The Rules of War

SummaryEdit

Jonathan Archer's great-grandfather, assisted by Lieutenant Green, is pitted against Doctor Stavos Keniclius during the Eugenics Wars.

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Nathan Archer • Bengy • Dixon • Phillip Green • Stavos Keniclius

Referenced only 

Alexander the Great • Adolf Hitler • Khan Noonien Singh • Napoléon Bonaparte

Starships and vehiclesEdit

LocationsEdit

Earth (Annapolis • Assab, Eritrea • France • North Africa • Red Sea • Saudi Arabia • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics • Yemen)

Races and culturesEdit

Human

States and organizationsEdit

Assab Tourism Board • Augment Alliance • United Nations Peace Directorate (Bravo Company • Charlie Company)

Technology and weaponsEdit

antenna • BMP-3 • bullet • cloning • genetic engineering • global positioning unit • M2 Bradley • machine gun (AK-47) • rifle • smart bomb • television • video phone • weapon

Ranks and titlesEdit

captain • comm officer • doctor • lieutenant • major • sergeant

Other referencesEdit

20th century • 1980s • allergy • asphalt • battalion • blood • bust • cancer • canteen • cardboard • city • desert • duct tape • Eugenics Wars • flag • forest • genetics • hair • handkerchief • helmet • holster • jungle • oil • philosophy • propaganda • school • sidewalk • spoon • steel • toolbox • tumor • uniform • war

ChronologyEdit

AppendicesEdit

InformationEdit

• The story takes its title and premise from a couple of throwaway lines spoken by Captain Archer during the ENT episode: "Hatchery".
• Nathan Archer is also the pen name of science fiction writer Lawrence Watt-Evans, who wrote the DS9 novel: Valhalla and the VOY novel: Ragnarok.
• The comm officer named Dixon is a reference to actor Ivan Dixon, who played communications officer Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes.
• Dr. Stavos Keniclius first appeared in the TAS episode: "The Infinite Vulcan", written by Walter Koenig.

ConnectionsEdit

• TOS episode: "The Savage Curtain"
• TAS episode: "The Infinite Vulcan"
• ENT episode: "Hatchery"

published order
Previous story: Rocket Man	Strange New Worlds 9	Next story: The Immortality Blues
chronological order
Previous Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapters 12-20	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapter 21