The science vessel Aephas (with Commander Mahmud al-Khaled) is providing support for a Federation colony on Cantrel V that has been studying the ruins of an ancient civilization that appeared to have destroyed itself. Then a large spaceship consisting of five domes linked together, is seen approaching. It fails to respond to hails and starts firing on the planet as soon as it arrives. The Aephas is able to inflict some damage on the craft and it stops firing, but still fails to respond to hails and it has inflicted damage on the colony. The Endeavour (with Captain Atish Khatami) is called in to assist. The craft somehow blocks scans, which means no one can beam aboard. A team led by Commander Stano does manage to enter the craft and finds that it appears to be automated. Then they accidently knock over a storage container, freeing a jellyfish-like creature (called a Lrondi) that attaches itself to the back of the neck of Ensign Cole and effectively takes control of her (the Lrondi call it ‘collecting’ hosts). Most of the team aboard the alien craft get taken over, although the Denobulan, Ensign Tropp, remains in control of his actions and some others maintain some control, and they manage to get word of what is happening to Captain Khatami. The Lrondi are a race that can no longer survive without the assistance of others. They had another host race that is called the Vornal, but their numbers were insufficient. 400 years ago they found Cantrel V, where the Pelopan were close to destroying themselves with warfare, and the Lrondi effectively saved the Pelopan by controlling them, but the Pelopan fought back and drove most of the Lrondi away. They have finally returned to recover their lost brethren, who have been living with the surviving Pelopan underground, although they emerge to try and ‘collect’ the Federation team, wanting to gain control of their ships. It is found that tricorder scans affect the creatures, but it is when Stano forcibly tears Maralom (the leader of the Lrondi) off of Grammell’s neck, that Maralom’s trauma gets transmitted to the other Lrondi and disables them sufficiently for the Federation crews to take control again. Some Lrondi asked to live with the Pelopan on their planet, and some Pelopan offered themselves for collection to help them. Most would be departing on their ship to find out what had happened to their homeworld. [Timeline: late 2269]
Jimmy Kirk is a 17 year old youth with terrible memories of Tarsus IV and Governor Kodos, and is hanging out in San Francisco with his ne’er-do-well brother Sam. Despite blaming Starfleet for not arriving at Tarsus IV in time to prevent the massacre, Jimmy has a girlfriend at Starfleet Academy, and when she (Elissa Corso) gets accused of stealing dilithium, Jimmy tries to prove her innocence by stealing a Starfleet vehicle (with the assistance of Sam) to demonstrate flaws in Starfleet security. As a result, he gets arrested and implicates Spock in it too. Spock had never met Jimmy Kirk before, and had been investigating apparent thefts from the Vulcan Embassy that he thought his father was involved in. Eugene Mallory, with Starfleet’s Department of General Services (DGS), manipulates events behind the scenes, getting Jimmy and Spock enrolled in the Academy as part of their punishment for trying to escape surveillance, and even letting them abscond with the starship Enterprise (which was nearing the end of a refit after its first five year mission) in order to follow the escaping gang of crooks (consisting largely of people who had been Governor Kodos’ henchmen). That gang, led by Griffyn, had been behind both the theft of the dilithium and the objects from the Vulcan Embassy, all the objects being parts that Spock realized were for building a shuttle that could be disguised as one of Starfleet’s. Elissa’s friend at the Academy, Zee Bayloff, had actually been working for Griffyn, but when he abandons her, she joins in with Jimmy, Spock, and a couple of other Starfleet Academy cadets in tracking the gang to Neptune, where they expose three Orion pirate ships that were there to collect the gang and their gains. Mallory had followed with a fleet of vessels, and they ultimately save the day. Both Jimmy and Spock decide to remain at Starfleet Academy, although they take different tracks. [Timeline: 3 years after the events on Tarsus IV with Kodos the Executioner]
When Christopher Pike arrives the second time at Talos IV (this time confined in his wheelchair) Vina gets him to tell her about his life. He explains that he never originally knew his father, but he, his mother (Willa) and his stepfather (Heston) moved to a colony on Elysium. After his mother and stepfather die in a natural catastrophe, that may have been sparked by Heston’s manipulation of a volcano, he goes to live in Mojave with Charlie (who had been their hired help) and his wife (Hobelia), and later discovers that Charlie is his biological father. Charlie is a member of Starfleet, although he takes frequent leaves of absence. The two of them end up on the same ship (the U.S.S. Aldrin) when Christopher Pike has his first command assignment as first officer, but ends up relieving Captain Kamnach of command after he instigates two unprovoked attacks on Vestian vessels. Later, when captain of the Enterprise, he gets marooned with Spock on a planet and hunted by a group of snake-like aliens (the Kan’ess), and Pike ends up a captive (or pet) of the female Kan’ess Director. With the assistance of Spock and Number