Day of Honor - Treaty's Law by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Author:Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Thirteen

SCOTTY SAT at his console. His hair was mussed and his uniform was covered with dirt, equipment casings, and small metal bits that he hadn't had time to identify. His sleeve was still ripped, even though the wound was healed. In all the confusion, he hadn't had time to change his shirt.

He was Performing several difficult mathematical equations with one hand while monitoring the computer with the other. It bothered him that the alien ships could affect the shields so quickly. They were doing something-something that he hadn't been able to pinpoint.

Several of his staff were working on the shield problem. Others were maintaining the weaponry, and the rest were keeping an eye on the matter-antimatter container, making certain everything was running normally. These aliens were difficult in ways the Klingons were not: At least Scotty knew what to expect from Klingons. He didn't even know what these creatures looked like.

Then Uhura's voice echoed through engineering. "Mr. Scott, I have a communication from the engineer of the Farragut. Will you take it?"

"Aye, lass." He positioned himself in front of his small video screen. It flickered on. Projeff seemed to be sitting in the equivalent location aboard the Farragut. His dark hair was tousled, and his warm eyes had deep shadows beneath him. He looked like a man who'd been working for days with no sleep-and he probably had.

"I got a question for you," Projeff said.

"All right," Scotty said.

"Remember that experiment we were doing on Starbase Eleven?"

"I'm not likely to forget it, lad. We still haven't settled all of the technical issues. But we don't have time to play such games at the moment. "

Projeff ran a hand through his hair. "I'm not interested in games. It's j ust that the alien ships seem to have a knack for destroying the effectiveness of our shields and-"

"Ya noticed that too, have ya? I'm doin' some calculations on it now."

"I was thinking perhaps we could work together on this. "

"Laddie, you and I canna work well together," Scotty said with a grin. "We're only effective in competition with each other."

Projeff grinned. "That's really what I had in mind," he said.

"All right," Scotty said. "Let's hear what you've got. "

"You first, " Projeff said.

Then they both laughed with the pleasure of working with another mind so similar. They were considered the best engineers in the fleet, and were known to work miracles.

They would share, and they both knew it. And together they would come up with something.

"Here's what I have," Scotty said. "Their weapons seem to be doin' something to the shields that we're not protected against. "

"Something new," Projeff said.

Scotty looked at the small screen image with fondness. "You're a young one, laddie," he said. "'Tis something old. "

"Old?" Projeff said.

"Aye. Look into your computer files. We used to have weaponry similar to this. Our new shields were designed with the new technology in mind, not the old technology. "

Projeff grew excited as memory clearly kicked in. "Because the designers figured the shields would be adequate enough to handle older weapons.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.