From this high up Bacchus II looked a pleasant enough place, glowing gently with the reflected light of its star. Only went to show that appearances could be deceiving ( Read more... )

The shuttle was piloted down, down to where the first landing crew had arrived. Kirk was nervous, looking anywhere and everywhere for a sign of a struggle ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise... (Open for communications from the planet)It was quiet on the bridge now, although the few crew still manning it were no less tense than before. In the absence of communications from either of the away teams they had no way of knowing what the situation was on the planet ( Read more... )

He didn't know when he'd fallen asleep. Or how, as he was feeling mighty uncomfortable physically and on edge mentally. Still, Leonard found himself cracking open his eyes to the dingy light of the holding cell they'd been thrown in. It'd been.... hell, he had no clue how long they'd been locked up. Spock would probably know, sitting off in a ( Read more... )

Scotty was in a significantly better mood when he headed back down to Engineering a few hours later. He did the rounds, but as he'd expected, the rest of the engineers on duty had managed just fine during his brief absence. In fact none of them seemed to have noticed that he'd been gone. He would have been alerted if there was an emergency anyway ( Read more... )

The corridors were blessedly deserted as he led the way back to his quarters. Technically, both of them were still meant to be on shift, but as Chief of Engineering he'd been able to quickly reshuffle things so that officially they weren't ( Read more... )

It wasn't something he would have been expecting to be able to say - not in only his second week as Chief of Engineering aboard the Fleet's flagship - but nevertheless, it had happened. Scotty was boredOr perhaps bored wasn't quite the right word. It was more that he found it galling to know that there was nothing he could to to aid in the current ( Read more... )

The first away team down on Bacchus II was missing, and a second away team was just now gathering to follow them. Aiden was not among it, not being a senior enough officer aboard the ship to warrant his participation. It galled him, being young enough and foolish enough to want to be in the thick of things, but there was nothing he could do except ( Read more... )

Kirk was on the bridge yet again, looking tense. When he hadn't gotten a reply the first time, he had started using the communications to attempt to send hailing frequencies towards the planet ( Read more... )

There was nothing much to do when there was a scientific mission that he was not required to attend so Sulu took the time to relax ( Read more... )