The crabs in my lobster pot. The third bird, alive and in a bush. The walls at Pavilhão Chinês in Lisbon. --- Starfleet encounters a libertarian space steading colony in need of help. They attempt to render aid, but the colonists will make no lifestyle concessions nor recognize the authority of Starfleet. This is merely distasteful, until: they are found to be harboring fugitives. they are inadvertently about to make first contact. they are emboldening the local fauna. they are polluting a ...