One, Pike is rescued. Later he turns over control of the Enterprise to Kirk. Later still, Pike is almost fatally injured rescuing a group of cadets under his command after a baffle-plate ruptured on the old class-J starship used as a training vessel. That led to him being taken by Spock back to Talos IV, where Vina also tells him about her early life as a ballet dancer and her later studies leading to the ship she was on, the Columbia, crashing on Talos IV after a malfunction. She survived thanks to the efforts of her fiancé, Theo (Dr. Theodore Haskins), who didn’t survive the crash. Many years on, both Pike and Vina have died and Spock gets a call from the Talosians to return. He finds the planet now mostly free of the radiation that had prevented inhabitation of the surface, and cities now thriving, and the Talosians have begun trading with some other planets. This growth, the Talosian Magistrate explains, came about through the leadership and inspiration of Christopher Pike, assisted by Vina. Spock returns Pike’s ashes to Earth and opens negotiations for Talos IV to enter the Federation. [Timeline: year 2320 when Spock gets called back to Talos IV to collect Pike’s ashes, 2267 when Pike was taken there after being disabled, thirteen years after the first visit.]
First, Do No Harm (Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore):
Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy take a shuttle down to the surface of the planet, cataloged as NGC 667, to locate Revati Jendra who is believed to be breaking the Prime Directive by giving medical treatments to the natives (known as the Grennai). They do locate her, and she is doing what they had suspected, but after hearing her story, they leave her there and give her some supplies, while reporting to Starfleet that she died in an accident. She had been on a mission to the planet years previous, which had illegally interfered with the natives and unintentionally infected some, wiping out a complete village. Since the natives do not travel much, the infection happily hadn’t spread far, but Jendra had returned to do what she could to right the wrong.
The Landing Party (Robert Greenberger):
About a year after Sulu makes the switch from astrophysics to helm and the command track, Kirk appoints him to lead a landing party on a previously uncharted uninhabited planet that shows indications of a previous civilization having been there. The other members of the landing party are Christopher Lindstrom and Vanani Manprasad, and they beam down and start exploring what seems to be some sort of control center. Unfortunately, they trigger a sensor on entering the place, which in turn triggers a series of defense systems, including blocking communications with the Enterprise. Manprasad dies when gas is emitted into the room she was trapped in, and Lindstrom is rendered unconscious by a beam weapon. Sulu is injured, but he managed to disable the defense mechanism, although he does it accidentally. After they are rescued by the Enterprise, Sulu is kept in sickbay for a couple of days and is discouraged by how his first command mission went, but Janice Rand gets him to talk about it, and after Spock has reviewed the recordings from the tricorders of the three team members, he and Kirk exonerate Sulu of all blame for what happened, and Sulu decides to stay on the command track. Spock determined that the previous inhabitants of the planet had been an unknown race that had tried to colonize the planet.
Official Record (Howard Weinstein):
Chekov has only recently joined the Enterprise when he accidentally causes an explosion while working with engineering, which shatters his confidence. But then Kirk appoints him to command a mission that involves Chekov and Dr. McCoy visiting the planet Tenkara, which is a source of dilithium. Some miners on the planet have rebelled against the outside involvement and the government had asked for a Federation presence to assist with security. Chekov and McCoy take a shuttle to the planet, taking medical supplies and meeting with Captain Irene Kwan (who heads the Federation mission) and her assistant, Lieutenant Commander Joe Wilder. On a visit to the city clinic they are attacked by a group of the dissident miners, and McCoy gets kidnapped and one of the miners is captured. While Kwan meets the government leader to discuss what they can do to recover McCoy, Wilder tortures the captured miner to try and get a lead. When Chekov realizes what is happening, he stuns Wilder but gets stunned himself by Wilder’s two young guards, Robinson and Bjorklund. When she hears what Wilder has done, Kwan is furious but decides to head a mission following up on a lead that the torture had given. Unfortunately, that turns out to be a trap, and Kwan dies from her injuries. Chekov tries to get the two guards to join him in exposing Wilder’s guilt, but they refuse and Chekov decides to bide his time. It turns out that McCoy had been kidnapped to treat the miners’ leader, Rivaj, and is then released, and while treating the captured miner, he realizes that Rivaj has been tortured. It is assumed that Kwan had carried out the torture, but as Chekov and McCoy are about to leave the planet, Chekov say what really happened and the two guards step up to confirm it. Wilder admits his guilt and is taken into custody. Chekov’s report on the situation on the planet is critical of the planet’s government and the Federation’s involvement, which is mainly driven by the need for dilithium.
