Star Trek: Titan: Absent Enemies by Miller John Jackson

Author:Miller, John Jackson [Miller, John Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
Published: 2014-02-24T06:00:00+00:00

Eight

* * *

Well, there’s one thing for sure,” Troi said, looking at the bluish glob in the tin bowl. “The food hasn’t improved. This is the same slop they were serving seventeen years ago.”

Modan paused between bites. “The same recipe?”

“No, the same exact batch of stew,” Riker said, smiling wanly. “I recognize the aroma. But I’m glad you like it.” He’d declined to touch the food at all, but the linguist was devouring it hungrily. Seleneans must have stronger constitutions, he thought.

Riker returned to the problem at hand. After the befuddled guards trundled out of the room, he’d reported Tuvok’s disappearance to Titan, still orbiting overhead. Its life-sign sweeps had shown no evidence of the Vulcan anywhere on Garadius IV.

And Tuvok wasn’t the only person Titan’s sensors couldn’t discover. Vale had tried to recalibrate the long-range instruments to pick up any indication of Thot Roje and his movements, but the Breen armor was hiding its wearer’s presence well.

“I still don’t understand those guards,” Modan said, putting her empty bowl down. “Did they really fall for that double-talk?”

“You’re not used to seeing an admiral who’s a flimflam man?” Riker asked, grinning.

Troi laughed. “I hate to tell you, Will, but it wasn’t all you. I sensed that the jailers weren’t at all surprised at the possibility that someone might disappear from the prison here. In fact, I think they almost expect it—and they don’t really care.”

“Then they should let us out,” Modan said.

“That’s not what I meant,” Troi said. “Let’s say the Ekorr have been disappearing—for whatever reason—as Jakoh claims. Eventually, even their prisons empty out. Given their opinions about Ekorr, they wouldn’t care.”

“But we know it’s these devices, smuggled in somehow,” Riker said, picking up the empty canister from the wall. Stroking his beard, he thought for a moment—

—and then remembered something from years earlier. It was a fact that he had completely overlooked in all his reviews of his previous Garadius visit.

Riker put down the canister and clicked his combadge. “Titan, inventory those unusual particles you were finding. See if there are chronitons.”

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