Wagon Train To The Stars New Earth #1 (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Chapter One
Distant night, the most distant. Today, a
giant's finger of tractless lingering haze
dusted space deep cobalt blue, painting the
otherwise ink matte of weeks past. Everything
changed day by day, even space itself.
Or perhaps it was only anger.
Prowling the central command deck, surrounded by
a raised walkway that supported all the consoles
and monitors that showed him the universe,
Captain James Kirk bedeviled his starship's
forward viewscreen with a punitive glare, as if
he could mentally brutalize what he saw into
submission.
"Red alert," he ordered, "again."
"Captain," Lieutenant Commander Uhura broached
from the communications post, "we never stood
down from the previous one."
Kirk ignored her. "Get the owner over here right
now. Sulu, detonate those shots."
"Trying, sir."
The starship's bridge pulsed with activity.
Colored lights winked, and soft mechanical
noises sang in the background, a self-driven
symphony of never-ending background music that
could seem either comforting or nerve-racking,
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