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+ | | title = The Escape |
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+ | | series = {{sT|Voyager}} ([[Pocket VOY]]) |
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− | series=[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]| |
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+ | | published = {{srcdate|1995|May}} |
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+ | | format = [[paperback]] |
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− | published=[[Paperback]] - [[1995|May 1995]]| |
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− | pages=244 |
+ | | pages = 244 |
− | ISBN=ISBN 0671520962 |
+ | | ISBN = ISBN 0671520962 |
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− | altcover=[[Image:The Escape cz.jpg]] |
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− | {{small|Foreign language edition}}| |
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+ | ==Description== |
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⚫ | :''The USS ''Voyager'' is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her [[warp engine]]s failing. Without immediate repairs the [[starship]] and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]] must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted [[planet]] that could hold the key to their survival—a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret…'' |
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==Summary== |
==Summary== |
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+ | [[file:voyagerBeschutzer.jpg|thumb|left|{{uSS|Voyager}}.]] |
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− | :''[[Pocket Books]] is proud to present the first original novel starring the crew of the ''[[Starship]]'' ''[[USS Voyager|Voyager]]''. Stranded far across the [[galaxy]], theirs is a voyage of a lifetime that will take them far into uncharted space...where no one has gone before. |
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+ | Shortly after [[B'Elanna Torres]] has been promoted to [[chief engineer]], {{uSS|Voyager}}'s resources and power begin to run desperately low. At the suggestion of [[Neelix]], they travel to the [[planet]] [[Alcawell]] (known as "the Station") where they find a planet covered by thousands upon thousands of abandoned but largely untouched [[starship]]s, along with ruins of an [[alien]] culture. |
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+ | [[file:voyUnikArt.jpg|thumb|[[Starship]]s.]] |
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⚫ | :''The '' |
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+ | When B'Elanna, [[Harry Kim]] and [[Neelix]] transport down to the planet, they explore one of the more well-preserved ships until Neelix accidentally triggers a mechanism that transports the ship back in time. Now stranded on a populated version of the planet, over [[thousands of years ago|three hundred thousand years in its past]], the three Voyager [[officer]]s are taken into custody by the planet's authorities. |
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− | ===Chapter One=== |
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− | As the [[USS Voyager|USS ''Voyager'']] continues its voyage home, the crew are forced to stop near a large [[asteroid belt]] in order to obtain [[armalcolite ore]] that will help repair the ship's [[Oltion circuits]] in the [[warp processor]]. [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway|Janeway]] orders Lieutenants [[Tuvok]] and [[B'Elanna Torres|Torres]] to take a [[shuttlecraft]] into the belt to find the highest concentration of the ore. |
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+ | [[file:janewayLEvasion.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kathryn Janeway]].]] |
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− | As the shuttlecraft nears the largest [[asteroid]] the shuttle begins to buck wildly as a greater level of [[subspace|subspace turbulence]] hits the shuttle, which prevents them from find the highest concentration. Despite Janeway's suggestion that the team return to ''Voyager'', Torres is determined to get the ore. However, the team are forced to return when the turbulence becomes too strong and cripples the shuttle's shields. |
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+ | Meanwhile, back in [[2371]], ''Voyager'' is shocked to watch as the ship containing its officers disappears and is almost immediately replaced by another vessel with one [[alien]] occupant. In fact, the alien, [[Kjanders]], is an Alcawellian [[crime|criminal]] trying to escape the authorities. After he's beamed aboard, Kjanders gives Voyager’s crew an explanation for the byzantine [[time travel]]ing system and rules that govern life on Alcawell. |
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+ | [[file:voyagerEscape.jpg|thumb|{{uSS|Voyager}}.]] |
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− | Following the team's return, Janeway calls a briefing of all the senior staff to discuss the increasingly desperate state of ''Voyager''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> systems. Aware of the problems, [[Neelix]] suggests that the crew visit the [[planet]] [[Alcawell]]. Alcawell is well known in the region for being a huge spaceship graveyard and he is sure that any parts that ''Voyager'' needs could surely be salvaged from Alcawell. Despite concerns from several members of the staff, Janeway decides that it is worth the risk and orders a course set for Alcawell, despite stories from Neelix that the graveyard is haunted. |
