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'''''Dragon Ball Z vs. Star Trek: The Way of Infinity''''' is a [[spinoff]] of the crossover [[fan fiction]] ''[[Dragon Ball Z vs. Star Trek: The Beginning of Infinity]]''. It deals with many political themes.

==Main characters==
*[[Rene Michael]]
*[[Isabell]]
*[[Terumi]]
:The [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]]. She is an [[individual anarchist]]. She became a politician because she wanted to make the laws of the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] more liberal.
*[[Sanae]]
:A close friend and advisor of the [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]].
*[[Herodes]]
:The leader of the conservative faction in the [[Federation Council]]. Herodes became a hardliner after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him.
*[[M.V]]
:The boss of [[SLNVRX]]. A brilliant businessman and one of the first users of [[Cyberware]]. He possesses a headware implant which enhances his intelligence by transcranial magnetic stimulation.
*[[S.I]]
:The second boss of [[SLNVRX]]. He developed a converter program between brain signals and computer systems together with [[M.V]], which eased the production of [[Cyberware]].

==Secondary characters==
*[[Markus Will]]
*[[Benjamin Esser]]
*[[Artesia Michael]]

==Episodes==
===Season 1===
*''A Problematic Summit''
:A summit of the leading economic powers of the [[Alpha Quadrant]] and the [[Beta Quadrant]] is planned. Meanwhile, unknown persons kidnap the [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]]. The {{uss|Gerentaika}} is sent to rescue her. Meanwhile, a cadet ship becomes attacked in the [[Lesser Magellanic Cloud]].
*''The Thief''
:Some years later, [[Ibo]]'s brother steals documents about the cadet ship stored in the night club of [[Markus Will]] to sell them to the [[Tal Shiar]]. Because he also stole some documents of the [[Orion Syndicate]], [[Markus Will]] hires a killer. Later, [[Ibo]]s brother meets an agent of the [[Tal Shiar]] in [[London]], but they get interrupted by agents of the secret service of the [[Kzinti]], who also try to get the documents. Later, [[Rene Michael]] is told to retrieve the documents.
*''Battle for the Documents''
:[[Ibo]] appears in the hospital because he wants to protect his brother. He says he should hide in the buildings of a civil rights organisation. While the two travel to this place, [[Hiromi]] and the [[Kzinti]] agents reappear because they didn't get all pieces of the documents. Later, [[Hiromi]] and [[Siraika]] have to land in [[Akihabara]], due to fuel problems and [[Hideo Sugishita]], a [[hacker]] and rival of one chief of the [[SLNVRX]] megacorporation helps them.
*''Wizard and Princess''
:The management of [[SLNVRX]] tries to eliminate the 2 chiefs of the company to control it alone. To fulfill this, they kidnap the sister of one of the chiefs and unsuccessfully try to take them into custody by hacking the control systems of their houses. Later, because the chiefs were missing, they want to choose a new chief for the time of their disappearance. They choose [[Adanos]], a not completely trustworthy member of the corporation. This episode is named after a chapter of the book '''Hackers, heroes of the computer revolution'''.
*''Der Umgang mit Mitwissern''
:A group of the [[Orion Syndicate]] meets in an Italian restaurant in [[Cologne]]. After the meeting, the management of [[SLNVRX]] gives them the task to kill [[Hideo Sugishita]], a hacker who hacked into the [[closed-circuit television camera]] systems of the [[SLNVRX]] building and watched the choice of the new boss.
*''Harsh but Vulcanic''
:The [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]] goes to a political talk show. The topic of the talkshow is the emerging energy crisis.
*''History Lessons''
:Several years later, [[Karala Yagiyu]] and [[Madoka Michael]] visit the Loveparade in Essen. During the parade, a former employee of [[SLNVRX]] becomes deadly wounded by an unknown person. Karala and Madoka search for the person who shot at him. Later, it's revealed that the victim of the attack worked for an unknown organisation.
*''Jungle Trip''
:The [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]], the [[Romulan]]s and the [[Kzinti]] decode the documents and find out that an important alien artifact is located on a [[Andromeda galaxy temple planet 2392|jungle planet]] in the [[Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda galaxy]]. A battle between the 3 factions starts on the planet.

===Season 2===
*''Fear and Trembling''
:[[Rene Michael]] experiences visions about his time at [[Starfleet Academy]] while he is unconscious because he fell out of the temple.

