Captain Thelev has been giving a top-secret mission to track down the mysterious alien attack ship and rescue the 200+ Starfleet prisoners.
This series is a direct follow up of my first Star Trek fanfiction called 'Final Fight' which you can read here - .net/s/5144268/1/Star_Trek_Final_Fight.
All copyright to any Star Trek characters and other stuff is owned by Paramount etc. I don't own any of this of and don't make any money out of it. Some of the characters are original though but hey, if you like them, then you use them in your own fan fiction no problem.
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Thelev looked around the admiral's office as he waited. He could see Admiral Morrow's many commendations on the wall and a miniature scale model of the admiral's first commission, The USS Talon, an Apollo class ship that by the looks of the model was the refit variant.
It had been four months since the battle of sector 36764, around twelve federation ships had been lost that day with thousands dead. Thelev and his crew had the task of delivering Kirks old ship to the memory alpha museum when they were called into action to help. They had been responsible for saving the crew of the USS Lexington and many others. Thelev and his skeleton crew all had received medals of honour for their courage.
The noise of the large oak door to the office creaking snapped Thelev back into reality and he turns to see Admiral Morrow and another man enter the office.
"Greetings Captain". Morrow smiles.
The admiral motions for the two men to take a seat.
"Captain Thelev this is Charles Tucker" the admiral explains as he takes his seat. "Charles is in charge of the Klingon Intelligence office".
"Please to meet you Captain. I've heard a lot about you. Congratulations by the way on your medal for your actions at 36764" Tucker smiles as he shakes the Andorian's hand.
Morrow sizes up Thelev for a moment before giving him the reason as to why he had called him here. Thelev on the other hand was just happy to be called up. It was only a few weeks away from retirement and frankly, he was beginning to regret the fact he was going home. He was looking forward to it when he was going to live with his wife on his homeworld but in the last, few months their marriage had fell apart.
Lenara had never been in battle before and after seeing the death of some of her colleagues at the battle of Sector 36764 it had drove her into a deep depression. This in turn heaped pressure on their marriage.
"You may be wondering why we called you here" Morrow began.
"It crossed my mind yes" the captain smiles.
The admiral returns the smile and looks over at Charles. The intelligence office stands to pass Thelev a handheld computer screen. Flashing up on it was general information regarding the battle and scans of the alien craft.
"In the months since the engagement we have collected quite a large amount of information" Charles shifts in his seat to better face the captain. "There is a great deal we have kept out of the public domain regarding our losses and what actually happened that day".
Both the admiral and Charles could see from Thelev's expression that the Captain was confused by the statement. Thelev indeed was confused. He was at the battle; he had even spoken to other captains regarding what had happened that day. What possibly could he not know? He thought to himself
Mr Tucker continues "We have reports logged that the alien's had transported aboard some damaged federation ships and uploaded large portions of their databases. What is more worrying is that we have over two hundred crew members missing from the official dead logs".
What? Are you telling me we have men and women missing in action? Why has nothing been said about this"? Thelev was becoming quite angry
The admiral cuts in and he leans forward on his desk. "The facts are these Captain. Starfleet is still reeling from the political fallout over the attempted assassination of the President by our own command staff. Moral is at a all time low and it was decided that this information, of which we were not aware of UNTIL the clean up began, would be kept behind closed doors until a rescue plan could be drawn up".
Thelev leans back in his chair and takes a minute. He didn't know what was making him feel worse, the fact that two hundred people were abducted or that Starfleet had botched the information and tried to hide it just so they didn't look bad politically. The intelligence officer broke the silence this time around.
"We have gathered similar information from the Klingons and the other races that had engagements with this alien vessel. It's clear this was a scout ship testing our borders and collecting information on us"
"For an invasion?" Thelev replies
The admiral begins to load up some information on his computer consul. "That's what we think. We need to know more on this race Captain. We have a joint effort mission we need you for"
"Why me"? Thelev asks.
"The bottom line is this Captain" Marrow continues to say, "With our losses at 36764 we are low on experienced captains especially with the death of Captain Kirk on the new Enterprise".
The admiral spins his consul screen toward Thelev. The captain can see the schematics for an Excelsior class star ship.
"This is the USS Barak, she was heavily damaged in the battle. For the last two months we've been retro fitting her as a pure warship. The admiral stands up, straightens his uniform and address Thelev with a distinct tone of authority. "Captain Thelev we are asking you to volunteer to take the Barak and rescue our people".
Thelev stands and solutes his admiral. "Yes sir, I'll be honoured".
"Report to Deep Space 3 in two days time for your overall briefing". The admiral says as he shows the captain the door.
After he leaves the intelligence officer and Morrow look at each other, and their faces both say the same thing. That this is a suicide mission at best.
End of Part 1