The Wounded Sky
by Diane Duane · first published 1983
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A pretty alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive and the Enterprise will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew and time becomes meaningless. Now Captain Kirk and his friends face their greatest challenge - to repair the fabric of the universe before time is lost forever!
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I think I'd pick The Wounded Sky, by Diane Duane. It's a Trek novel in which (ROT13 to spoiler-warning a decades-old novel): onfvpnyyl gur Ragrecevfr perj urycf grfg n arj zrnaf bs cebchyfvba, evcf gur Havirefr, naq va qbvat fb zrrgf…
on “Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?” ↗…deep, and warm, and I think it's interesting that they were so in an environment much more similar to TNG's later seasons than to its early ones. (As a side note, if you haven't read Diane Duane's The Wounded Sky, from the Pocket Books TOS novel series, I can strongly recommend it. Of all the portrayals I've seen of the relationships among the TOS main characters, in and out of canon, this is the only one I find…
on “A (possible) solution to Covid-19” ↗…in TNG the cracks in the utopian "healthy family" milieu are showing. It's not that I don't enjoy TNG, or DS9 or the others, despite the drift from utopia. FWIW, it's the utopia I miss. In re: The Wounded Sky I'll pick one up. Thanks for the advice! > With regard to your comments on the supposed superficiality of Discovery, I feel it necessary to note that this is a judgment you've formed, and which you…
on “A (possible) solution to Covid-19” ↗