Summary
The USS Enterprise is transported, without its crew, to an alternate universe, and has to develop its artificial intelligence to survive.
References
Characters
- Referenced only
- Data
Starships and vehicles
Locations
Races and cultures
States and organizations
Science and technology
- Bussard collector • computer • computer core • deflector shield • hail • holodeck • hologram • hull • impulse engine • interphasic boundary • interspace • navigation beacon • optical data network relay • Paranoid Mode • phaser array • self destruct • sensor • shield generator • starship • subspace communication • targeting sensor • tractor beam • warp core • warp drive • warp nacelle • warp signature
Other references
- angstrom • animal • battle bridge • blood • brain • bridge • class D planet • corona • day • glass • history • hydrogen • laboratory • light-year • month • nebula • orbit • philosophy • plant • pulsar • quasar • radiation • second • sleep • speed of light • star • star system • subspace • universe • year
Appendices
Title
- The story's name comes from the Lewis Carroll poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
Chronology
- 5 June 2334: The USS Carpenter is listed as missing.
- Enterprise experienced nearly three months in the alternate universe but returned at almost the instant she left.
- The communications code Carpenter used to contact Enterprise was nearly seventy years old, and Enterprise is noted to be seventy years more advanced than Carpenter at the time of its disappearance, which indicates this story takes place in either the 2400s, or Carpenter actually went missing around the turn of the 24th century and wasn't listed as missing until 2334.
Connections
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| Previous story: Civil Disobedience |
Strange New Worlds I
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Next story: Life's Lessons |
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| Previous Adventure: Vendetta |
Next Adventure: The Monkey Puzzle Box | |