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# 47 Q-Space (The Q Continuum Book 1 of 3) - Greg Cox

11/12/1999

Professor Lem Faal: "Exploring the unknown always contains an element of danger."

Faal: "The biggest nest still hems you in, as the largest cage is still a cage."

Faal (to LaForge): "Technology has usurped natural selection as the driving force of evolution, so I'm fascinated by the ways in which sentient organisms can improve upon their own flawed biology.  Prosthetics are one way, genetic manipulation is another.  So is breaking the barrier, perhaps.  It's about overcoming the inherent frailties of our weak humanoid bodies, becoming superior beings, just as you have used the latest in medical technology to improve yourself."

"Barclay always managed to make a poor first impression on people, which was too bad since, at heart, he was a dedicated and perfectly capable crew member.   Unfortunately, his competence fluctuated is direct relationship to his confidence, which often left something to be desired; the more insecure he got, the more he tended to screw up, which just rattled him even more."

Q: "No games?  Why, mon capitaine, you might as well ask a sun not to blaze or a tribble not to multiply."

Q: "Permit me to fill you in on a little secret, my impatient friend.   When you can do anything, nothing is more boring than simply doing it.   Getting there isn't half the fun, it's the whole enchilada."

Female Q (to Troi): "I suppose divinity must resemble egotism to evolutionarily disadvantaged creatures such as yourself."

Picard: "... if we start to assume hostile intent behind every unusual phenomenon we encounter, then our charter to explore the unknown will be severely compromised."

Picard (thought): "Sometimes a statistical blip is just that."

Riker (thought): "In his experience, an utterly fixed viewpoint could be the hardest to achieve a mutual understanding with.  Fanatics were seldom easy to accommodate."

Picard: "Sometimes poetry is the only suitable response to what the universe holds for us."

Faal: "Sometimes evolution is more important than mere propagation."

0: "... there's always someplace else, no matter how far you've been."

0: "Caution is for cowards, and for those who lack the gaze and the guts to try something new."

0: "A bit of a wrong turn there ..., but that's what happens sometimes when you strike out for parts unknown.  You have to accept the risks as well as the rewards."

Picard: "It's a truism with humanity that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

# 48 Q-Zone (The Q Continuum Book 2 of 3) - Greg Cox

11/12/1999

Riker (thought): "Nothing's more tragic than a senseless battle."

0: "... you can't really understand a species unless you've seen how they respond to completely unexpected circumstances....  ...  Only by testing baser breeds can they be forced to transcend their wretched routines and advance to the next level of existence.  ..."
Q: "... doesn't meddling with their petty lives interfere with their natural evolution? ..."
0: "Nature is overrated....  ...  ...you can't groom a garden without doing a little pruning now and then.  Extinction's part of the evolutionary agenda, natural or not."

0: "You'll never learn anything if you worry about what the subject of your experiment wants.  Let the tested dictate the terms of the test and you defeat the whole point of the exercise."

0: "... testing is always more accurate if the tester's hand remains concealed ...."

Picard (thought): "Every Starfleet captain knew a little espionage was necessary now and then."

0: "Never allow cheaters to make a travesty of your tests."

0: "... in any tests there must be penalties for failure, and for deliberate cheating, or else there's no inducement to excel."

Q: "Isn't a species' reaction to miraculous good fortune as significant, as educational and edifying, as the way they cope with adversity?"

"Tools that enjoyed their work always performed better than those who had to be grudgingly forced to their tasks."

0: "If the test isn't hard enough, make it harder.  That's the only way to ensure the right results."

0: "Little helpless creatures can be very appealing sometimes."

# 49 Q-Strike (The Q Continuum Book 3 of 3) - Greg Cox

11/12/1999

Picard (thought): "That which is only half-seen is all the more troubling to the imagination."

0: "An occasional reversal is to be expected when you're living boldly.  I warned you there'd be danger....  That's the price you pay for taking chances."

Q: "Enlightened self-interest is one of the crucial hallmarks of a truly advanced intelligence."

"No enemy was unbeatable.  The trick was staying alive long enough to see your victory."

Dr. Beverly Crusher: "Never underestimate the natural resilience of children."

Q (thought): "The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence."

Q: "... gifted and truly insane.  An unbeatable combination."

# 50 Dyson Sphere - Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski

#51 Infection (Double Helix Book 1 of 6) - John Gregory Betancourt

12/12/1999

Solomon (thought): "Civil unrest always made money for someone."

Solomon (thought): "Keep the client happy, the first rule of any service industry, even terrorism."

