Criminal genius trumps rogue genius. Remember that.
Professor James Moriarty about Dr. Noonien Soong, The Light Fantastic (p.82)
#The Light Fantastic
Whatever he had been drinking had clearly put Worf in a contemplative state. “The Klingon poet Kathan once wrote ‘Parenthood is the wound that never heals.’”
La Forge, Picard and Data all kept their peace, each waiting for more. When Worf settled back into the shadows, the engineer lifted his glass and said, “To Klingon Poetry, brutally succinct.”
The Light Fantastic, Jeffrey Lang (p. 23)
This week I’m reading Jeffrey Lang’s The Light Fantastic (TNG) at work. I should have finished it today but I'v been lazy. It has so many good elements, a direct sequel to the Cold Equation Trilogy but we’ve got Data in his new body, Lal, Moriarty, fucking MORIARTY who’s kidnapped Lal! The only thing so far is I think Geordi is written a bit more stiffly than usual (a turn of phrase somewhere took me out of the story. Again we’re weaving disparate threads across the trekverse into a cohesive whole which includes: