31 Trials and Tribble-Ations by Diane Carey & David Gerrold

Author:Diane Carey & David Gerrold [Carey, Diane & Gerrold, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure
ISBN: 9780671009021
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7

"I MAY BE sick &"

The two time cops stared at Sisko with expressions so much alike that he wasn't sure

which one was about to throw up on his desk. He held his breath for a moment, ready to

dodge away in either direction.

"Tell me about it," Lucsly said then. "My palms are sweating."

Dulmur swallowed hard. "Think of the repercussions & a Klingon from the twenty-third

century realizes that a Federation vessel from the future is potentially within his grasp

&"

"We'd all be speaking Klingonese," the other one said.

"Can you imagine?" Dulmur looked at him. "All those consonants."

"Q'apla," Lucsly parried, then they both shuddered.

"I didn't let Dax go," Sisko told them soothingly. "Koloth never knew we were even

there."

"We'll be the judge of that," Lucsly told him.

"What happened next?" Dulmur asked bluntly.

Beginning to get the idea that he was being interviewed by two guys with the sense of

humor of customs officials, Sisko sighed. "It was one thing to convince Dax to stay out

of history's way. The problem was, history had a funny habit of comingour way."

"Benjamin &look ."

The corridor was quiet now, all hands at stations or at lunch, except for Ben Sisko and

Jadzia Dax, who were still desperately pretending to be doing something while scanning

for a single renegade old Klingon. They hadn't found Darvin yet, but they did find

destiny strolling down upon them as Ben Sisko looked up into the face of legend.

Faces-two.

Down the empty corridor strode two officers, conversing casually and seeming eminently at

home here in these crisp halls.

Sisko turned his back until he could see the two only in his periphery, and tried to look

occupied.

But he was listening as the wall comm whistled and the two officers angled toward it.

"Bridge to Captain Kirk," came a voice with an accent.

The young officer in the patina-green shirt tapped the wall comm. "Kirk here."

His voice was & well, commanding. It gave Sisko a shiver of proximity. He was within

steps of the real thing, one of the first men to expand the Federation's influence in the

settled galaxy. James Kirk was one of the early propellants pushing the envelope of

civilization. He had a reputation for impulse and sideswiping, something Sisko understood

from these past years as commander of an outpost on the deep frontier. History both

cherished and disdained James Kirk-cherished for his unflagging energy and sense of right

and wrong, disdained for his propensity to meddle and his rattlesnake tenacity at taking

things into his own hands. He was a man who would load his dice if he could, and it took

special taste to appreciate that.

But historians were documenters and analysts, not captains. Sisko always considered such

caveats, and read between the lines.

Beside Kirk was the other half of the legend-Commander Spock. Still alive somewhere in

Sisko's time, this Vulcan had been the first of his kind to break the cultural barriers

and join Starfleet. It had cost him his relationship with his father for a couple of

decades, but he stuck to his commitment as an officer.

The voice from the bridge said,"Mr. Barris is waiting on Channel A to speak to you, sir.

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