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== Recommendations from the Gallery ==

'''David Rhode:''' I am forever in love with John Ford's ''Final Reflection'' novel, which tells a tale about the first Federation/Klingon ambassadorial contact, from the Klingon side. In addition to giving the Klingons a culture with more depth than a pack of scrotum-headed hollywood viking samurai, it depicts an early Federation with a few warts. I recommend snagging a copy of that if you haven't read it, or possibly killing someone who has it and taking it.

'''Pilgrim:''' ''Suggested the novel Accelerando.''

'''Meriss:''' Read ''The Wounded Sky'' definately, nonhumanoid species and weird math is fun. While you don't need to leave our universe to find your inner strength it doesn't hurt. 

''Pawns and Symbols'' is a must read, its one of the few TOS books where Kilingon's have an actual culture :eek: Which you may want to steal outright.

''My Enemy, My Ally'' and ''The Romulan Way''. Both are excellent peeks at Romulan/Rihannsu culture and language. Yah, there's an actual Romulan language, deal with it :D

Also alot of what you got going on is intriguingly similar to ''EVEOnline's'' backstory. Weird coincedence? Or something more sinister? ['''Shadowjack:''' Sinister coincidence! I've never played the game, though I've drooled over the screenshots. If only they had a screensaver.]


'''Punkey:''' Actually, while I'm going on about NCIS, the TV show of the same name isn't a bad example of the kind of action that I'm thinking about. Lots of international intrigue, spies, foiling terrorist plots (if Al-Qaeda was half as competent in reality as they are in this show, we'd have lost the War on Terror years ago), and other kinds of action mixed in with some really solid investigative and procedural stuff (they're pretty decent about forensics as far as TV shows go and they're very careful about things like warrants and evidence chain of custody). The hostage scenario that's up at the wiki is more along the lines of ''Flashpoint'', which is another great source of inspiration for more SWAT team oriented stuff. If you have to watch just a few episodes, the finale of season 2 (Twilight) and the first two episodes of season 3 (Kill Ari Parts 1 and 2) are a great primer into the kind of action NCIS works in. The team on the show is very scrupulous when it comes to following the law when it comes to most criminal investigations, but they also have a history of bending/breaking the rules when they have to or when they're doing more espionage-related work.