Picard (thought): "He liked enemies he could see, touch and outsmart."

Picard (thought): "Hunches often had a grain of logic to them, even if the conscious mind couldn't always pin it down."

Dr. Crusher (thought re: Dr. Tang): "He hasn't just lost his healing touch, he's lost his ability to feel empathy.  He isn't a doctor, he's a body processor."

Dr. Crusher: "There's always an answer.  We just have to find it."

LaForge (thought): "It was a simple rule as old as computer programming itself, best known as GIGO: garbage in/garbage out.  If you fed a computer faulty information, you got faulty information out."

Dr. Crusher (thought): "Under the worst circumstances, that's when a person's true spirit showed."

Dr. Crusher (thought): "An old saying came to her: Time resolves all problems."

Dr. Crusher (thought): "Anything one human can do another human could undo."

Worf (thought): "... humans would eat anything, if it came in an attractive package."

Data: "Surely the measure of a man is determined by his actions, not his designation."

Picard (thought): "Command was often a lonely position...."

Captain Jules van Osterlich: "You don't play games on a planetary scale unless something larger is at stake."

Data: "... a label does not always adequately represent a container's true contents."

"People aren't always what they seem ... and if you look, you'll find new friends in the oddest places!"

#52 Vectors (Double Helix Book 2 of 6) - Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch

12/20/99

Quark and Nog"... the Sixth Rule of Acquisition ... Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity."

Dr. Crusher: "Medicine is rarely tidy."

Kira: "Ferengi can't be trusted.  They can be paid to give false information."

Rom: "Rules are easier to follow if they're clear."

"The ears of Ferengi were their most sensitive spot."

Cardassian pilot (to Pulaski): "I'm a pilot, not a doctor."

Dr. Katherine Pulaski: "One must always have hope."

Dr. Pulaski: "... it's my nature to be optimistic.  If I weren't, I wouldn't be a doctor.  We're all a bit egotistical....  I think it a necessary skill.  It leads us to places that aren't safe, to try things that others wouldn't think of, and never to accept failure."

"Humanoids all shared an attitude toward disease.  No matter how sophisticated the society, humanoids still feared tiny little microbes that attacked the body unseen."

Dr. Kellec (thought): "If the system was flawed, a man had to work outside it."

Kira (thought): "... being in the fight was always better than standing on the sidelines."

Dukat: "You gave us all hope yesterday and today it's gone.  That's worse than having no hope in the first place."

Quark: "Remember.  'A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.'"

Quark (thought): "... sometimes the point of practical jokes wasn't humor.  Sometimes the point was to teach someone a lesson."

#53 Red Sector (Double Helix Book 3 of 6) - Diane Carey

12/20/99

Eric Stiles (thought): "Gum stuck on your shoe doesn't ask, 'Where are we going?'  --  It just sticks to the shoe."

Stiles: "I don't mind being dead, but dead for nothing stinks."

Spock (thought): "He learned long ago to remember manes of ships, captains and some officers -- but that cluttering one's mind with lieutenants, yeomen, and others tended only to inaccuracy."

Dr. Crusher: "Terrified people do terrible things."

Spock (to Dr. Crusher): "Like myself, Doctor, I know you prefer clarity to choices.  However, choices are the more frequent curse of authority."

"I love brute force.  Gives me a sense of superiority."

Stiles: "Being fast is a matter of survival, not just success."

Stiles: "Aren't you kind of ... babbling a lot, Mr. Hashley?"
Hashley: "Oh, yes!  That way I'm never the only one to know anything."

Stiles: "Mr. Hashley, is there anything you're not telling us?"
Hashley: "Me?  No!  I'd tell you anything I knew.  I don't want to know any secrets, not ever.  Secrets can get you killed.  I never want to be the only one --"

Dr. Crusher: "... brink of death's a prickly place....  Sometimes you gotta dance to keep standing there."

Dr. Crusher (thought): "Conscience could be such a burden...."

Dr. Crusher: "This is what happens to all conspirators....  Sooner or later they have to show themselves."

Dr. Crusher: "Monarchies are stupid...."

Dr. Crusher: "... I'm all for revolutions, but not while the opposition is lying helplessly ill...."

Stiles: "Ship disaster don't scare me.  Disastrous people scare me."

