TOS - Strangers From The Sky by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: \Star Trek
Published: 2011-01-02T07:58:59.032000+00:00

STRANGERS FROM THE SKY

what he knows, he is stoned for a fool

or persecuted for a sorcerer. I will live to see

six thousand years of war beset this part of the world,

Captain, and there is nothing I can do about it. Even

you, who are here because of my dilemma, believe me

only because to deny my reality makes you the madmen!"

"It's insane!" Elizabeth Definer said

quietly. All of her professional cool was

gone; she was genuinely moved. "How sad!"

"What's the crystal made of?" Mitchell

asked, cutting across the mood, refusing to pity

Parneb, refusing to succumb to any kind of feeling.

"Where did it come from?"

"A meteor," Parneb said dispiritedly, as if the

whole subject wearied him more than he could say.

"A chunk of rock of no composition I can

analyze, retrieved from the desert, whence it drew

me on a moonless night, and probably not mine

to keep. I suspect it will in its time become an

object of great value, even of worship. Perhaps the

celebrated Philosophers' Stone? I do not

know."

Having told his fable, he seemed to gather it

back into himself, put it back in its box while he

resumed his characteristic affability.

"Vulcans have a saying, do they not, that

none can know the future? Obviously no Vulcan

was ever trapped in my situation. Malesh, at least

I have managed to encounter interesting people in my times.

"I do not know entirely how the crystal works,

lady and gentlemen, only that it works. In that

respect I am not a scientist, only a sorcerer

after all, Captain. But not a con man, nor quite a

lunatic, if you please."

"I'm sorry," Kirk said sincerely. "As my

first officer might say, I have a tendency to

be precipitous."

"Which is why we must locate that first officer, in

order that he might continue to perform that invaluable

public service," Parneb quipped, unfolding

himself like an oversize grasshopper and taking out the

smaller 209

STRANGERS FROM THE SKY

crystal again. "I surmise that in pulling him off

the planet before I caught the four of you, I

simply caused him to materialise somewhere else on

Earth. The crystal is not without its flaws. I

trust, Captain, he has sense enough to assess his

situation and not tamper with present history?"

"Of course!" Kirk said impatiently; he was

surer of that with Spock than anyone else.

"Assuming you didn't dump him at the North

Pole or in mid-ocean, he's perfectly capable

of surviving on his own."

"And as he is the only alien on this

pre-interstellar planet," Parneb said, leaning

into the larger crystal as they all were, anxious for it

to clear, "this should be quite simple."

But it was not. The large crystal did not clear, but

continued to swirl and glow and pulsate. Only

Parneb saw something in its depths and what he saw,

to judge from the expressions that came and went like

lightning across his face, at first delighted, then

profoundly distressed him.

"Ah, there we are! Your Vulcan is in fact

in the middle of an ocean, Captain, but altogether quite

high and dry. He oh, dears"

"What is it?" Kirk demanded, nerves stretched

to the snapping point.

"This is not possible! It is too soon!"

Parneb cried, releasing both crystals and clasping

his brow in distress. "I find not one Vulcan, but

two!"

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