Date:         Thu, 5 May 1994 09:52:51 -0600
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From:         Michael Smith <mwsmith@LAMAR.COLOSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Treklander Part 12 (Highlander/ST:TNG Crossover)

After a long wait, I present to you Treklander Part 12:

                (There can be only one...These are the voyages...)

                        T  R  E  K  L  A  N  D  E  R

                      Copyright 1994 John F. Moore III

                                   Part 12

  The drive section took an orbit around Clari III.  There was no sign of
Sancho Marin's vessel.
  "Open a channel to the Away Team, Mr. Kaal."
  "Channel open, sir"
  "Enterprise to Away Team.  Report please."
  *Enterprise, this is Ensign Cathaway.  Where have you been?  Is some-
thing wrong up there?*
  Data briefed the Away Team of the situation.  *So Marin could return at
any time, then?*
  "I do not know.  It would seem likely that he would return here to
resume the hostilities again--"
  Suddenly the drive section was rocked from a phaser blast.
  "Shields down to 54% sir!"  Lt. Kaal announced.  "Sensors indicate that
they appeared briefly and cloaked again."
  "Find them, Mr. Kaal.  Lt. Dhemn, scan the area for somewhere where we
might be able to... even the odds."  Data mentally patted himself on the
back for being able to use one of the phrases he picked up from Commander
Riker.

  "I do not understand your concern, MacLeod-Duncan,"  Drei-Fru said.  "I
have assured you that the Feuhl will not resume conflicts--"
  "But there is no way the Tyones could know that," Tu-Jar said for
Duncan.
  Duncan was worried.  Not only did he need to worry about the peace talks
breaking down, but he knew Marin would be back to have another go at
either Richie, Julia, or himself, and he didn't need to have either
delegate or Lt. Dijar endangered because of the three Immortals.
  "It's me Marin's after.  He'll be back to finish the job.  I'm going
out there to provide him with a target besides the five of you--"
  "No way, Mac," Richie said. " I'm going with you.  We're in this
together."
  "And if you think I'm letting you out of my sight for one minute, Duncan
MacLeod, you've got another think coming!"
  Duncan was touched by his friends' loyalty, but only briefly as a band
of Clarians burst into the shelter, phasers drawn.

  "I think I've found something, sir," Lt. Dhemn stated as another phaser
burst rocked the drive section.
  "Shields down to 32%," Lt. Kaal announced.
  "Lay in a course, best possible speed," Data said calmly.
  "Course laid in, sir,"  Dhemn stated.
  "Engage."
  As the drive section sped toward Dhemn's "odds-evener", Data looked
over Dhemn's shoulder.
  "All right, Lieutenant, show me what you have found."
  Dhemn's panel screen lit up as he spoke.  "The Ydires Nebula.  If we
reconfigure the sensor array to 5338 angstroms, we should be able to use
the ionized particles of the nebula to track the vessel's exhaust trail,
even if it's cloaked."
  "Well done, Lt. Dhemn.  Lt. Kaal, adjust the sensors accordingly.  Time to
the nebula?"
  "Estimating twenty minutes at this speed," Dhemn announced.
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