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#1 Emissary - J. M. Dillard
#2 The Siege - Peter David
#3 Bloodletter - K. W. Jeter
#4 The Big Game - Sandy Schofield
#5 Fallen Heroes - Dafydd ab Hugh
#6 Betrayal - Lois Tilton
#7 Warchild - Esther Friesner
#8 Antimatter - John Vornholt
#9 Proud Helios - Melissa Scott
#10 Valhalla - Nathan Archer Betancourt
#11 Devil in the Sky - Greg Cox & John Gregory
#12 The Laertian Gamble - Robert Sheekley
#13 Station Rage - Diane Carey
#14 The Long Night - Dean W. Smith & Kristine K. Rusch
#15 Objective: Bajor - John Peel
#16 Invasion #3: Time's Enemy - L. A. Graf
#17 The Heart of the Warrior - John Gregory Betancourt
#18 Saratoga - Michael Jan Friedman
#19 The Tempest - Susan Wright
#20 Wrath of the Prophets - P. David, M. J. Friedman, R.
Greenberger
#21 Trial by Error - Mark Garland
#22 Vengeance - Dafydd ab Hugh
Quark: "Greed is never enough.... A true Ferengi combines agreed with
pure corruption and a passion for staying out of other people's business unless there's a
profit to be made."
Quark's own, personal modification of the Sixth Rule of Acquisition read:
"Never allow the hatred of family to stand in the way of opportunity."
Odo: "...my people do not even have the concept of alliances and
treaties: they recognize only masters and slaves. If you're not the master, you're
the slave."
Worf: "So it is necessary to kill them in order to save
them!"
O'Brien: "...anything you can fuzz, I can stabilize."
"Quark...was still shouting something about barbarians or invaders or
tax collectors -- the Ferengi word he used could have meant any of the three."
Quark (thought): "War is just organized robbery anyway!"
"...it was standard Ferengi business practice, though never
formalized into a Rule of Acquisition, always to build a last-ditch escape tunnel, or
bolthole, into every Ferengi establishment."
Bashir: "I'm a doctor, not an insurgent!"
Garak: "The human capacity for wishful thinking never ceases to
amaze."
Worf (thought): "It is only in the final extremity that honor and
dishonor show themselves unmasked."
#23 The 34th Rule - Armin Shimerman and David R.
George III
From a story by Armin Shimerman & David R. George III
& Eric A. Stillwell
#24 The Conquered (Rebels book 1 of 3) - Daffyd ab
Hugh
12/22/1999
Quark (thought): "... greed is eternal; even a blind man
can recognize the glow of latinum; home is where the heart is ... but the stars
are made of latinum."
Quark (thought): "No good deed ever goes unpunished."
Quark (thought): "... cynicism is an ugly emotion ... but
the universe is sometimes an ugly place."
Sisko (thought): "... primary Law of Command:
sometimes you simply have to let some people die to save a larger or more
important group."
Sisko (thought): "We MUST believe that death is better than
subjugation and slavery -- or why would anyone EVER resist the tyrant?"
O'Brien: "What could be more fun than playing silly games
with the woman you love?"
Quark: "I've been almost obsessed with the Two Hundred and
Eighty-Fourth Rule."
Sisko: "Deep down, everyone's a Ferengi."
Quark: "My next thought was of Rule Forty-Four...."
Sisko: "Never confuse wisdom with luck."
Quark: "It's always good business to know about new
customers before they walk in your door."
Sisko: "One Hundred and Ninety-Four."
Kai Winn (thought): "There is a great comfort in knowing
one will survive one's present difficulties...."
#25 The Courageous (Rebels book 2 of 3) - Daffyd ab
Hugh
12/22/1999
Ensign Joson Wabak: "Better to die trying ... than huddle
here and wait for death to hunt us."
Kai Winn (memory): "She always believed in the necessity of
keeping up appearances; appearances were more important than a lot of people
admitted...."
Kai Winn (memory): "Sometimes it is necessary ... to
sacrifice a finger to save the hand...."
Quark (thought): "... the man at the helm of his own
destiny never feels small!"
Quark (thought): "The riskier the road, the greater the
profit, and other gems from the Rules of Acquisition."
Garak: "... there comes a time when the best defense is to
fold up one's tent and steal away."
Kai Winn (memory): "... what you didn't know, you couldn't
spill, no matter what the reason."
Quark: "There's nothing more dangerous than an honest
businessman."
Sisko: "Rule of Acquisition Number Twenty-Seven."
Sisko (thought): "... if command had taught him one great
lesson, it was that life imitates artifice: pretend courage and
confidence, and soon you feel them for real."
Sisko (thought): "When there is no moral option ... then
there is no truly immoral choice."
Kai Winn (to Kira): "... what makes you think sitting
quietly is doing nothing?"
Kira (thinking of a statement by Shakar): "Sometimes the
battle is over before it begins."
Kira (thinking of a statement by Kai Winn): "Wisdom; I pray
for the wisdom to see that loss is as inevitable as gain, if you fight long
enough."
Worf: "You must look not just to winning a battle or two
but to winning the war."
Quark (thought): "... the thought that a customer might not
be satisfied with his end of the bargain concerned a Ferengi not at all (in
fact, it was Rule of Acquisition Number Nineteen)."
#26 The Liberated (Rebels book 3 of 3) - Daffyd ab
Hugh
08/30/2000
Kai Winn (to Kira): "Courage, child. The Prophets
send tribulations to test us."
Kai Winn (to Kira): "Child, the Way of the Prophets is not
the child's blind resistance to authority."
Odo (thinking about the Vanimastavvi): "So what if their
IQs were already cruising past 200 on their way up?"
"To a Cardassian, losing face was infinitely worse than
losing one's life."
Worf (thought): "Creativity in combat must always be
encouraged in a student."
Ragat: "Old men don't sleep well. Even those of us
made old long before out time by betrayal and dishonor."
Odo: "All the intelligence in the quadrant can't turn lead
into latinum!"
B. Sisko: "Never do your enemy a small injury."
Jadzia Dax: "Mad dogs and Cardassians go out in the midday
sun."
Jadzia Dax: "Civilization and technology are
separable."
Kai Winn (thought): "Not every popular indulgence or every
move toward tolerance was good for the people; even if, childlike, they enjoyed
it. ... ... enjoyment didn't make gluttony or adultery
acceptable."
Quark: "Rule of Acquisition Thirty-five: War is good
for business."
Kira (thought): "Control the breath, and the mind will
follow; control the mind, and the heart will follow; control the heart, and
peace will come upon you.; Come, breath. Come, peace."
Cardassian lieutenant: "I'd sooner hang than beg anyone for
my life!"
Quark: "Still, as the Ferengi say -- it might end up a Rule of Acquisition
if the FCA gets around to debating it -- it's better to love on one's feet than
die on one's knees."
Quark: "... a saying of mine -- which will surely someday
join the enshrined Rules -- says: when you have absolutely nothing, keep
it in your pocket; you get a better deal for nothing sight-unseen."
Quark: "... a deal is like a -- a big sword: it cuts
in both directions."
Quark (thought): "It's always a bad sign when you ask a
question and they repeat it back to you."
Odo: "Captain, the first rule for any animal species is
survival."
Kira: "... as a wise woman once said, what we can tolerate,
we can endure."
#27 A Stitch in Time - Andrew J. Robinson