Spock's World (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Chapter One
Enterprise
Position yourself in the right place - on the
surface of the moon, say, somewhere near the
slow-moving dayline, or in one of the L5
habitats swinging in peaceful captivity around
the world - and you can see it without any
trouble: the old Earth in the new Earth's arms.
Some people prefer her that way to any other.
Not for them the broad blue cloud-swirled disk,
all bright and safe and easily seen. They want
mystery; they want the Earth's nightly half-bath
in the old dark. She always emerges, but (to
these people's relief) she always dips in again
- the blue fire fading away down through the
spectrum, the rainbow of atmosphere's edge, down
through the last flash of crimson, to black.
And when she does, the stars come out. Faithful
as the other, farther stars, in steady
constellations, they turn as the night that
holds them turns - he splatters of spilled-gem
light that are BosWash, Ellay, Greater Peking,
Bolshe-Moskva, Plu'Paris. The great roadways
across continents are bright threads, delicate
as if spiders of fire had spun them: here and
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