Observation Deck. 2100.

The simple message, concise and lacking entirely in detail, was sent to Uhura’s PADD before the beginning of Alpha shift and never mentioned by either of them throughout the day. They were both focused on their work and seldom diverted from it while they were on shift. Of course they both had important jobs; heading up ( Read more... )

Spock was a great many things, some of them even negative (i.e. kind of an asshole to that Ensign in Tactical), but the man was rarely late ( Read more... )

The end of the Alpha shift was usually uneventful these days. With a distinct lack of pertinent events happening many of the other officers moved around their duties to coincide with other friends on the ship (except Angela, as Spock occasionally shifted her shift around in order to have Kirk get his off-duty paperwork done), but Spock was content ( Read more... )

Pike arrived on the transporter pad of the Enterprise along with Security Chief Giotto. He wondered how Kirk and company were going to take their sudden arrival, and more importantly how he was going to take not commanding the ship he loved.

"So..." He said to Giotto, "Looking forward to enforcing protocol here?"

Starfleet Academy, 2256

If there was one thing that was frustrating about conducting linguistics courses at Starfleet, it was the general lack of interest in Xenolinguistics put for by most of the students. Though they were expected to interact with alien species and conduct themselves in a respectable and ethical manner while creating lasting ( Read more... )

The bed was comfortable, so it wasn't that which woke her up. It was still fairly quiet and it was almost completely dark in the room, so it wasn't that which woke her up. In fact, she couldn't quite pinpoint what it was that made her eyes fly open except that she suddenly knew that she wasn't in HER bed. She was alone, so that was something. And ( Read more... )

The first week of this new mission aboard the USS Enterprise, and things were officially getting dull. Kirk's first week on the ship had been full of things happening, never a dull moment. And while this week had had its fun times, the whole crew needed a break from the monotony of day-to-day. (Or, Jim did, and he assumed that the crew thought ( Read more... )

There was no way to describe the tranquility of the ship in the evening. The halls were quieter than the almost frantic hustle of the day shifts, the occasional security officer wandered here and there and the various members of the crew dissipated into one of two places; their quarters or the entertainment halls. While the entertainment decks were ( Read more... )

His first shift under Kirk had ended and their journey had changed, but somehow everything felt right. They had been properly welcomed after their successful defeat of Nero, the new graduates were given a proper ceremony and the Enterprise had begun its first mission over who he now knew was its proper Captain ( Read more... )