Christopher L. Bennett QUOTES

1 " The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it. "

2 " The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Watching the Clock (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations #1)

3 " Agent Shelan wondered if it would really hurt diplomatic relations with the Klingon Empire all that much if she tossed Korath, Son of Monak, into an antimatter reactor. Surely if anyone would recognize homicide as a valid response to intolerable annoyance, it would be the Klingons. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Watching the Clock (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations #1)

4 " That is the past. It has already occurred. Its only existence now is as a source of wisdom and motivation. Learn from your pain, your guilt toward your past actions. Let it guide your choices in the future. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , The Higher Frontier (Star Trek: 2020, #3)

5 " Laypeople. They think everything in the past happened at the same time. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , The Collectors (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations #3)

6 " life is about living, not just surviving. Nobody gets out of it alive in the end, so we just have to make the most of the time we get. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , A Choice of Futures (Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation #1)

7 " The Gum Nebula was one of the largest astronomical landmarks in the Orion Arm. It was a gigantic supernova remnant, a shock front from the death of a star over a million years in the past. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Orion's Hounds (Star Trek: Titan, #3)

8 " TUVOK!” The lights were gone, only the emergency illumination remaining, but it was enough to let Deanna see that the Vulcan was sprawled motionless on the floor beneath the office table, his head coated in something dark and glistening. She couldn’t see color, but she knew it was green. “Oh, God.” She struck her combadge. “Medical emergency, Counselor Troi’s office!” Maybe emergencies, she thought as she felt her insides heave and she vomited up her last meal onto the carpet. She couldn’t tell through the inner turbulence if the baby was still kicking. “Sickbay, acknowledge!” Nothing. “Computer!” She began dragging herself toward Tuvok. “Where are you, you stupid computer?” But that voice, the one that reminded her so maddeningly of her mother, remained silent. “Somebody! "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Over a Torrent Sea (Star Trek: Titan, #5)

9 " The bitch thought herself and her cronies worthy to exist on such a divine plane, as though she were better than the decent, pious, hardworking people she’d turned her back on. And those Fedraysha blasphemers, who hunted down gods and killed them wherever they found them—on Yonada, on Beta, on Avros, on Gamma Trianguli—they took advantage of her hubris, used her as their puppet to spread their evils, to destroy every vestige of the Yonadan way of life as they had destroyed the Oracle. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Ex Machina (Star Trek)

10 " It’s the ones who don’t blame themselves who are more likely to be guilty of wrongdoing. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , The Buried Age

11 " DTI Headquarters, Greenwich 10:41 UTC Director Laarin Andos sat at the desk in her underground office, her legs straddling Earth’s Prime Meridian. Across from her sat two of her top agents, Dulmur in the Western Hemisphere, Ranjea in the Eastern. It was, of course, a completely arbitrary distinction, but it brought Andos some comfort. Her Rhaandarite people had a strong sense of spatial as well as social orientation, and in her position it was reassuring to feel herself physically anchored by the centrality of her location. Although "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Watching the Clock (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations #1)

12 " those roots were made for walking. And that’s not all they do. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Patterns of Interference

13 " You could always go back to school,” Louise said. “You’re never too old to learn.” “But there’s just so much. Not just this world, but so many others. By the time I got caught up, I would be too old.” “To spend the rest of your life learning?” Louise asked, shaking her head in wonderment. “What could be better than that?” Such a twenty-fourth-century attitude, Clare thought. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Watching the Clock (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations #1)

14 " Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.’ Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less. "

― Christopher L. Bennett , A Choice of Futures (Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation #1)

15 " Lucsly glanced back. “That’s just it. I’m not supposed to know.” He paused. “A history of race hatred . . . a self-serving demagogue stirring up new resentments for his own ends . . . you don’t need time travel to predict where that’s heading. It’s up "

― Christopher L. Bennett , Shield of the Gods (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations, #5))