The High Country (Q111814836)

“There was a case a long time ago where humans were found on another planet,” he said. “Their ancestors had been abducted from Earth in the 1800s. But this isn’t that world. Technology doesn’t work at all here. You’ve got flying fire. And other species, like the Strooh.” (English)

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No one would have known, had the captain of another Enterprise not happened upon a nameless world in what was then the Delphic Expanse. Jonathan Archer discovered the remains of the crashed ship that had abducted the humans. In a town called North Star, he found the old ways still thriving three hundred years later. He’d also found that the humans had turned the tables on the surviving Skagarans, mistreating them for centuries. (English)

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And Pike had some related experience. Michael Burnham’s mother, Gabrielle, had rescued a church full of people from destruction in World War III, relocating them to Terralysium, a planet where her heroics had been worked into their religion. Pike had visited it with Burnham before either knew Gabrielle was at the center of the refugees’ deliverance myth. (English)

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Through the Valley of Shadows

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It reminded Pike, of all things, of the Klingon monastery at Boreth, where time had little meaning to the residents. Time here was entirely measured in natural increments of days, nights, and seasons, with the only pertinent schedules coming from the needs of animals and plants. (English)

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La’an nodded. “Captain Georgiou once traced a Starfleet chevron into a surface to alert Shenzhou.” (English)

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“T’Kuvma started his war because of your movements, all of you. I heard the reports—what those Klingon prisoners said he said. ‘They are coming. Atom by atom, they will coil around us and take all that we are!’ ” (English)

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Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach

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M’Benga’s daughter Rukiya suffered from cygnokemia, a merciless disease that had left her with a few months to live. The malady was incurable, but he intended to change that, employing the systems of Starfleet’s greatest research vessel. (English)

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Katrina had predicted such a need all along. After he returned from being lost in the Pergamum Nebula, she had made a gift of it to him. (English)

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Drayko peered at her. “Your Enterprise. What would it be able to deliver to the surface?” She wasn’t ready for the question at all. “What do you mean?” “Could it land here?” She shook her head. “It’s not that kind of ship. I mean, one section of it did land a few years ago, but it was a miracle it ever lifted off again. And there was no Baffle there.” (English)

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During a previous mission in which both he and Captain Pike had been separately stranded, they had communicated over subspace about an Earth literary work featuring a castaway. There was no such option here, but Spock had felt he could at least keep a record, as Robinson Crusoe had. (English)

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Pike took a deep breath. He’d been in this position recently, where everything depended on his winning over not just one person, but a whole population. But on Kiley 279, he’d had a working starship above. Here, he’d have only his words—and what he carried in his pockets. (English)

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Fifty who could only go as fast as the slowest horse or wagon. People who had mostly never been part of a wagon train themselves—and who were looking for advice from someone who’d gotten his education from John Wayne and Ward Bond. (English)

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“Indeed. Her ships were part of the forces massing for a strike against Andoria when Captain Archer’s intervention brought an end to the effort. By the time they knew what had happened, the Syrannites had come to power, establishing peace and logic as the core principles of the Vulcan state.” (English)

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As captain, Christopher Pike wasn’t supposed to lead landing parties. Expeditions were for junior officers. He hadn’t lived by the letter of that rule, even when events, such as on Talos IV, demonstrated he absolutely should have. (English)

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The War Without, The War Within

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“Don’t!” She balled her fists and raged at the sky. “Just don’t! Your Federation sent your Starfleet into space—and they provoked the Klingons. And the Klingons went to Kelfour VI and burned the damn atmosphere off!” (English)

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