Star Trek: The Original Series - 122 - The Case of the Colonist's Corpse by Tony Isabella;Bob Ingersoll

Author:Tony Isabella;Bob Ingersoll
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Space Opera, Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743464987
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2002-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Per the orders she’d received from Starfleet and the strongest possible recommendation from the United Federation of Planets, Areel Shaw had turned over the contents of her file to Samuel Cogley. She didn’t simply go over the file with Cogley, she gave him a physical copy of what was in it. Everything he was entitled to under the rules of discovery: the results of Louis Alexander’s investigation and anything that might be deemed exculpatory.

Alexander’s investigation consisted of video recordings he had taken with his tricorder. There was a video of Daniel Latham’s office that night with the strewn papers and upended furniture, as well as the dead body of Daniel Latham and the unconscious form of Mak’Tor next to Latham, the murder weapon by Mak’Tor’s right hand. There were copies of the scans Alexander had run proving the phaser next to Mak’Tor was the murder weapon. Another video showed what Alexander found in Latham’s study at home, after he and Galdamiz had spoken with Helen Latham and gotten her permission to look at the study for possible clues.

The centerpiece of the investigatory file was the video depositions and interviews. Although both Khogo and Mak’Tor refused to speak with Alexander because “it is not what Klingons do,” he did interview Grigoriy Nemov, Homero Galdamiz, and Chiaki Iino. In three separate interviews, each man described, in turn, how and why they went to Daniel Latham’s office on Landing Day and what they found there. At the end of the interviews, at Alexander’s request, all four went to Latham’s office. There Alexander asked Iino—because he was the “best actor” in the group—to re-create what they saw when they entered. Iino showed them where they stood and what they could see. Then, with Alexander standing where the three members of Serenity’s senior staff had stood, Iino duplicated Mak’Tor’s movements, when they found him kneeling over Latham’s body. Iino showed Alexander how the Klingon was kneeling beside Latham’s body and turned his head to look at the three men when they entered. Iino recreated Mak’Tor’s efforts to stand and attack them, even after he had been shot with three phasers.

The interviews ended with Nemov’s curt Da, and Galdamiz’s enthusiastic “Pretty much dead on,” when Alexander asked them if Iino’s re-creation matched their memories of what they saw that night.

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