Vengeance From The Past. The landmine had lain undisturbed for seventy-eight years. Under what was once a road, the gentle pasture belied the pockmarks of craters that once blemished its surface. Originally one of nine, the others had failed over the years, leaving just the one, only twenty-three percent active but still deadly. It waited for an unwary victim.
Jean-Luc Picard awoke to a delicious sensation. He was being held, the lustrous red hair of his bedmate cascading over his shoulder. He sighed and closed his eyes as her hand opened and began to caress his chest. His voice, roughened from sleep, rumbled through the silence of his bedroom. “Beverly…what are you doing?” “Oh I think you can figure it out.” Her hand drifted lower; dallying at his navel, then lower still, to the base of his hardening penis. “We have to be on duty in half an hour.” She rose up and whispered breathily in his ear, “Well, we’ll have to cut a few corners, but I think we can manage it.” She shrieked when he suddenly turned them both over, pinning her to the mattress. He kissed her deeply, then retreated and looked at her heatedly. His baritone thrilled her as it lowered with his arousal. “I’ll have you and I’ll please myself how long it takes. I am, after all, the Captain.” Beverly’s giggles melted away as he kissed her again; the next sound she made was a moan. They reported for duty an hour late. Nobody said anything.
They were on their way to a mysterious planet. Denoted as H88, the planet had recently been the site of several cosmic storms. They had passed over the planet, causing worldwide upheavals in the weather. To the Federation’s knowledge, H88 was uninhabited, with only lower life forms present. Previous scans had shown signs of habitation, but there were no sentient life forms to be found anywhere, just some remains of buildings. Where the inhabitants were and what happened to them was the mystery the Enterprise and her crew had been sent to solve.
“What do your scans tell us Mr.Data?” Lieutenant Commander Data swivelled in his chair and faced his Captain. “Not much Sir. There are remains of a community’s…larger buildings, some infrastructure, but no inhabitants. The indigenous wildlife has overtaken the towns, I
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