Chapter One
"Captain's Log, Stardate 4322.9
Currently studying several anomalies in the sector we have been patrolling. We have been warned about an abundance of intense graviton waves in the area. Extreme gravimetric pressures are dangerous so we have been advised to flee the area if necessary.
Captain Kirk finished his log. He looked around at his trusted bridge crew. The entire bridge crew. On and off, various officers had been absent for various reasons recently. The starship is designed to fly even with as few as a single crew member on the bridge, but it ran smoother with everyone pitching in. Now, for instance.
"Coming up on some extreme turbulence, Captain."
"Evasive maneuvers, Mr Sulu." replied Kirk.
"I don't think we can, sir. We'll have to ride it out."
"Well," Kirk said reluctantly, "fasten your seat belts."
"Captain," Spock interjected, "we do not have seat belts."
"But we should have seat belts!" the ship doctor had appeared out of the turbolift, as he always did. "What in God's name are you doing up here? Sickbay was shaking so hard that-" the Doctor never finished his sentence, because a huge tremor interrupted him. Captain Kirk began to call around the ship, making sure nothing was broken.
"Scotty? Are the engines okay?"
"Aye, sir." Replied the engineer. "Why wouldn't they be- ARGH!" A loud rumbling was heard across the comm link. "Captain, are ye alright?"
Then with a final violent shake the sound blurred out and all the lights went off.
Kirk opened is eyes and blinked the haziness from his vision. He stood up. Something didn't feel right. He saw his captains chair, his bridge, but it was somehow... different. It seemed bigger.
"Captain."
Kirk looked to where he heard the familiar yet unfamiliar voice near the Science console. He practically yelped when he found its owner. Before him sat a Vulcan, with an overdoses Starfleet uniform hanging loosely on his thin shoulders. He couldn't have been older than seven.
"Sp- Spock?"
"Indeed, Captain, and you have been transformed into a child as well."
The two boys looked around.
Five small, unconscious forms littered the floor of the bridge. Kirk and Spock singled out the doctor.
"Dr. McCoy." The Vulcan prodded him gently.
"Oohhh-whu- Jim?! Spock?! What- ?"
"Somehow," the Captain responded to Dr. McCoy's babbling, "we have been turned into children."
"Yes, I... noticed." stammered the Doctor. "Well what are we gonna do about it?"
"We should go to the nearest Starbase." Spock suggested. "There we might find a means to revert back into our normal selves."
"That sounds like a plan." Captain Kirk agreed. With this new plan in mind, the children made preparations to rouse the rest of the crew.