Dreadnought by Diane Carey

Author:Diane Carey [Carey, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780671618735
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1986-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

The engineering deck was only seconds away. Pompeii was neither as spacious nor as comfortable as Enterprise, which made consolidation of area necessary. Sarda steadied himself perforce and we walked handily into the Intraship Monitoring Section, past a handful of engineers and tecnicians.

"Hi," I greeted when they looked at us. "We're supposed to check on that power failure. Anybody got any ideas? I'd hate to go back above and tell them I didn't even know where to start looking. You know how security chiefs are."

They muttered at each other for a few horrible seconds, then one of them waved a Cogan wrench toward an access stairway and the electronic panel it led to. "Try up there," he suggested with an invisible shrug.

"Thanks. I owe you a brandy."

"Make it Denevan and you've got a deal."

I worried about Sarda as he followed me up the access ladder, but didn't help him for fear of tipping the crewmen off that something was up. When we reached the control panel he leaned on it and closed his eyes briefly, soon straightening to his usual posture. He said nothing about the look I was giving him.

I narrowed my eyes on the panel of colored buttons and switches. "There's a visual access screen over there. Do you know any way to home in on that meeting?"

"I know many reasons why we should not be able to do it, but little about overriding them," he said. "However, I do have an alternative. Open the communicator."

I did what he said, and moved aside while he tampered with the codes and signals in a manner I didn't recognize. All I knew for sure was that those weren't intraship signals. "What are you doing?"

"We should get a response in a few seconds."

"What response? Who were you contacting?"

He had faith in his own arrangements and let them be his answer. Our mutual eye contact was broken as two pillars of shimmering bands of light whistled out of nothing onto our platform. Surprise kept me even from glancing down to the main deck to see if anybody else noticed, but evidently the other engineers had dispersed and weren't around to see the forms materialize.

"Scanner! Merete!"

"Howdy."

"I can't believe it!"

Merete smiled. "After things settled down on Enterprise , we just waited in the transporter room for your signal like Sarda asked us to."

"Sarda

"

A Vulcan non-shrug met me when I turned to him.

"I presupposed we might require help. While it would've been illogical to tell a senior officer of our plans to leave Enterprise, it would also have been illogical to tell no one at all. You might say I was employing an old human tactic."

I shook my head in awe and plowed through my confusion. "Scanner, there's a meeting going on one deck over us on the aft starboard side. Do you know enough about sensors to tune in on them without their knowing it?"

"Sure can give it the old Academy slap shot." He stepped past me and Sarda, pausing to land Sarda a loud, unexpected Tennessee clap on the back and a barroom squeeze around the shoulders.

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