Fracture (Jeff Bond):
The Enterprise is on a supply mission to Deep Space Station M-33 which is commanded by Commodore Julius Merrill, one of Kirk’s heroes. The station is located at Veletus V (a gas giant) which has an unusual gas cloud of charged hydrogen, known as the Ifukube Veil, that the station plans to tap as an energy source. Arriving there, they find the station has been having interactions with some one-man Tholian vessels, which are supposedly pirate vessels (the Outsiders), and the station has been capturing them and handing them over to the Tholian authorities (the Assembly). When a pilots of one of the captured ships contacts the station, Uhura is called in to try to interpret what is being said, which turns out to be a request for political asylum. Kirk insists on respecting the request, but Merrill does not want to break his agreement to hand the captured Tholians to the Tholian authorities. As a consequence, the Enterprise gets caught in the middle of a battle between the Tholian Assembly craft and those of the Outsiders. They discover that the cloud is actually the sentient remains of Tholians who had been destroyed in a sectarian massacre millennia ago, and the Outsiders had had some racial memory of it, and the Assembly wanted to suppress it. Kirk manages to impose a settlement between them, and Merrill agrees to help implement it. [Timeline: Stardate 6453.4]
Chaotic Response (Stuart Moore):
This story seems to be set in an alternative universe where Captain Kirk is not Mr. Ego, but is too afraid to face the Klingons without Spock by his side, preferring to leave it to Scotty to handle them. Spock has retreated inside himself after having had the Klingon mind-ripper used on him, and McCoy and Kirk make use of the stolen mind-ripper to carry out a sort of mindmeld to try and bring him back because Kirk feels he cannot successfully face the Klingons alone. By the time they actually bring Spock back, the Klingons are battering the Enterprise, and Spock is so drained that he can’t stand, but Kirk finds he has absorbed something from Spock’s mind and can now take over from Scotty. However, Kirk still wastes time discussing Vulcan mind techniques with Spock, so he doesn’t seem to have absorbed much logic.
As Others See Us (Christopher L. Bennett):
On the planet Niobea, which is entering its age of exploration, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Theresa Errgang and Jerome Chaane disguise themselves in order to join the crew of a Yemai ship on a voyage of discovery, trade and conquest. The ship discovers the legendary island chain known as Ilaiyen which supposedly has strange healing powers. The Ilaiyen inhabitants show no interest in the trinkets and other goods that the Yemai offer, so the Yemai try attacking the island. Kirk and his group try to assist the islanders, but discover that one of the injured islanders is actually an android. That android was being controlled by a group of dolphin-like aliens (from the Redheri Consortium) who had a base just offshore, but it turned out the islanders had known from the start about these other aliens and the Enterprise team. The island had been visited by off-worlders centuries previous, and still had contact from time to time with them. As part of the trading, the islanders had accepted nanotechnology that gave the curative powers, and which could even bring back to life the newly dead. The islanders like their quiet life and insist that the two groups of aliens and the Yemai leave. Apparently a colony of the Coalescence nanites had established itself in Errgang’s body, and had been tasked with discovering the secret of the Ilaiyen healing power, and now that was done the colony sacrificed itself before they could be discovered.
