Star Trek Section 31 - 03 - Cloak by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743423328
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-06-15T07:00:00+00:00

Kirk woke up early and contacted Darres about letting Spock use a personal transport. Darres agreed, and Kirk invited him to the Enterprise for lunch, telling him that he wanted to talk more extensively about Jack Casden. He didn’t explain why; considering Darres’s feelings about Casden, Kirk thought a face-to-face would be better.

He and Spock went over the results of the computer search, which had turned up very little; there was nothing on Jain but an educational history, and nothing further on Kettaract or Casden. When Spock explained the reference to John Hermes—there was no file for anyone by that name currently living in Federation space—Kirk remembered that Jain had said something like “Tom, not John” to Kettaract the night before. Spock ran the name Tom Hermes, but again, they came up empty.

Spock beamed over to the station, and had departed for Starbase 23 by 0900. Kirk saw him off the ship, and though he thought his friend’s trip was a good idea—logical—he had to wonder if the Romulan commander would agree to see him. Obviously, Spock wouldn’t deign to discuss it, but Kirk wasn’t blind; the commander had been interested in Spock personally, and they had spent a good period of time alone together . . . although the thought of Mr. Spock being anything less than purely professional with a Federation enemy, even an attractive one, was pretty hard to swallow. Still, Hell hath no fury, as the saying went, and unless he’d misread the commander’s signals toward his first officer, he thought Spock might end up getting the door slammed in his face.

With only a minimum of ship’s affairs to see to, Kirk found himself looking for ways to kill time before meeting with Darres. Bones was still busy with the crew physicals, obviously caught up in one of his workaholic phases, and although about fifty crew members were attending the third day of the summit, give or take, Kirk decided that he didn’t feel like returning to M-20; he went to the ship’s gym instead and spent an hour at the punching bag and weights, his thoughts full of Jain.

All they knew for certain about Kettaract was that he was angry, political, and that he knew about the cloaking device—but if it turned out to be more than that, if they discovered that Kettaract’s knowledge of the cloak was somehow connected to what happened to the Sphinx, then there was a possibility that Jain might know something. After their incredible day together, he couldn’t believe that she would involve herself in anything immoral or unethical—she was too bright, too straightforward—but he kept returning to the conversation they’d had, in the observation lounge. What she’d said, about compromising one’s beliefs in order to hold on to them . . . maybe she’d found out something about Kettaract, something she felt she couldn’t reveal. It would explain her strange statement—and it would mean that she hadn’t actually participated in anything untoward, which was what he wanted more than anything to believe.

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