The Edge of Midnight – Details, episodes & analysis

"The moral crisis we face cannot be fought by police action. It cannot be fought with phasers. It is a time to act in this council and their sub-councils, and the planetary governments and courts. It will be fought in this room, by this government: and it is a battle that I intend to win." Wescott clashes with the government of Benecia over civil rights: as Redshirts clash with protestors, the reform movement is in crisis - but will they turn this into a moment of opportunity?

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“Mister Wescott look and see,
Is there a reform in your bill for me?
I been waiting a long, long time.
Since I cast that vote of mine!”
- Please Mister Wescott, 2263.

As a new Federation government grasps with the consequences of social and constitutional reform, the Klingon Empire enters a new, dangerous phase of political violence.

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“Caleb IV was an avoidable tactical disaster, but an unavoidable operational one. Thank god it happened when it did.” –  Angella Fukuhara Starfleet suffers a grim backhand blow in the Undivae-Caleb system, as the Imperial Klingon Navy demonstrates its power.

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“The impact of escalated Orion piracy...can be understood as nothing less than a complete and irrevocable upheaval. If a disaster is to be averted, Starfleet must acknowledge and comprehend the scale of the Strategic Earthquake in the Disputed Area as soon as possible.” - The Holland Report.

Klingon Command faces a crisis which seemed to have no solution. “I think it is safe to say that these are not aftershocks,” Admiral Nogura would note in a memo to Commander, Starfleet, only a few weeks after Holland’s fateful description. “We’ve got a whole new problem on our hands.”

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“What does peace mean to the Klingon Empire? Nothing. It is a concept they have no use for, or real understanding of – even all their words for it were conquered from the languages of their subjects.” – Ambassador Robert Fox, 2265

It is safe to say that very few people understood the Klingon Empire at the end of the 2250s. The reasons why are much harder to summarise.

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“I’ll be honest, Ken, I deserved that.” - President Barreuco, to Kenneth Wescott, after losing the Vote of No Confidence, April 4th, 2258

"You have asked us to come together behind a united cause: behind a common belief. I think I know what that common belief is: that you have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, Madam President, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” - Ambassador Byss Th'rhahlat

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“When a President loses a war, there are consequences where they want them or not. When a President refuses to admit he lost the war because he was afraid to lead, they deserve the consequences.” - Sarek of Vulcan

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“What’s worse than Starfleet not approving the ship you want to build? Starfleet approving the ship they want to build.” —Matt Jeffries to Laurence Marvick, 2244

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“Until we have enough ships to match the D7 whenever it appears,we will never regain anything close to the security we once had inthe Klingon Border Area .”

— Admiral Agatha Drake, C-in-C 2nd Fleet, 2258

“This isn’t over. Armistice or not, the Klingons are coming for us.”

— Captain Matthew Decker, 2257

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"Conquest is Easy. Control is Not." - James T. Kirk. 

EDGE OF MIDNIGHT is written by Seamus Devenish, and read by Stephen Van Doren.

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