Book: Mosaic | Author: Jeri Taylor | ISBN: 0-671-56312-2
Captain Janeway strides onto the bridge with renewed focus. She slept another hour. That helps. Voyager is wounded. Warp is down. Impulse might be ready soon. One phaser bank works. The Kazon still orbit the planet above, but the nebula makes sensor readings fuzzy.
Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN 0671541811
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The Black Shore opens with Voyager drifting through one of the most boring stretches of the Delta Quadrant anyone on the ship has seen in a while. And here’s the thing: boredom on a stranded starship is not harmless. It eats at people.
The Analects by Confucius, translated by Annping Chin, ISBN 978-0-698-15351-6
Book Four is the humaneness book. Twenty-six passages, almost all from Confucius himself, and ren (humaneness, benevolence, moral goodness) is the word on repeat. If you have ever seen the Analects quoted in a self-help context, chances are it came from here. But read straight through, it is less cozy than the Instagram version. Confucius is frustrated with how hard it is for people to actually choose the good when they could.
Book: Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom Author: Erica Benner ISBN: 978-0-393-60972-1
While young Niccolò grows up, Bernardo splits his weeks between tenant troubles in Sant’ Andrea and a desk piled with Roman history. He is writing an alphabetical index of names for Livy. Agis, Camillus, Hannibal, Scipio, Tarquinius, Romulus. Years later the son will make some of those names live again, often with a twist that unsettles the usual heroes-and-villains story.
Kim and Paris wake up to a guard yelling. New work detail. Marima is already up. They get led to a smelly fish hold. Bloody aprons and gloves wait for them.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Chapter three is where the cozy garden vibe turns into a crisis. Janeway sets up a full harvesting camp in the ruins. More crew beam down. Supplies, water gear, medical tents. She still does not trust the Urrythans, but Voyager’s needs win.
Book: Star Trek Voyager #8: Cybersong
Author: S. N. Lewitt
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Tuvok goes down hard in main engineering. Again. Chakotay catches him before his head hits a console, but the cortical monitor is screaming. Harry Kim reports the nebula is boring class-seventeen sirillium gas. Nothing weird. Nothing that should make a Vulcan pass out.