105 The New Voyages 2 by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath

Author:Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath [Marshak, Sondra & Culbreath, Myrna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science fiction; American, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780553279337
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

by Jane Peyton

It's very hot in here.

Oh. I forgot.

No, I should remember.

I should remember: Your world is hotter. I owe you that, at least.

No?

Perhaps they are all that will: The little things.

I know your weaknesses and your strengths.

They appear to be the same.

Perhaps,

But true, nonetheless.

Not hot enough. Understandable.

Why? You owe me nothing.

Niceties will not change the way things are.

Minutiae. Indeed.

You see aspects of me well.

That is illogical.

You are like the rest, Attempting to tell me that my humanity is my strength. It is not.

Spock, can't you see?

Disgusting.

A term of emotion.

You're annoyed.

Do you know what I think?

You're an experiment.

You are a hybrid: the son of an ambassador.

The Ambassador of all Vulcan was allowed to have a son like you.

Is that not odd?

They hoped you would be like you are: Partially emotional. Guided by logic, but yet susceptible to emotion.

Oh?

To what one factor does your father attribute

See what?

What is there to see that

I do not already perceive? You and your kind credit me with little more intellect than a rotifer. Disgusting.

Naturally.

I am using your language.

I am incapable of being annoyed.

Do you think? I beg your pardon.

I might express the same incredulity over your conception.

Flatly illogical.

his greatest margin of error?

And is that not because he cannot completely comprehend such emotionality?

You are a better model. You can comprehend.

You refuse to see the logic of what I've said.

True enough;

They probably didn't expect you'd be so maladjusted.

Understandable, of course. Simply that margin of error taking its toll.

No?

Haven't you ever wondered why you were allowed to be born? Do you think they didn't

know you'd be part human?

The... emotionality of those with whom he deals.

I will concede as much. So?

No.

There is no logic to see.

I am not maladjusted.

I am not an experiment. It would not be allowed.

Are they? -

Then why were you reared by your Earth mother? Why was she allowed to contaminate you?

My human factors are simply random chance.

Do you think Sarek did not know his own wife?

He knew she'd try to make you human.

They wanted it that way.

You are evading the issue by resorting to labels.

But yet it's never occurred to you why you're part human. Haven't you avoided asking yourself that question?

You don't question fate, eh? This wasn't fate. It was planned.

Construction, Spock. Not destruction. They hoped you would be a more viable specimen.

You are a stubborn man.

I'm sorry we're in this mess.

You are fantasizing.

The mind instinctively categorizes. I evade nothing.

I - do not question what already is.

I concede planning. I do not, however, concede purposeful ego destruction.

Vulcans are extremely viable. I see no logic to your proposal.

Admittedly.

It is equally my fault.

No. 7 fouled the system.

If I hadn't, we wouldn't have beamed down here, wouldn't have got caught in this cave - in, and we wouldn't be wasting our air arguing.

I concede the possibility.

I am sorry you dislike me. Poor company doesn't enhance equally poor situations.

I would've been disappointed if you hadn't noticed.

I've conceded error and personal deficiency to you.

What else do I have to do?

Just making small talk. Sorry if I made you think.

Well.

Back to safe subjects.

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