Star Trek
Deep Space Nine #8: Antimatter
Chapter One
Ro Laren looked up at the yellowing clouds,
which rested uneasily upon the jagged teeth of
the olivehued mountains in the distance. She
didn't see the beauty of the twilit sky or the
flowering land with harvesting season upon it;
all she saw were the vapor trails of
shuttlecraft and small transports streaking away
from the planet Galion. The former Starfleet
officer knew that most of those vessels were
little more than junk and had no warp drive.
Where did they think they were going?
Her hands paused over the lush sprawl of tomato
vines and plump red fruit in her small vegetable
patch. Who would have thought she could have
gotten so much pleasure from coaxing food from
the ground? Emotions gripped her throat like the
teeth of a vole, and she wanted to lash out with
her fists. This isn't just! No sooner had they
found a semblance of peace than another war was
engulfing them with its acrid stink. Ro knew
well the stench of war. Burning rubble, bloated
bodies, wretched refugee camps - those were her
childhood memories. This war was le ... read full excerpt from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #8: Antimatter ebook
