Chapter 7

Sarek had indeed retreated to his quarters. Two Spocks. As if one was not enough. Also, apparently she was also in starfleet. Was the hybrid doomed to be a rebel? Apparently so. He admitted he had formerly wished Spock was female. Perhaps, he had thought, as a female he would not have left Vulcan. Obviously, this was not so. Disappointing. He settled down to meditate. This was how Amanda found him. Probably the best way to describe her entrance was that she bounced. Bounced onto the bed, bubbling over with energy. Bounced exuberantly, totally wrecking Sarek's meditation.

"She's beautiful, Sarek. Beautiful!" Sarek gave a not-sigh, and stood.

"I presume you are speaking of Commander Spock's female version?"

"Of course! Who else?" Sarek did not answer this question.

"I suppose you wish to describe her." He was not curious. He was not excited about having a daughter. He was only making a scientific inquiry. That was all.

"She has gorgeous jet black hair, and exquisite brown eyes. She looks so… perfect, Sarek!" Perhaps this was not the best manner to gain objective information on his daughter. And there was definitely no chill of joy that ran through Sarek at the thought of having female offspring. He was just cold. He turned up the thermostat. "You should see her." Sarek stiffened.

"No."

"Why?"

"I do not wish to."

"That's not a reason."

"She acted as Spock did."

"She had that choice."

"And she abused it. Do you truly expect me to willingly interact with her?"

"No, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying."

"You are being illogical."

"And you love me anyway."

"Love is an emotion."

"Exactly."

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Yellow lights flashed. Sirens screamed. Yellow alert was on. Ms Spock flew as fast as she could without going beyond a speed walk to the bridge, nodon'tletJanegoagainnononononono. The turbolift dutifully carried her to the bridge, where Jane awaited. This was illogical. Just because the last alert had preluded her captain's capture, that did not necessitate that this one would also take Jane from her. Spock clamped down on her emotions, and forced them aside. Feelings were irrelevant. Logic was all that mattered. She strode onto the bridge and pulled up short. Sarek. It had to be her. Him. The preasence was so undeniably that of her mother… father? She shook it off, she would not let him distract her.

"Captain." Her voice pierced the bridge, and Sarek turned.

Sarek-

"Captain." Sarek turned. Spock. This must be her. Sarek was on the bridge because the needed help in deducing how best to disable the field that held them captive, and Sarek had interacted with this species before. That was obviously quite unfortunate. She strode forward, and Sarek noted that in basic body composition, she was reasonably similar to Spock, except for the obvious differences as a female. He wondered what her full name was. He didn't think he would ever ask. "Captain, may I inquire as to why my presence is required?"

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"We're stuck with no power. Our dilithium crystals were blown out by some sort of energy radiating from the planet we're orbiting. We're setting a field around our power converter, so it won't happen again, but they're blown apart. We can't possibly fix them. We need to beam someone down to get more crystals, we're getting readings that there are some in one of the abandoned underground passageways. We need to get them, but we can only beam down 2 people, and we can only do it once. The transporters won't have enough power for anything else." Ms Spock nodded at the lieutenant who had delivered the message, obviously he was on the bridge to inform the bridge crew of the situation, and turned to Jim.

"Captain, if this is true, there are only a few types of radiation that could cause effects such as this. One is Marvidian energy, one is Sarsidion, and one is Markineos. Which is it?"

"Marvidian." Jim said grimly. "Got any ideas?"

"In order to transport that many crystals on a planet with high Marvidian energy, it would be necessary to use a ecohydronic compressor. The knowledge of how to use one is highly rare." Mr Spock spoke up.

"Indeed. Even I am unsure of how to use one, and there is not time to learn. The transporters only have (insert unit of time) before they will cease to function completely. However, I can see no alternative solution." Mr Spock admitted.

"I am well versed in the methods of use for a ecohydronic compressor." Sarek informed them. "However, my assistance alone is not enough."

"I am able to operate such a machine." Ms Spock spoke up. "I was informed of the methods while one one of our beginning missions to Myteranieos, one which you did not partake in."

"So together you could get those crystals?" Jim burst out.

"Potentially." Ms Spock deadpanned. "However the odds…"

"Are better than if we sit here and do nothing." Jim cut her off. "If we do that, we don't have any chance at all."

"That is incorrect." Ms Spock corrected. "We would have a one in 66972483…"

"All right, but our chances are far better if we send you two down there. Agreed?"

"That is correct."

"Alright, so are you two going?"

"It would be illogical to refuse." Sarek grounded out Vulcanly.

"He is correct. As we have a time limit, sooner would undoubtedly be better." Jim nodded.

"Thankfully other me is in engineering helping with a problem that flashed up; everyone else was too busy to go down. You'd better leave before she gets back. I'll comm Mr Scott." Jim advised. Ms Spock nodded.

"Yes captain." She turned, and, with Sarek, walked back onto the turbo lift. The best thing to do would be to get this over with as soon as possible, within the bounds of safety and logic, of course.