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I've been busy, partly with personal issues, partly with an actual book I'm writing. But rest assured, I do intend to come back to this story and finish it.

1) The newspaper clippings flat out state that the military cannot stop the creatures, with a quote along the lines of "we cannot protect you". Presumably they didn't merely use small arms, which aren't much different from civilian small arms. 2) The father stated that the creatures didn't...

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Did a search, didn't see a thread on this topic, so apologies if I'm beating a dead horse. The creatures in A Quiet Place don't make sense. They have super sensitive hearing and use it to hunt with. The survivors can only make noise in the presence of a waterfall, which the creatures avoid because i...

Also excellent points. Honestly, this is a higher grade of analysis and discussion than I'm used to my stories getting. You're off on a couple of your assumptions, but dead on with everything else. Unfortunately, I can't go into detail without spoiling future installments, so I'll have to leave it ...

Typical Federation (especially the Enterprise ) response is for the ship to try to find the aliens, but some other space nations would have as usual protocol that the ship return to report and then return with a fleet. It looks like Riker has committed Star Fleet to following this second option (an...

WARNING : From this point forward, the story will feature graphic scenes depicting violence, sexual situations, and disturbing material. This is your one and only "trigger" warning. Future chapters featuring graphic scenes may or may not (depending on whether I think it's needed) feature ...

You know, I just had a thought. Stolansky is supposing that his society could become as prosperous as the Federation, but do they have the mindset to do so? The Ascension is based on the superiority of their Augments, and of uplifting the client races they bring into their ranks. However, there's a...

We see several instances in TNG and VOY where something occurred during the night shift or otherwise when they had to call senior officers to the bridge. And yes, Jellico ordered Riker to switch from 3 to 4 shifts, and Riker got all butthurt and just ignored the order . Then had the audacity to cop ...

With the senior officers seated around the conference table, Riker took his seat at the head and glanced at his PADD. "All right, let's begin with Commander Stolansky. Commander?" "Yes, sir." Stolansky had removed his helmet and placed it on the table before him. "Concerning...

IIRC in the TNG tech manual the bridge was on top of the hull and detachable so that it could be easily swapped out during an upgrade. Also the main bridge of the E-D wasn't supposed to be used during battle situations as it was intended that they saucer-separate first, but that didn't happen very ...

What would we even have to offer them that would make it worth the effort? Resources? Plenty more closer to home, and without angry natives firing nukes at them. Gold? Ditto. Technology? Theirs is far more advanced. Slaves? Their technology should involve enough automation that slavery would be a wa...

The turbolift doors parted and Riker immediately felt a wave of homesickness as he stepped out onto the bridge. It wasn't 100% like the Enterprise-D, but it was so close he had to stop and think about the little differences. He'd served aboard a dozen starships, but none of them had felt as much lik...

Quick note re dinosaur anatomy: for obvious reasons we cannot make a conclusive pronouncement about what the soft organs looked like, barring some miraculous discovery of a well preserved carcass. Given the obvious size differences, I've read hypotheses that they may have been closer to mammalian i...

Yes; as I pointed out earlier... the weak spot here isn't the weapons, it's the hunters going up against animals which they have no practical knowledge about. To be frank, even scientists won't have a GREAT idea of what dinosaurs in the actual flesh will be like, just guesses and approximations. I'...

The island represents a MASSIVE biological threat to the planet. There are extremely dangerous Alpha Predators on it. As in 'nothing alive on earth can stop some of them without modern weapons'. Fall back, and recommend a tactical nuclear strike to contain the bio-threat. What? The predators are no...

The U.S. probably declines the offer from the aliens. It wouldn't surprise me if they would also pressure their trading partners to do the same, in the name of protecting their automobile sector (which would mostly die when faced with this kind of competition). Although I'm sure we'd be more than h...

So, the Ascension is against hailing individual ships in their territory now. Lovely. I weep for any freighters hit by ion storms and other space oddities, as the Ascension will kill them for daring to be stranded passed their line on the map. The Kobayashi Maru shows such things happen, and the As...

Commander Spee sat strapped into his densely padded seat, staring straight ahead at the display hanging in front of his face. "Unidentified vessel appears to be an Orion raider; estimated crew complement of about a dozen. They're still trying to hide behind that asteroid." The captain nodd...

That was extremely common throughout the World War Two era, as I understand it. Since nicotine addicts will do a lot of things to get a fix, and burn cigarettes up steadily (literally) they make a good form of black-market currency in places where cash is either unavailable or not fully useful (i.e...

When my grandpa got drafted in WW2, he loved the cigarettes that came in K-Rations. He didn't smoke; he traded them for chocolate and other luxuries that were otherwise hard to get. He basically used them as currency.

TNG-era Feds have come across their fair share of nasties, with the Borg perhaps being the prime example. I wonder what will be more evil to the Feds than "literally treats everyone and everything around them as raw material that can be consumed, physically and mentally violate people in every...

Premise: What if the Federation encountered beings who not only made peaceful coexistence impossible, weren't merely antagonistic, but actually embodied everything the Federation considered to be well and truly evil ? Worse still, what if the Federation- well, that might spoil too much. This story i...

About the only plausible means I see for an interstellar government in an STL universe would be if everybody (or at least the majority) converted to Space Catholicism; forms of government, culture, language, etc. would be determined by the central authority of the Space Pope. Obviously there would s...

Stone age tool use and production is not something you can learn by spying on another from a distance, particularly if the individual you're spying on is protecting a large territory of a couple kilometers. Knapping stone or volcanic glass into the appropriate shape to make knives, spear heads, scr...