TOS - Shatner 4 - Spectre by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: \Star Trek
Published: 2011-01-02T07:59:09.376000+00:00

"Is it beyond the Alliance's ability?" Kirk asked.

"I do not have that information. I believe Captain Scott is correct when he states that if the Alliance could construct a stable, artificial wormhole, they would have no need of your

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technology. However, I find it interesting that no one has commented on what is clearly an anomalous situation in your own universe."

"And that would be... ?" Kirk prompted.

"The chain of command in your Starfleet is extremely informal. The sharing of ideas and strategies between the ranks seems... almost mandatory."

"Welcome to the twenty-fourth century," Kirk said. "Therefore," the mirror Spock continued, "I am at a loss to understand why it is that Admiral Nechayev will not at least admit the possibility that Captain Scott has raised legitimate concerns."

"I'm not," Scott said. "She's a strong-willed lass--of-ricer--used to getting her own way. And she's a fleet admiral, so she must be doing something right."

But Kirk wasn't so quick to dismiss the mirror Spock's assessment. He was too like Spock for Kirk to take anything he said lightly.

But before he could ask the intendant for more details of his insight, Kirk heard footsteps behind him.

He turned to see Spock and Janeway approaching. Janeway moved slowly, as if recovering from some overwhelming physical exertion. And Kirk knew Spock well enough to detect the same, almost stunned hesitancy hidden beneath his placid exterior.

Spock wasted no time. "Your conclusions were correct, Captain. Kathryn Janeway is not connected to the arrival of the mirror Voyager nor to the disappearance of the Enterprise. There is no room for deception within her."

Janeway caught Kirk looking at her, then glanced down as if she had been caught in an embarrassing position. Kirk wondered what secrets she had revealed in response to Spock's probing.

McCoy had no fear of being blunt. "What about the other two, Spock? Any chance they've been lying to her?"

"I detected no pattern of falsehood. Janeway has melded with my counterpart in the past." Then Spock looked over to T'Val, as if seeing her for the first time. Kirk watched T'Val draw herself up in defiance, as if for a moment she had abandoned a lifetime of Vulcan training and conditioning. "And," Spock continued, "through that link, I am also aware that my counterpart has melded with T'Val... his daughter with the counterpart of Saavik." Now everyone looked at T'Val, and suddenly Kirk understood the hundred small gestures of caring and protection T'Val had offered the mirror Spock. Not just as someone respecting her superior officer, but as a daughter caring for her sick father. And Kirk also understood the unsettled emotions he had sensed in his friend. The path not taken. Genetically, T'Val could be Spock's daughter as well. Certainly, Spock and Saavik in this universe had been close enough that a second T'Val had not been an unlikelihood. And through Spock's meld with Janeway, Kirk was certain his friend knew very well what his mirror daughter had become in that other reality. And more, he would know, or be cursed with wondering, what she might have become in this reality.

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