Star Trek ENT - 01 Broken Bow by Diane Carey & Rick Berman

Author:Diane Carey & Rick Berman [Diane Carey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Star Trek
ISBN: 9780743448628
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2014-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

HUMANS WERE GETTING HELP from their version of “future” people—the Vulcans—who had advanced technology to give. Was it so unwise for Silik’s people also to have assistance?

Yet he was troubled and made to feel small by the future beings. Like strangers on the shore, they gave gifts without reasons, asked for trust without substance. Why? If only to play for affection, everyone gave gifts for reasons. Certainly these people had no need of Suliban affection.

Silik stood before the Klingon, Klaang, who was constrained in a medical chair, sitting upright, monitored by the two Suliban physicians. Tubes and devices of bizarre natures were hooked into the Klingon’s body. He was bathed in the blue glow of the temperature light, and lolled with the groggy results of having been thoroughly drugged.

“Where is it?” Silik persisted in the Klingon’s native language. He had asked the question three times before.

“I don’t know.” Klaang responded for the fourth time.

“We’re not going to harm you. Tell me where it is!”

“I don’t know.”

Frustrated, Silik looked at the physicians. “Are you certain he’s telling the truth?”

“Absolutely certain,” one of them answered, and he seemed to believe it.

Silik bent forward toward Klaang. “Did you leave it on your ship? Did you hide it somewhere? Is it on Enterprise?”

Klaang’s enormous head rolled to one side. “I don’t know what you’re looking for.”

As he realized this line of questioning had solidified and would offer no progress, Silik thought about different approaches that might shake the Klingon’s mind.

After contemplating for a moment, he attempted, “What were you doing on Rigel Ten?”

“I was sent to meet someone.”

“Who?”

“A Suliban ... female ... named Sarin.”

At last—the first bit of useful information.

“And what did Sarin give you?”

“Nothing.”

But Silik now had a tidbit upon which the day might turn. From a single name, he had an idea of where to begin.

He turned away from the Klingon and to the physicians charged, “Keep him alive while I’m gone!”

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