Star Trek: Corp of Engineers - 067 - Turn the Page by Dayton Ward;Kevin Dilmore

Author:Dayton Ward;Kevin Dilmore
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Space Opera, Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9781416543244
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
Published: 2006-12-28T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

7

Genetically predisposed to the arid climate of Drema IV, Sarjenka typically was not prone to perspiration. Still, she had found that when focusing her attention on a task or a problem, particularly when facing a rigid deadline, her increased anxiety would manifest in a fashion that one of her Starfleet Academy classmates rather blithely called a “flop sweat,” which never failed to soak through her clothing.

She was sweating like that now.

“Any solution to finding and dealing with the reformants will lie as much with the technology as with their biology,” Dr. Lense had said upon hearing the latest status reports offered by Soloman in his effort to understand the mysterious Jannim’s sophisticated strategy, as well as to locate the renegade Morhenza she had loosed upon targets across Betrisius III. “We should concentrate our investigation on the point where those two things overlap.”

That was exactly what Sarjenka had been doing for the past several hours in response to the assignment meted out by Captain Gold: Find a way to communicate with the currently unmanaged reformant community, and to stop the more than three hundred Morhenza now wreaking havoc across the Lisqual nation. Soloman and Bart Faulwell were both engrossed in the first aspect of that joint task, but with Lense and the EMH still working to treat Banks, it fell to the young Dreman doctor to carry out the latter job.

“It is getting worse.”

Looking up from the computer workstation, Sarjenka turned to where Dr. Luluma currently sat at another terminal in the da Vinci sickbay’s main research lab. “I beg your pardon?”

Luluma pointed to her computer monitor. “Incidents of unrest have increased by fifteen percent since the last report,” she said. “Every reformant has abandoned their designated work assignment and is simply standing in the middle of public thorough-fares, as well as blocking entry and exit from government buildings all across the country.”

Stepping across the lab until she could see her companion’s workstation, Sarjenka said, “Reports of attacks on government targets are increasing, as well.” She allowed her eyes to take in the scrolling columns of text comprising the status report. While she was relieved to see that no deaths had been reported, and actual injuries were isolated and few, the truth was that Jannim’s final act of insurrection—which appeared geared toward nothing less than full-scale disgrace and deposing of government at all levels across the country—was having a devastating effect.

Coordinated assaults on government facilities and other public property, as well as the resulting damage, were escalating. Fire bombings and other methods of demolition appeared to be the favored tactics, owing to the effectiveness of the Morhenza’s military training and their apparent ability to mobilize other members of the reformant community to assist them in carrying out their assaults. Though the da Vinci lacked sufficient personnel to make any sort of meaningful contribution on the ground, Captain Gold and the ship’s senior staff were working with planetary leaders to coordinate responses to the unrest, to say nothing of trying to discourage

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