Legacies: Book 1: Captain to Captain by Greg Cox

Author:Greg Cox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books

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“No word from the captain yet?”

“Not yet, Doctor,” Sanawey told Sarah on the bridge. “I’m sorry.”

The communications officer was more patient than he needed to be, given that she had already asked him the same question several times now, but she couldn’t help it. Knowing that Robert was on his own on a planet where an entire landing party had already gone missing was torture. She wasn’t sure if she should be relieved or not that no medical emergencies currently required her attention in sickbay. A routine checkup or procedure or two might have helped her take her mind off the very real possibility that she might never see her husband again. But who was she kidding? Work or no work, she was not going to rest easy until Rob was back on the Enterprise where he belonged.

Where we belong.

“How long has it been?” she asked.

“Fifteen minutes and counting.” Lorna Simon occupied the captain’s chair in Robert’s absence. She studied the ship’s chronometer just below the astrogator in front of her. “Forty-five more minutes to go.”

Sarah paced restlessly around the bridge. “We’re not really going to leave him behind, are we? If he doesn’t get back in time?”

“Those are the captain’s orders.” The first officer shifted uncomfortably in her borrowed seat. Her voice was sympathetic but firm. “If we don’t hear from him within the hour, we’re to flee the system at maximum warp and report back to Starfleet Command.”

Sarah watched the minutes and seconds tick down on the chronometer, wishing she had the power to slow or reverse them somehow. But practical time travel was still just a pipe dream as far as Starfleet was concerned. Time only flowed in one direction, sometimes far too quickly.

Hurry back, Rob, she thought. Please.

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