Star Trek: The Original Series - 006 - The Abode of Life by Corey

Author:Corey [Corey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera
ISBN: 9780671705961
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 1989-12-01T08:00:00+00:00

happened to be," the Mercan replied.

"Suppose you didn't have your traveler-control

unit? Suppose you were

caught as we are now without your traveler control?

How would you talk to

me?" Kirk persisted.

"I would not. I could not," Orun told him

bluntly.

"Ah, but we can. Since we don't have

travelers of the sort you use here on

Mercan-ours are of a different type-we've

developed these communication

units to pennit us to talk to each other instead of

traveling to see one

another when we want to talk. It saves a lot

of time."

"But who are you talking to?"

"To another person like myself in the traveling

device that brought us to

Mercan." Kirk flipped open the

communicator. "Enterprise, this is Kirk.

When is your next pass over the island chain where

we are located, Uhura?"

"One moment, Captain. Let me check with

Lieutenant Sulu .... Approximately

five minutes, Captain."

"Thank you, Uhura. Kirk out." He snapped

the cover shut and replaced it

under his tunic. "Orun, come outside. I want

to show you something."

The diurnal convection clouds that brought rain

to Celerbitan in the early

hours of every morning hadn't yet started to form. The

sky was still

relatively clear outside the warehouse.

Stretched across the sky was the

Orion Arm of the Galaxy, a murky

river of wan light whose individual stars

weren't visible to the naked eye. Kirk watched with

Orun for a moment. Then

he pointed off to the southwest. "There. Do you see

it?"

A bright, gleaming point of light was moving

southwest to northeast across

the sky at an angle of about five degrees to the

equator.

Much as Kirk was in control of himself, a lump

arose in his throat when he

saw that moving point of light. There she was, the

Enterprise. And here he

was on the ground. Unless he could manage to work

things out down here, his

ship was in trouble . . . perhaps even doomed.

Orun had a different reaction to seeing the moving

light in the sky. It was

probably the very first time he had ever seen anything

moving in the night

sky of

Mercan. "It . . . it is hard to believe!"

he whispered as he stood there

watching the Enterprise move across the Mercan

night sky in its standard

orbit. "I . . . I have believed your story,

James Kirk, because it's in

concert with things that I wanted to believe . . .

things that we were

discovering from our own searching into the ways of the

Universe .... But

it's different to actually see something like this and to know

that what we

believe is probably true . . . ."

"Son, I know how you feel." It was

McCoy's gentle voice from behind them.

"Sometimes it's difficult to accept the fact that

dreams and beliefs can

come true. When the world turns out the way you want

it to, it's sometimes

more frightening than if it had stayed the way it was."

"Aye." It was Scotty's voice. "Be

careful what you ask for, because you'll

get it . . . . was In the gloom, Kirk could

see that his engineer was

watching the bright light of the Enterprise pass across

the sky with a

wi/l longing of his own. Star Fleet people are

rarely at home on planets

....

"Will your traveling device come back over?"

Orun wanted to know when the

Enterprise disappeared below the horizon.

"Every two hours," Kirk said, but his

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