Star Trek: The Original Series - 086 - First Frontier by Diane Carey & James C. Kirkland & James I. Kirkland

Author:Diane Carey & James C. Kirkland & James I. Kirkland [Carey, Diane & Kirkland, James C. & Kirkland, James I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Media Tie-In, Space Opera
ISBN: 9780671520458
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 1995-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

"I've taken care of it." McCoy glowered.

"Did you have a talk with him?"

"I listened."

"You didn't say anything?"

"I told him to report for duty."

"Jim, that boy's in shock. Can't you see it in

his face?"

"It takes a good man," Kirk rebuffed,

"to think he's wicked because of a fumble. Nothing I've

got to say will fix him. That pain of having altered

another life... There's no bandage for it. It's a

power everyone craves but damned few appreciate

for the danger it is. He's got to learn some time if

lie wants to be in Starfleet."

"He says he doesn't."

""He's lying."

"Jim--" :: "That's enough. We're almost there."

At the center of the time displaceement, the

site was .

mpletely undisturbed, peaceful as a church.

They may as well have been here yesterday, as

familiar as it seemed. The sky was gunmetal

gray and flat as concrete. This system's sun

didn't really want to have much to do with this place.

Spock and a Security guard took Kirk by the

arms and hoisted him down from the rocks onto a slab

of ground. He came down hard on the heel of his

bad leg, pain jarring into his hip. Before he could

breathe again he was ready to swear he'd landed on his

ear. McCoy started past him toward the slice of

rock sitting up on its edge, with the horizon of this

planet showing passively through the middle.

"Bonesu" Abruptly Kirk reached out, caught the

doctor by his upper arm, and yanked him back.

"Don't get too close."

"Place gives me the shivers," McCoy

admitted. "I don't blame you." Pushing

McCoy behind him, he threw a collective glance

to the rest of the team. "Sensors." Around him, the landing

party brought up'the tricorders or phasers

respectively and scanned the area. There were seven

of them: Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Bannon,

two Security guards, and a

twenty-three-year-old Tibetan girl who'd

begged for a chance as science assistant. Spock,

Bannon, and the girl scanned the area

electronically while the guards did a cursory

walk around. "No life forms," Spock said, "no

energy output other than the main structure... No

signs of disturbance."

"Acknowledged," Kirk allowed. "Carry on."

He stared up at the huge donut of rock. It

wasn't glowing or showing any sign of the energy he

knew was there. Yet it raised the hairs on the

back of his neck. A few feet away, a

communicator chirped. "Spock to Enterprise. The

site is secure. Beam down the second landing

party now." Into Kirk's resting mind came the buzz

of scrambled energy, the whistle of mechanical effort

as a billion molecules were forced through space and

reassembled over a matter of seconds. Before him

on the chalk-dry ground stood two more Security

guards and the two Klingon prisoners, each

manacled at the wrists, both wearing sickbay

shirts and their own trousers. Faces rough as

watchdogs', Roth and Zalt glanced around at the

forbidding landscape, both probably suspicious that

the plan was to abandon them here. Not a bad

idea. "All right," Kirk segued, limping toward

the big geode. He started toward it. "Let's

see what we've got going for us." Before him, the

two-foot-thick cimular frame of what appeared

to be solid stone stood in elegant and utterly

silent repose. "Guardian," he began. "Do you

hear me?" The rim of rock accommodated him

by lighting up internally, coming alive in response as

if excited to have somebody to talk to.

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