The Patient Parasites

SummaryEdit

An Enterprise landing party is held hostage by a robot probe.

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Finder • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu

Referenced only 

Pablo Picasso

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser)

LocationsEdit

Earth • Starbase 6 • Zeta Geminorum system

Races and culturesEdit

Human • Tullvan • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

United Federation of Planets

Other referencesEdit

bird • carrier missile • cat • communicator • cryomemory cube • Feinberger • fly • jellyfish • phaser • planet-wrecker missile • robot • snake • spider • transporter • tricorder

ChronologyEdit

459

The Tullvan species died out. (Referenced)

Stardate 5459.4

A USS Enterprise landing party encounters an artificial construct that calls itself Finder on a remote planet. Finder wants warp technology for its creators, the Tullvans. (In-story)

Stardate 5459.6

James T. Kirk considers his options against Finder. The ship and crew prepare to free their associates. (In-story)

Stardate 5459.7

Kirk and crew launch an all-out offensive against Finder, but without much progress. Then Spock learns that Finder's masters might have been Tullvans, and that they are extinct. Finder, forced to face that it is an artifact serving no masters, is defeated by information and logic and releases Kirk's crew before destroying itself. (In-story)

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ConnectionsEdit

TimelineEdit

published order
Previous story: Snake Pit!	The New Voyages 2	Next story: In the Maze
chronological order
Previous Adventure: The Slaver Weapon	Pocket	Next Adventure: Intersection Point