Star Trek TNG - 092, 1 A Time to Be Born by John Vornholt

Author:John Vornholt [John Vornholt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743491495
Published: 2014-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Beverly Crusher stood in front of the sickbay doors with her arms crossed, guarding her inner sanctum. “I’m sorry, Jean-Luc, but you can’t see La Forge. He just regained consciousness for a moment. Now he’s sleeping again. His implants aren’t functioning. Geordi is very weak—we nearly lost him. Only the residual oxygen in the shuttle saved him, and his EVA suit kept him from freezing.”

“I know,” said Picard with a troubled sigh. “But we’ve got to have some idea what happened to Data…where to look for him.”

“I don’t think Geordi could tell you that anyway,” she answered, unmoved. “When he was conscious for a few seconds, he asked me where Data was. He’s suffering from shock and maybe partial amnesia. I’d like to find Data as much as anyone, but badgering my patient won’t help.”

“I don’t intend to badger him,” said Picard carefully. However, it was clear that he wasn’t going to be allowed to question La Forge right now, and needling Beverly was indeed futile.

The captain added, “All we know is that they suffered some kind of power failure near the Calypso. It may have been one of the anomalies—we don’t know. We don’t know when or how the Calypso was destroyed, or what became of Data.”

“Try back in an hour,” Crusher suggested. “He may be stronger then.” With that, the doctor ducked inside her sickbay and was gone, leaving the captain standing alone in the corridor.

His combadge chirped. “Picard here.”

“Captain,” said Christine Vale, “Captain Leeden replied to your message. She wants to know how the Calypso was destroyed, and she wants physical proof that it was the Calypso. Samples of the wreckage, for instance, since other ships that have been reported destroyed were found intact later.”

The captain scowled at the request and then said pleasantly, “Please give Captain Leeden the coordinates where we found the Hudson and the remains of the Calypso. Tell her we’d be happy if she collected samples of the wreckage, but our priority is finding Commander Data. When we do, perhaps he can tell us what happened to both shuttlecraft.”

“Aye, sir,” she answered. “Captain Leeden also said the Juno is back to full impulse power. Vale out.”

Leeden was right about one thing, mused Picard: The war still continued in this graveyard of lost ships, where it was hard to put the past behind them. He was beginning to think the Rashanar Battle Site should become a vast funeral pyre. Let it burn to the point where there was nothing left to interest anyone. Nothing left but ashes.

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