Clark Margaret A. T. - Star Trek: ships of the line

First Flight

John M. Teska

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

The Dream Is Alive

Sean Scott

For too long, she was little more than an abstract collection of plans, specifications, and components. Through most of the long assembly at the San Francisco Orbital Yards, the NX-01 seemed more of a construction project than a space vehicle. That all changed on the day that the mighty warp five engines were delivered to dry dock. Suddenly, the Enterprise seemed to come to life, eager to take wing, to go boldly where no one had gone before.

April 20, 2151

Mojo

Free at last of the constraints of spacedock, the NX-01 soared gracefully around her homeworld, ready for her maiden flight. In a few moments, primal forces would collide in her engines, disrupting the serenity of orbital glide. Captain Jonathan Archer would order the warp drive to be engaged, and the beautiful blue sphere of Earth would be left far behind, lost in the stars.

Faith of the Heart

Koji Kuramura

The great ships of exploration and their crews have always symbolized the best of humankind, doing the things that humans do best. They have helped satisfy our need to understand our universe. They made it possible for us to meet our distant cousins among the stars. And they have enabled us to bear witness to the magnificence of the cosmos.

Nothing but Trouble

Douglas E. Graves

His mission was just routine surveillance, but Kronthax had been fully briefed about Earths disturbing expansionist tactics. He knew that the High Command hadnt given him the Klingon Empires most advanced warship merely to be a watcher. No, when the time came, Kronthax would not hesitate to act decisively and defend his peoples honor.

Enterprise Incident

Koji Kuramura

Those damned Vulcans. Their idea of helping was to say nothing at all about the Romulans. Hardly a logical way to deal with an implacably hostile people who had been stewing for millennia in their own xenophobia. The Vulcans seemed quite willing to sacrifice the Enterprise to protect their own interests. But once again, they underestimated the determination of Jonathan Archer and his crew.

The Enterprise survived the encounter virtually unscathed, and Archer collected information that would prove vital to Earths survival in the coming Romulan war.

Distant Cousins

Fred Pienkos

As their orbit carried them into the darkness of planetary night, the bridge crew let out a collective gasp when they saw the glittering city lights below. The stories were true. Ancient Vulcans had indeed settled planets this far from home.

Would they be fiercely logical, like their distant cousins? Or would they have evolved into something very different? There was only one way to find out.

Cellular Disruption

Jos Perez

Even with state-of-the-art weaponry and the best tactical officer in Starfleet, the Enterprise was clearly overmatched. A single Suliban cell ship was simple enough to handle. A swarm of cell ships was easy pickings for Malcolm Reeds twitchy trigger finger. But the Suliban kept coming. And coming...