Star Trek - TOS - 01 by The Motion Picture

Author:The Motion Picture [Picture, The Motion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-07T14:09:24.279000+00:00

McCoy came into the captain�s cabin and stood eyeing Kirk for a moment. �In case you�re interested, the ship�s doctor has finally logged James Tiberius Kirk as the new captain.� Kirk looked up, surprised. McCoy sat down. �Welcome back, Jim. I like you better than the Kirk who was here when I came aboard.� �Thank you, Bones. What convinced you I�m back?� �Your assigning Decker to deal with the Ilia-probe.� McCoy had guessed that Kirk would be challenged by the unusual mechanical femaleness of the probe. Kirk, in turn, was pleased the doctor noticed that he had handled the matter solely as a command decision, without�.�.�. well, almost without vanity. But he still felt uncomfortable as he remembered how alive and desirable that body had looked standing nude in the dressing room cubicle. �I was about to check if Decker was making any progress?� said Kirk. He reached for the cabin monitor switch, reminding himself again that this was not Decker�s private life that he was intruding on. And Decker�s companion was not a woman; it was an alien machine-thing. Kirk keyed in Decker�s identity pattern and the tracer located him bringing the probe onto the ship�s huge recreational deck.

If Kirk had fed in Spock�s identity pattern, he would have seen his Vulcan science officer in the midst of quietly entering one of the vessel�s emergency airlock stations. Moving with perfect stealth, he was coming up soundlessly behind the technician on duty there. Then the Vulcan closed his fingers in a Vulcan neck pinch and the technician slumped. Spock gently eased the unconscious form down to the deck.

�What are these, Decker?� Decker turned, hopefully. The probe had used his name again, and this was the first time it had taken an interest in any ship�s area he had shown it. The Rec Deck was empty of crew except for two wary security guards who kept a discreet distance. The Ilia-probe was looking at the decorative illustrations which showed vessels from a nineteenth-century sail frigate to the original version of this present starship. �All of these vessels were called Enterprise,� said Decker. The probe continued its interest in the illustrations, which also depicted a sea carrier of winged aircraft, NASA�s first orbiter model, and a very early kind of starship. �Our navigator, Ilia�.�.�. the carbon unit whose form you�ve taken, she was very interested in the history of humanity getting into space. Her own race had the knowledge to do it long ago but they decided to instead concentrate on what might be called inner space.� The probe�s attention had been positively riveted on the displays, and it was giving a look of interest to Decker too. He hoped he had its attention now�it was important that he somehow get the mechanism to associate itself with the real Ilia and begin to explore any of her memory patterns which had been duplicated in the probe. �Ilia�s race, the Deltans, are highly evolved in ways of finding adventure and gratification within themselves,� continued Decker.

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