I began StarTrek: The Next Generation: Spartacus on January 23, 2019 and finished it on March 2, 2019. The book was by T. L. Macour and had 275 pages.
The Enterprise was stuck in a "Gabriel Effect," which was a phenomenon which wreaked havoc on the technologies. When they cleared the nebula they met up with the Freedom and Captain Jared. Riker was going to meet him with an engineering team to help repair their ship. Riker was on the Freedom.
"We're all aliens to someone." TNG Spartacus P. 24
The Freedom was a "Noah's Arc."
Geordi asked to bring Wesley aboard the Freedom to show him more about Star Drives. Freedom crew was very impressed with Data. They asked for a Federation history. Someone on the Freedom was hurt and Geordi found out they were cybernetics. The Enterprise put out a dinner for their Freedom guests. The Freedom crew was beaming over to the Enterprise. Jerrod toasted to the Gods who made their paths cross. Picard found this a little odd.
After the Freedom crew dined and were back aboard the Freedom, the Enterprise got in contact by the Vindicator Fleet who claimed ownership of the Freedom.
"Humans were humans, no matter where they were in the world." Spartacus p. 91
"Sure we don't need to eat, exercise, or create art, but we are happier when we do so." Spartacus p. 131
"The surest way to have limitations is to impose them on yourself." Spartacus p. 132
"Personalities aren't limited to carbon based life-forms." Spartacus p. 134
"Soul is the driving force of all intelligence endeavors." Spartacus p. 134
"The avoidance of an issue does not remove the issue from existence. It merely postpones the inevitable facing of that issue." Spartacus p. 144
"There are few truly honorable positions in war." Spartacus p. 152
The Vemlins were going to fight the androids not use battle drones.
Muram beamed over and gave Data the whole of the Androids soul on the Freedom.
"Every mission we find living examples of how the universe is not only stranger than we imagined, but that it's stranger than we can imagine. Yet the further we go and the stranger things become, the real impossibilities are happening all around us." Spartacus p. 167
"Life is too unique an attribute to be wasted in futile endeavors." Spartacus p. 171
"A destructive conflict that served no necessary purpose was an illogical and unnecessary waste of resources." Spartacus p. 185
The Vemlin androids were under Federation protection since they may becoming Federation citizens
They were talking about membership. Jerod had a bomb in his hand if it didn't go well.
"The universe is so diverse in its formation of life-forms that no true objective definition exists. The closest I could come to say is that life is a complex, reactive, self-replicating prossess that some entities possess. Some say the best way to define it is by its ultimate negative quality: "A living thing is a thing that can die."" Spartacus p. 214
"This question has many different aspects as well. There is a religious side--do androids have souls? I am not qualified to give an opinion on that. There is a psychological question--are androids self-aware and capable of conscious, sapient thought? Though I am trained in psychology, it isn't my specialty and again I can't render an opinion. Then there is the biological issue. On that I am able to render an opinion." Spartacus p. 218
"Data and the other androids have been built in the shape of their creators. They have two hands, two feet, two eyes, a nose two ears, and an advanced electrical chemical processing system. Now in a human or humanoid form of life, I would say that you can artificially replace each and every biological part of a single body, with one exception, thus creating a cyborg or cybernetic organism and still class the individual as a living being. It isn't the veins, and the tissues and the cells that make it a sapient being, it's the one thing that cannot be replaced--the brain or analogous central system." Spartacus p. 219
"What experience has a baby at birth? None. A baby has no intuition, gut feelings, or sense of honor, or duty....Yet do you codemn it to death because of what it is? Your son perhaps, would you allow him to die, cursing him for the idiocy, because he didn't have the capacity for all those grand and glorious sensations the day he was born...or would you cherish him for all his potential?" Spartacus p. 227
"Politeness and manners, when practiced universally alter the behavior of both the practicer and recipient in a favorable manner. In essence if you are polite to everyone, then people are more inclined to be polite to you." Spartacus p. 238
"If you walked through a dream it mattered little which way you walked." Spartacus p. 241
"If you are going to kill a man anyway, it cost nothing to be polite." Spartacus p. 242
"No one man is free as long as there is one man in bondage to another." Spartacus p. 251
Data took Swahili to the holodeck and then was stopped by the Romans and slaves talked with them after that Data told them that they were all crucified. The Vemlin Fleet was planning on taking out the Freedom/Conquest
"Perhaps mutiny and high treason have a rejuvenating effect on the soul." Spartacus p. 273
The Spartacus Droids became members of the Federation. Data kissed Murray, the Spartacus ship librarian.
After reading this book, what I took away is that no matter what race, religion, ethnic, technological background we come from we all strive to be understood and loved as a whole entity.
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