Star Trek The Original Series - 86 - First Frontier by Star Trek
Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780671520458
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 1995-01-02T08:00:00+00:00
"I've taken care of it." McCoy glowered.
"Did you have a talk with him?"
"I listened."
"You didn't say anything?"
"I told him to report for duty."
"Jim, that boy's in shock. Can't you see it in
his face?"
"It takes a good man," Kirk rebuffed,
"to think he's wicked because of a fumble. Nothing I've
got to say will fix him. That pain of having altered
another life... There's no bandage for it. It's a
power everyone craves but damned few appreciate
for the danger it is. He's got to learn some time if
lie wants to be in Starfleet."
"He says he doesn't."
""He's lying."
"Jim--" :: "That's enough. We're almost there."
At the center of the time displaceement, the
site was .
mpletely undisturbed, peaceful as a church.
They may as well have been here yesterday, as
familiar as it seemed. The sky was gunmetal
gray and flat as concrete. This system's sun
didn't really want to have much to do with this place.
Spock and a Security guard took Kirk by the
arms and hoisted him down from the rocks onto a slab
of ground. He came down hard on the heel of his
bad leg, pain jarring into his hip. Before he could
breathe again he was ready to swear he'd landed on his
ear. McCoy started past him toward the slice of
rock sitting up on its edge, with the horizon of this
planet showing passively through the middle.
"Bonesu" Abruptly Kirk reached out, caught the
doctor by his upper arm, and yanked him back.
"Don't get too close."
"Place gives me the shivers," McCoy
admitted. "I don't blame you." Pushing
McCoy behind him, he threw a collective glance
to the rest of the team. "Sensors." Around him, the landing
party brought up'the tricorders or phasers
respectively and scanned the area. There were seven
of them: Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Bannon,
two Security guards, and a
twenty-three-year-old Tibetan girl who'd
begged for a chance as science assistant. Spock,
Bannon, and the girl scanned the area
electronically while the guards did a cursory
walk around. "No life forms," Spock said, "no
energy output other than the main structure... No
signs of disturbance."
"Acknowledged," Kirk allowed. "Carry on."
He stared up at the huge donut of rock. It
wasn't glowing or showing any sign of the energy he
knew was there. Yet it raised the hairs on the
back of his neck. A few feet away, a
communicator chirped. "Spock to Enterprise. The
site is secure. Beam down the second landing
party now." Into Kirk's resting mind came the buzz
of scrambled energy, the whistle of mechanical effort
as a billion molecules were forced through space and
reassembled over a matter of seconds. Before him
on the chalk-dry ground stood two more Security
guards and the two Klingon prisoners, each
manacled at the wrists, both wearing sickbay
shirts and their own trousers. Faces rough as
watchdogs', Roth and Zalt glanced around at the
forbidding landscape, both probably suspicious that
the plan was to abandon them here. Not a bad
idea. "All right," Kirk segued, limping toward
the big geode. He started toward it. "Let's
see what we've got going for us." Before him, the
two-foot-thick cimular frame of what appeared
to be solid stone stood in elegant and utterly
silent repose. "Guardian," he began. "Do you
hear me?" The rim of rock accommodated him
by lighting up internally, coming alive in response as
if excited to have somebody to talk to.
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