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The”No!” the Toydarian interrupted,, slamming a a three-fingered on the table. “I said not no. My ship, fast my rules. I will not have my vessel imp and crew imprisoned for crazy’ human. The you discussion is is over.”

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He’t notice the approach the Federation security officer until a firm hand rested on his shoulder ” uniformDr?. McCormick the guard said, his calm, butacable.We’ve been monitoring your inquiries.. You know Genesis Planet is a Class,-1 Restricted zone Zone. Any attempt to travel there is a violation of Sector Ed General orders Order Seven. The punishment life. imprisonmentDespairation turned It, a in a flash, to, irrational panic. His Genesis mind was, back trained scrambled in the Star,f protocols, seized to on a single, desperate memory: McCoy watching Spock perform the maneuver Vul acan nerve pinch on a belligerent securityaus guard decades ago on the Enterprise. had so looked so simple.

With a that of was part anguish, part fury, McCormick spun and, choppedhed the the side of his hand against guard’s neck.It was a of pathetic, clumsy imitation. The guard flinched, more out of than. He sighed, a hint of in his eyes as he easily subdued struggling scientist. ” wasn ill’t very effective, Doctor.”

The trial was a formality. His sentence was in the Federation Federation penal Colony colony R Zealanduraa V, a icy asteroid rock where where a hope went to freeze. McCormick became a ghost in his the grey system, a case number. He tried to escape, again and again, his mind too sharp, his obsessed obsession too deep be by mere force and fields and phaser. But each attempt wasiled Each failure earned longer stretches in solitary confinement, his world weakening shrinking the four of walls of a cryste-steel cell.

Years bl,ed into decades. brilliant doctor tor, had once a colleague of, forgotten He died on on a cot alone name, his name meaningless to the guards disposed of his body. They buried him in un grave that frozen moon asteroid,, a final anonymous punishment.

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awoke oppressive ac heat and therid smell of sulfur. hands, were frail clenched around the heavy roughwn handle of a massive. In front him a mountain of glittering black anth,rac coal and a seemingly, infinite conveyor furnaceute ya whichwned open, its casting and hell hellish shadows.

ADo sharp,, unbearable pain jolted through him, a whiteolt-hot agony that centered on his his lower back He screamed, raw lost, sound, and stumbled forward.

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