The Lost Noel

GREG COX

Helen's lips are warm against Kirk's. They share a passionate kiss as, cradling her in his arms, he carries her into his private quarters aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The door behind them cannot close quickly enough. “Captain,” she protests unconvincingly, “my reputation…” Kirk shook his head, forcing the counterfeit memory out of his mind, and not for the first time. Weeks had passed since his harrowing stay on Tantalus V, where the late Dr. Tristan Adams' insidious neural neutralizer had implanted that steamy fantasy in Kirk's memory, and Helen Noel had since transferred to the U.S.S. Reliant, perhaps to escape the awkward emotional aftermath of that mission, yet Kirk still found it hard to shake the false memory. He knew intellectually that it had never actually happened, but it felt…

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