The Valiant (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Chapter One
Carlos Tarasco of the S.S. Valiant stood in
front of his captain's chair and eyed the
phenomenon pictured on his viewscreen.
It was immense, he thought. No - it was beyond
immense. It stretched across space without
boundaries or limits, a blazing vermillion abyss
without beginning or end.
"Amazing," said Gardenhire, his redheaded ops
officer.
Tarasco grunted. "You can say that again."
Sommers, the curly-haired brunette who was
sitting next to Gardenhire at the helm controls,
cast a glance back at the captain. "You still
want to go through it, sir?"
"Do we have a choice?" Tarasco asked her.
The helm officer recognized it as a rhetorical
question and returned her attention to her
monitors. With her slender fingers crawling
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