Star Trek: Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780743420013
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2000-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

McCoy sat in the center seat, holding onto his temper with both hands. "Kaiev," he said, "I'll tell you again. I have better things to do with my time than go killing your crewpeople. I don't care how they go running all over the planet with their little toy diggers and I don't know what all. If they've vanished, that doesn't surprise me. I told you that strange things were happening down there, but you wouldn't listen to me—oh no. We've had people vanish too, and we don't know where they are."

"How many?" Kaiev demanded. "When?"

"Classified information," McCoy said. "You should know better than to ask. And I don't care if it means taking our statement on trust. You'll just have to deal with it. If you don't believe me, and you want to make something of it, you just go right ahead."

McCoy looked at Sulu and Chekov meaningfully, and threw a glance over at Scotty. He could see that the screens were already up, and Sulu brought up the little firing sight on his console. Kaiev could see all this, and was having a hard time keeping his face still.

"Now son," McCoy said, "I'm an easygoing man, but you have an attitude problem. If you force me to, I'll be glad to adjust it for you, permanently. Make up your mind."

He was very glad Kaiev couldn't see how his hands were sweating.

It was very quiet over on the Klingon bridge. "About what?" Kaiev finally said.

McCoy smiled. "About whether you're going to cooperate with us. We'll send down some extra search parties and help you look for your people. We have this place a lot more completely mapped than you can have just yet; that may be an advantage. Also, we'll do some analysis on their sensor traces and see if we can't find out where they went. We haven't had much luck with finding our own missing yet, but we'll share what we've discovered with you. Spock," McCoy said, looking over his shoulder, "make up a data packet about that odd radiation and see to it that the Science Officer over there gets it, will you? Thanks."

He turned to the screen again and smiled. "Anything else you need, Kaiev?"

The Klingon commander looked at McCoy with an expression that was difficult to decipher completely, but there was a lot of perplexity in it. "Before," he said, "you mentioned that some of your people had been—eaten by trees—"

McCoy raised an eyebrow. "Tell your people to leave their chain saws home, Kaiev," he said. "McCoy out."

Uhura ended the transmission. Spock came down to stand by McCoy, and favored him with a look of mild annoyance. "Doctor," he said, "have you any idea of the weapons ability of a Klingon battle cruiser?"

"Enough to know that he can't take us one to one," McCoy said, "not with our screens up and with our fingers on the button. Which is where we will stay, until this situation has become calmer. It may take a while. Yellow alert until I say otherwise.

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