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+ | The Alcawellians have divided their history into 500,000 year increments, further divided into safe Black Periods and prohibited Red Periods with intra-Period time travel also prohibited. Kjanders reveals that it was a violation of this last prohibition that likely led to the away team's arrest. |
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+ | Millions of years in Alcawell's past, B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix are taken to their advocate, [[Rawlik]], who will represent them before Alcawellian authorities. Rawlik doesn’t express much optimism about their chances, but he does appear sympathetic, particularly toward B'Elanna. |
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− | ===Chapter Two=== |
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− | ===Chapter Three=== |
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− | ===Chapter Four=== |
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− | ===Chapter Five=== |
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− | {{incomplete}} |
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+ | The authorities send a [[Watchman]] named [[Drickel]] to the period the away team arrived from with orders to frighten Voyager's crew away. He quickly learns that the crew won't frighten as easily as past visitors. |
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− | *[[Chakotay]] |
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− | *[[Tuvok]] |
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− | *[[Thomas Eugene Paris|Tom Paris]] |
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− | *[[B'Elanna Torres]] |
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− | *[[Harry Kim]] |
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− | *[[The Doctor]] |
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− | *[[Neelix]] |
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− | *[[Kes]] |
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− | ===Others=== |
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− | *[[Drickel]] |
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− | *[[Hoffman]] |
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− | ===Referenced=== |
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− | *[[Joseph Carey]] |
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+ | [[file:tuvokLEvasion.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tuvok]].]] |
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− | ==References== |
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+ | Time passes slowly for B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix in confinement, until Rawlik arrives to explain that their appeal to the authorities failed. Before they realize it, the three have consumed the refreshments Rawlik provided and discovered that it contains [[poison]]. As the [[away team]] gradually succumbs, Rawlik apologizes and explains that the three killed their guards and escaped upon originally learning that their appeal had failed – and he had to "back-time" to subdue them before the breakout. |
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− | *[[USS Voyager]] - [[Intrepid class]] |
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− | *[[Alpha Quadrant]] |
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− | **[[Badlands]] |
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− | **[[Federation Headquarters]] |
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− | **[[Los Angeles]] |
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− | **[[Luna Station]] |
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− | **[[San Francisco]] |
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− | **[[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] |
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− | *[[Delta Quadrant]] |
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− | ===Species=== |
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− | *[[Bajoran]] |
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− | *[[Cardassian]] |
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− | *[[Ocampa]] |
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− | *[[Maquis]] |
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− | [[Alcawell]] | [[Alcawellian Period]] | [[armalcolite ore]] | [[asteroid]] | [[Control Ordinance]] | [[Drickel]] | [[Hoffman]] | [[Mean Time Control]] | [[Oltion circuit]] | [[Planet-Hopper]] | [[ready room]] | [[Real Time]] | [[Reno]] | "''[[Rollingburg's Retreat]]''" | [[Second Expansion Period]] | [[shuttlecraft]] | [[subspace]] | [[Time Breach]] | [[tractor beam]] | [[transport booth]] | [[warp processor]] | [[Watchman]] | |
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+ | [[file:janewayFlucht.jpg|thumb|[[Kathryn Janeway]].]] |
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− | ==Information== |
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+ | Drickel is injured during his effort to scare away the crew. Tuvok and Tom manage to locate the source of the strange activity and disable Drickel's cloaking belt. Once he’s taken to sickbay, Janeway asks for Drickel’s help to rescue her crew, and he eventually agrees. While communicating with his dispatchers, Drickel and Janeway learn that the away team has already been executed. |
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+ | [[file:voyagerUnik.jpg|thumb|left|{{uSS|Voyager}}.]] |
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− | ==Related Stories== |
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+ | After proposing various ways to avoid the temporal paradoxes and avoid alerting the authorities, Drickel and Janeway ultimately conspire to go back in time and convince Rawlik to deliver only a drug that simulates death, retrieve her away team’s bodies, and return them to their proper time where they can be revived. |
