"The Immortality Blues" is a Star Trek short story published in Strange New Worlds 9, written by Marc Carlson.
Summary[]
The immortal later known as Flint survives the destruction of New York in World War III and works over the next decade to help humanity recover up to the point that the Vulcans arrive.
References[]
Characters[]
- Beta 5 computer (aka Rayna) • Christopher Brynner • Camilla • Beverly Crusher • Ellison (Bozeman) • Flint (aka Lewis Bixby/Jerome Drexel) • Phillip Green (aka Aaron Jenkins) • Geordi La Forge • Mendoza (President) • Jean-Luc Picard • William T. Riker • Deanna Troi
- Referenced only
- Alexander the Great • Chuck Clement • Zefram Cochrane • Benjamin Franklin • Jacob • Georges LeMat • Mestral • Michelangelo • Friedrich Nietzsche • Noah • Ayn Rand • Q • Dzeos Pathair • Paxton (Lieutenant) • Rance • Gary Seven • Khan Noonien Singh • Lily Sloane • Solomon • Joseph Stalin • Utnapishtim
Starships and vehicles[]
- car • cart • Halve Maen • T'Plana-Hath
- Referenced only
- Odyssey Eight • Odyssey Nine • Odyssey Ten • ESS Charybdis • Telemachus Phoenix
Locations[]
- Earth (Bozeman • Brooklyn • Manhattan • New York City • Queensboro Bridge • Roosevelt Island Station • Lexington Avenue • Graybar Building • Montana State University • Los Angeles • Montana • Cahuenga Canyon • Hollywood Hills • Santa Monica Bay • Century City • Culver City • Palos Verdes Island • Long Beach Channel • Magic Kingdom • Anaheim) • Luna
- Referenced only
- Alaska • Alpha Centauri • Antarctic • Bay of Bengal • Beijing • Berlin • Chicago • Dallas • Denver • Dilmun • Ground Station Bozeman • Ho Chi Minh City • Hong Kong • Islamabad • Istanbul • Kaliste • Kashmiristan • Kuwaiti • Lagrange Habitats • London • Madrid • Mexico City • Moscow • Neptune • New Delhi • Paris • Queens • Rio de Janeiro • Riyadh • Rome • Samarkand • San Francisco • Seattle Arena • Singapore • Taklamakan • Tel Aviv • Toronto • Washington, DC
Races and cultures[]
States and organizations[]
- Referenced only
- Grand Khanate • White Company • Brynner Information Systems • Interface Operations • Channel 90
Science and classification[]
Technology and weapons[]
Other references[]
- 1609 • 1968 • 2053 • 2062 • acne • bioweapon • book (Emerald Watch on the Twilight Line • Necessary Sacrifice • Optimal Purity and the Human Animal) • bottle • bone (skull) • breast • church • coal mine • coffee • concrete • couch • Cumberland Acts • Dark Ages • dog • Ebola • fallout • first contact • flashlight • fly • forest • glass • hand • Hermosa Earthquake • Hundred Years War • Interface • Internet • journalist • knee • lawyer • leg • Maori • missile • muscle • Nomad • ozone layer • paper • pen • Phoenix Project • Pioneer • Sandaran • satellite • saxophone • sea • skin • spaceport • tattoo • university • virus • Voyager • vulture • warlord • warp barrier water • wolf • wormhole • World War III
Chronology[]
Appendices[]
Related media[]
- TOS episode & Star Trek 3 novelization: Assignment: Earth
- TOS episode & Star Trek 5 novelization: Requiem for Methuselah
- TOS episode & Star Trek 6 novelization: The Savage Curtain
- TOS episode & Star Trek 11 novelization: Bread and Circuses
- TNG episode & novelization: Encounter at Farpoint
- TNG episode: "The Neutral Zone"
- TNG episode: "The Royale":
- Ellison and Drexel discuss the probable displacement of objects in Sol system to distant locales, specifically mentioning the probability that a heliopause magnetic storm could have created a wormhole that displaced Charybdis.
- TNG movie & novelization: Star Trek: First Contact
- DS9 episodes: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II"
- VOY episode: "Future's End"
- ENT episode: "Demons"
- ST novel: Federation
- TLE novel: The Sundered
- SNW episode: "Strange New Worlds"
Connections[]
| Speculations collected short stories | |
|---|---|
| Strange New Worlds | VI ("Our Million-Year Mission" • "The Beginning") • VII ("Guardians" • "The Law of Averages" • "Forgotten Light") • 8 ("A & Ω" • "Concurrence" • "Dawn") • 9 ("Remembering the Future" • "Rocket Man" • "The Rules of War" • "The Immortality Blues" • "Orphans") • 10 ("Time Line" • "Echoes" • "Brigadoon"• "Reborn") |
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous story: The Rules of War |
Strange New Worlds 9 | Next story: Orphans |
| Previous story: The Rules of War Strange New Worlds 9 |
speculations short stories | Next story: Orphans Strange New Worlds 9 |
| Previous story: first Star Trek story |
Stories by: Marc Carlson |
Next story: most recent work |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: Star Trek: First Contact chapters 13 - 15 |
Pocket Books Timeline | Next adventure: Almost... But Not Quite section 1 Strange New Worlds II |
| The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2063. The Pocket Books Timeline and Memory Beta Chronology place events from this story in 2 other timeframe(s): | ||
| Previous adventure: Mestral Strange New Worlds 9 |
2053 section 1 |
Next adventure: Demons 2055 historical footage |
| Previous adventure: Demons 2055 historical footage |
2056 & 2058 sections 2 & 3 |
Next adventure: The Sundered chapters 7 & 8 The Lost Era |