Spock: "The logs, the legends, the tall tales, the song and story -- these are spirit-charging powers for us all.  But legend is selective and usually written by the winners.  The legends of the first Enterprise ... they reflect the heroic, not the human aspects, of our life together in those years ... Jim Kirk, Dr. McCoy, the others, and myself.  Legend is a great filter.  The traits that shame us most, the ones we leave out of the stories, are often the flaws that give us texture.  Without them, we would be only pictures.  ...  I have come over these years to understand what it means to be a captain not so much in rank but in manner.  There are captains of rank, captains of ships, and captains of crews.  A few men are all three."

Spock: "One hopes for the best, but prepares for the worst."

Stiles: "... I love unknown quantities."

Stiles: "Freedom is never free."

#54 Quarantine (Double Helix Book 4 of 6) - John Vornholt

12/20/99

Tom Riker (thought): "... life wasn't worth it unless fun was involved."

Gul Demadak: "There's always a faction who want to destroy things...."

Gul Demadak: "... panic is worse than plague."

B'Elanna Torres: "Not everyone thinks like a Vulcan."

Legate Tarkon: "A done deed is history, not a threat."

Torres: "There's an old Klingon proverb:  You don't know who your friends are until you start a fight."

"For a Vulcan to take a life was a serious matter, a cause to doubt one's training and commitment to logic."

Tuvok (thought): "A Vulcan never killed, except when it was absolutely necessary...."

Tuvok (thought): "One thing certain -- there was nothing like being incarcerated in a cell, awaiting trial for murder, to make a person think."

Tom Riker (thought): "Miracles happen to other people, not to me.  What did the old blues song say?  'If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.'"

Torres: "It's hard not to like a man who worships you and wants to give you the world.  Like most of the men I like, he turned out to be rotten.  Why am I always attracted to the rotters?"

#55 Double or Nothing (Double Helix Book 5 of 6) - Peter David

12/21/99

General Thul: "Honesty is always to be preferred."

Commander Shelby: "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Captain Mackenzie Calhoun: "Yes, they do.  They do.  Someone commits a wrong, a wrong is committed against them in turn ... that comes out right."
Shelby: "I'm speaking from a moral point of view...."
Calhoun: "So am I.  That' the joy of morals.  They're not absolute."
Shelby: "There are absolute standards of right and wrong...."
Calhoun: "You should know better than that....  Physics are absolute.  But anything that man can conceive from his own skull is up for debate."
Shelby: "... you would think that.  Because you're someone who thinks that rules apply to you when you feel like it, but can be discarded when you consider them an inconvenience."
Calhoun: "Not always."

Calhoun (thought): "Notoriety is counterproductive to secrecy."

Darg: "If a man's going to watch my back, I have to be sure he's not going to stick a knife in it."

Kwint: "A fight is always between two sides, both of whom think they're right.  Usually, they both are ... from their point of view.  So it really doesn't matter which side you take, because it's never really about who's right.  It's about who wins."

Riker (thought): "No matter how advanced humanity became, no matter how many horizons were explored, no matter how many adventures were pursued, no matter how great and noble the race aspired to be ... there was simply something irresistible about chattering about people behind there backs."

Ambassador Stonn: "... interference invites abuse.  It was an earthman who stated that power tends to corrupt ... and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

General Thul: "... caution is always to be preferred.  These are, after all, dangerous times."

McHenry: "Relationships are like turbolifts.  Sometimes you just have to know when to get off."

Kebron: "I heard that 92 percent of all statistics are made up."

Riker: "If there's one thing I've learned, it's not whether you make a good decision or a bad decision, what's just as important -- if not even more so -- is making a decision and sticking to it.  You can't be a commanding officer and not be committed to your commands."

#56 The First Virtue (Double Helix Book 6 of 6) - Michael Jan Friedman and Christie Golden

12/21/99

Tuvok: "We could have obtained the same information in a far less public and confrontational fashion.  Surely there were others here who know...."
Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher: "That's a logical approach, all right.  Damned logical.  Just one problem -- hardened criminals and the dregs of society seldom appreciate that kind of logic."

J. Crusher: "People form impressions very quickly."

Picard (thought): "It is difficult ... to sit down and share a laugh with your enemy and fire upon him the next day."

Tuvok: "One cannot look ahead with confidence until he has gained an understanding of what came before."

Tuvok: "Humanoid offspring require input from both parents to achieve their full potential."

Tuvok: "Vulcans do not joke."

Tuvok (to J. Crusher): "Your methods were ... unorthodox.  However, our mission was an unqualified success -- and as Surak himself once said, it is illogical to argue with success."

#57 The Forgotten War - William Fortschen

#58 Gemworld #1 - John Vornholt

#59 Gemworld #2 - John Vornholt