Star Trek: Renegades Page #2

I know you too well Pavel,

I think you're up to something.

And I think you and the Council

are too flippant about this,

and the Syphon situation.

You're playing with fire here!

No one else has a more sacred

obligation than those who make the law.

If you're even considering

violating orders...

Ship following right behind us.

Power weapons.

No, no, no, no! It's taking over control!

Shields are dropping.

Moordenaarr.

Lexxa.

The ship is mine now. Your trespass

gives me right to vaporize you.

Anyone else having an objection

to me running my ship again?

Good to have you back!

Though, if you're gonna say

I shouldn't have done that,

I disagreed with his methods, but he

was very useful when things went sour.

Why is this blasphemer here?

Put that away, Jaro.

Prak's still here.

I figured he'd have betrayed

you all once I was gone.

I practice the rule religiously.

"Never turn your back on a Bree."

Look, if you specify an

exact temperature..!

Colder, colder.

Mind if I sit, or are you going

to tell me to go, as always?

Suit yourself. Stay out of my head.

What?

I don't need a Betazoid

listening to my my thoughts.

You still don't know,

genetic defect, not telepathic.

Good.

I can do other things.

Stay out of my head.

Why you are so angry all the time?

Wouldn't this make you angry?

But you were a Borg.

I was, the Voyager found me

and they took it all away.

They taught me individuality

and I got back to Earth.

Section 31 found me and they

convinced me to join a program

to help those that had

survived assimilation.

What they actually wanted was this,

I have become a weapon, and they

have made sure I stay that way.

I have offered to help.

You assume I want your help.

I like the power, I don't need you.

Enough. I don't know what started this.

They butchered five billion of my race.

This mission depends on each of

us, so end this now, or I will.

Stay! We're meeting, this'll be quick.

Everyone has access to the datafeed.

Borrada is responsible for

what happened to the planets.

And what does that have to do with us?

Our mission; we take care of him.

What does that mean?

We all know what that means.

We go in, take care of the problem.

A recognized leader of a whole world

and we just stroll in and assassinate him.

Starfleet's prime directive

won't let them interfere,

so they have to find someone else,

that's how they operate.

C'mon! They think of us as criminals

and now they want our help?

This is a bad idea.

Spoken like a true coward.

I said enough.

The planets Borrada attacked, they

were the major source of dilithium.

Are all of you crazy?

Neural damage from Cardassian torture.

You're talking about Dilithium,

Borrada is destroying entire planets.

What happens when he targets a

planet like Bajor? Cardassia? Earth?

Does it matter who wants him dead?

Lexxa's right, he needs to be stopped.

Can't argue with that.

Just get me to him.

You have to ask.

Not very talkative today.

We didn't exercise in class today.

Hypothetical; would we sacrifice

ourselves to save others?

And what did you say?

I don't know if I could do it.

Always be true to yourself

and the rest will follow.

I wondered when you would call.

Wow, that was amazing!

Isn't it always?

No, well, yes, but what I do, projection,

a fully tactile holographic transmission

across a hundred light-years,

if I didn't know better,

I'd swear I was actually here.

When are you going to join me here,

so we can do this without photons

and forcefields and holo-matter?

My place is on the Jupiter Station,

as is yours.

Was

I've always fought for you,

but you stealing Starfleet's only

mobile holographic transmitter

didn't exactly help your cause.

What cause? My work killed someone

and got me banned from Starfleet,

and ostracized by the

scientific community.

Nothing I do will ever change the past

You can start by

returning the emitter,

at least then we can

exchange more than photons.

That emitter will always

stay in my possession.

You are the great Lewis Zimmerman,

creator of the emergency hologram.

If I joined you, it would ruin

your career, you know that.

I do, but I don't like it.

So, are we going to do a full test of

the tactile response of my projection?

Soon, I need your help

with the other matrix,

it's degrading much faster

than I can repair it.

You still keeping up that facade?

Do they suspect?

I don't think so, but I have been

getting some strange looks lately.

Come back to Jupiter Station,

I'll chance it, we'll fix it together.

No, I can't do that.

Then what do you want me to do?

I can't help you of you insist on

staying with these people.

Please, Lewis, just help me,

I can't lose it, not again.

Very well, send me the data and be

careful, one tragedy's enough.

Make sure I have the data

at 09:
00 tomorrow morning.

I'll see to it crisply, Sir.

Anne, speak to no one about this!

Yes. Sir.

Admiral, no!

What is the meaning of this?

It's a trigger,

set to cause the turbo lift to fail.

You would have fallen to your death.

Use an assassin to find an assassin...

She's quite useful.

It's good that you hired

T'Leah when you did.

Leave it to a Vulcan to state the obvious.

Admiral, no!

Who was he?

That's for them to try to determine.

Curious, there is no

security level above yours.

There wasn't.

I may know someone who can help us.

You've been a naughty girl.

At it again, Shree?

Damn you!

You've been busy.

Don't know how any of that's your business.

T'Lea, this is Shree.

Why all the urgency?

I had a problem that could

use your hacking skills.

I need to know what is happening,

and I need to know why.

Those are some pretty powerful people.

I may need to double my usual fee.

Our intel is limited, this is his

stronghold, it's ultra fortified,

defenses, there's weapons everywhere.

Doesn't look very welcoming.

We don't need a welcome.

We aren't sure if these are engineering

tunnels, maybe air vents? Sewer ducts?

Sewer, with our luck.

How do we know that any of these

will lead to our objective?

Daug will send the

Dragonflies in to confirm.

Now we take out Borrada and

we're in and out fast,

so they don't know

what hit them.

They will know what hit them.

They made their move at last,

but not enough to take it away.

This should prove entertaining.

Begin preparations.

Yes, my Lord.

I claim the right to first kill!

You denied me the last kill,

allow me this honor at least.

You don't yet possess the skill...

You treat me as if I was a child,

yet I am as capable as anyone!

You question my judgment?

Yes!

You have spirit,

but spirit wihout discipline

can have deadly consequences.

You will see who possesses the skills.

What have you found?

This is complex,

they're using a Bosong-Lapton

Weight Duality encryption,

changes every few seconds,

it's next to impossible,

but not completely impossible.

This always hurts like hell.

I'm detecting a ship on

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