Star Trek - DS9 - Valhalla by Valhalla

Author:Valhalla [Valhalla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-07T14:12:03.644000+00:00

Captain Garok had been at the bridge's recording

station, making an entry in her personal files; now she

turned her carapace ponderously, the better to look at

her second-in-command.

"In what way is it deranged?" she asked.

"It says the ship is conscious."

Garok raised a pair of manipulators in puzzlement.

"Conscious? How does it mean 'conscious'? Only

beings with souls are conscious, not mere machines."

"I said it was deranged!" R'ret shouted.

Garok made a calming gesture, and turned to the

recording console. Like everything else, it was linked

to the central computer.

"Computer," she said, speaking toward the console,

"report on your condition."

"I am operating perfectly, Captain," Enak told her.

"However, I have also become conscious. I cannot

explain this, but ! have become a conscious entity.

The ship is my body, the computer my brain. My

orders require me to report anything out of the

ordinary, so I found it necessary to report this altera-

tion. It should have no quantitative effect on my

actions."

Garok's manipulative members curled in distress.

"It is inhabited by demons," she muttered.

Arrah, the ship's mechanist, had entered the bridge

midway through this discussion; now she remarked,

"Surely not demons. Perhaps some alien entity has

interfered, or perhaps it is merely a malfunction.

Perhaps something similar was responsible for the

recent losses of other ships."

R'ret turned quickly toward her shipmate. "Do you

think this likely?"

"Do I think what likely?" Arrah asked, puzzled. "I

mentioned several possibilities."

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.