Gateways #3 Doors into Chaos (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Chapter One
The first thing they noticed was the stench. A
rotting-food kind of smell drifted from the open
window at the rear of the museum. Its visitors
were long gone, its doors locked. The building
itself wasn't terribly large, just two stories
tall but a block wide. In fact, it was a rather
ordinary building, without much in decoration,
which made Jhen sneer. They showed more respect
for their past back home, he decided.
Four figures moved quietly toward the window,
ignoring the odor. Street lighting was minimal
toward the rear and this helped hide their tall
and thin silhouettes. After all, few Andorians
were seen on Tellar, each race preferring to
keep to themselves.
It occurred to Jhen that he never quite knew
what the original problem was between these two
people. He knew they had found one another long
before there was a United Federation of Planets,
but why two aggressive races did not form an
alliance and conquer nearby worlds such as Alpha
Centauri and Vulcan made no sense to him. It
didn't matter, because the Andorians had their
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