Star Trek: Corp of Engineers - 016 - Oaths by Glenn Hauman

Author:Glenn Hauman [Hauman, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, High Tech
ISBN: 9780743456715
Google: RYqtyO7J4IoC
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

A firefighter performs only one act of bravery in his life,

and that's when he takes the oath.

Everything he does after that is merely in the line of duty.

In Memoriam-September 11, 2001

Lense knew the date, and realized what she had to be holding.

She reverently placed the box down on Corsi's unmade bed, then turned and left to go back to sickbay.

Captain's Personal Log, Stardate 53665.1.

Things are not going well here. The number of advanced cases on the planet has cracked two thousand. The death toll is a hundred and thirteen. Dr. Lense is getting more and more frustrated and tense. I went to visit her in the sickbay, and I saw her sitting at her desk working, while Emmett was running around from table to table, with numerous test tubes in his hands.

She's getting heavily stressed.

I realize this is a crucible issue for Dr. Lense-she's being placed in yet another life-or-death situation, where she is the last, best hope to save the lives of thousands upon thousands of people. Again. She had to do it during the war and failed-or rather, she didn't live up to her and everybody else's superhuman expectations-and now she's in a situation where the number of potential corpses could increase by three orders of magnitude from the last time.

And I don't have any way to take any of the burden off of her. Deep Space Station K-7 is the closest help, and it's a week away. She's on her own.

I wonder what I'm actually going to put in the official log about all this.

Chapter 5

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.