See No Evil (Jill Sherwin):
The Enterprise responds to a short distress call from the planet Donico II, but on arrival at the planet they are told everything is fine, no assistance required. However, Uhura (who is still recovering from Nomad erasing her memory) notes a number of discrepancies between broadcasts received from the planet, as if history was being rewritten, and then Scotty (who had been killed and revived by Nomad) finds that the planet’s energy Grid is in danger of a catastrophic overload. When they try to warn the planet’s leaders, they are met with denials that anything could be wrong, and when Scotty forces the issue he gets arrested and summarily sentenced to death. Uhura had tracked the origin of the distress call to Kurning, leader of the FreeSpeakers, who then kidnaps the planetary leader, KKyo-Ina. Uhura gets the job of trying to convince the planetary leaders to face reality, and, in the guise of supposedly convincing Scotty of his error, she points out to the leaders (who are monitoring her conversation) that not facing up to the truth is dangerous. She manages to convince the deputy leader, Cinda-Ru, who makes an announcement over the planet’s communication network to the population, preempting anything the other council members might do. During these events Uhura gets to recall something of what and who she really is.
The Leader (Dave Galanter):
Kirk, McCoy, Sulu and Ensign Sam Kerby are in a shuttle returning from a hearing when it is attacked by a small Klingon vessel. They jettison their damaged engines which explode, damaging the Klingon ship and allowing Kirk’s shuttle to make an emergency landing on a class-M moon. There they are surprised to find a small human colony (known as Frontier) led by Captain Simon Anders, who are the descendants of a ship that crash-landed on the moon 42 years ago. The Klingon ship is actually a one-man craft captained by D’kar, the son of Kor who faced Kirk on Organia, and D’kar wants to capture Kirk as revenge for what he believes Kirk did to his father. It doesn’t take D’kar long to find where Kirk is, and in observing the situation he sees that Anders is becoming jealous of Kirk’s ability to inspire the colonists under his command. When Kirk and Kerby go to locate D’kar’s ship, Anders tells D’kar where Kirk has gone, but he almost immediately regrets having done so. D’kar is able to launch an attack on Kirk and Kerby, and Kerby is seriously injured and Kirk seems to have been captured but manages to overcome the Klingon. At that point the Enterprise finds them and it is D’kar who is taken into custody and ultimately handed over to his father, who is very unhappy with him. Kirk understands what Anders had been going through, and wonders how he will adapt to the changes that are coming to his colony now that they are reconnected with the Federation.
Ambition (William Leisner):
Kirk and Spock are tied up in a negotiating session on the planet Pentam V, so when the Enterprise receives an emergency call from an Andorian science colony, Thraz Outpost, Kirk tells Scotty to take command. That irritates Sulu a bit, since he had been in command while they were orbiting the planet. The science colony had been studying an unusual flume, called the Thraz Streamer, from a nearby pulsar that is made up of tachyons and has a potential use for warp travel. The colony reported having been attacked by a craft that seemed to appear out of nowhere and had now left, but seismic activity had started occurring after the attack. On arrival, a craft is seen traveling within the plume and it is determined it must have been the one that carried out the attack. The Enterprise is able to force the craft out of the plume. Between Sulu and Scotty, and with important help from Uhura, they determine that the craft is actually a young space creature that had emerged from the planet, and that the seismic activity is being caused by a large group of similar creatures making their way to the surface. They manage to adapt the tractor beam to entice these other creatures to emerge at the same crater created by the first one, minimizing further damage to the colony.
Devices and Desires (Kevin Lauderdale):
The Enterprise, or more specifically Mr. Spock, gets an urgent call to a place known as the Yard, where all the alien artifacts and technology, such as the Doomsday machine, are being kept. Although the Yard is situated in an area with little around it, and far from regular flight paths, the director of the facility (B6 Blue, a Nasat who was instrumental in Spock joining Starfleet and had the nickname Bishop) wants to shield it inside a Midnight Sphere (a plasma sphere that will absorb light and sensor beams, making it effectively invisible). Spock’s expertise in plasma constraint gets it working, but then it is found that the plasma beams creating the shell are continuing through the shell and changing into invisible snaking beams, deadly hazardous to any starship in the area. Bishop thinks this an advantage, but then they learn that someone in Starfleet has directed a Klingon warship that had got lost to return through that region (not realizing that the Yard was there, since it had been kept too secret). Bishop didn’t want to take the Midnight Sphere down, but Spock convinced her to do so, and while the Enterprise hid inside the Doomsday machine they convinced the Klingons that the Yard was merely a junk yard.
Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Jeffrey Lang):
Dr. McCoy and Scotty had been presenting a paper written by Spock at a biotechnology conference at Starbase Ten and are returning aboard the Lexington when it gets diverted because of an emergency at a mining colony. They have the option of delaying their return to the Enterprise by a couple of weeks or getting put off at Denebia and waiting 22 hours. They choose the latter and find themselves in a dingy bar getting drunk on the local special (named after the Denebian Slime Devil). A local named Spaytak overhears their conversation and thinks they are Kirk and Spock, and tries to sell them to a Klingon (Krong) who has been banished to the planet. The situation results in a punch-up between Spaytak and his cohorts and the Enterprise pair and Krong. Kirk and Spock locate them, by which time Scotty and McCoy the only ones left vaguely conscious, and they end up giving Krong (who has collapsed in a stupor) a lift off-planet.
Make-Believe (Allyn Gibson):
Breandan is a boy who has been getting in trouble at school for playing with his Star Trek action figures and not interacting with the other kids, and his mother (Gabby Howard) has the same problem with him at home. The action figures had been given to him by his father (Kevin), who had later died in service in Iraq. It turns out that his father had explained his tour in Iraq to Breandan by saying that Captain Kirk was sending him on a mission in a shuttlecraft, and Breandan (in playing with his action figures) had Kirk, Spock and McCoy looking for the crew of the downed shuttle. When his mom learns this, she invites Breandan in to watch Star Trek (which she is not particularly fond of) and Breandan smiles for the first time in months.
The Enterprise responds to a distress call and rescues three people from a craft that was falling into a gas giant, but they then find that the inhabitants of their home planet, Istra Zero, had wanted one of them (Berlis Aknista) dead. The Isitri are a race of telepaths, most of whom do not have the ability to speak vocally, but every so often someone is born with the ability to influence the whole population against their will, and these people are known as “troublesome minds”, and traditionally have been killed at birth. Berlis had been on a nearby colony world, Istra Colony First, and had escaped notice as a troublesome mind until he had recently visited the homeworld. Berlis has a particular effect on Spock and doesn’t consciously recognize his influence, but ends up driving people to protect him. This same paranoia for self-preservation by past troublesome minds that had taken control of the planet had led to wars with the nearby planet of the Odib, and the Odib vow to eliminate the Isitri when they learn that another troublesome mind is in control. Kirk is desperate to stop the war that he inadvertently set in motion by rescuing Berlis, and searches out a previous troublesome mind (named Meshu) that had been exiled not too long ago. They locate Meshu and she offers to help counter Berlis’s influence but finds she needs Spock’s help in overcoming her own doubts. The Enterprise gets caught between the warring Odib and Isitri, but they manage to block Berlis’s influence and remove him from the planet. In doing so he feels so isolated that he is in mental pain, and Spock is linked to him, suffering the same. It ends with Spock killing Berlis and not knowing if he did it under Berlis’s influence or just to end his own suffering. [Timeline: probably soon after the TV episode Galileo Seven]
Project Inception (led by Carol Marcus) has been approved by the research company, Kraden, for testing on a plot on Mars. The project uses a small quantity of nitrilin (among other ingredients) as a catalyst to rapidly convert barren dirt to agricultural soil, but a number of environmental groups, including Redpeace (led by Thaddeus Kent) and the more radical Whole Earth (led by Josh Swanson) oppose the experiment (and any non ‘natural’ terraforming methods). Someone from Whole Earth befriends one of Carol’s team (Tamara Irwin) and is able to sabotage the project by increasing the quantity of nitrilin and setting off a potentially catastrophic reaction. Another of Carol’s team (Leila Kalomi) had met, and developed a crush on, Spock (who was visiting Earth while Pike’s Enterprise was in for a refit) and Spock is able to give the team an idea on how to extend the forcefield to contain the reaction. Kirk (Carol’s lover) is on leave from the Mizuki (where he is first officer) and is given temporary command of the Aloia in order to implement the containment plan. Although the experiment failure was due to sabotage by Whole Earth, because of the publicity Kraden refuses to have anything further to do with it or with Carol Marcus. Carol is left wondering what the future holds for her and her unborn child, who she hasn’t told Kirk about as she has also come to realize that she can have no real future with Kirk, who seems destined for command of a starship. [Timeline: 2261, three years after Captain Garrovick died at Tycho IV]
