Star Trek: The Original Series - 074 - From the Depths by Victor Milán

Author:Victor Milán [Milán, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Media Tie-In, Space Opera, Interplanetary Voyages, Space Ships
ISBN: 9780671869113
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 1993-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

angles, not as an adjunct to enumeration." , "You

should learn to listen to what I mean, man, not what I

say."

"Your request is illogical, Doctor. I

can hear only that which you actually deign

to vocalize."

Kirk listened to their banter with half an ear.

Usually he took an active interest in

their fencing matches, even after five years of listening

to them; they were inventive, if nothing else, each one

always finding something new to tweak the other with. More to his

sui-prise, he was paying little attention to their

surroundings, although the thrill of encounterin an

alien civilization close up for the first time was

usually his intoxicant of choice.

Instead he kept watching Wayne and the Klingon

captain walking side by side, close together, and

speaking very earnestly.

Except for Spock the Federation

representatives were all staggering visibly when they

reached the innermost circle, a broad green lawn

around the sprawling pentagonal building that housed the

seat of Susuru government. There was no pavement.

The Susuru Lead Walker and his entourage emerged

from the grand five'-sided portal and went down a

short flight of steps directly onto the grass.

"Delay is unacceptable!" shrilled Swift as the

offworlders approached. "The humans must leave our

planet or face extermination!"

"I have tried to impress the urgency of that fact

upon the captain," Wayne said. "So far I have

failed."

"Lead Walker," Kirk said, "just how

well do you know your enemies, the Discordians?"

Swift snapped his fingers, an apparent sound of

annoyance. "Well enough. They are intruders and

ravagers." He glanced at Kain, who stood with

Wayne by his side. "What more do we need

to knowThat'

"Perhaps if both sides understood each other

better, you'd feel less like booting them offyour

world," McCoy said. The Lead Walker eyed him

narrowly, with his ears angled down and out. Then he

looked at Kirk. "You permit voices to speak from

the herd? Anarchy, anarchy.

"The doctor is one of our own ruling Five,"

Kirk said. "And I can only echo his sentiment.

Why don at t you sit down with the Discordians and

talk? You

might not find them that unpleasant a set of

neighbors." Swift stamped his right foot. His

Vanguard Walkers set up an ear-piercing

ululation.

"No! They are not our neighbors! They plunder,

they kill-was 16 Perhaps if you were to show us some of the

damage they have done to your dwellings," Spock said,

"it might help us to frame a more perfect understanding

of the situation." Swift went up on his

toes leaned back as if to flee, and looked at

Kain in something like panic. The captain only

smiled back encouragingly-if a Klingon's smile

could be said to be encouraging.

"It cannot be," Swift said slowly, lowering his

weight again. "Security concerns forbid."

- He dropped his muzzle to give Kirk a

glance of sly appraisal. "They are your fellow

humans, after all. How do we know you won't

report to them what we show you."

Kirk felt his cheeks get hotter than the sun

was already making them. "I am not human," Mr.

Spock said. "I can assure you of my complete

impartiality."

"You all look alike to me," Swift said

suspiciously. "As Commissioner Wayne said at

our first meeting, we have come to help you," Kirk said,

back in control of his temper. "But surely it will be

easier for us to help you if you'll meet us

halfway.

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