Last Full Measure - Michael A. Martin [0]
today tracking down those Xindi and their
superweapon?”
The muscles in Travis Mayweather’s neck tightened involuntarily. “Captain Archer and the whole senior staff are doing everything they can,” he said quietly.
“If you can’t find ’em, Ensign, we can’t kill ’em,” Chang said. In a single smooth motion he rose from the bed and stood at parade rest, still regarding Mayweather with that raptor’s stare.
“If we can’t find the Xindi, Corporal, then nobody can,” Mayweather finally said. “And aren’t you late for your duty shift?” After all, the whole point of the current so-called “hot-cotting” living arrangements was to ensure that those who rotated in and out of Enterprise’s overcrowded crew living quarters barely saw one another, let alone had much time to get into one another’s way.
“Major Hayes gave me some extra liberty time. Well, I’m off to the gym,” Chang said before heading for the door at full march.
The door hissed closed, leaving Mayweather alone in the quarters that were no longer his island of privacy.
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For James Montgomery Doohan (1920–2005),
whose passing has made this planet a much sadder
place; for Robert Sheckley (1928–2005), who
provided inspiration and convival times;
for Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, (1981–2005),
who gave his own last full measure of devotion
in Iraq; and for Cindy Sheehan, a bereaved
mother possessed of the courage to stand
against the unjust, illegal, immoral, and wholly
unjustifiable war of aggression and occupation
that took Casey’s life and has killed, crippled,
and orphaned more than 100,000 others.
Semper Invictus, Cindy.
—M.A.M.
To my father, Walter Gilbert Mangels, founder and curator of the Miracle of America Museum in Polson, Montana.
May the history you keep continue on well into the twenty-second century and beyond!
—A.M.
Acknowledgments
Thanks are due to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga for creating Star Trek: Enterprise, to Gene Roddenberry for originating the universe that the crew of the NX-01 heralded for its four brief, shining seasons, and to Arthur C. Clarke and the late Stanley Kubrick for bringing the reality of space to the silver screen decades ahead of schedule (and, eventually, to a fateful movie night aboard NX-01). The authors also owe a nod of the environmental suit helmet to J. M. Dillard, whose novelization of Berman and Braga’s Star Trek: Enterprise episode “The Xindi” informs the story between these covers, and award special commendations to Deborah Stevenson and the fine folks at Memory Alpha for their perspicacious data gathering on such subjects as Starfleet and MACO supernumeraries and the Xindi. Lastly, though certainly not leastly, we owe shuttlepods full of gratitude and appreciation to our editor, Margaret Clark, whose suggestions never failed to make the work better—and who was the very soul of patience while this tome was being written.
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