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+ | ==References== |
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+ | :[[Joseph Carey]] • [[Chakotay]] • [[The Doctor]] • [[Drickel]] • {{dis|Hoffman|USS Voyager}} • [[Kathryn Janeway]] • [[Kes]] • [[Harry Kim]] • [[Kjanders]] • [[Neelix]] • [[Tom Paris]] • [[Rawlik]] • [[Seska]] • [[B'Elanna Torres]] • [[Tuvok]] |
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+ | :[[shuttlecraft]] • {{uSS|Voyager}} ({{class|Intrepid}}) |
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+ | :[[Alcawell]] • [[Alpha Quadrant]] • [[Badlands]] • [[Delta Quadrant]] • [[Federation Headquarters]] • [[Los Angeles]] • [[Luna Station]] • [[San Francisco]] • {{dis|Vulcan|planet}} |
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+ | ===Races and cultures=== |
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+ | :[[Alcawellian]] • [[Bajoran]] • [[Cardassian]] • [[Human]] • [[Ocampa]] • [[Talaxian]] • [[Vulcan]] |
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+ | :[[Maquis]] • [[Starfleet]] |
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+ | ===Science and technology=== |
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+ | :[[anatomy]] • [[lifeform]] • [[matter]] • [[memory]] • [[Oltion circuit]] • [[orbit]] • [[radiation]] • [[space]] • [[star]] • [[star system]] • [[subspace]] • [[time]] • [[time travel]] • [[tractor beam]] • [[transporter]] • [[transport booth]] • [[universe]] • [[warp processor]] |
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+ | ===Ranks and titles=== |
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+ | :[[captain]] • [[criminal]] • [[doctor]] • [[officer]] • [[Watchman]] |
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+ | :[[Alcawellian Period]] • [[armalcolite]] • [[asteroid]] • [[boot]] • [[clothing]] • [[Control Ordinance]] • [[government]] • [[homeworld]] • [[humanoid]] • [[jumpsuit]] • [[language]] • [[logic]] • [[log entry]] • [[Mean Time Control]] • [[nation-state]] • [[pants]] • [[planet]] • [[quadrant]] • [[rank]] • [[ready room]] • [[Real Time]] • [[Reno]] • ''[[Rollingburg's Retreat]]'' • [[Second Expansion Period]] • [[stardate]] • [[Starfleet uniform]] • [[Starfleet uniform (2366-2373)]] • [[technology]] • [[title]] • [[uniform]] • [[war]] • [[weapon]] |
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+ | ==Appendices== |
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+ | ===Background=== |
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+ | * The Doctor is referred to as Doc Zimmerman in the novel. This was intended to be his name in the series, as mentioned in the series bible featured in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager Companion]]''. |
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+ | * ''The Escape'' marks the first of many times Harry Kim died while serving on ''Voyager''. |
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+ | * Artist [[Dru Blair]] illustrated this volume's cover art, and the original version of the artwork was used on the [[AdA]] [[French language]] translation of this release. For the original American version, however, his drawings of Janeway and Tuvok were replaced with publicity photos for some reason. |
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+ | the Escape.jpg|Cover image. |
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+ | voyLEvasion.jpg|[[French language]] edition cover image. |
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+ | voyFlucht.jpg|[[German language]] edition cover image. |
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+ | voy Flucht.jpg|[[German language]] reprint edition cover image. |
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+ | the Escape cz.jpg|[[Czech language]] edition cover image. |
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+ | janewayFlucht.jpg|[[Kathryn Janeway]]. |
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+ | janewayLEvasion.jpg|[[Kathryn Janeway]]. |
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+ | tuvokLEvasion.jpg|[[Tuvok]]. |
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+ | tuvokEscape.jpg|[[Tuvok]]. |
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+ | voyagerEscape.jpg|{{uSS|Voyager}}. |
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+ | voyagerUnik.jpg|{{uSS|Voyager}}. |
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+ | voyagerBeschutzer.jpg|{{uSS|Voyager}}. |
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Revision as of 20:10, 21 November 2018
The first original novel based on the hit series!
Description
- The USS Voyager is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her warp engines failing. Without immediate repairs the starship and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. Captain Kathryn Janeway must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted planet that could hold the key to their survival—a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret…
Summary
Shortly after B'Elanna Torres has been promoted to chief engineer, USS Voyager's resources and power begin to run desperately low. At the suggestion of Neelix, they travel to the planet Alcawell (known as "the Station") where they find a planet covered by thousands upon thousands of abandoned but largely untouched starships, along with ruins of an alien culture.
When B'Elanna, Harry Kim and Neelix transport down to the planet, they explore one of the more well-preserved ships until Neelix accidentally triggers a mechanism that transports the ship back in time. Now stranded on a populated version of the planet, over three hundred thousand years in its past, the three Voyager officers are taken into custody by the planet's authorities.
