Stone and Anvil

Star Trek: New Frontier: Stone and Anvil (2003) is the fourteenth book in Peter David's New Frontier series. It chronicles the journey of Mackenzie Calhoun and his wife Elizabeth Shelby. A crewman has been found murdered aboard the U.S.S. Trident and all evidence points to Ensign Janos. Unwilling to accept this, Captain Calhoun and Captain Shelby embark upon a journey through space and their own pasts.


 * Dr. Bethom was quite explicit that he had no desire to communicate with you until a particular change in climate at an indeterminate point in the future.

Let me guess: When Hell freezes over.

That was it!


 * Morgan and Captain Calhoun


 * Tickety-boo?

Yes. Tickety-boo.

Don't you ever say anything normal?

I try not to.


 * Elizabeth Shelby and her fiance Vincent Wexler


 * Well, the captain was declaiming. You don't interrupt a captain while he's declaiming. It's...tacky.


 * Morgan, upon being asked why she did not inform the crew that they were being scanned.