Bitter Medicine

Star Trek SCE (ebooks) Novellas #41

by Dave Galanter

A routine salvage operation becomes a desperate rescue mission, as the U.S.S. da Vinci encounters a failing abandoned ship -- that isn't so abandoned! There is one survivor aboard the derelict vessel: a boy who carries a most deadly disease. Even as the S.C.E. works to salvage the ship, Dr. Lense must race the clock to find a cure for the boy -- or condemn him to live out his days alone on the dying vessel!

Genres: Star Trek, Science, Adventure, Ebooks, Space

83 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2004

Reviews

[Michel Siskoid Albert · Rating 3 out of 5]

A rare Lense story, and of the type that has a crew member get obsessed with a case to the point of endangering their careers (think Pen Pals for Data, or Meridian for Dax). And I don't think we understand Lense well enough - she's just so rarely the focus in S.C.E. - to make a determination about her state of mind either way. Galanter writes it well, regardless, and though I don't quite get the medical technobabble (and alien races with super-long lifespans feel ridiculous even if they are a Trek trope), the quarantine protocols used are much more believable than anything on televised Trek. Worth checking out just on that basis. Ultimately a very sweet story with a nice ending.

[Dallas Vinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

oh the feels.

[John Barclay · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short, sweet, strong story. I love this kind of thing. Just what a Star Trek novel should be, and what the SCE is all about.