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Distant Shores: A Tenth-Anniversary Celebration |  |
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Committed to that difficult road, Voyager's crew was rewarded with unimaginable experiences on strange and fantastic worlds, encountering exotic alien species and astonishing phenomena...and challenged along the way by conflicts from within as well as from without. Yet none of their adventures tempered their shared determination to find a way back to friends and family.
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Contents
Da Capo al Fine, Part I: Heather Jarman
Command Code: Robert Greenberger
Winds of Change: Kim Sheard
Talent Night: Jeffrey Lang
Letting Go: Keith R.A. DeCandido
Closure: James Swallow
The Secret Heart of Zolaluz: Robert T. Jeschonek
Isabo's Shirt: Kirsten Beyer
Brief Candle: Christopher L. Bennett
Eighteen Minutes: Terri Osborne
Or the Tiger: Geoffrey Thorne
Bottomless: Ilsa J. Bick
Da Capo al Fine, Part II: Heather Jarman
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文摘 Da Capo al Fine Part I
Inhale...
Within the space of a breath, Admiral Kathryn Janeway had been transported out of her shuttle and into the Borg Queen's lair.
Damn it, Kathryn, you got careless! She offered a throwaway thought in the direction of deity, luck, and whatever other forces might influence Voyager's fate, hoping that she'd given Captain Janeway enough time to execute her outrageously risky plan.
Exhale...
Turning her head, she glanced at her prison: a nest of snake-like conduits and circuitry wreathed in glowing green. The throbbing pulse of the hive mind enveloped her senses. She met the glistening black beetle eyes of the Queen across the room -- and wasn't nearly frightened enough. She'd expected that her oldest nemesis would employ this tactic, and for that reason alone her predicament felt like an anticlimax. Ah! The good old days when she could still surprise me, Janeway thought with a twinge of regret. Time for this old campaigner to surrender her post to a less jaded soldier -- a flash from her recent days on Voyager intruded -- like my younger self: That feisty redhead has a lot of fight left in her. And me...? I have enough fight for this round of combat and that's all I need. Too bad she wouldn't live long enough to see what Captain Janeway would do with her second chance. Unbidden, a memory from a primary school poetry lesson wafted to the fore of her consciousness:
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper."
Imprisoned in the throne room of a Borg cube, helpless to hold back her inevitable assimilation, Janeway found the poet's sentiment fitting. Acceptance of her fate flooded her.
Exhale...
"Very clever," the Queen said, her tone cutting. "Hiding right on my 'doorstep.'"
At least I knocked before I invited myself in.
The Queen turned toward a floating viewscreen filled with the image of Janeway's
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