Meanwhile, back in 2371, Voyager is shocked to watch as the ship containing its officers disappears and is almost immediately replaced by another vessel with one alien occupant. In fact, the alien, Kjanders, is an Alcawellian criminal trying to escape the authorities. After he's beamed aboard, Kjanders gives Voyager’s crew an explanation for the byzantine time traveling system and rules that govern life on Alcawell.
The Alcawellians have divided their history into 500,000 year increments, further divided into safe Black Periods and prohibited Red Periods with intra-Period time travel also prohibited. Kjanders reveals that it was a violation of this last prohibition that likely led to the away team's arrest.
Millions of years in Alcawell's past, B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix are taken to their advocate, Rawlik, who will represent them before Alcawellian authorities. Rawlik doesn’t express much optimism about their chances, but he does appear sympathetic, particularly toward B'Elanna.
The authorities send a Watchman named Drickel to the period the away team arrived from with orders to frighten Voyager's crew away. He quickly learns that the crew won't frighten as easily as past visitors.
Time passes slowly for B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix in confinement, until Rawlik arrives to explain that their appeal to the authorities failed. Before they realize it, the three have consumed the refreshments Rawlik provided and discovered that it contains poison. As the away team gradually succumbs, Rawlik apologizes and explains that the three killed their guards and escaped upon originally learning that their appeal had failed – and he had to "back-time" to subdue them before the breakout.
Drickel is injured during his effort to scare away the crew. Tuvok and Tom manage to locate the source of the strange activity and disable Drickel's cloaking belt. Once he’s taken to sickbay, Janeway asks for Drickel’s help to rescue her crew, and he eventually agrees. While communicating with his dispatchers, Drickel and Janeway learn that the away team has already been executed.
After proposing various ways to avoid the temporal paradoxes and avoid alerting the authorities, Drickel and Janeway ultimately conspire to go back in time and convince Rawlik to deliver only a drug that simulates death, retrieve her away team’s bodies, and return them to their proper time where they can be revived.
References
Characters
- Joseph Carey • Chakotay • The Doctor • Drickel • Hoffman • Kathryn Janeway • Kes • Harry Kim • Kjanders • Neelix • Tom Paris • Rawlik • Seska • B'Elanna Torres • Tuvok
Starships and vehicles
Locations
- Alcawell • Alpha Quadrant • Badlands • Delta Quadrant • Federation Headquarters • Los Angeles • Luna Station • San Francisco • Vulcan
Races and cultures
States and organizations
Science and technology
- anatomy • lifeform • matter • memory • Oltion circuit • orbit • radiation • space • star • star system • subspace • time • time travel • tractor beam • transporter • transport booth • universe • warp processor
Ranks and titles
Other references
- Alcawellian Period • armalcolite • asteroid • boot • clothing • Control Ordinance • government • homeworld • humanoid • jumpsuit • language • logic • log entry • Mean Time Control • nation-state • pants • planet • quadrant • rank • ready room • Real Time • Reno • Rollingburg's Retreat • Second Expansion Period • stardate • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2366-2373) • technology • title • uniform • war • weapon
Appendices
Background
- The Doctor is referred to as Doc Zimmerman in the novel. This was intended to be his name in the series, as mentioned in the series bible featured in the Star Trek: Voyager Companion.
- The Escape marks the first of many times Harry Kim died while serving on Voyager.
- Artist Dru Blair illustrated this volume's cover art, and the original version of the artwork was used on the AdA French language translation of this release. For the original American version, however, his drawings of Janeway and Tuvok were replaced with publicity photos for some reason.
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Connections
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Previous novel: Caretaker |
Voyager numbered novels | Next novel: Ragnarok |
Previous novel: The Big Game |
Novels by: Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Next novel: The Long Night |
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Previous Adventure: Parallax |
Next Adventure: Terra Tonight | |
Previous Adventure: Parallax |
Journey of the USS Voyager | Next Adventure: Ragnarok |
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2371. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in two other timeframes: | ||
Previous Adventure: Q-Zone chapter 2 |
444,800,000 BC chapters 12, 17, 19 & 23 |
Next Adventure: First Frontier chapters 23-38 |
Previous Adventure: Spock's World Vulcan: Two |
307,600 BC chapters 4, 5-7 &23 |
Next Adventure: Horn and Ivory chapters 1-9 |
External link
- The Escape article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.