Windows on a lost world by Mitchell V. E & Pocket Books & Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Author:Mitchell, V. E & Pocket Books & Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Interplanetary voyages, Space ships
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books
Published: 1993-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

WINDOWS ON A LOST WORLD

Khllict programming soon, Spock would return to the artifact to work on the puzzle from that end.

Kirk tried to remember the games he had played with his brother when they were children. One vacation at his grandparents' home in Vermont, he, Sam, and the three McLaughlin boys from the adjoining farm had spent an entire month pretending they were Indians battling the invading white settlers. Their long-range communications system had been a set of talking drums they had built from designs Tommy McLaughlin had scrounged off the computer network. At the time none of them had considered that their parents, whom they had cast in the role of the invading British, were as capable of translating their messages as they were. Still, by the end of that summer, Kirk had been proficient at using Morse code, and he felt he should remember it, even if he had not used it much in the intervening three decades.

The next question was what would catch Spock's attention the fastest. The traditional SOS was a simple, repetitious pattern that would give him a chance to experiment with controlling the Khllict physiology. On the other hand, signaling his name would tell Spock what had happened, but the longer and less regular pattern to the letters spelling "Kirk" increased the chance that he wouldn't be understood. In addition, once he got Spock's attention, he could repeat complex messages until Spock understood them.

His decision made, Kirk concentrated on "communication" until the interwoven blues and greens swam across his vision. When the pattern was established in his mind—and, he hoped, reflected on his carapace— he summoned his anger and frustration at being trapped inside the Khllict body. As soon as the white flare crossed his vision, he released the anger and focused again on communicating until the peaceful

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