Stone and Anvil
Star Trek: New Frontier: Stone and Anvil (2003) is the fourteenth book in Peter David's New Frontier series. It chronicles the journey of Mackenzie Calhoun and his wife Elizabeth Shelby. A crewman has been found murdered aboard the U.S.S. Trident and all evidence points to Ensign Janos. Unwilling to accept this, Captain Calhoun and Captain Shelby embark upon a journey through space and their own pasts.
- Dr. Bethom was quite explicit that he had no desire to communicate with you until a particular change in climate at an indeterminate point in the future.
Let me guess: When Hell freezes over.
That was it!
- Morgan and Captain Calhoun
- Tickety-boo?
Yes. Tickety-boo.
Don't you ever say anything normal?
I try not to.
- Elizabeth Shelby and her fiance Vincent Wexler
- Well, the captain was declaiming. You don't interrupt a captain while he's declaiming. It's...tacky.
- Morgan, upon being asked why she did not inform the crew that they were being scanned.