Peter David
19 Quotations from Peter David
| android n. | 1992 Imzadi i. 7 Standing outside the field, staring at the Guardian, was an android. |
| astronavigator n. | 2003 No Limits 202 Amazon’s standard controls lacked the fourth-dimensional modeling of the holograph, but McHenry might be the best astronavigator in Starfleet. |
| disruptor n. | 1995 Captain's Daughter . vii. 72 A disruptor blast sliced just above his head. |
| elsewhen adv. | 1992 Imzadi i. 3 The man in the greenish yellow shirt, whose mind was elsewhere and elsewhen. |
| empath n. | 1992 Imzadi (1993) 121 Deanna’s no mind reader. She’s an empath. She senses moods, emotions, feelings. |
| empathic adj. | 1992 Imzadi v. 33 Betazoids walked a fine line between a desire for privacy and acceptance of its impossibility—for amidst an empathic society, privacy was at best a pretense and it was rude to pretend otherwise. |
| holodeck n. | 1992 Imzadi vi. 46 Every so often, when I was feeling frivolous, I'd put it on and romp around the holodeck. |
| humanoid n. | 1992 Imzadi xxiv. 189 Phaser blasts can stop them but not on lower settings. Ranges that stun the Sindareen can severely injure, even kill other humanoids. |
| offworlder n. | 1992 Imzadi xiii. 97 Weddings are always done out loud, in consideration of any offworlders who might be in the audience. |
| parallel universe n. | 1992 Imzadi iii. 25 It’s something that has been considered…that parallel universes are, in fact, alternative time tracks. |
| phaser n. | 1992 Imzadi xvii. 124 Tang stroked his round, stubbled chin. The large phaser he always wore was clipped to his waist and slapped against his thick leg. |
| planetfall n. | 1992 Imzadi xxii. 177 Our calculations have them making planetfall right in the heart of the city. |
| planetside adv. | 1992 Imzadi v. 35 I really am a sleaze. I've been back planetside a few times…but I never saw you. Never tried to contact you. |
| positronic adj. | 1995 Captain’s Daughter ii. 16 Thousands of landing-party assignments had been fed into a vast database, processed through positronic circuitry as perfected in the M9 computer. |
| smeg v. | 1992 Imzadi vii. 52 ‘He, um... well, the child seemed to be under the confused impression that the Cordian was, in fact, an accordion. He asked the ambassador to play “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star” on himself.’ Picard moaned softly. ‘How did the ambassador react?’ ‘He took it in stride, actually. He said it’s happened to him on several occasions in the past and suggested that it might be time, and I quote, “to learn how to play the smegging thing.”’ |
| space lane n. | 1992 Imzadi ii. 14 There was nothing desirable about Starbase 86. It was far removed from the more frequently traveled space lanes. |
| spacer n. 1 | 1992 Imzadi iv. 28 You can take the man out of space, but you can’t take the spacer out of the man, eh? |
| starbase n. | 1992 Imzadi ii. 16 He had in the beginning, back when he'd taken on the command of the starbase three years ago. |
| Terran n. 1 | 1992 Imzadi i. 6 She passed her associate coordinator, Harry, who didn’t seem to notice her. A muscular and dark-hued terran. |