Star Trek Deep Space Nine - 38 - Avatar 1 by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743400503
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2001-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

"Tosh is dead, baby," and he'd wept openly, tears running down his tired, tired face.

Nine years ago, but the pain was suddenly as fresh as it had been that very moment, and Dennings slumped against the icy wall of Ae yeldrin and clutched at herself weakly, trying to hold herself against the terrible pain.

Tosh is dead, baby. Tosh is dead....

Ensign Dennings slid to the deck, sobbing, lost to the memory.

After Miles O'Brien had transferred to DS9, he'd kept in intermittent touch with the Enterprise—sometimes to say hello, to catch up with how the crew of the "D" and later the "E" were doing. In the early days he would contact La Forge just as often to complain goodnaturedly about his new job. DS9 had once been the Cardassian 'Terok Nor," a uridium processing sta-

tion—and, as Miles was quick to point out, Federation technology simply didn't function very well when plugged into machines built by Cardassians.

Not without a lot of rewiring, and some very imaginative bypass work. It wasn't that the technology was that much more or less advanced—only a two-point difference on the Weibrand logarithmic developmental scale, at least when the Kamal was built. But the fundamentals were distinct, from the positioning of warp engines to the computer's defense capabilities, and La Forge found himself appreciating O'Brien's troubles, seeing them in a whole new light Even the mission last year to Sentok Nor hadn't prepared him for this. He was having a hell of a time figuring out how to get around hi the freighter's most basic systems. It wasn't helping mat he couldn't seem to get anything to power up properly.

/ should get Data back up here, see if he can make sense of some of these translation disparities... La Forge scooped a .06 laser tip out of his tool case and sparked it, deciding to weld two of the console's EPS processing wafers together, see if he could boost efficiency—and hardly aware that he was doing it, he found himself thinking about how Lean would tackle \heKamal.

She'd be able to get a handle on this, no problem. Together, they'd be able to manage it easily... if it was the Lean he'd known on the holodeck, his own personal version of the engineer....

La Forge felt a sudden flush of shame, remembering how she'd found his private program, his small fantasy of working with the brilliant engineer cruelly exposed. He'd never exploited her image, using the

holographic program as a kind of confidence-builder—-but he had made Dr. Lean Brahms much friendlier than she was comfortable with. He remembered the look on her face when he'd walked into the holosuite, too late to keep the real Lean from seeing the Leah-projection... he remembered the anger and embarrassment in her eyes, remembered thinking that he had caused those feelings, that she probably thought he was some kind of perverted miscreant when all he'd wanted was to be with her, to work side by side with a woman who respected him as much as

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.