Kobayashi Maru - Michael A. Martin [184]
Harve Bennett, Jack B. Sowards, and Nicholas Meyer, who conceived and executed the Starfleet Academy Kobayashi Maru training test whose prehistory we have revealed in these pages; illustrator David Neilsen, whose 1983 conjectural designs and blueprints of the S.S. Kobayashi Maru inspired the descriptions of this novels eponymous neutronic fuel carrier; Ronald D. Moore, who christened two important warships, one Klingon (the YaVang from DS9 “You Are Cordially Invited) and one Romulan (the Terix from TNG “The Pegasus), thereby supplying the names (and namesakes) of two characters who appear in these pages, and who also supplied the name (Qam-Chee) of the Klingon homeworlds First City ( DS9 “Looking for parMach in All the Wrong Places).
David R. George III, whose 2003 novel Serpents Among the Ruins introduced one of the beverages in Admiral Valdores wine cellar on Romulus; David Mack, who unwittingly furnished us with an obscure Vulcan diplomat (Ambassador LNel), whom we stole from his 2005 Star Trek: Vanguard novel Harbinger ; Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, for originating a Romulan unit of distance (the matdrih , roughly analogous to the kilometer), which we stole from their 2006 Star Trek: Vanguard novel Summon the Thunder ; Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, for creating the Vulcan VShar ( ENT “The Forge), supplying the original old Romulan name for the capital city of Romulus (in William Shatners Kirk novels), and (along with Manny Cotto) for shaping the canonical story arc that immediately precedes the time frame of Star Trek: EnterpriseThe Good That Men Do and this book ( ENT “Terra Prime and “Demons); Eric A. Stillwell, whose name became attached to a fictional Starfleet captain in the Enterprise series finale, a tradition that we have continued; Mike Burch of Expert Auto Repair, whose mechanical skills keep Andys own sturdy transport running and who graciously lent his name to Enterprise s current chief engineer; actors Peter Miller and Frankie Darro, whose exploits in the Altair system in Forbidden Planet (1956) inspired the naming of Altair VIs Darro-Miller settlement; S. D. Perry, whose novel Star Trek Section 31: Cloak anticipated Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens canonical revelations about Section 31s distant past; Keith R. A. DeCandido and Susan Shwartz and Josepha Sherman, whose novels Articles of the Federation and Vulcans Heart enabled us to hide a historical Easter egg or three within these pages (as well as in The Good That Men Do ); Keith DeCandido (again), for inspiring the name of a Klingon supernumerary (Qrad), as well as for insight into the Klingon calendar, both here and in Forged in Fire ; Dr. Marc Okrand, whose seminal xenolin-guistic work The Klingon Dictionary (1992 edition) was an invaluable reference; the collected Romulan-related novels of Diane Duane (collected in 2006s Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages ), for guidance on Romulan culture, language, and naming customs; the online linguistic scholars who assembled the vast Rihannsu language database found at http://atrek.org/Dhivael/rihan/engto rihan.html, for furnishing various Romulan time and distance units, numerals, and word roots that helped us create several Romulan proper names. Wikipedia, Memory Alpha, and Memory Beta contributors everywhere, including the online codifiers of speculative Vulcan (and by extension Romulan) calendrical minutiae at Starbase 10; Franz Joseph, whose Star Fleet Technical Manual (1975) lent us the Vulcan outpost planet Trilan; Doug Drexler and Michael Okudas Ships of the Line hardcover (2006), which inspired certain events aboard Columbia , foreshadowed here and realized in detail in David Macks forthcoming Star Trek: Destiny trilogy; David Mack, for the extensive work he did on the aforementioned trilogy in creating the Columbia crew members, which allowed us to debut them in these pages, and for establishing the location