Over the course of the series, the crew of Voyager found a number of ways to shorten their journey by many decades, thanks to shortcuts ( in the episodes " Night ", " Q2 "), technology boosts (" The Voyager Conspiracy ", " Dark Frontier ", " Timeless ", " Hope and Fear "), subspace corridors (" Dragon's Teeth "), and a mind-powered push from a powerful former shipmate (" The Gift ").

Eight separate boxed games were released as tie-in products: Striker, a game of tabletop miniature warfare, added very complex rules for vehicle design & combat, Mayday concentrated on small ship vs ship space combat, Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning featured small-unit battles on board spacecraft, while Fifth Frontier War, Invasion Earth and Dark Nebula were wargames based on selected interstellar conflicts from the Classic Traveller ( though in the case of the later this was not the case on its publication, but they were used as the basis of parts of the ' imperial ' background ) future history.

* Eric Ambler a series of spy novels set in Europe before World War II, starting with The Dark Frontier.

The transporter can also serve a tactical purpose, such as beaming a photon grenade or photon torpedo to detonate at remote locations ( TNG: " Legacy ", VOY: " Dark Frontier "), or to outright destroy objects ( TNG: " Captain's Holiday ").

According to the TNG Technical Manual, the transporter cannot move antimatter, but in the VOY episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto a Borg ship.

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Dark Frontier ," Tom Paris describes it as the " New World Economy ," which began in the late 22nd century and eventually made money obsolete, as does Jean-Luc Picard while explaining the timeline to Lily Sloane in Star Trek: First Contact.

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* The Dark Frontier ( 1936 )

Ruritania inspired other fictional countries, such as Ixania in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier, Riechtenburg in Dornford Yates ' Blood Royal and Fire Below, and Evallonia in John Buchan's Castle Gay and The House of the Four Winds, which share with the original the depiction of complex power struggles in which a visiting protagonist from a real country becomes deeply involved.

When SSI began work on the Dark Sun engine in 1990, development of the Savage Frontier series was passed to developer Stormfront Studios.

Parkin wrote non-fiction as well, including guides to Star Trek ( Beyond the Final Frontier ) and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series ( Dark Matters: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Philip Pullman's ' Dark Materials ' Trilogy ), both written with long-time friend Mark Jones, and Secret Identities: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Alias with Mark Clapham.

* From Fear to Eternity, created by Melvyn Grant, shows three different incarnations: the Wicker Man Eddie from the " Wicker Man " single, the tank-riding Eddie from the A Matter of Life and Death album cover and a cross between the Dance of Death, Fear of the Dark and The Final Frontier Eddies.

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Based on the development of weaponry in the year 1936, The Dark Frontier was one of the first novels to predict the invention of a nuclear bomb and its consequences.

It is an obvious fact that Ambler's subsequent novels are quite different from The Dark Frontier — not so much in subject matter but most certainly in style and atmosphere.

Critics as well as Ambler fans ( and the author himself in an Introduction to the novel ) have pointed out that The Dark Frontier was meant to be a parody of the brand of adventure thriller Ambler enjoyed as an adolescent but came to find rather silly when he reached adulthood.

According to Tom Paris in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Dark Frontier ", a " New World Economy " began to take hold on Earth and throughout the Federation in the late 22nd century, and eventually made money obsolete.

In Star Trek: Voyager, the episode " Dark Frontier " has Tom Paris explaining that money began to fade from use when the " New World Economy " arose in the late 22nd century ( notably after the 2161 founding date of the Federation ), meaning even by later explanations, money was in use in the early history of the Federation.

* In the Star Trek: Voyager season 5 episode " Dark Frontier ", Captain Kathryn Janeway hatches a plan to steal a transwarp coil from a Borg ship, calling it Operation Fort Knox.

She may be best known for her television work, which includes playing Karen Sammler on Once and Again, Michelle Generoo in an episode of The X-Files and a recurring role as the Borg Queen in the Star Trek: Voyager two-part episodes " Dark Frontier " ( 1999 ) and " Unimatrix Zero " ( 2000 ).

A screenshot from the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Dark Frontier ".

