Star Trek - TOS - 02 by The Entropy Effect

Author:The Entropy Effect [Effect, The Entropy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-07T14:09:25.852000+00:00

Ian Braithewaite suspected instantly what was happening when the power went out: the same thing had happened on Aleph Prime when Dr. Mordreaux began playing around with his time-travel device. That was what had first alerted Braithewaite to the peculiar activities, and what had drawn him into this horrible complicated matter of conspiracy, treachery, terror, and murder. He cursed himself for underestimating Spock and Mordreaux; he cursed himself particularly for being too timid to run the investigation aggressively. He should have called in civilian police from Aleph long before now; he should have called in Starfleet as well. But he had been trying desperately to keep the time-travel capability as secret as possible, as he had been ordered; there was no point in suppressing the work if it were publicized all over the Federation. Emergency generators brought the ship back slowly to an eerie half-light. Ian flung himself out of his cabin and pounded down the corridor toward Mordreaux�s cabin, fearing that the device had been used to take the professor out of even the absurd semblance of custody he had been in on the Enterprise. He wondered how long it would take before the ship was diverted from its course toward Rehab Seven�an suddenly realized that he had no way of knowing it already had not, except that surely Mr. Scott would know and tell him. And how long will it be before we�re all told our fate? he wondered. To be sold to the Klingons, or to the Romulans, as hostages, and the starship peddled to the enemy; or were the plans for starship and crew more direct, more private? Ian Braithewaite knew that if he ever had such a creation as the Enterprise in his own hands, he would not let it go for any amount of treasure. At the junction of two corridors, he stopped. What point to going to Mordreaux�s cabin? He would not be there: Spock had just freed him! But the science officer would have had to use the transporter in tandem with the changer. Ian might be able to catch him, at least. If he hurried. He changed direction, and ran.

Still dazzled by the sudden flash of the transporter/ changer, McCoy blinked. In the darkness, he wondered if this was what it was like never to have existed at all. �Mr. Spock?� He received no answer. He gradually became aware of the self-luminous dials on the transporter, casting a strange silver glow over his hands. He drew away, into the shadows, and stood quietly waiting for something, anything, to happen. The darkness crept away in the dim illumination of emergency power. He waited: but nothing changed. McCoy began to hear the shouts of consternation from nearby crew members: it was always traumatic, on the rare occasions when the power failed in a starship. Everyone was frightened. McCoy did not blame them. He was frightened, too, and he knew what was going on. McCoy glanced at the transporter platform, but decided it would be better to return in an hour than to wait for Spock here.

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