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TO HE WHO WAITS - Gena Moretti

The man in the ship's brig snarled, "What is it you want, Spock? Power?" The voice was so familiar, but not the nasty, aggressive, bullying tone. The face and figure Spock knew better than his own. Yet the postures, the gestures and movement of that body were completely foreign to anything he had ever seen his captain do.

TO LEAN ON THEE - Elizabeth Scott

The phaser rifle jabbed the small of Kirk's back and shoved him into the cell. If the degrading treatment was designed to teach the captain his new place in the Empire, it had little effect.

THE OTHER HALF - Sarah B. Leonard

Commander Spock, First Officer of the ISS Enterprise, sat behind his desk, long fingers steepled. Although he had just finished his report, he was confused, almost as confused as he had been during much of what he had just reported. However, his captain would have to know.

UNPLANNED ALLIANCE - D.A. Marsh

Captain James Kirk of the ISS Enterprise stood in the turbolift, eyes lifted to watch the flicker of levels slide by. Instinctive apprehension crawled his spine at being alone and unguarded.

He knew he'd had to send Farrell to Engineering when his operative there reported a possible sabotage, but it didn't make him feel any less naked now.

SECOND CHANCE - Jean Gabriel

"Damn it Spock! Why did I ever let you talk me into this? And I still don't know why we have to walk." Captain of the ISS Enterprise wiped his sweating brow as he and his first officer, accompanied only by their ever- present personal guards, trudged through the Vulcan desert.

MY SOUL UPON THE FORFEIT - Susan K. Dundas

I wonder what the captain is planning right now. He has left me in command this afternoon while he has ostensibly gone down to Engineering to assist Mister Scott. A project upon which he has not yet seen fit to enlighten me.

A SECRET HARMONY - Susan K. Dundas

Jim Kirk sat in Auxiliary Control alone. McCoy wouldn't let him go back on bridge duty today nor did Kirk really want to sit in the center of that room right now, surrounded by his crew and their suppressed looks of concern. He'd lost control of his emotions again how many times in the last two-and-a-half weeks?

A BEGINNING - Gene Delapenia

"Four to beam aboard, Mr. Scott." Kirk closed the communicator, restored it to his belt and looked silently at T'Pring as she stood frozen in place, pale with shock. She had not envisioned this outcome.

"You will report to my quarters as soon as we beam aboard," he stated.

APARTHEID IN GREEN - Patricia Laurie Stephens

They were coming for him as he knew they would. He could see the lights of the desert vehicles on the track far below where the first car had stopped at the top of the rise and second still struggled up the incline.

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June 1990