Jim couldn’t sleep. He wasn’t too surprised that he found himself tossing and turning at 0200 hours, given all that was going on ( Read more... )

There was peace. True peace. Not the sort that requires huge armies with banks of phasers to make it happen. But the sort that comes from simply deciding “we aren’t going to go war, ever.” The sort that comes from Klingons and Romulans alike realizing that the galaxy is large enough for their empires to expand and still leave other races alone ( Read more... )

There was a time when the Federation Diplomatic Office considered the Nimbus III project a worthy challenge. It was seen as rare opportunity to tear down the barriers between the Federation, the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire. But that was 15 years ago. Before ch'Rihan began to look inward and think less about relations with ( Read more... )

The former house of George and Winona Kirk sits quietly, much of its furniture under synthetic dust cloths. The light of an Iowa morning is diffuse as the polarized glass of the windows keeps the rooms bright but not too much so. The hum of the household control system is faint, and outside there is only the distant buzz of automated tractors a ( Read more... )

In 1620, over 600 years before Jim Kirk’s time, the Pilgrims came to the New World. History shows that they were often as intolerant as those who they fled, that they helped bring about the demise of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, that they were not particularly adept as settlers or explorers. And yet, they left their mark on Earth. ( Read more... )

The Enterprise-A was in orbit around Bajor. From space and at the surface, it was a beautiful world. But after just four days there, Jim was ready to leave. Oh, it wasn’t that he wasn’t made to feel welcome. The Bajoran government, and the world’s religious leaders, treated him and his crew with respect and with cordiality. The receptions were ( Read more... )

He hated this. Hated being on display for the entire Federation to see. Hated having to make a speech (which was of course vetted by the Protocol Office). Hated the speeches before his and after. Hated ceremonies in general. He hated the entire christening ceremony. The only good thing about it was that after it was over, the Enterprise would ( Read more... )

Shortly before Captain Kirk's shift was to begin, he got a call from a vet in Montana. Butler, his great dane these last nine years, was dying. The old dog's heart simply gave out, as happened ofter with larger breeds. And even with medical and technological advances, even with the ability to clone a new heart from the old, there was little that ( Read more... )

They talked all night. There was more than just talk, but the cuddling and the passion seemed to be as much from an effort to relieve the tension as from love. And as they dozed off, both knew that nothing had been solved ( Read more... )

James T. Kirk, it is the judgment of this Council that you be reduced in rank to Captain…and that as a consequence of your new rank, you be given the duties for which you have repeatedly demonstrated unswerving ability: the command of a starship.Captain James T. Kirk truly did not expect the events of the day. He thought he would get honorable ( Read more... )