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Finally, in " The Haunter of the Dark " ( 1936 ), the nocturnal tentacled, bat-winged monster dwelling in the steeple of the Starry Wisdom sect's church is identified as another form, or manifestation of, Nyarlathotep.

* Sonetos del amor oscuro ( Sonnets of Dark Love 1936, not published until 1983 )

* Merle Oberon in pose for The Dark Angel in Vanity Fair ( American magazine 1913 – 1936 ) | Vanity Fair portrait by Cecil Beaton

* The Dark Hour ( 1936 )

His auction record, £ 325, 250, was set at Sotheby's on 15 July 2008 for " Forms on Dark Blue ", a 3 ' by 4 ' oil painted in 1936.

* Two in the Dark ( 1936 ) as Ford ' Jitney ' Adams

* Two in the Dark ( 1936 )

Highly regarded by Bette Davis, he became her most frequent male co-star, appearing with her in thirteen films, including Front Page Woman ( 1935 ), Special Agent ( 1935 ), The Golden Arrow ( 1936 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), The Old Maid ( 1939 ), Dark Victory ( 1939 ) and The Great Lie ( 1941 ).

* " The Dark Land " ( January 1936 )

Among his books are the novels Test Tube Baby ( 1936 ), Make Up and Kiss ( 1938 ) and The Dark Page ( 1944 ); novelizations of his films The Naked Kiss ( 1964 ) and The Big Red One ( 1980 ; reissued 2005 ); and 144 Piccadilly ( 1971 ) and Quint's World ( 1988 ).

A number of critics have erroneously claimed that the film is based on the 1936 film My Man Godfrey when in fact it is a reworking of the 1930 movie What A Man, based on the 1924 novel The Dark Chapter ; a Comedy of Class Distinctions by E. J. Rath and its 1926 Broadway adaptation They All Want Something by Courtenay Savage.

His first film appearance was in Kelly the Second ( 1936 ), followed by Dark Manhattan ( 1937 ).

In June 1932, the Milky Way bar was sold as a two piece bar, but just four years later, in 1936, the chocolate and vanilla were separated, naming the vanilla " Forever Yours ," then " Milky Way Dark ," and finally " Milky Way Midnight.

* Den dunkle Sol ( The Dark Sun ), Copenhagen 1936

Lovecraft replied in kind with " The Haunter of the Dark " ( 1936 ), in which the characters included one Robert Harrison Blake ( who had the same Milwaukee street address as Bloch ), whom Lovecraft killed off in an equally horrible fashion.

Throughout the Dark ages, it is clear, the Greek world had been developing slowly but consistently.

Willie's wonderful walloping Sunday -- four home runs -- served merely to emphasize how happy he is to be playing for Alvin Dark.

" The Dark " or " Misty Hel ") This realm is roughly analogous to Greek Tartarus.

The place-name itself is Pictish, implying an origin in the Dark Ages: aber ' confluence '.

Dark energy is also an area of intense interest for scientists, but it is not clear whether direct detection of dark energy will be possible.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

After he becomes Clayface, he is then replaced by Ellen Yin ( also based on The Dark Knight Returnss character Ellen Yindel ).

* The concluding scene in The Dark Knight, where Two-Face holds Gordon's family at gunpoint, is reminiscent of the Year One scene where Gordon's family is at danger from The Roman and Loeb's men.

This journal was continued under a new title but with the numbering continued from No 1, thus the first issue of The Dark Eidolon: The Journal of Smith Studies, ( Necronomicon Press ) is numbered " 2 " ( it appeared June 1989 ).

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

There is also a track on the accompanying EP Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein titled " Queen Of Winter Throned " which contains the lyrics: " Iniquitous / I share Carmilla's mask / A gaunt mephitic voyeur / On the black side of the glass ".

A clerihew much appreciated by chemists is cited in Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes regarding the inventor of the thermos bottle ( or Dewar flask ):

Dark chocolate is produced by adding fat and sugar to the cacao mixture.

Dark chocolate, with its high cocoa content, is a rich source of epicatechin and gallic acid, which are thought to possess cardioprotective properties.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

The popularity of Star Wars-themed WADs is rumored to have been the factor that prompted LucasArts to create their first-person shooter Dark Forces.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

Dark matter is estimated to constitute 84 % of the matter in the universe and 23 % of the mass-energy.