The Brave and the Bold Book Two - Keith R. A. DeCandido [106]
You can’t do a TV tie-in without thanking the actors—or at least you shouldn’t. They provide the voice you use to write the characters. So hearty thanks to (deep breath): Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Scott Bakula (Archer), Majel Barrett (Chapel and Lwaxana), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Jolene Blalock (T’Pol), Avery Brooks (Sisko), LeVar Burton (La Forge), Bernie Casey (Hudson), Michael Cavanaugh (DeSoto), Stephen Collins (Will Decker), Roxann Dawson (Torres), Michael Dorn (Worf), Brad Dourif (Suder), Terry Farrell (Dax), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Martha Hackett (Seska), Jeffery Hayenga (Orta), Michael Jace (Shabalala), Scott Jaeck (Cavit), Dominic Keating (Reed), De-Forest Kelley (McCoy), Sterling Macer (Toq), Derek McGrath (Chell), Colm Meaney (O’Brien), Kenny Morrison (Gerron), Kate Mulgrew (Janeway), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Stephanie Niznik (Perim), Natalia Nogulich (Nechayev), Alan Oppenheimer (Keogh), Linda Park (Sato), Richard Poe (Evek), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Armand Schultz (Dalby), William Shatner (Kirk), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Brent Spiner (Data), Patrick Stewart (Picard), George Takei (Sulu), Brian Thompson (Klag), Tony Todd (Rodek), Connor Trinneer (Tucker), Nana Visitor (Kira), and William Windom (Matt Decker).
David Henderson for timeline assistance with the prelude.
The University of Colorado’s Hypertexts for Biomedical Sciences on the Web (http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks), especially their section on the adrenal gland, and the directory of compounds at http://www.allatoms.com/CompoundWebSites.htm.
Dayton Ward, Dave Galanter, and Allyn Gibson for reassuring me that I got Kirk’s voice right.
Roy L. Post, for setting me straight on how to make a moon into arable farmland.
Mindy McAdams for all her help with the details of the Game of Go. For more on this ancient game of strategy, check out the American Go Association’s Web site at http://www.usgo.org.
The Maquis Index at Janet’s Star Trek: Voyager Site (http://www.startrek-voyager.fsnet.co.uk) for help in identifying the Maquis members of Voyager’ s crew. (Also thanks to Todd “Scavenger” Kogutt for pointing me to it.)
John M. Ford, for his seminal Star Trek novel The Final Reflection—still the definitive Klingon novel—and S. D. Perry and Robert Greenberger, for giving Captain Klag a couple of cameos in Avatar Book 2 and “The Other Side” in What Lay Beyond, respectively.
Michael A. Martin for useful and handy editorial guidance.
Tammy Love Larrabee for taking the vague idea of what the Gorkon looked like in my head and turning it into an actual set of specifications.
GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido, aka The Mom, aka Editorial Goddess The Elder, who worked her usual magic on my drafts.
The Magical Starbucks of Good Writing in midtown Manhattan. Thanks to owning a laptop, I can write pretty much anywhere, and The Brave and the Bold was written in a variety of locations across the United States (not to mention Montreal)—but, for whatever reason, I was most productive at this particular Starbucks. Go fig’.
CITH, the best writers’ group ever, who kept me on track and gave invaluable feedback that made the book far better than it would’ve been without them; the Malibu Group and the Geek Patrol, just ‘cause; the Fore-bearance, for decades of encouragement; and the ever-encouraging fans on the assorted Internet bulletin boards, but most especially those at Psi Phi’s Star Trek novels board (www.psiphi.org), the Trek BBS’s Trek Literature board (www.trekbbs.com), Simon & Schuster’s Star Trek novels board (www.startrekbooks.com), and the Yahoo! Star Trek Books group.
Most of all, though, to the love of my life, Terri Osborne, who makes it all worthwhile.
—Keith R.A. DeCandido
somewhere in New York City, 2002
About the Author
After a trip to the galactic barrier in order to save an injured Klingon, Keith R.A.