VOY 09 - Invasion! 4 - The Final Fury by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: \Star Trek
Published: 2011-01-02T07:58:44.977000+00:00

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"Am I dead?"

Kes waited anxiously in the transporter room, standing first on one foot then the other, while the away team took about nine years, an entire Ocampan lifetime, to materiallize. The stranger, an emaciated human who looked like a ghost, sparkled into view with that horrible question on his lips: "Am I dead?"

After Kes embraced Neelix, she propelled the stranger--Red bay, according to Tuvok--straight to sickbay, while everyone else headed bridge ward.

In sickbay, Kes watched, concerned, while the Doctor checked Red bay quickly and determined that there was nothing physically wrong with him aside from a few broken bones, deep lacerations, bruises, and general ill treatment.

Kes desperately wished she knew if Neelix were safe- but she remained with the doctor. Red bay suffered from a deep psychological wound that would be difficult to cure while still on a starship... perhaps impossible, as soon as the young lieutenant recovered sufficiently to realize their dire predicament. He had lost quite a lot of weight and had clearly been tortured physically and psychologically. The man looked like a walking corpse. His color was bad, bone white, and he did not lose the long-distance stare.

"Am I dead?"

"No," said Kes; "you're aboard a Star fleet starship." Lost in space, forever, never to return. You may as well be dead, she did not add.

The doctor took up the conversation.

"You have some severe injuries which I will now heal, if you'll stop squirming long enough to let me do so. You may feel some discomfort and stiffness for a few days, especially in the wrist. Try not to use it as much as usual. In fact, try not to use it at all."

"This is the U.S.S. Voyager," said Kes, "but you're still in the Delta Quadrant. My name is Kes, and this is the doctor.

The captain's name is Janeway, she's the one who rescued you with the Vulcan. Neelix, the other one who rescued you--not the Vulcan, the third one--is my... a Talaxian native.

"Kes is my assistant," the doctor explained.

Kes watched Red bay carefully; in fact, she had struck up the conversation, hoping to jar his mind away from his morbid hallucinations.

"Is this hell? Am I in hell now?"

Kes sighed and began telling Red bay all about the Voyager and how it came to be in the Delta Quadrant. I'll entertain him all night, if I have to, she decided bleakly, concerned about the patient's frame of mind.

Janeway slid into the command chair as if she had merely stepped out to eat a quick meal; the ordeal behind her, she wanted her ship back in hand.

"Mr. Chakotay, what's happening?

Pursuit?"

: "Glad to have you aboard, Captain. We worried we had lost you for a time. Mr. Paris?"

"Nothing yet... I plotted a course that stayed well away from the aliens' moon; that's how they caught us last time."

"Where are we now?"

Kim answered.

"We shot around the sun, beamed you up on the fly, and now we're right back where we started: on the opposite side of the sun from the planet; except now we're far enough out for a real orbit.

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