"Ryan Nicol - A Matter of Differences" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nicol Ryan)

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While I finish off Part six of "I, Locutus", here is a Kirk/Spock, etc story
that I posted early last year. I you don't have all of the first five parts
of I, Locutus, mail me, and I'll supply me with the missing parts.

All the best,
Ryan.

A MATTER OF DIFFERENCES: By Ryan Nicol


Dedication: To Gene Roddenberry,
who taught me the value of dif-
ferences.......

Historians' note: This voyage takes
place between the television episodes
"The Menagerie" and "Shoreleave".


The Priority One distress call reached the Enterprise five days
before the ship's scheduled rendezvous with the USS Potemkin.
Kirk found himself faced with a tricky decision - ignore the
distress call and rendezvous with the Potemkin safely on time or
answer the distress call and risk being late. The cargo to be
transferred to the Potemkin was of extreme importance. It
consisted of food supplies that were desperately needed on the
famine-ravaged planet orbitting Kaplan's star, where it was
reported that approximately three hundred inhabitants were dying
daily while the rest were praying that it would be their turn
next. Kirk had never known starvation and he hoped that he never
would. How Starfleet and the Federation could have let the
situation get that critical, was beyond him.

Nevertheless, he decided to risk being late for the rendezvous
and ordered Mr Riley to plot a new course that would take the
Enterprise to the origin of the distress call. Even McCoy, whom
Kirk had thought would protest against such an action, saw the
logic in the diversion from their previous course. With luck,
they would be able to investigate the distress call and still

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