HI THERE I AM TRYING OUT A NEW STORY! I HOPE YOU LIKE IT, AND DON'T HATE ME IF YOU DON'T!

CHAPTER 1

"I can't believe it! I have been assigned to the Enterprise! And it's for a five year mission!" I shout in happiness, evidently annoying my human roommate.

"Oh my God Katie, would you shut up!" she responds. She is definitely annoyed.

"What's wrong?"

"For starters I didn't get assigned to any ship because I failed my stupid xenolinguistics class; I swear that teacher just doesn't like me. Then I come back to our room and I find you dancing around to your great news!"She yells in frustration. Why did I ask?

"I'm sorry Bre," Not.

"You should be." She says. Of course, she is trying to make me feel like I'm a terrible person. Again.

"Why can't you at least try and be happy for me?" I ask which is met with an annoyed glare. "Well, Emma invited me out for drinks to celebrate her results. So I better go." I say.

"Fine. Do whatever you want." I will.

"Bye," I respond with a fake smile, since she doesn't respond I leave. I wish the door wasn't automatic; I would have loved to slam it shut behind me. How can she be so childish? I'm eighteen and she is twenty, I should be the one acting like a child!

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When I get to the bar I see Emma, who stands out with her light green tinted skin. She is talking to a guy, but I pull her away. Emma is an Orion. I know it's odd for an Orion to have such a human name, but her parents have lived on Earth for most of their lives and chose her name for that reason.

"What the hell!" she quietly yells as I pull her away.

"We are celebrating, are we not?" I ask.

"Oh yeah," she responds already forgetting her annoyance "that reminds me where were you assigned?" she asks me.

"Enterprise!" I say with excitement knowing she won't scold me for showing it. "You?"

"Enterprise!" she responds with an equal amount of excitement.

"That's great!" Before we can continue the conversation our other friends join us. My other friends are all human like me, but they all have their quirks. "Hey guys!"

"Hey! Where were you guys assigned?" Jamie asks.

"We both got Enterprise!" I reply.

"We got Farragut," announced Jamie gesturing to her and Bernadette with excitement in her voice.

"I got Agincourt," added Eileen in the same tone as Jamie.

"I got Essex." says Olive, "Hey Em, I bet you like that name!" she jokes, but before Emma can respond Bernadette speaks.

"Didn't we come here to celebrate? What are we waiting for? Let's get some shots!" yells Bernadette in her overly hyper manner, then goes over to the bar to get our shots.

"Thank God you turned eighteen, if you didn't it would make celebrating a lot harder," Olive says to me.

About two hours later almost everyone is drunk, except for me and I am stuck practically carrying Emma back to her room. "You know what I heard?" she asks me, her speech actually quite normal for someone with so much alcohol in their system.

"What did you hear?" I ask in an irritated voice.

"I heard that the captain of the Enterprise, Captain Kirk. I heard he has the best ass in all of Starfleet!" she responds. Now you can definitely tell she is drunk.

"Well, isn't that nice." I respond sarcastically as we turn down her hallway.

"Jamie had the greatest idea tonight, but I didn't listen to her. I should have."

"What was it?"

"That we got you laid tonight." She says a little too loudly.

"Shhh! Will you be quiet!" I whisper.

"She was right! I mean we are leaving the day after tomorrow and you've never had sex! We are about to go on a five year mission! That's like another five years of being a virgin!" she continues not lowering her voice, thank god we are at her door.

"Will you just shut up about it?!" I yell. We enter her room, and I lay her down on her bed. "See you tomorrow." I say and quickly leave her room.

It doesn't take long for me to get to my room; once I enter I find the place deserted. Thank God! Not caring where my roommate is I flick off the lights and crawl into my bed. The Enterprise, I can't wait!

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Emma and I give each of our friends one quick hug before boarding the shuttle that will take us to the Enterprise. After we are done with the goodbyes we board the shuttle calmly even though I feel like I may burst with excitement. Once on board we take our seats, I insist on us sitting near a window and Emma does not object. There are not many people on the shuttle, I estimate about only ten cadets have been assigned to the Enterprise. Once in our seats, we prepare for the ride to the starship.

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After traveling for some time I see it. I turn to Emma who is of course talking to some guy and I shake her shoulder.

"What?" she asks turning to me, but in reply I simply point. Out of the corner on my eye I see her jaw drop slightly as we stare at its beauty.

"We are going to work on that ship, Em." I state, but she doesn't reply. We look out the window until the shuttle has entered the starship.

Once the shuttle has landed we are the first to get up and exit the shuttle. Once we exit all the Cadets stand in a small crowd waiting to be told where to go.

"Attention Cadets," we all turn and face a rather young blonde haired man with bright blue eyes, "I am Captain Kirk, and I will be your captain for hopefully the next five years. You are required to report to your commanding officers so I will introduce them now." He says then turns to the people standing to the side. "Lieutenant Commander Scott is our Chief Engineer." He says as a rather short man steps forward. "Lieutenant Commander Uhura is our Chief Communications Officer." He says gesturing to a young woman with dark skin and hair who then steps forward. I tune out for the rest of the introductions, since I have heard both mine and Emma's.

After they are done introducing our commanding officers I wave goodbye to Emma and walk over to Lieutenant Scott with the other two engineers, while Emma walks over to Lieutenant Uhura with the guy she was talking to on the shuttle.

"Okay, well I'm goin' to do a wee roll call, then we can git started." I guess he's Scottish. "Fredrick Dermin'."

"Present," replied a rather large man standing next to me.

"Alexander Kane."

"Present," replied a short young man with jet black hair.

"Katherine Sholtz."

"Present," I say in response.

"How old are ya?" he asks me.

"Eighteen, Sir," I respond.

"You're pretty wee, are sure you are en engineer."

"I assure you Sir, which I am perfectly capable-" I say in an offended tone, but he cuts me off.

"I'm jist messin' with ya, lass." He says chuckling slightly, "Ya aren't the youngest crew member we ever had. Anyway, since we be low on space, you all are goin' to have bunk mates." He says then passes out some papers. I look at mine and see that I got Emma as a bunk mate; it makes sense since there are only four girls that were assigned to the Enterprise.

"Scotty!" yells someone on the other end; I suddenly recognize it to be the captain.

Lieutenant Scott turns his way then back to us, "One moment." He says to us, then he quickly walks over and talks to the captain.

After a few minutes he returns with a young man who looks about my age and seems extremely nervous and I can't help but think how cute he is, "There was an emergency down in engeneerin' so Ensign Chekov here will be continuin' for me," he says gesturing to the young man that must be Chekov.

"Hello," he says nervously and turns to Lieutenant Scott for help I think, even though the lieutenant has already started walking away. "I'm guezzing he already handed out zee room azzignments," he says in a Russian accent.

"He did, Sir." I reply, which causes him to look at me for a second, I can feel my face redden slightly when I feel his gaze on me.

"Okay, ve vill be heading down to engineering vor a brief tour zen you are to head to your rooms."

We all nod in response and his eyes catch mine for a second then quickly flick away, and his face reddens.

I HOPE YOU LIKED IT, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T I'M CONTINUING IT ANYWAY!

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!