Diane Carey

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Alpha Centaurian n. 1992 D. Carey Star Trek: Best Destiny xiv. 163 There are a dozen other civilizations more advanced than humanity, just in known space…. The Vulcans, Orions, Andorians, the Alpha Centaurians…a few others.
antimatter n. 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race ix. 140 The result is highly ionized particles, hard radiation, dust, debris, and an above normal content of residual antimatter.
artificial gravity n. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! v. 69 The ship whined, straining against its own artificial gravity, creating a gyro effect.
astrogator n. 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race xix. 260 In minutes there were only a few amber lights left on the panels…and the milky glow of Chekov’s navigation astrogator.
battleship n. 1988 D. Carey Star Trek: Final Frontier 204 If this battleship is here, the Federation must be amassing along the treaty boundary. They must be!
dimensional adj. 1986 D. Carey Battlestations! vi.94 Power waves, maybe. Dimensional tampering. Whatever it was, I hated it.
empathy n. 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race xiv. 213 They'd shared empathy before, but this kind?
hovercar n. 1986 D. Carey Battlestations! iii.35 Beyond them were two private hover-cars.
hull v. 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race Prologue 14 Then the ship was being hulled and all would die.
Kobayashi Maru n. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! ii. 18 Everybody loses the ship. That’s the purpose behind the Kobayashi Maru test. Even if you made the right decisions, the people around you are obligated to make sure every alternative fails. [Ibid. 20] Secretly I was angry with Brian for not telling me what to expect during Kobayashi Maru, though the secrecy in which the test was shrouded wasn’t his fault.
mindmelding n. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! iv. 55 Advanced mind-melding techniques. Complete.
null-grav adj. 1996 D. Carey Invasion! vi. 81 I’ve got him mounted on a null-grav pad.
pew n. 1995 D. Carey Station Rage (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) 231 Kira leaned into the controls, brought Defiant up on an edge, rolled around Rugg’l’s stern, and opened fire again. Pew-pew-pew.
photon torpedo n. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! iii. 35 Star Empire…carries five dual-mount phaser banks, four banks of photon torpedoes.
shield n. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! i. 9 Captain, they’re firing! Raise shields!
skimmer n. 1986 D. Carey Battlestations! v.74 It may be as normal for them as learning to fly a skimmer is to us.
space dock n. 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race i. 36 They're in spacedock or box docks, being mechanically deprived of hardware advantages.
sublight n. 1986 D. Carey Battlestations! viii. 158 So why was I still clicking along at sublight?
sublight adj. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! viii. 199 I urged the massive beast into sublight movement.
tie-in n. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought! i.11 I had bothered to study the nuances of direct tie-in.
viewport n. 1986 D. Carey Battlestations! x.206, I made it to the viewport at the same time.
Vulcan mind meld n. 1996 D. Carey Star Trek Voyager: Flashback 63 If you live through the stress of a Vulcan mind-meld of this intensity, you might still come out of it severely brain-damaged.