*''Total Oblivion''
:[[Rene Michael]] tries to find a ship to flee from the planet. [[Siraika]] follows him, but Rene catches her and plans to use her to convince the [[Romulan]]s to give him a shuttle.

*''Rescue Operation''
: [[Fatih Uruk]] returns to the planet to rescue [[Rene Michael|Rene]]. He succeeds , but the [[Kzinti]] take [[Fatih Uruk|Fatih]] and some other [[starfleet]] [[officer]]s as hostages.

==Allusions to real-world incidents==
*The summit of the leading economic powers mentioned in the first episode is based on the summits of the G8.
*The element of the story that the [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]] became the president, because of the help of 2 men was inspired by the first triumvirate and the rise to power of the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga.
*The energy crisis is based on the oil crisis of the year 1973.
*The pardon given to an imprisoned [[terrorism|terrorist]] by the [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]] is an allusion to the petition for pardon by the former RAF member {{w|Christian Klar}}.
*The plan of the left faction of the parliament to stop the military mission on [[Cardassia]] is inspired by the fact that the "Linkspartei" of the [[germany|german]] parliament wants to stop the military mission in [[Afghanistan]].
*The dispute within the governing coalition has got a few similarities with the dispute within the [[germany|german]] social democratic party SPD about the {{w|Hartz 4}} laws.
*At the beginning of Episode 4, [[M.V]] says that [[Karala Yagiyu]] shouldn't become a new [[wikipedia:Hagbard (Karl Koch)|Karl Koch]].
*The element of the story that the president is asked to dissolve the parliament and announce a new election is an allusion to similar incidents in the Weimar Republic.
*The rumors that there is a spy in the parliament who arranged meetings between politicians and special women to get information were inspired by the {{w|Guillaume Affair}}.
*In the episode ''Fear and Trembling'', a [[Starfleet]] [[admiral]] indirectly compares the [[Memory Alpha]] database to {{w|Project Xanadu}}.
*The plan of the [[Saiyan]]s to create a kind of wall of [[black hole]]s to stop [[the forgotten]], a hostile alien species from attacking some distant outposts mirrors the creation of the [[great wall of China]].

==Background==
*The story was partly inspired by the TV series ''Rome'', the reimagined series of ''Battlestar Galactica'', ''Macross'', ''Legend of the galactic Heroes'', ''Gasaraki'', ''The India-Rubber Men'', ''War and Peace'',''300'',''Naruto'',''The West Wing'',''Record of the Lodoss War'' and the book ''Cyberia''.
*Some aliens are inspired by enemies of the ''Metroid'' series of video games.
*The political position of the [[President of the United Federation of Planets|Federation President]] is similar to the political position of William Goldwin.
*The clothing of some of the guests of [[Markus Will]] is partly inspired by the Japanese Kogal subculture.
*The [[cyberspace]] scenes are inspired by ''Tron'', ''REZ'', ''Digimon: Bokura no Wargame'',''.Hack//Sign'' and ''Ghost in the Shell''.
*The attack of [[Ibo]]s brother by the [[Kzinti]] agents in the tunnel was inspired by the film, ''A Clockwork Orange''.
*{{user|SSJKamui}} got the idea that in the federation, people use tricorders as a tool for cooking organic meals before cooking when he read an article about the ''Manifesto of Futurist Cooking'' by the Italian Futurists.
*The beginning of Episode 3 was inspired by the beginning of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''.
*Some pieces of furniture and architecture are inspired by designs of the [[Germany|German]] {{w|Bauhaus}}.
*The first scene of Episode 2 was inspired by the opening sequence of ''Reservoir Dogs''.
*The martial arts training scene in episode 2 was inspired by a scene from the film ''Enter the Dragon''.
*The beginning of Episode 5 was inspired by ''The Godfather''.
*The element of Episode 5, that [[Hideo Sugishita]] is rescued from the [[Orion Syndicate]] by an undercover policeman, was inspired by the film ''Hard Boiled''.
*The element of Episode 8 that 2 [[Tal Shiar]] members shoot at [[Rene Michael]] and his away team while the away team tries to cross a bridge was inspired by a game of the gameshow ''Takeshis Castle''.
*The Title "Harsh but Vulcanic" is an allusion to the German political talkshow "Hart aber Fair".

==External link==
*{{badlink|http://www.fanfiktion.de/s/46dc3ea800000f8c06b003e8|FanFiktion.de - Das Fanfiction Archiv}} (German)
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