Gateways 5 - VOY - No Man's Land by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-06T10:07:10.201000+00:00

She was seized with a longing to pick him up and cuddle him, bury her face in that long, soft fur. But now wasn't the time. As she left, she wondered how the Doctor and Bubbles would fare. Fish might be fun, but there was nothing like touch to convey affection.

In Chakotay's quarters, the first officer and Tuvok silently went over the data that Tuvok had gathered.

There were fibers, flecks of skin, hairs, all kinds of things that could point to an intruder. But when Chakotay brought this up, Tuvok replied flatly, "You will recall Mr. Neelix's plans for an exchange program."

Chakotay stared at him, knowing what was coming. "Don't tell me."

"The Kuluuk had made some remarkable scientific discoveries despite the handicap of their physically fragile systems. Four days ago, representatives from seventeen other ships were invited to visit their vessel. According to Ensign Cray, once the Kuluuk had overcome their terror, they were generous, open hosts."

Chakotay leaned back in his chair and sighed. "Which means, no doubt, that they let seventeen aliens visit all parts of their ship. Including the bridge, where their captain would later be murdered."

"Precisely." Tuvok arched a brow. "When I objected to Neelix's plan, I had no idea that had I been able to halt it, I could have saved myself so much trouble later on."

"So the fact that we have evidence that seventeen non-Kuluuk life-forms were on that bridge—"

"Means very little."

"There's got to be a list of who was there that day for the exchange," said Chakotay. "If, say, no ludka were ever invited aboard that ship, and we found evidence that an ludka had been on it, that would clinch it."

"You are an idealist, Commander."

"That glass could be half full, Tuvok," Chakotay replied. But as time crawled by, he was beginning to

doubt his own words. There seemed to be nothing that—

"Hold on a minute," he said. He was lying on his bed with the tricorder. "How many Kuluuk did the computer say were on that ship?"

"Two hundred and forty-seven," said Tuvok.

For a moment, Chakotay didn't speak. Curious at the other man's silence, Tuvok turned to regard him. "You swept every part of the ship with the tricorder, right?" asked Chakotay, almost rhetorically.

"Of course."

Chakotay looked up from the tricorder and met Tuvok's gaze. "You found only two hundred and forty-six bodies. Someone's gone missing."

CHAPTER 14

captain's we, supplemental. there is no help for it. While I would have preferred to wait until Lieutenant Commander Tuvok had definitively identified the murderer—or murderers—I can postpone notifying the other vessels no longer. There is a slim chance that if the missing Kuluuk is a hostage aboard one of the other ships, it may still be alive. Though it might jeopardize the mission, I must take that risk.

But I'm not planning on telling them everything. Not yet, anyway. There's still a chance that our killer might be lulled into a false sense of security and give himself away.

She'd notified her own crew first, of course. Everyone was appalled. Janeway

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