes me wonder why there are so many creep admirals in the Federation...
While the second story, "The Tears of Eridanus" co-written by Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster, is probably my least favourite of SL's three tales, it was still an enjoyable, thought provoking read.Read more ›
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"The Embrace of Cold Architects" diverges when the Enterprise's attack on the Borg cube after Picard is assimilated (in the episode "The Best of Both Worlds") is successful, destroying the Borg cube and killing Picard. I thought there was a lot of potential with this story, and it appeared to be living up to that potential, at least until the last two pages, when one plotline ends with a shaky cliffhanger, and one simply ends with a thud - no resolution at all. With more resolution, this would have easily been an A+ story. As it is, it gets a B-/C+ from me at best.
"The Tears of Eridanus" takes place in a universe where the Vulcans never embraced logic and are still a savage, emotional race locked in unending civil wars. Decent story, but I agree with the earlier reviewer that this universe was divergent enough that it didn't feel like a Star Trek story. I also kind of lost track of the multitude of Andorian characters in this story. I'd give it a B.
"Honor in the Night" is by far the best story in this anthology. It takes what seems like a minor divergence point (no tribbles on Station K7) and spins it into a very interesting take on the progress of Federation-Klingon relations from the original series forward. Once I started reading this story I didn't stop until the end. This story gets an A from me.
I have also enjoyed the Mirror/Myriad universe series and hoped for more of the same. I got a Next Generation story with an ending so abrupt I was looking for the "continued on page...", a Hikaru Sulu/Demora Sulu/Vulcan story with an almost identical plot to an Enterprise episode and a Next Generation episode, and a story about what could have happened to Nilz Baris and Arne Darvin (of "The Trouble with Tribbles" fame) that was the most well written of the lot, but had the least interesting premise.
I would hate to think that it is time to retire Star Trek Books in general, but given the dissapointing Typhon Pact series and this offering, it seems as if the writers have run out of interesting stories to tell (Forgive me David Mack....you are not included). Let's hope that this is just a momentary blip and not the beginning of the end of something that has entertained me for my entire adult life.
"Tears of Eridanus" is interesting, but wasn't particularly compelling. The premise was fine, but when things are 'too' divergent it sometimes doesn't feel like a real Star Trek story.
"Honor in the Night" was very good. I thought, despite the lack of linearity, that it was a good, focused novel, that dealt sufficiently with tangential characters that it was barely an alternate universe story. The ending was a surprise -- not what I expected.
Overall, it was alright, but the ending to the first story bothers me sufficiently that I'm tempted to drop the rating to 3.
THE EMBRACE OF COLD ARCHITECTS (5/10): This story has all the hallmarks of an intriguing premise that proved to be much more difficult from which to spin an entertaining and compelling yarn than it first appeared. What IF Picard (as Locutus) had been killed at the end of "Best of Both Worlds Part 1"? That would suggest a tale of how Will Riker handled the situations in the remaining four seasons of TNG as the Enterprise's captain in Picard's stead. Instead, David George made the story primarily about Data and Lal, even though there's nothing about Picard's alternate fate that would have had any bearing on preventing Lal's early death from "cascade failure". And yet the Riker thread was half-heartedly continued even though it had no connection to the Data/Lal story after their departure from the Enterprise. It just coasted along for a while and stopped right as a renewed war with the Cardassians was about to begin. Meanwhile, the saga of Lal's kidnapping as part of an eeeeevil Starfleet plot to create an army of android shock troops (not unlike the Romulans' use of the Remans) wasn't all that credible even with the Borg as justification, and this thread, too, was truncated arbitrarily after its literally explosive climax had finally made it interesting. I wanted to like both sub-stories, but their meandering lack of focus left me wanting much, much more.
THE TEARS OF ERIDANUS (6/10): I liked the premise of the Vulcans destroying themselves before the Sundering could take place. No Romulans, which means no Romulan Empire to hem in the Klingons, who thus run wild across local space. And no Vulcan, greatly changing the character, culture, and focus of what didn't become the "Federation" in this timeline, but an Andor-centric Interstellar Union. I suppose Sulu essentially abandoning his mission to come to his daughter's rescue is in character if you really stretch it. And I did like the Sulu-T'Pau and Demora-Soval interactions, and the seeds planted of a Surakian reformation. However, all the Andorian characters were pretty much forgettable, even the familiar names (Shras, Thelin), and the background jeopardy premise - an impending Klingon invasion - that is supposed to make Sulu's contrived mission to Vulcan of huge strategic importance never materializes before the story ends, and we're left to wonder what the purpose is of setting the Vulcans on a path towards becoming the people we know if the Klingons are just going to sweep through and wipe them out before they can ever get there. As with "Embrace," the story feels unfinished, or perhaps too long for a short-story format.
