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    Cold Fusion
    Cold Fusion
    Cold Fusion
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    Cold Fusion

    By Keith R.A. DeCandido

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    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS
    Following the catastrophic conclusion of Avatar, Lieutenant Nog -- the chief operations officer of space station Deep Space 9 -- joins forces with the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci!
    With the station's future in doubt, Nog meets the da Vinci at Empok Nor, Deep Space 9's long-abandoned twin, in order to salvage vital technology. But they arrive to find that someone has beaten them to it -- an enigmatic and dangerous alien race known as the Androssi. When the S.C.E. crew learns what the Androssi have planned for Empok Nor, it threatens not only the lives of the da Vinci and Deep Space 9 crews, but galactic peace itself!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books/Star Trek
    Release dateJul 27, 2001
    ISBN9780743428750
    Cold Fusion
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    Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, Farscape, Xena, and Doctor Who. His original novel Dragon Precinct was published in 2004, and he's also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated Imaginings and two Star Trek anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, Boogie Knights, and Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices kenshikai karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.

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      Cold Fusion - Keith R.A. DeCandido

      CHAPTER

      1

      Commander, I humbly request permission to feed Abramowitz to the larvae."

      Kieran Duffy sighed, rolled his eyes, took a sip of his coffee, then looked up at the Nasat standing before him in the mess hall. "What is it this time, Pattie?"

      P8 Blue, presently standing upright on her two rear legs, was tossing a padd back and forth among four of her arms. Oh, it’s nothing different. She simply will not stop playing that music.

      Have you asked her to stop?

      Repeatedly. Endlessly. Constantly.

      Well, at least your grasp of adverbs is improving.

      Commander —

      Holding up a hand, Duffy said, Look, I’ll talk to her, okay? I have to be on the bridge in five, and —

      That’s the other thing, we’re always on and off duty at the same time. I cannot avoid her. I would like to renew my request for a new roommate.

      I’ve asked around, but nobody —

      "Of course nobody wants to room with her! Pattie said. Her voice raised several octaves — a range Duffy hadn’t known her to be capable of — and she was now tossing the padd around so fast, it was blurry. Nobody can stand that music of hers!"

      Sonnie, come home, was all Duffy could think. Especially since this was mostly her fault. Kind of.

      In addition to her duties as commanding officer of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci, Commander Sonya Gomez was also the da Vinci’s first officer, and was therefore responsible for making up the duty assignments. Of course, the last time she’d done so was before Carol Abramowitz, the S.C.E. team’s cultural specialist, got her hands on a new recording of Sinnravian drad music, specifically the newest from Blee Luu, the founder of drad’s atonal minimalist subgenre.

      Unfortunately, Gomez was presently on a special assignment to the planet Sarindar, helping the Nalori Republic to get a subspace accelerator working. This left Duffy, normally the ship’s second officer, pulling double duty as the ship’s XO. Which meant that personnel issues like this, that he had been more than happy to dump on Sonnie’s lap, were now his problem.

      In all his years in Starfleet, Kieran Duffy had heard many different types of music, and many more reactions to same. He’d heard Klingon opera that could put a spring in one person’s step and stop others dead in their tracks from the headache. He’d once seen a Vulcan ambassador moved to tears by the same Mozart piece that, years later, moved a Tellarite engineer to throw up.

      But pretty much everyone who wasn’t from Sinnrav (and many who were) found Luu’s music to be completely unlistenable — except for Carol Abramowitz.

      Gulping down the last of his coffee, Duffy got up. After swallowing, he said, Pattie, I’m not really sure what I can do, except —

      Except maybe change the duty roster, he thought suddenly. You’re first officer until Sonnie comes back. You can do that.

      Except maybe change the duty roster, he said after his moment of clarity. I’ll fix it so that you’re on gamma shift when Carol’s off. Okay?

      Now holding the padd in only one hand, Pattie made a tinkling noise. Most non-Nasats couldn’t distinguish one such noise from another, but Duffy had been serving with Pattie long enough to be able to do so. This one — high-pitched, with the higher notes about a second and a half apart — was the equivalent of a sigh of relief. Thank you, sir.

      You’re welcome. And no feeding her to the larvae. Duffy hesitated. Do your larvae really eat people?

      Another tinkly noise, this one lower-pitched — a shrug. Only when they can get them. They’ll eat anything. Well, I must take this report to Lieutenant Barnak. Thank you again, sir.

      With that, Pattie got down on all eights and skittered out of the mess hall. Duffy wondered how much of Carol’s insistence on playing Luu’s music was personal preference, and how much was a defense mechanism triggered by living with an insect.

      Two security guards, Drew and Hawkins, were sitting at one of the far tables. Hawkins said, I think she was kidding, sir. About the larvae.

      Definitely, Drew said. They’re actually very picky eaters.

      Sighing and shaking his head, Duffy left the mess hall, wondering if Sonnie had ever had to put up with this.

      CHAPTER

      2

      David Gold had been listening to the latest letter from his granddaughter Ruth for the fifteenth time when the call from the bridge came.

      Message from Deep Space 9, sir, said Lieutenant McAllan’s voice.

      Gold frowned. They were en route to DS9 already. On screen.

      Ruth’s pretty, glowing face was replaced on the viewscreen in Gold’s quarters by the Starfleet logo, and then by the image of a woman wearing the uniform of a Bajoran Militia colonel. Though he had never met her, Gold instantly recognized her as DS9’s commanding officer, Kira Nerys.

      Colonel Kira, he said. This is Captain Gold. Is everything all right?

      Hello, Captain. Yes, everything’s fine. Don’t worry, this is a simple diversion call.

      "So the last dispatch we got was accurate? Those Jem’Hadar who attacked the station were renegades?" For some time, the whole quadrant was on yellow alert and many were convinced that the Dominion War, over for less than four months, was going to start right back up again. Gold was worried that this call was going to be bad news — unexpected calls from high-ranking officers almost always were.

      Yes, the dispatch was accurate. Unfortunately, part of the process of stopping them involved ejecting our fusion core.

      Oy.

      Kira looked almost amused. "‘Oy’ pretty much sums it up, Captain. We still need your help putting the station back together, just not here at the station. You’re to rendezvous with one of our runabouts, the Rio Grande, in the Trivas system. We’re forwarding the exact coordinates to you now. You’ll meet

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