"Duane, Diane - Tos - Spock's World" - читать интересную книгу автора (Duane Diane)

to rationalize away the analysis, for in logic there
was no reason for him to be there: after a month's
peaceful work on the bridge instrumentation, every piece
of equipment was tuned and honed to even Spock's
relentless standards. Jim would have teased him most
assiduously. That was of course the captain's
privilege, to refuse to take Spock seriously:
as it was Spock's to raise (outwardly) his
eyebrows over the amusing and irrational conduct of his
human friend, and (inwardly) to rest satisfied that
someone knew him well enough not to take him seriously,
Vulcan or not. Spock sat quiet in the helm,
watching the Earth and idly going through lists in his head.
When the
heavier and more involved of their repairs were fin-
ished-warp-drive adjustments, the replacement of the
j inside of one warp nacelle's
antimatter containment system, installation of a new
set of dilithium crystals Fleet had moved
Enterprise out of the major repair and spacedock
facility at San Francisco High to a parking
"spot" over the North Atlantic, where Star-
jfleet Gander could handle the ship's reprovisioning.
j These were more mundane and simple businesses, like
j the complete replacement of the Enterprise's forty
million cubic feet of air: even with a starship's
extraor dinarily advanced air-conditioning and
processing systems, a ship's air could become rather
stale-smelling after a couple of years. Not even
Spock had stayed aboard for that-he found breathing
vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically
unpleasant. He had spent the day near
Reykjavik, examining the volca noes.
Then there was the matter of other reprovisioning to be
supervised . . . stored food, hydroponics,
dry stores, textiles, machine parts, data
tapes and solids, cleaning and. maintenance
supplies, the hundred thousand things that a crew in
space for long periods needs. Spock did not have
to occupy himself with this-he was, after all, on liberty
as much as the rest of the crew-but it suited his whim (and
his commitment to
j his agreements as executive officer) to make
certain for himself that the ship was perfectly ready for
space in all respects, not just to take someone
else's word for it.
It became sort of a game, after a time,
to anticipate the quartermasters" department in things
that they should have thought of first: it engendered in
j them what Spoek considered a very healthy