HONOR IN THE NIGHT (8/10): I freely admit, from looking at the synopses on the back cover, this is the story for which I had the least anticipation. Of all the characters in the Trek universe around which one could build a story, Nilz Baris is the last one I would pick. It's like losing a bet with your editor or drawing the short straw. But I have to give Scott Pearson credit; though the flashback device of telling the tale as a series of documentary interviews was hopelessly convoluted, it succeeded in drawing me in, to see what would happen next. Baris was given character breadth and depth as the tragic intrigues that marked his dealings with various Klingons - warriors, politicians, and spies - unfolded over the years. It was a very....well, logical career- and life-path, although I still find it less than entirely credible that Baris would ever have wound up as President of the Federation. Much the same thing can be said of Arne Darvin's depicted life, an honorable Klingon sent to do dishonorable deeds who regains the path of honor and lays a more credible path to eventual Federation-Klingon rapprochement than that depicted in the "real" Trek universe. And then there's the swerve at the end that is so good I won't spoil it for future readers.
As always seems to be the case with these "Myriad Universes" compendiums, one story makes the entire collection worth the price of admission. Even if it is about a man named "Nilz".
The first story, by David R. George III, seems to this reviewer to be a bit unclear on the concept; there seems to be two major changes to the timeline, basically unconnected, so it's difficult to see why they are put into the same alternate history. The first change is that Picard is not rescued in the episode "The Best of Both Worlds", but rather the Enterprise under the command of Riker successfully destroys the borg cube with Picard/Locutus, and Riker remains the captain of the Enterprise. The second change, and the one that seems to have more "alternate universe" bearing, is that Data is successful in saving his "daughter" from the cascade failures that rendered Starfleet's desire to abscond with her moot, and she is taken away by Starfleet. An interesting story, but the dual change in the timeline muddles the issue.
The second story, by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster, explores the question of "what if" the planet Vulcan had never been converted to the following of logic by Surak, and remained barbarous and warlike, so that the first contact with earth was made by Andoria rather than Vulcan. A very interesting story with a moderately unsatisfactory ending.
The third story was also an interesting concept; told by Scott Pearson, it explores the question of "what if" an accidental explosion had killed Cyrano Jones and his tribbles before he had the opportunity to spread them about Space Station K7 in the Episode "Trouble With Tribbles", thus resulting in the poisoning of the Quatrotriticale grain and the imposture of Arne Darvin never being uncovered. Unfortunately, this was the worst-written (or at least, worst-edited) story of the three; there are a few editing slip-ups in the previous two stories, but twice as many in the third as in the previous two combined. Things like "helsman" instead of "helmsman", "Betazoid" rather than "Betazed" when referring to the planet itself, rather than a denizen of it, "whom" rather than "who", "looked way" rather than "looked away", "Darvis" rather than "Darvin" when referring to the character who is, after all, central to the story, a comma instead of a period (or at the very least, a semicolon) in the "sentence": "Kamuk, watching Krell stomping toward them, started laughing, Baris turned on him.", "peaking" rather than "piquing" somone's interest, leaving out the word "she" in the phrase "Jensen chuckled as sat down...", the phrase "Baris hurried away as if to make contact emergency sevices", which either needed to lose the "make" or to have the word "with" inserted between "contact" and "emergency", the word "breath" instead of "breathe", the word "get" omitted from the phrase "...needed to back to...".Any one (or even two or three) of these could be overlooked as trivial flaws in an otherwise good story, but the sheer volume of them was more than a bit distracting and definitely made the story less interesting, at least to this reviewer.
Overall, not a bad read, but this book definitely had lots of room for improvement.


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Captain Jack Davies is the consummate boatman. Of himself he says, "I love running boats, and being involved in the marine industry."
Davies wears a number of "hats" in the marine industry, and often he is aboard one of the tugs with which he has some ownership involvement. He can be found twisting wrenches in the engine room, working on deck, or in command on the bridge. Lately he has been overseeing the construction of his latest tug. The new McIlwain-designed Azimuthing Stern Drive (ASD) tug will be 64.75-feet in length, with a 27-foot beam. Of the relatively large beam for the length, Davies explains, "Adding beam is a way to improve the stability. Once a deck edge submerges, you start losing stability."
With this much beam and 3.5-feet of freeboard on a hull depth of 17 feet and a draft of about 13.5 feet, this tug will have a lot of stability. The length and beam also give the boat a lot of floatation that has allowed Davies to specify all 1/2-inch steel throughout. Even the bulwarks are 1/2 inch with an additional 1/2-inch doubler on the hull where the Schuyler looped rubber fendering will be installed along the sheer strake and stern quarters. The bow will also have rubber extending along the bow stem to 8 feet below the water as, Davies explained, "Sometimes a pilot will ask you to get right on the bow stem and push, you cant always see or know how far below the water line the bulbous bow is."
The attention to detail by an owner who is both an owner and an operator brings attention to details throughout the boat. From bulwarks designed for safe and easy deck work, to the extra hydraulic power to assure that the full 250-foot per minute recovery rate for the JonRie 200 series winch would be achieved. The bow mounted hawser winch has 175,000 pounds of braking power. More than enough for an estimated bollard pull of 50,000 pounds even allowing for greater forces when turning a ship. The winch drum will be loaded with 400-feet of 2.5-nch Spectra line. Ahead of the hawser winch is a 16-inch stainless, extra heavy wall, towing staple.
