Star Trek: In the Name of Honor by Dayton Ward

Author:Dayton Ward
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Star Trek, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743412254
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2002-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

The hollow feeling gnawing at the pit of his stomach was one Garrovick had felt on those unwelcome occasions where he had faced the death of a subordinate. It was a pain that never diminished, no matter how many times he confronted it. While he was serving as an ensign aboard the Enterprise, many years earlier, Captain Kirk had told him that such pain should never be forgotten. Instead, it should be redirected, focused, channeled into energy that could be used to make the decisions necessary to protect those who remained.

“Take care of your people,” Kirk had told him. “No matter the cost.”

The words haunted Garrovick as he looked down on the unmoving body of Robert Kawaguchi.

An alarm shrieked in the echoing confines of the cavern. Garrovick knew it meant that reinforcements were already on the way down into the mining cavern. They would be armed this time, having traded their stun batons for disrupters. The Klingons would be anxious to even the score against any rebelling prisoners who had killed their comrades. Tensions would be high, and his priority now was to make sure that neither he nor any of his remaining people fell victim to an overzealous Klingon guard caught up in the excitement.

All around him, prisoners scurried about like animals running from a forest fire as they searched for cover. Except for those who had fallen victim to the laser drill, Garrovick could see no other Klingon guards. What he did see was two other prisoners stooping over the bodies of Klingon guards. As they each bent to retrieve a guard’s fallen stun baton, he recognized that they too were Romu-Ian . It confirmed his suspicion that the attack with the laser drill was not a random act of opportunity. It was a coordinated effort. What were they planning? Escape? The very notion was ludicrous.

Indeed, mining tunnels stretched for kilometers in every direction from the prison compound like a giant web. As the years passed and mining increased, cross connecting tunnels and air shafts had formed an intricate network that could now only be navigated with the use of a portable positioning scanner carried by each guard. Stories and rumors had circulated over the years of prisoners who had escaped their work details and fled into the depths of the mine, never to be seen alive again. Skeletal remains clothed in a deteriorated prison uniform would sometimes be found as work crews were sent from tunnel to tunnel, serving to keep the tales of failed escape attempts thriving.

Looking around the mining cavern, Garrovick saw where Elliot and Ra Mhvlovi had found concealment behind one of the collection carts. Elliot waved to him, the look on her face telling him to quit standing in the open like an idiot and find some cover.

Good idea.

The two Romulans were moving with deliberate purpose toward Trel, striking out at anyone who got in their way. Judging by the results of their attacks, Garrovick guessed that the batons they wielded had been set to near lethal levels.

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