David Mack is the multi-award-winning and the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-eight novels of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure, including the Star Trek Destiny and Cold Equations trilogies. His extensive writing credits include episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and he worked as a consultant on season one of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. Honored in 2022 as a Grand Master by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, Mack resides in New York City.

CONTENTS

1.0 STANDARD-ISSUE EQUIPMENT -- NONSTANDARD USES

1.00 Introduction

1.01 Causing Localized Seismic Disruptions with Tricorder and/or Combadge Signals

1.02 Programming a Combadge or Tricorder to Trigger Preset Device Effects and Functions

1.03 Programming a Tricorder to Control a Medium-Range Subspace Transmitter

1.04 Reconfiguring a Subspace Transceiver to Generate a Short-Duration, Low-Power Force Field

1.05 Remodulating a Universal Translator into a Jamming Device

1.06 Recalibrating Transporter Enhancer Armbands as Temporal Shields

1.07 Repurposing Type-1, Type-2, and Type-3 Phasers as Explosive Devices

1.08 Sterilizing Food and Water with a Phaser

1.09 Charging a Shuttle Battery or Ship's Console with a Type-1, Type-2, or Type-3 Phaser Power Cell

1.10 Protecting a Campsite from Pests, Using a Tricorder and Phaser

1.11 Surviving Atmospheric Reentry in a Pressure Suit

1.12 Reconfiguring Transporters to Create Perpetual Stasis Loops

1.13 Using Holodeck Data Cores to Save Transport Patterns

1.14 Transmitting Coded Subspace Signals by Adjusting a Warp Drive's Field Phase Coils

1.15 Sealing Quantum Fissures with an Inverted Warp Field

1.16 Detecting and Counteracting Invidium Contamination

2.0 UNCONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

2.00 Introduction

2.01 Anesthetizing Humanoids with Tricorder Signals

2.02 Modifying a Type-1 or Type-2 Phaser into a Scalpel

2.03 Programming a Holographic Emitter to Artificially Respirate a Humanoid Whose Lungs Have Been Destroyed

2.04 Erasure of Humanoid Short-Term and Long-Term Memories

2.05 Protocols for Temporary Implantation of a Trill Symbiont into a Non-Trill Host

2.06 Neutralizing Denevan Neural Parasites

2.07 Detecting and Removing Interphasic Parasites

2.08 Treatment Methods for an Overdose of Anti-Intoxicants

2.09 Proven Herbal Remedies for Mugato Venom

2.10 Negating the Psychotropic Effects of Omicron Ceti III Spores

2.11 Diagnosing and Counteracting Variants of the Psi 2000 Virus

2.12 Recognizing and Treating Symptoms of Temporal Narcosis

3.0 DANGEROUS LIFE-FORMS

3.00 Introduction

3.01 How to Drive off Noncorporeal Emotional Parasites

3.02 Avoiding Mind Control by Elasian Women

3.03 Surviving Attack by a Crystalline Entity

3.04 Dealing with "Omnipotent" Beings

3.05 Protocols for Nanite Infestation of Computers

3.06 Navigating Inside a Borg Cube or Sphere

3.07 Recognizing and Neutralizing a Dikironium Cloud Creature

3.08 Fending Off an Attacking Mugato

3.09 Wrestling Free of a Denebian Slime Devil

3.10 Dealing with Charging Klingon Sarks

3.11 Evading Wanoni Tracehounds

3.12 Escaping from a Vulcan Le-Matya

3.13 Defending Yourself Against a Kryonian Tiger

3.14 Protecting a Starship from an Alpha Omicron Creature

4.0 EXTREME SCENARIOS

4.00 Introduction

4.01 Landing and Evacuating Crippled Small Spacecraft

4.02 Surviving in and Escaping from Damaged Turbolifts

4.03 Escaping from a Malfunctioning Holodeck

4.04 Transporting Through Shields

4.05 Transporting to Ships Moving at Warp Speeds

4.06 Creating Metaphasic Shielding to Conceal a Ship in a Stellar Corona or Similar Environment

4.07 Detecting Cloaked Objects and Vessels at Close and Intermediate Ranges

4.08 Reversing Radical Subspatial Compression

4.09 Protocols for Containing and Transporting a Protouniverse

4.10 Dispersing Rogue Soliton Waves

4.11 Inducing Solar Eruptions for Tactical Purposes

4.12 Surviving While Adrift in Deep Space

4.13 Surviving if You Are Shifted Out of Phase

4.14 Detecting and Escaping Temporal Causality Loops

4.15 Determining if You Have Been Shifted into a Parallel Quantum Universe