Constitution
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Kirk gazed at the Enterprise’s viewscreen, where fields of stars streamed by at hundreds of times the speed of light. Too quickly, he told himself. Much too quickly.
With each passing moment, with each pinprick of a star the Enterprise overtook and left behind, they were getting closer to the planet Earth. Closer to the Mitchells and Gary’s funeral service. Closer to the eulogy the captain had been asked to deliver.
How could he do it? he asked himself. How could he stand up in front of all Gary’s friends and relatives and mourn the man’s passing when it was he himself who had put an end to him?
Kirk readjusted his cast. He had made the tough choice, finally—the only choice he could have made under the circumstances. But his friend, his best friend, had perished as a result.
And when he got to Earth, the captain told himself, he would become the biggest hypocrite the galaxy had ever known.
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