Star Trek: The Next Generation - 107 - The Sky’s the Limit by Marco Palmieri & Gene Roddenberry

Author:Marco Palmieri & Gene Roddenberry [Palmieri, Marco & Roddenberry, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure, Star Trek Fiction, Science Fiction; American, Short Stories
ISBN: 9780743492553
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2007-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

In the evening, Mika went to the porch and adjusted the gain on the telescope rig as it turned gently on automatic servos, plotting the star positions and correlating them with the data matrix in the house’s computer. The information would be collated and processed by the settlement’s central database for the farmers, allowing them to manage the growing season with even finer control than in previous years.

She suddenly halted, her hand on the body of the device. Was there any point to doing this now? If they were going to be forced to leave Dorvan V, it mattered nothing how many readings she took and figures she gathered. Her hand slipped to the manual control pad and she shifted the telescope around. The autosensor quickly found the ship in high orbit and displayed the image of it on a monitor. Mika made out a bright white oval and a cluster of tubes and smooth forms beneath it, gleaming dully like carved animal bone.

“Never thought I’d see that again.” Wesley’s voice issued out of the darkness, startling her. He stepped out of the house to her side. “Come in. It’s cold out here.” Her husband reached toward the power switch for the monitor.

“It won’t go away that easily,” she said quietly. “Everyone is afraid, Wes. And they look to me because—”

“Because of your husband?” He sighed. “Go ahead and tell them there’s nothing I can do to make this unhappen. I’m not Starfleet and I never was.”

Mika embraced him. “But you wanted to be. Once.”

“No.” He shook his head.

“Don’t lie to me,” she replied firmly. “You know you can’t. You can’t hide anything from me, Wesley Crusher.”

He smiled ruefully. “That’s right. That’s why I love you so much.” The smile faded almost as soon as it had formed. “It was all so far away from me. I wanted it like that. And now…now it’s all come back, it’s found me again. That ship…that life…”

“Your mother?”

A slow nod. “Yes.”

Gently, Mika tilted his face down to meet hers. “Tell me,” she said. “Tell me why it hurts you so much.”

And so he did.

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