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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    D'Vana Tendi is fifteen years old. She has already, secretly, decided to enroll in Starfleet in three years. In the meantime, she is reading the manuals.

    There are a lot of manuals.

    They are very, very strange.


    A character study spanning fifteen years, from an Orion teenager reading Navigating Multispecies Social Norms with increasing bewilderment, to a Starfleet officer on the USS Cerritos who has spent a decade learning to live in a one-tenth-bandwidth world — and who is beginning to understand, finally, why the bandwidth was ever restricted in the first place.

    Tendi can smell everything. This is not a superpower. It is not a disability. It is the condition of being Orion in a room full of people who can't, and who mostly don't know she can, and who built their entire social architecture to compensate for a sense they don't consciously possess.

    She loves them anyway. Possibly because of it.

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    07 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    == FLASH ALERT // ALL SHIPS ALL STATIONS ==

    I am the very model of the modern Starfleet badmiral.
    And I will surely space whoever is responsible.

    ADMIRAL VAUGHAN RITTENHOUSE
    C-IN-C KLINGON BORDER COMMAND

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    22 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Professor Hsepha Taro
    Starfleet Academy
    San Francisco, United Earth
    United Federation of Planets
    Starfleet Strategic Review
    07.04.2386

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    SUMMARY: The Pakled Crisis of 2380-2381 is by no means recalled as Starfleet’s finest hour. There are no monuments to it at Les Invalides in Paris, no mention of it on the Wall of Remembrance at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Terms such as “farcical” or “an embarrassment” are often used to describe the nine chaotic months in which one of the Alpha Quadrant’s most overlooked and least-notable species proved to be an enduring thorn in the side the of Federation, before self-destructing in as abrupt and bizarre a manner as it began. But it is worth taking a more intensive look at the events that brought the Pakleds to the brink of war with the Federation, and how the UFP responded. In both respects, this crisis represents a very useful case study in the enduring aftereffects of the Dominion War on the Alpha Quadrant.

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    08 Feb 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    The tale of how Saren and Nihlus first met and became friends.

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    27 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    Professor Edward Lile
    New Horizon University
    Vega Colony
    United Federation of Planets
    An Introduction to Human History: Volume VII
    Federation Education Service Publishing
    04.29.2366

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    SUMMARY: In 1989, with the Cold War ending, the Earth seemed on the brink of a Golden Age. By 2053, 30% of the human population had been annihilated, and the planet was hovering on the edge of collapse into premodern conditions. In 2063, First Contact with extraterrestrial life was made, for the first time. In 2083, a planetary-wide world government was established for the first time, in partnership with our new allies. And in 2161, Earth became the capital of an interstellar federation of sentient species that has since grown to be the most powerful democracy in the explored Galaxy. It is hard to imagine a more momentous era to live through, or one that challenged so many preconceptions and expectations. This article will provide an overview of these pivotal decades, giving students an introduction to the crucible that forged modern Humanity.

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    12 May 2024