Star Trek - TNG by Strike Zone

Author:Strike Zone [Zone, Strike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-07T13:52:47.371000+00:00

Inside, the party was progressing quite smoothly. Kreel and Klingons were still giving each other a healthy distance, but there didn�t seem to be a lot of tension in the room. Guinan, behind the bar, was wearing a hat the size of Canis Major and cheerfully working on keeping everyone�s glass filled. Clearly she was in her element. Geordi who, with Data and Riker and a security man named Tuttle, would be heading down to the planet surface, was in a conversation with Aneel. �Anything I should be on the look-out for, while we�re down there?� Aneel ran through, in his mind, the things that they had discovered down there. Immediately, he thought of the door that had killed Budian. He stared at Geordi and decided he didn�t like anyone whose eyes he couldn�t see. �Nothing of any real concern,� he said. �Don�t point anything at anyone.� �Words to live by,� said Geordi. From across the room, Jaan watched Geordi in deep discussion with Aneel. When Aneel had first brought up the cure, Jaan had toyed with the idea of simply telling the captain and making sure that it was the first thing that the away team looked for when they went down. Aneel had squelched that thought real fast. �We found it purely by dumb luck,� the Kreel had said. �One-in-a-million chance. There�s no guarantee that, unaided, anyone else will find it. Ever. Certainly not before you�re moldering in the grave. Now, if you mention it to anyone, I can assure you that the Kreel will offer no help. In fact, I�ll even deny that it exists. If, of course, you�d like to take your chances, go right ahead. But just how many chances do you think you�ve got left?� It had been an argument that Jaan was unable to counter. So he had kept his silence and had prayed that his actions thus far to save his life would not have serious consequences. But how could they? Everyone seemed to be getting on well enough. Certainly the Kreel now had hidden phasers tucked away in their breeches, but no one needed to know that. Things were progressing smoothly. The odds seemed very much against any weapons having to be drawn. No one had missed the phasers yet, and the last time he had passed Chafin, the security man had been standing there still looking somewhat puzzled over what had gone on before. When he had looked at Jaan, it was with the same kind of semiblank stare one gives when one isn�t sure whether something really happened or if it had just been dreamed. Jaan looked to the other side of the room, and there was Data chatting with the Klingon ambassador�.�.�. now, what was his name again? �Honorable Kobry,� Data was saying, �I�d like to ask you a question if that is all right.� �Certainly, young man.� Data brightened. �You are the first person ever to call me that. Everyone else seems to be able to tell by my coloration that I am an android.

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