Title: A Starship Runs on Loyalty
Characters: Spock, various (none first drabble)
Rating: K+
Word Count: 100 each
Warnings: Mentions of racism, basically, nothing else
Summary: There exist, unfortunately, some people in the world who are too vital to their positions to be booted from them due to inexcusable character traits such as xenophobia. When the Enterprise is ordered to escort one such individual back to Earth, the admiral discovers to his shock that James Kirk's crew is just a little protective of their First Officer...
A/N: I'll be posting these two at a time. Admiral Bryce belongs to me (despite the fact that I don't want him); all other characters belong to whoever the lucky entity is that owns old school Star Trek. Title is from one of my top ten favorite episodes, The Ultimate Computer.
Xenophobia was an unfortunate by-product of the age in which they lived, with new species being constantly discovered, some unfriendly and/or aesthetically unpleasant, space travel, and dropping all racial barriers. Instead of forming more tolerance, there were those who instead formed greater hostility, mistrust, and even revulsion for those who did not, could not, or would not conform to what homo sapiens referred to as 'normal.'
Unfortunately, Starfleet Command had ordered the U.S.S. Enterprise to retrieve and escort one of the most outspokenly prejudiced men in Starfleet from the Omicron Delta system back to Terra.
Unfortunately meaning, unfortunate for Admiral Bryce.
When they received their orders, James T. Kirk was not a happy man. Starfleet cared little for his opinions, however, and after an hour of fit-pitching the powers-that-be signed off. Face burning, he sat and scowled darkly at the screen.
McCoy's dry "We're a flagship, not a stellar limousine," broke the angry silence.
"This trip, we'll be more like a garbage scow," Kirk snapped, storming from the briefing room without looking at either of his officers.
Spock merely raised an eyebrow, shrugged, and went to make preparations.
Kirk went down to the gym and beat the dickens out of half-a-dozen crewmen.