Spok's Wife

Spok's Wife

Just because you've been methodical does not mean that you've been logical.  This court is steeped in confusion and your sense of justice is but an illusion and your politics is but an infusion of confusion.  You seek not proof and you seek not the truth.  Your singular goal is to find me filthy to be guilty and some of you have been paid to put on this charade but too many mistakes have been made and nothing short of  arrogance has been displayed.  So what I've said not once but more than twice is that I did not kill my wife with a knife.

Though swamped in an ocean of emotions I was there to feel her, not to kill her.  Our minds were as one when the deed was done and there was no sense for me to run and so what if you found a gun.  It was meant to have my fingerprints but that does not mean that  I did it and I'm not the one that hid it.  So it is my effort to be acquitted though found in a flood of blood.  This is like a Tholian web to which I've been wed, making it difficult for me to heave to breathe and which makes it even more difficult for me to be believed but why try to lie when it is obvious that I'm going to die?

It is with your last breath that you would sentence me to death but it is not because my wife is dead without a tear to be shed.  It is because she was Romulan and you still feel the jolt from such an insult.  You still feel that the reason is treason and you still feel that I've deplored to have ignored the Vulcan way of life and that it is good that I no longer have a wife.  This I say is the real knife that you use to cut me to gut me to rebut me.  Some of you were even amused at the news.  So here I stand the accused to be but a doomed bride's groom.  Never mind that there was someone else in the room.

Before I go I yell to tell you what I do know!  The Romulan senate was in on it.  Then there's the report sent to this court that we need to abort.  My wife and I were shunned because we were going to have a son, making it your sole goal to institute some kind of birth control so that only the pure would endure.  I have come to be labeled a sickness and you anointed yourself as the cure but you are the scourge that needs to be purged.  So this is why I will continue to fight with all of my might and this is why I will still marry her and this is why I will not let you bury her.

Orrin K. Loftin, Explorer

Copyright?  When love is one crime that you should commit to commit.

November 25^th, 2013