The Starfleet Survival Guide

As the brave men and women of Starfleet carry out their duties — mapping countless solar systems, greeting new species and establishing ties with civilizations large and small — they live, work, and face the possibility that they could die in space. How do Starfleet's finest survive the countless dangers to be discovered as they boldly go where no one has gone before? Find out with this special edition of The Starfleet Survival Guide!

Contains up tp date, declassified information on

STANDARD EQUIPMENT — NONSTANDARD USES

UNCONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

DANGEROUS LIFE-FORMS

EXTREME SCENARIOS

And more!

For further reference, or if you are considering and exciting and fulfilling career in the diplomatic and scientific fleet of the United Federation of Planets, please contact your local Starfleet representative.

Standard issue for al Starfleet Officers, this vital tool for space survival covers everything from space suit leaks and hotwiring a tri-corder to hostile alien encounters.

Standard issue for Starfleet Officers throughout the Federation and beyond, here is a vital tool for space survival, covering everything from space-suit leaks, hot-wiring a tri-corder, and hostile alien encounters. Illustrations.

The whole is illustrated throughout with explanatory black & white line art illustrations, easy to follow in a crisis — especially valuable when a reader is stranded on a downed shuttlecraft with only a com-badge and a self-sealing stem-bolt.

David Mack is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Road of Bones, and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy — Gods of Night, Mere Mortals, and Lost Souls. His first original novel, the supernatural thriller The Calling, debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack's diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include The 4400: Promises Broken, Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice, and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale The Sorrows of Empire. Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City.

CONTENTS

1.0 STANDARD-ISSUE EQUIPMENT — NONSTANDARD USES

1.00 Introduction

1.01 Causing Localized Seismic Disruptions with Tricorder and/or Combadge Signals

1.02 Programming a Combadge or Tricorder to Trigger Preset Device Effects and Functions

1.03 Programming a Tricorder to Control a Medium-Range Subspace Transmitter

1.04 Reconfiguring a Subspace Transceiver to Generate a Short-Duration, Low-Power Force Field

1.05 Remodulating a Universal Translator into a Jamming Device

1.06 Recalibrating Transporter Enhancer Armbands as Temporal Shields

1.07 Repurposing Type-1, Type-2, and Type-3 Phasers as Explosive Devices

1.08 Sterilizing Food and Water with a Phaser

1.09 Charging a Shuttle Battery or Ship's Console with a Type-1, Type-2, or Type-3 Phaser Power Cell

1.10 Protecting a Campsite from Pests, Using a Tricorder and Phaser

1.11 Surviving Atmospheric Reentry in a Pressure Suit

1.12 Reconfiguring Transporters to Create Perpetual Stasis Loops

1.13 Using Holodeck Data Cores to Save Transport Patterns

1.14 Transmitting Coded Subspace Signals by Adjusting a Warp Drive's Field Phase Coils

1.15 Sealing Quantum Fissures with an Inverted Warp Field

1.16 Detecting and Counteracting Invidium Contamination

2.0 UNCONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

2.00 Introduction

2.01 Anesthetizing Humanoids with Tricorder Signals

2.02 Modifying a Type-1 or Type-2 Phaser into a Scalpel

2.03 Programming a Holographic Emitter to Artificially Respirate a Humanoid Whose Lungs Have Been Destroyed

2.04 Erasure of Humanoid Short-Term and Long-Term Memories

2.05 Protocols for Temporary Implantation of a Trill Symbiont into a Non-Trill Host

2.06 Neutralizing Denevan Neural Parasites

2.07 Detecting and Removing Interphasic Parasites

2.08 Treatment Methods for an Overdose of Anti-Intoxicants

2.09 Proven Herbal Remedies for Mugato Venom

2.10 Negating the Psychotropic Effects of Omicron Ceti III Spores

2.11 Diagnosing and Counteracting Variants of the Psi 2000 Virus

2.12 Recognizing and Treating Symptoms of Temporal Narcosis

3.0 DANGEROUS LIFE-FORMS

3.00 Introduction

3.01 How to Drive off Noncorporeal Emotional Parasites

3.02 Avoiding Mind Control by Elasian Women

3.03 Surviving Attack by a Crystalline Entity

3.04 Dealing with "Omnipotent" Beings

3.05 Protocols for Nanite Infestation of Computers

3.06 Navigating Inside a Borg Cube or Sphere

3.07 Recognizing and Neutralizing a Dikironium Cloud Creature

3.08 Fending Off an Attacking Mugato

3.09 Wrestling Free of a Denebian Slime Devil

3.10 Dealing with Charging Klingon Sarks

3.11 Evading Wanoni Tracehounds

3.12 Escaping from a Vulcan Le-Matya

3.13 Defending Yourself Against a Kryonian Tiger

3.14 Protecting a Starship from an Alpha Omicron Creature

4.0 EXTREME SCENARIOS

4.00 Introduction

4.01 Landing and Evacuating Crippled Small Spacecraft

4.02 Surviving in and Escaping from Damaged Turbolifts

4.03 Escaping from a Malfunctioning Holodeck

4.04 Transporting Through Shields

4.05 Transporting to Ships Moving at Warp Speeds

4.06 Creating Metaphasic Shielding to Conceal a Ship in a Stellar Corona or Similar Environment

4.07 Detecting Cloaked Objects and Vessels at Close and Intermediate Ranges

4.08 Reversing Radical Subspatial Compression

4.09 Protocols for Containing and Transporting a Protouniverse

4.10 Dispersing Rogue Soliton Waves

4.11 Inducing Solar Eruptions for Tactical Purposes

4.12 Surviving While Adrift in Deep Space

4.13 Surviving if You Are Shifted Out of Phase

4.14 Detecting and Escaping Temporal Causality Loops

4.15 Determining if You Have Been Shifted into a Parallel Quantum Universe