For a tug built to last like this one, flexibility is important so that it can work regardless of changing opportunities. At the moment it is contracted to join another McIlwain-designed tug, in which Davies has a half interest, as a ship-docking tug on Northern Vancouver Island. But he has designed it so that there is enough hydraulic power and after deck strength to take a towing winch should he choose to work the boat line-haul towing on the B.C. Coast. A pair of ballast tanks are built into the stern to provide the weight equivalent to the absent towing winch.
Canadian manning regulations vary according to the work that a tug is doing and the horsepower. At 148 gross tons the boat is under the 150-ton limit in Canadian regulations for this class of vessel. The accommodation area, in a raised fo'c'sle space that is just three steps down from the main deck, is another example of the tug's flexibility. Roomy spaces for the galley on the port side and the mess to starboard can provide for up to six crew. All accommodation is above the waterline, and is "full floating" from the hull for noise reduction. Forward of the mess and galley are four large cabins. The aft two cabins are single berth officer cabins, and the two forward cabins are double berth, with the top bunk folding out of the way when not in use. All cabins are well appointed and have their own sink, and desk. The accommodation is also wired for television, internet, and telephone.
Working as a day-boat in ship docking the tug will require only two crew members. However crew size is also determined by horsepower, geographical area, and hours worked. In Canada a boat can operate without an engineer up to 1005 horsepower. Davies choose Cummins KTA38 M0 engines to drive his new ASD tug for their reputation and reliability, but also due to the practice in British Columbia of using them at variable horsepower. On several other tugs (see Cummins Hotips#324 Island Scout ) the engines have been installed with a governor switch that allows them to operate at 500 HP @ 1600 rpm or 850 HP at 1800 rpm. This means that when the larger power is not required the boat can operate without the required engineer. Add an engineer and unlock the switch the engine can operate at 850 HP and the boat will be towing at 1700 HP. Both ratings are conservative on this V-12 38-liter engine and will work well turning the 1.8-meter props though the HRP/ZF Z-drives.
The hull and decking of the new tug are all steel with the pilothouse fabricated from aluminum. The wheelhouse features huge windows above and forward for working ships and is equipped with a "u" shaped control console. The wheelhouse will also have a sink and coffee station so that there is no temptation to leave the bridge for a quick trip to the galley. In addition to the overhead glass, there is a topside command station with full controls, including the winch. With the bulwarks and raised foc'sle deck, visibility is restricted when you get close to something with low freeboard, Davies explained. "It is fine when working a ship but if coming alongside a buoy or other low object the visibility from the top of the house is better. This will be the first Z-drive on the B.C. coast with top controls."
"I can't say enough about the quality and craftsmanship of the crew at ABD," enthused Davies. "I went over the drawings with Al Dawson and his partner Burton Drody for the costing, and then Burton prepared the CAD work for the steel cutting. The whole side of the hull above the double chine is formed from only two sheets of steel with one more wrapped around the bow. Everything fit perfectly the first time they put it up. I have inspected every bit of this boat as it was built. When I crawl through a fuel tank after the quality assurance person, I am unable to point out any deficiencies." Davies is also a business man and his final note of praise for the shipyard, which is due to deliver his tug in the new year, is, "Quality Canadian construction, on time and on budget."
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Posted: 03/30/2009 - The state Senate's budget-writing panel has OK'd an $18.6 billion spending plan that funnels more state dollars to Medicaid.
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Updated: 03/30/2009 - A Burke County woman is trying to make sure dozens of cats and dogs don't become victims of this economy.
Posted: 03/30/2009 - The IC3 has been alerted to the circulation of a fraudulent e-mail, purportedly from the "The Oprah Winfrey Show", notifying recipients of their nomination for the "Oprah Millionaire Contest Show."
Updated: 03/30/2009 - An accident a little before 8 Monday morning eastbound on Gordon Highway at Old Savannah Road caused commute problems.
Posted: 03/30/2009 - If you buy food, and then you have to throw it out, you might as well be putting dollar bills in the trash. We've all done it, and it is annoying, so News 12 director Lisa decided to do something about it. She found some ways to be less wasteful, and she told me about them, so I had to tell you.
Updated: 03/29/2009 - More than 300 teens are starting a new life, under some strict guidelines at Fort Gordon's Youth Challenge Academy. A dozen of those teens are also in a new pilot program, designed to give them a better chance at life.
Updated: 03/29/2009 - A seven month old infant and his mother are back home safely after investigators say they were kidnapped and taken to Alabama.
Updated: 03/29/2009 - Gunshots went through a home in the Raes Creek mobile home park early Sunday morning. The shots hit 17 year old Timesa Lynch and 20-year old Kenneth Holloway.
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