The Higher Frontier is by Christopher L. Bennett. I started reading this on Saturday July 10, 2021. It had 333 pages. I completed reading it on September 9, 2021.
Sisrya was a telepath, of the Race Kenar, she just felt tons of her people being murdered but didn't know why?
"Of those few decisions when the intruders did come--Andorian radicals resentful for Kenorian struggles for rights, or off world slavers seeking to exploit there telepathic gifts, as the Romulans had done generations before--the strongest telepath adept have senses and hide their compounds and its occupation from its view, or to frighten them off with hallucinations of caverns collapsing around them. Species that relied on vision were easily fooled."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 4
Each life can be fooled easily, no matter if they relied on vision or other senses. They all can be fooled.
The Aenor are a subspecies of the Andorians.
"Life without emotion was sterile and pointless."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 10
Life is comprised of every aspect of the adventurous cosmic beings that we know as ourselves as well as other such entities. Some people are more attuned to the other-worldly aspects of life than others. Their may be a real issue when the many realities that exist simultaneously confuse people. This causes outbreaks such as panic, violence; but it also is the cause of such euphoric event as peace on Earth and goodwill throughout the lands.
"Some people get a thrill out of destroying what is rare and precious, like hunters going after endangered species, just to show they can. It gives them a sense of power."
McCoy
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 10
This behavior is very childish and immature. It shows no growth in the spirit.
Medusans are powerful telepathic alien race.
"Working with Vulcans, scientists at Duke and Heidelberg Universities had developed a means of testing humans for psi potential, and over time assessments of "ESP ratings" and "appreciation questions" had become a routine part of psychological and educational assessments even though were usually all but meaningless. Most humans, proved to have virtually nonexistent esper levels, while moderate test quotients often represented nothing more than heightened sensory acuity. Spatial awareness, or synthesis, even those with higher esper ratings had little more than heightened intuition or occasional faint awareness. But a tiny fraction of humans had proven capable of genuine telepathy when properly guided to cultivate their potential--to the surprise of human scientists who had believed such phenomena to have been thourghly debunked by previous experimentation. And so the testing continued, in the generally vain hope of discovering an extraordinary gift."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 17-18
"The New Humans took a more spiritual view. They believed that by making contact with other worlds and achieving peace and unification amongst ourselves, humans finally began to mature as a species. To expand our minds and souls in ways that let us make stronger connections with each other and with the universe itself."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 20
"Human potential is infinite."
Spock
Ideas are of boundless potential. You can do whatever you set your mind to. The future is constantly being rewritten.
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 21
"Telepathic potential has been known to exist in a small percentage of humans for as long as the means to measure it has been available."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 31
"I think it's more likely that those events merely inspired human espers to seek each other out, enabling them to work together on developing and refining their latent capabilities. However, it is difficult to say for certain. As with the Aernars telepathy, the origin and nature of psionic ability in humans is still a mystery to Federation science. Neither species is naturally telepathic and their brains lack structures akin to the para cortex that enables the psi abilities in species such as Vulcans, Deltans, and Denobulans."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 32
"I have not renounced knowledge or discipline. I have merely come to recognize that emotion is an integral part of the cognitive process, and it is thus logical to accept it's presence and employ it--to integrate it with one's reason rather than living at odds with ones own being."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 33
"The most unnatural thing of all is uniformity. Individual variations within any species are what gives it the evolutionary robustness to adapt to changing conditions. Diversity of ideas within a population allows a similar adaptability and facilitates growth and innovation. This is the essence of the principle of infinite diversities in infinite combinations."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 34
"In this day and age, with disabilities so rare, humans are out of touch at understanding those of us who still have them and taking existence in stride without pitying us."
Dr. Jones
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 37
"It's a big galaxy, after all. One that contains numerous casual influences that lead certain individuals lives paths to converge."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 44
"This suggest that our paths through life are guided by numerous casual and problematic both direct and indirect, leading some individuals to converge upon one another in many histories."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 44
"The loss is painful, but it is our way to face our way to face our pain head on. Our response to a loss is not passive grief but to a pursuit of retribution."
Thelin
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 58
"It has always seemed to me that command is not about what you desire for yourself...but what you can do for others. With your skills-- and your insights -- I believe you can do much good as a starship captain."
