Captain to Captain (Q55230339)
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- Star Trek: Captain to Captain
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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.” (English)
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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. (English)
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Captain to Captain (Star Trek: Legacies #1) by Greg Cox (undetermined language)
(Star Trek: Legacies #1)
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Greg Cox
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28 June 2016
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2 October 2249
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Starships and vehicles
Captain's log, 2 October 2249 CE Even after four years exploring the final frontier, the universe still finds way to surprise us. (English)
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2267
3,950.1 Stardate unit
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Captain's log, Stardate 3950.1 The Enterprise is en route for some much-needed shore leave on Chippewa Prime. (English)
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16 December 2019
Robert April
USS Enterprise personnel (2249)
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This is Captain Robert April of the United Space Ship Enterprise. Whom am addressing?" "Greetings, Captain. I am Professor Eljor, first scientist of the Jatohr. (English)
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16 December 2019
Number One
USS Enterprise personnel (2249)
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16 December 2019
Leonard McCoy
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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16 December 2019
Pavel Chekov
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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"Employing tractor beams," Ensign Chekov reported from the navigation station to the right of Sulu. A thick Russian accent tinged his voice, along with what sounded like a growing sense of frustration. (English)
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Montgomery Scott
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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"Aye, Captain," Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott replied from the bridge. "We'll be back under way in two shakes of a lamb's tail, sir." His robust Aberdeen accent came through the comm system loud and clear. (English)
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16 December 2019
Spock
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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Spock exited the bedroom and activated a comm unit on the wall of the work area. "Spock to the bridge. Are we still tracking the Shimizu?" "Affirmative, Mister Spock,' Sulu's voice responded. "She's a speedy one all right,… (English)
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16 December 2019
James T. Kirk
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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16 December 2019
Hikaru Sulu
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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16 December 2019
Nyota Uhura
USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
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USS Enterprise personnel (2267)
"Kirk to Enterprise. Put me through to the transporter room." As Scotty was currently commanding the bridge, Lieutenant John Kyle responded at once: "Kyle here, Captain. Did that emergency ladder come in handy?" (English)
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Background information
The events that occur during Kirk's mission take place several months after the Enterprise crew's journey to the diplomatic conference on Babel ("Journey to Babel"). (English)
Historian's Note
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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… (English)
“So I gathered.” She eyed him intently. “I know that you and Kirk visited him at a medical facility on Starbase 11, but what happened after that is classified. The available record holds only that Chris—Captain Pike—somehow went missing after being taken aboard the Enterprise for reasons unknown. And despite my own inquiries, both official and otherwise, I have been unable to determine any more than that.” (English)
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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. (English)
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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. (English)
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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. (English)
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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.” (English)
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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.” (English)
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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. (English)
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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. (English)
As we know from personal experience, Kirk thought. The Enterprise had barely survived the maneuver last year, when they’d used it to return to the present after an unplanned trip to the twentieth century. As far as Kirk knew, the Enterprise was the only Starfleet vessel to attempt the feat, let alone come through it in one piece. The harrowing stunt had nearly torn the ship apart. (English)
Time travel was new to Starfleet, having been first achieved by Enterprise barely more than a year ago—and duplicated months later after a near-catastrophic run-in with a black star. There was already some talk of employing the technique to deliberately travel back in time to conduct historical research, but this was still unexplored territory that nobody really had a handle on just yet. (English)
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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. (English)
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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.” (English)
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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 (English)
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. (English)
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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. (English)
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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. (English)
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Her ribs felt like a mugato had pounded on them. How long had she been running anyway? (English)
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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. (English)
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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. (English)
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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?” (English)
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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. (English)
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16 December 2019
Captain to Captain
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16 December 2019
Captain to Captain