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Dangers of Distractions

Chapter 1

The USS Enterprise was coming home. It was supposed to be out on a five year mission, but due to some staffing issues, it had to return to Earth, temporarily.

James T. Kirk, the captain, was the main reason behind the staff changes. The young man was known for being a ladies man and the only reasonable, daresay logical, thing to do was to remove temptation from the ship.

Jim had gone to his good friends Doctor Leonard McCoy and First Officer Spock and conveyed his problem.

"Damn it, Jim. I'm a doctor, not your priest," McCoy uttered before sitting back in his chair in amused silence.

Spock, who didn't fully understand Jim's problem decided to further question the situation.

"So, you feel the need to mate with every female aboard the ship?" Spock asked in his monotone.

McCoy suppressed some laughter, but not well enough. Jim shot Bones a dirty look, then turned back to Spock.

"It isn't a need, per se, Spock. It isn't like pon farr. I'm not going to die. I just have an eye for women. And it's starting to cause me to lose focus as captain. Well, it could. And it isn't every female…" he trailed off.

"Then it seems only logical that the women you find so distracting should be relocated to other ships," Spock stated.

"You should be careful saying things like that, Spock. Your girlfriend could be moved to the Farragut," Bones smiled.

Spock turned his head quickly to look at Jim's response and raised one eyebrow as he waited.

The response was merely a shrug of one shoulder, but when he realized he was being watched he spoke. "Relax, my pointy-eared friend, Uhura doesn't distract me so much as annoy me. Her place here is safe."

So, here they were, coming in for a landing, to spend one night back on Earth and have some of the ship's mechanical and cosmetic issues repaired.

The women aboard the Enterprise were slightly upset about losing their places. They didn't fully understand the reasoning and hated that they were being relocated.

Captain Kirk was going to be re-staffing personally. Or, so he thought.

Upon returning to Admiral Pike at Starfleet headquarters, he learned that the replacements had already been chosen.

"With all due respect, Admiral Pike, I should be choosing my crew," Jim argued.

Pike smiled slightly. "Kirk, it is ridiculous that you feel the need to remove thirty-odd female staff members from the Enterprise. Thirty people who are the best at what they do and deserve to be aboard the ship. But in light of your problem…"

"It's not really a problem, sir. But it could have become one," Jim said.

"In light of the situation, we have granted your request and have chosen suitable replacements," Admiral Pike explained. "It was decided that it was admirable that you were putting the ship's welfare over your personal relations. A quality your father also had."

Admiral Pike handed Kirk a list of people and Kirk scanned it, reading names and vital information. He was nodding his head with each that he read, until he came to the last one.

"Absolutely not," Jim said. "She is not to come aboard my ship."

"She is already packing. Besides, other than Commander Spock, she is the youngest professor Starfleet Academy has had. But you already know that."

Jim scowled.

"Don't you need her here, then?"

"While she is an amazing asset to us, with her skills, she's being wasted here. She will be a great addition to your staff and helpful with diplomacy. The order is final," Admiral Pike said.

Jim nodded and excused himself from Pike's office and walked down the hall. He was going to need to be drunk tonight. He didn't want to think about her until the morning.

Amanda Williams silently packed her things into a bag. It had only been three hours since Admiral Pike had ordered her to join the crew of the USS Enterprise. This was the very ship under the command of James T. Kirk, the man she had once been engaged to. She didn't have a problem with Jim. In fact, it was the entire opposite feeling.

She and Jim grew up together. Their mothers were best friends. And Jim and Amanda had always been attracted to one another.

When Jim proposed at seventeen years old, it felt right to say yes. But a year later, upon graduating high school, Amanda changed her mind. Or rather, Jim's grandmother told Amanda that Jim was destined for great things; that she didn't see them together in the future.

It broke Amanda's heart, but she didn't want to hold him back. She ended the relationship and joined Starfleet Academy without ever telling Jim the truth.

It had been years since they had seen one another. Amanda knew Jim had joined Starfleet, but he had been careful to avoid her classes. And when she had heard of his promotion to Captain of the Enterprise, Amanda knew she had made the right decision. But it still didn't make that hurt feeling go away.

It was after midnight when she was finally going to bed, but she couldn't sleep.

An hour and a half later, she had finally drifted into a restless sleep, when someone began pounding on her door.

Amanda groaned.

"I'm sorry. The assignment was due at midnight. I leave in the morning!" she shouted.

Whoever was banging on the door did not respond. He just kept banging.

Amanda's first thought was to ignore it and attempt to sleep. Who the hell cared who was on the other side of the door? But she was curious. Especially when she heard the scuffle on the other side of the door.

Amanda groaned again and heaved herself out of bed.

On the other side of the door, a drunk James Kirk was pounding on the door. He'd been enjoying the night at a bar with Doctor McCoy and Spock when he decided he needed answers before Amanda came on his ship.

He didn't tell Spock or Bones what he was doing, he just made a break for it. Both the other men knew how much he had to drink and followed after him.

Spock got there first and saw Jim drunkenly pounding on someone's door. When Bones arrived a second later, they attempted to pull Jim away.

That was when the door slid open.