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As the brave men and women of Starfleet carry out their duties -- mapping countless solar systems, greeting new species and establishing ties with civilizations large and small -- they live, work, and face the possibility that they could die in space. How do Starfleet's finest survive the countless dangers to be discovered as they boldly go where no one has gone before Find out with this special edition of The Starfleet Survival Guide!

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Bio of David Mack

David Mack is the author of numerous Star Trek books, including Wildfire, A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal, Warpath and the critically and fan acclaimed series Star Trek: Destiny. With Marco Palmieri, he developed the Star Trek Vanguard series, for which he has written two novels, Harbinger and Reap the Whirlwind. His other novels include the Wolverine espionage adventure Road of Bones, and his first original novel, The Calling, will publish in July 2009. Before writing books, Mack co-wrote with John J. Ordover the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fourth-season episode "Starship Down" and the story treatment for the series' seventh-season episode "It's Only a Paper Moon." An avid fan of Canadian progressive-rock trio Rush, Mack has attended shows in all of their concert tours since 1982. Having recently fled corporate servitude, Mack now resides in a secret location with his wife, Kara.

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Star Trek

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1.72 MB

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192

eBook ISBN

9780743418430

Excerpt from: Star Trek: The Starfleet Survival Guide by David Mack

1.01 Causing Localized Seismic Disruptions with Tricorder and/or Combadge Signals

Although creating controlled seismic events is extremely dangerous, they can be an effective deterrent if executed properly -- blocking the path of a pursuer or group of pursuers in a wilderness setting by causing the collapse of a large volume of earth, rock, snow, or other material.

This effect is sometimes easy to create with well-placed phaser blasts, but if phasers are not available or have malfunctioned, a variety of terrains might prove susceptible to disruption through the use of ultrasonic and hypersonic signals from a combadge or tricorder. Regions with great quantities of loose rock, muddy earth, or heavy accumulations of snow or similar frozen precipitation can be induced to collapse by using focused sonic waves to reduce their overall strength and cohesion.

For maximum effect, such controlled events should be directed into gullies, narrow canyon passages, or other close areas, providing the greatest degree of obstruction to a pursuer. However, great care should be taken not to execute such a tactic too close to any settled area, or in a location where there is an unacceptably high risk of the controlled event triggering subsequent, uncontrolled events that might lead to unwanted collateral damage.