Star Trek: The Original Series - 129 - Constellations by Marco Palmieri;Gene Roddenberry

Author:Marco Palmieri;Gene Roddenberry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Space Ships, Star Trek Fiction, Space Opera, Interplanetary Voyages, General, Starship Enterprise (Imaginary Vehicle), Science Fiction, American, Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743492546
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2006-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

If frustration were corporeal, D’kar would have gutted it by now and made its skin into a sheath for his knife. Tracking Kirk to the small moon had been a child’s task, but now he found the Earther in the bosom of his own kind. What kind of defenses did this colony have? Were they part of Kirk’s clan? Would they die for him? If so, D’kar could be killed and his prey would escape. It soon would not matter that he was able to jam Kirk’s message to his ship, as they would come looking for him and they would track his shuttle just as D’kar had. It infuriated him that what little time he did have left needed to be wasted with watching and waiting and forming yet another plan that would put Kirk within his grasp.

They were crafty. One of the Starfleeters was always using their scanner. What they didn’t know was that D’kar had been a little more prepared than they, and he’d left passive reception cones scattered around their camp’s perimeter. His hand scanner could now tell him the pattern of their scans, and it was-no matter who held their tricorder-sickeningly predictable. Did all of Starfleet learn the same grid pattern?

It was when the red-shirted one was scanning that things were most unsurprising, so that was when D’kar decided to venture closest to Kirk. He could hear him and see him with proper passive scanning and distance, and didn’t dare actively scan for fear of being revealed.

If this were an assassination, D’kar could have his prey by now. A single phaser shot, or even a primitive projectile blast, and Kirk could be dead. He could smell the Earther from where he hid. He could smell them all, and the foul stench that was Terran blood.

But he’d rather give Kirk to his father as a prize. That was what D’kar had planned for so long, had fantasized about, and fallen to slumber with the thought of in his mind, and awakened with the same. It wasn’t about self-aggrandizement, he told himself, but about his father’s disgrace at Organia. All of Qo’noS spoke of the treaty, and few outwardly blamed Kor for the disaster, but unspoken censure laced every greeting. And to D’kar it was no surprise that his first assignment to the finest cruiser in the fleet had fallen away. He would not let his life fall into a pit because of the dishonor brought on his house because of Kirk. And so long as no one knew it was D’kar who brought the Earther to justice, and in fact believed it was Kor, honor would be restored.

It was supposed to have been done by now, D’kar lamented. This Kirk was a trickster, certainly. But ultimately weak. There are no Organians to save him this time. Now the odds are more even.

Kirk sat in a chair, using a tree stump as a workbench. He fiddled endlessly with several pieces of almost-random technology. There were only a

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