Thelin to Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 61
The away team found their first clue but it puzzled them because it was the word phantom. Chekov and a security team were chasing down the Blue Sky extremists on Android.
"Expecting us to be able to survive as we were is a lost cause, now more than ever. If we wish any part of our Gene's and culture to survive, we must share it with our fellow Andorians and merge it with theirs."
Zh'Lenthar
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 70
"Perhaps we have cared less in the past than we should have but that's not a mistake we want to repeat."
Uhura
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 71
"Militaries can support and protect as well as fight. Sometimes nothing else is powerful enough to make a difference when needed."
Uhura
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 71
"It was common to look for molecular disruptions as evidence of transporter use, but Thalian would never have thought of examining the specific geometry of molecular rearrangement. He began to understand why StarFleet had been so eager to alley with the Medusans."
Thelien
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 75
"Certain sentient brains are able to resonate with the quantum wave pattern of psionic fields enabling them to use these fields for communication, or to manipulate psion particles for telekinetic interactions with normal matter."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 83
"Each telepathical or telekinetic species emits it's own characteristic psionic signature, similar to its electromagnetic brain wave signature, and shaped by its neural anatomy and corresponding waves."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 83
"I cannot guarantee that every problem has a solution, but I can guarantee that giving up is never a solution. My advice is that you do the same thing in this situation that we all do in every situation: Strive. Adapt. Learn. Persist--until it ends. Solve one problem at a time."
Thelin
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 88
"Part of a cosmic consciousness that transcends their individual selves."
Sulu
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 113
"Knowing one another's mind gave them greater peace, and greater love for each other...Their gifts was evidence of limitless potential of all humans, and it made them feel closer to the rest of you, not more distant."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 114
"There was much I (Spock) perceived during my brief joining of minds with Kollos that I could not begin to comprehend or to express in any language I know. Yet I clearly perceived his essential qualities of intelligence; his optimism; his joyful curiosity towards all beings, especially the ones like himself. We may rightfully lament that he sacrificed himself to defeat could not share the same joy in infinite diversity. But I can say, at least, that knowing Kollos has given me an improved understanding....of the concept of beauty."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 115
"It is unfortunate that so many of us must experience the loss of something before we understand the importance of preserving it."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 120
Kirk was offered admiralcy at StarFleet again. This time he would still retain command of the Enterprise. Spock would be captain as well as teacher of cadets on the ship. The ship would only be used periodically to make emergency voyages when needed.
"If you take a chance on something new, you won't find yourself even happier as a result."
Kirk
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 138
"You can't bring the best out in people by going easy on them."
Kirk
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 146
"We may not know how to overcome obstacles, but the galaxy is full of civilization far more advanced and ancient than we are. There's always the possibility that a crew could run a few of the artifacts of such a civilization and find itself dealing with that seemingly impossible situation--and the impossible choices it forces them to make."
Kirk
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 148
"You can only remain a student for so long. In time, we must all grow beyond our teachers."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 152
"In fiction, if you wanted more adventures of the same cast of friends and heroes you keep them together indefinitely, installment after installment for as long as the audience interests remained. But real life tended to be more impermanent. What they had shared on the Enterprise was special, something that came along once in a lifetime--and they have managed to have it twice already. What were the odds that it would come again?"
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 157
"Family squabbles can be the worst of all. I don't expect this to be easy."
Azem-O
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 162
"Humanity is a concept with room for change and evolution."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 163
"So why is it that a Federation that accepted so much diversity of thought, customs, and ability between different species had so much trouble with a new form of diversity within humanity?"
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 169
"The problem is that we continued to grow and they didn't. Just because they're trapped in their heads they assume the worst about others' motives. It's always been an intrinsic flaw in humans, a course of unnecessary fear and conflict. Why can't they see that we're the solution to that flaw? All that we are about is love and peace. It comes naturally to us, because we can truly understand each other and know not to fear."
Maya Arias
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 170
"Well, if the only beings you know how to engage with are those you're already one with, than you lack a necessary skill for engaging with the rest of the universe. What you have between yourselves is amazing, even enviable in many ways. But you're always going to have blind spots towards the rest of the universe. Not all species minds are susceptible to telepathy, or willing to open to it. So that ability to reach out to those thoughts you can only imagine is still important."
