Star Trek The Original Series - 36 - Strangers from the Sky by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780671734817
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 1990-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

“You telegraph with your face, didn’t you know that?

I also have a high esper rating. Though not as high as Parneb’s.”

“I’ll keep that in mind!” Kirk grimaced, aware that Sorahl could not help overhearing. He was searching for an opening gambit to talk to the young Vulcan when T’Lera was suddenly among them.

STRANGERS FROM THE SKY She made no entrance, in fact made no sound, but her presence was such as to reduce them to silence and draw their attention to her. An of ficer and a gentleman, Jason Nyere was on his feet at once; the other males, excepting Sorahl, followed suit. Accepting Earth’s antique chivalry with her silence, T’Lera seated herself beside Jim Kirk.

“I am told you are sent to offer us freedom,” she began without preamble, including Dr. Bellero in her careful, damped-down gaze, but primarily addressing Kirk. “I am also told you are not what you earlier purported to be, “Colonel” Kirk. Is my information accurate?”

“Yes, ma’am,” Jim Kirk responded almost humbly, daunted by her proximity for all her containment. “Right on both counts.”

T’Lera disregarded his attempt at lightness.

“If I may be so bold: what are you, Mr.

Kirk?”

“A friend,” Kirk said at once, without meaning to. He’d been running prepared speeches in his head for days. Where was his celebrated glibness when he needed it?

“Apparently our definitions of friendship are somewhat dissimilar,” T’Lera suggested.

Jim Kirk heard Jason chuckle. The captain had broken out the ship’s liquor supply; Kirk accepted a scotch on the rocks with silent gratitude.

“Perhaps it was a poor choice of words,” he told T’Lera. “Or a less-than-precise choice.”

Damn! he thought. He’d learned nothing since his encounter with Spock on the bridge, was left falling over his tongue in an attempt to clarify himself.

“Perhaps what I mean is that what I am is less important than what I am attempting to do.”

“Forgive me, Mr. Kirk,” T’Lera said dryly. “But the limits of my perspective render me unable to separate motivation from motivator.”

STRANGERS FROM THE SKY A sharp, humorless laugh announced Melody Sawyer’s arrival.

“Save your breath, Kirk! She can’t accept your help; you’re only human!” She plunked herself down next to Dehner, as far away from the Vulcans as she could be while still at the same table.

“Thought it might be refreshing to eat with human beings again,” she announced, helping herself from the serving platters.

The Vulcans had the good grace to say nothing.

Yoshi and Tatya looked embarrassed, and Jason Nyere looked as if he was about to chew Sawyer’s ears off.

“Does their presence threaten you, Commander?” Dehner asked ingenuously.

“It does backslash backslash not!”

Melody snorted.

“Then why do you act out in such a hostile manner whenever they’re in proximity?”

“Listen, honey.” Melody pointed a fork at her. “You may be impressed with your own credentials, but I’ve got nearly twenty years on you and I don’t impress. You can look in my file; you’ll find I don’t suffer from paranoid delusions or feelings of persecution his “Just bad manners!” Jason rumbled.

“I have the perspicacity to recognise a threat when I see one, sub!” Melody barked back.

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