Bitter Medicine by Dave Galanter

Author:Dave Galanter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Star Trek
ISBN: 9780743496858
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2004-05-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter

4

“Wong, hold us out here at twenty thousand kilometers. Match the Allurian vessel’s drift rate.” Captain Gold studied the ship on the main viewscreen. It was a ramshackle design, he thought, more for function than form. And even function wasn’t that great. The Allurians were often scavengers, and their ships could look like mishmoshed, makeshift afterthoughts.

“Aye, sir. Matching.”

“Shabalala?” Gold turned toward tactical.

“Scanning, sir,” Shabalala reported. “Minimal power output. Reactors are online but engines are at null thrust.”

“Their drift vector suggests inertia from last plotted course,” Wong said.

Shabalala nodded his agreement. “There are no weapons charged, and their shields are down. Deflector is on—probably automatic.”

“Haznedl? Any response to our hails?” Gold stepped down from his command chair and rubbed his left palm against his side to stifle an itch.

“None, sir.”

“Life signs?”

“None, sir.”

A knot was beginning to form on Gold’s neck. They were not finding any helpful information so far, and it made him uneasy. “There were two Allurian ships. Scan the area. See if we can find the second one.” He made his way back to the center seat. “And let’s put out a warning buoy on this one. Just in case.”

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