Star Trek The Next Generation - 35 - Descent by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743420754
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Will Riker felt the aloneness on the planet’s surface the same way he felt cold in winter. All over, to all horizons. Just cold.

Worf stood behind him but wasn’t saying anything. Riker hit his comm badge. “Riker to any team

leader.”

“Lieutenant Powell here, sir,” a stiff professional voice replied.

“Round up everyone who was left behind. Take cover and try to avoid any encounter with the Borg.”

“Aye, sir.”

Somehow Riker had expected more, but he didn’t know why. There wasn’t really anything to say.

“Riker out,” he said.

There was only one choice of direction. Head to where Picard was last heard from. If he wasn’t there, resume the search for Data.

What were his priorities now? To find the captain or to continue the search for Data? That was their primary purpose, to avoid the danger of handing over Data’s voluminous memory banks to a hostile power.

He knew what the captain would say.

Still, he had a feeling that to find one would be to find the other.

And he knew the Borg had offhandedly killed thousands of human beings. This might turn out to be a search for the captain’s body.

A grim curtain lowered over his mood. He had to blink to keep his vision from clouding with memories of past horrors, to keep a forward-looking lens on his concentration.

This had happened before: the captain had been kidnapped by Borg. Riker couldn’t beat that memory down. He tried to tell himself that this was a new situation, with new Borg. He clung to the chance that these new, hideously emotional Borg were different and therefore made the situation different, but memories had him by the throat.

Not just memories but experiences as well. The last time this happened, he’d ended up having to face down Jean-Luc Picard. A twisted, bastardized version, but still the captain.

I don’t want to fight him again. This time I’ll have to kill him.

Beating down a shudder, he turned to Worf and forced himself to speak, to give himself something to hear besides his own thoughts.

“Even if Beverly gets back to Federation space, it’ll be days before Starfleet can get any ships out here. Until then we’re on our own.”

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