Pride – The First Peer (Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore):
Proconsul Toquel gets the Romulans to deal with the Klingons, trading cloaking and weapons technology for D7 battle cruisers which have the power needed to operate the cloaking technology (which the Romulans’ own ships didn’t). She also planned to use the ships traded from the Klingons to attack a Federation facility and implicate the Klingons. She finds she has underestimated the Klingons when they beat her to destroying the facility (having filled in the gaps the Romulans had deliberately left in the information they had traded with the Klingons) and implicate the Romulans. Toquel ends up losing her position to her assistant, Ditrius, and (just before he kills her) she discovers that Ditrius is actually a Klingon agent. [Timeline: 2267, soon after the events in the TV show “The Deadly Years”]
Wrath – The Unhappy Ones (Keith R.A. DeCandido):
The Beta Thoridar mining station has a series of murders, which lead to riots among the workers, exacerbated by the attitude of the head of security, Sorkav (the brother of the mining supervisor, Kobyk), who was a HemQuch (the traditional Klingon with prominent head ridges) and had little but contempt for the QuchHa’ (the more human-looking Klingons). As the situation worsens, the three QuchHa’ captains, Kor, Koloth and Kang are sent to restore order and find out what the problem is. Kor ends up challenging and killing Sorkav, which doesn’t disappoint his brother, Kobyk. [Timeline: 2269, prior to the events in the TV show 'Day of the Dove']
Saavik is on Vulcan and rather disturbed after the events of the Genesis project and the rejoining of Spock’s katra with his regrown body. She finds a position on the research ship, Chaffee, but before the ship leaves she meets up with Tolek (another survivor from Hellguard) who asks for help in solving a mystery of the deaths of three (and later four) other Hellguard survivors. While on the research mission to Deema III, they make contact with a telepathic race of sentient worms, the Deemanot, and Saavik gets involved with a civilian scientist, Doctor Mikal. Saavik tries to use her Starfleet contacts to find whatever information she can about the mysterious deaths but doesn’t get very far, and then Tolek also mysteriously dies. On returning to Vulcan, Saavik throws a fit, attacking her adoptive father, Sarek, and goes to Amorak, supposedly to relax and recover. However, she causes a commotion there too and goes off into the desert, ultimately meeting up with a Romulan, Narak, who claims to be her biological father and is being forced to enlist her help in destroying Sarek’s reputation and destroying his efforts at negotiating with the Klingons. Saavik feels compelled, reluctantly, to assist Narak and is able to plant incriminating evidence against Sarek. Along the way, Saavik meets a young Romulan woman named T’Vaakis, who is probably her sister. What Narak didn’t know was that Saavik had been engaged by the V’Shar and was only supposedly helping him so that the V’Shar were able to track down, and ultimately round up, the Romulan network on Vulcan. Narak himself ‘escapes’ by incinerating himself, and T’Vaakis is sentenced but ultimately released. Saavik finds that Mikal had worked with Sarek to establish how the Romulans had caused the deaths of the other Hellguard survivors, but Saavik and Mikal end up going their own ways, Saavik hoping to rejoin the Enterprise. [Timeline: 2286, concurrent with the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]
The Everett, with Ranjea and Garcia aboard, goes to investigate a temporal anomaly (a subspace confluence) near the Lembatta Cluster and finds there is a ship in it. The ship is the Timeship Two, which is unknown in their history and is found to be using the engines from Kirk’s original Enterprise (the source of so many time travel incidents) and also has a spherical lattice object that turns out to be a Vedala confluence drive. The failure of the Timeship One experiment had established the DTI’s mission as preserving the timeline. They get access to classified records that show that Timeship Two had been an unauthorized venture headed by Admiral Delgado but with the collaboration of Doctor Meijan Grey, who was the initial head of the DTI. The flight had failed because the Vedala drive had not acted as expected, resulting in a confluence between 2383 and 2275. While agents Lucsly and Dulmur had been investigating Timeship Two from the 2383 side, the Enterprise with Kirk and Spock arrive from the 2275 side, and they observe as Spock works out Grey’s involvement. The main problem is how to shut the confluence drive down without causing major effects to the timeline, and, much to Lucsly’s