"GOLDEN, CHRISTIE - THE LAST ROUND-UP" - читать интересную книгу автора (Golden Christie)

Good kids, all of them. He'd been right to call in a few favors on this.

Time for the pop quiz.

"Cadet Singh," Kirk said sharply. Indira Singh's head whipped around.

"Sir!" she answered, snapping to attention despite the mute testimony to
death that lay all around her.

"Tell me about Commander Lowe, if you please."

Light glimmered on her protective faceplate, but not so much that Kirk
couldn't see her lick her lips nervously. "Commander Sabra Lowe led the
mining colony here in the middle part of the twenty-second century. It
was a state-of-the-art colony that turned out swift production of a very
pure form of dilithium, almost ninety-two percent pure."

"How many other active dilithium mining colonies were there at that
time?" Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cadet Skalli Iksili raise
her long, slender arm, but he ignored her.

"Only seven. Polluxara IV turned out--" Singh hesitated, and her dark
eyes widened as she frantically sought the answer.

"Four point oh seven two times the amount of the others." She breathed
easier.

"Very good. You've just made an excellent start on your final."

A chorus of protest rose as the students realized that Kirk was
apparently springing at least part of the final exam of his course,
"Command Decisions and Their Consequences," on them here, now,
unannounced. The sounds were oddly comforting to Kirk, standing here
among the ruins. It was a sound that reminded him that life had to go
on, no matter how many colonies--

"I did tell you to do your research," Kirk reminded them mildly, raising
a hand to still them. They quieted at once. "Now.

Cadet Brown. Tell me what happened here a few years later." He could see
Cadet Skalli shaking her head in disgust.

Cadet Christopher Brown stood at attention, trying not to smile. Kirk
had given him an easier question.

"Commander Lowe received advance warning of an attack.

The scout reported that the Romulans, then a relatively unknown species,
were approaching."