Terrell
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 171
"Apparently it was easier for dimensional drive technology to take things out of the field than it was to put things into it."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 182
"With the losses I've sustained this pass year, I've come to appreciate the value of making the most of the time we have with someone. The fact that it will all end is all the more reason to embrace it."
Jones to Kirk
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 191
"Of course. They're your family. No one frustrates us more than the people we love the most. Just embrace what you already have and that should be enough."
Arsiene Xiung to Keiko Onami
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 196
"If you had to run and hide from a threat, would you be content to hide forever? To make that a permanent way of life, always in retreat from those who would never accept your existence? Or would you hold on to hope that you could change that status quo, by changing enough minds that there would be no longer be any reason to fear?"
Xiang
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 197
"The realistic of the moving mass tilts the axis of space and time, essentially dragging them out of alignment."
Uhura
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 203
"Regrettably, history is replete with groups motivated by violence and hatred towards others for arbitrary or incomprehensible reasons. For some, the mere fact of difference, or the mere existence of competitors for their accustomed power and privilege, has been perceived as an existential threat requiring violent response."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 206
Miranda Jones created a space-time rift to save the Enterprise and other Starfleet vessels from the Naazh vessels.
Medusans manipulate higher dimensions. Chekhov just transported Reon-Ka of the Medusans complex.
"At its request, I let it join with my mind and share its knowledge of the long struggles. Of the perverted and unnatural, experiments of the extremist faction you call 'refugees,' hybridizing corporal and incorporeal forms from different universes in search of a chimeric blend with the power to conquer both. Just as humanity fought the Augments, so the Lords fought to eradicate these dangerous fusions before their corruptions could spread through both domains of existence. But they escaped this domain and began their long infiltration, breeding their chimeras for generations until they were ready to awaken and conquer."
Miranda Jones
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 261
"Power of emotion is not a license, but a responsibility."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 262
They arrived at the Medusuan Complex
"As in complex trans-dimensional manifold, an inter-phase space connecting multiple spatial and sub spatial domains."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 264
"The complex intersects several universes-subspace domains large and small, some with more than three spatial dimensions, some with physical laws far from our own."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 264-265
"We explore the unknown because we hope it will change us for the better."
Xiang
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 270
"It's not about sensing. It's about knowing. Just the idea of being outside our native universe feels unnatural. Nothing familiar out there. No way to find our way back home. It's a frightening thought."
McCoy to Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 279
"That's all you can really ask of anyone-that they try to help as far as their hands can reach. If enough of us do that, it adds up."
Terrell
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 286
"Here on the surface the Medusans had unleashed a chilling multi-dimensional attack on several of the Naazh hover-cruisers."
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 303
"The pain is part of your life, a part of your being. As much as a limb or sensory organ. It exists to support you, to be harnessed by you. The mind can govern it, direct it constructively. But first you must accept it. Both the strength of the emotion and the discipline of the intellect. Both are required to achieve completion and positive action."
Spock to T'Nalae
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 312
"Learn from your pain, your guilt towards your past actions,. Let it guide your choices in the future."
Spock to T'Nalae
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 312
"Telepathy has been an inherent part of Aernar society for more than a millennium, inseparably woven into their culture. Their new understanding of its origin have not altered that. With so few Aernar left now, preserving their culture and identity is more important than ever... Who knows with their transmutation abilities The Aernar may be able to reverse their reproductive decline and build a thriving population once again. It is only a shame that they will not be able to share such solutions with Andoria."
Thelin
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 324
"It's not always possible to cure hate, but we cannot allow abandon the efforts to redeem those who remain redeemable. All our species have conquered the hatred and irrational fears that once pervasive, choosing instead to favor openness and cooperation. Through hope, persistence and positive efforts, we have changed minds, one by one, until we change enough of them to change the course of entire societies."
Spock
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 327
"I think the Federation has lost something now that The New Humans are gone. Their movement may have been based on...call it a misunderstanding of their true nature...but still, it was a source of hope for many. A promise that humanity was capable of achieving something transcendent. After the time I spent among The New Humans, I have faith in their basic humanity to believe that they could have kept their idealism in tact."
Terrell
Higher Frontier Christopher L. Bennet p. 329
