19 Missing in Action by Peter David & Gene Roddenberry

Author:Peter David & Gene Roddenberry [David, Peter & Roddenberry, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure, Star Trek fiction, Space ships, Ship captains
ISBN: 9781416510802
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

The Spectre

In her private quarters, Soleta stared at the bottle of schnapps that Kat Mueller had

given her as a parting gift. It had caught Soleta completely off guard, because she had

been quite certain that Mueller had despised her and the decisions that she had made.

"I did and do," Mueller had informed her. "However, having given a lot of thought to your

predicament, I've decided that you can use this," and she had held up the bottle, "far

more than I can."

Now Soleta placed it carefully upon the top of her desk and then sat down, resting her

chin upon her fingers and staring fixedly at the bottle. She admired the contours of the

bottle, the general curves of its shape. It was strange. For all the time that she served

aboard the Excalibur during the same period as Mueller, she'd never really had all that

much involvement with her. She'd spent some time with her during the entire incident with

the godlike beings who had seduced Soleta into their way of life. But ultimately, she had

no sense of attachment to Mueller, and furthermore, Mueller had grilled her pretty

thoroughly during her recent time as a "guest" on the Trident.

Yet, curiously, the bottle symbolized a bizarre attachment to Mueller that Soleta felt

would be surrendered if she cracked it open.

She had no idea why she would feel any need for an attachment to Mueller, or anyone else

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