Reflections
By Wolvester
I don't own Star Trek or anything else. No money is made off of this story. It's my own brand of stress relief. Special thanks to my beta reader Fate2017! Enjoy!
Summary: A new race has been sent to determine the weaknesses of all known species and the crew of the Enterprise just became the latest part of the collection representing the Federation. Established Spock and Uhura. Kirk/Spock/ McCoy friendship. All the bridge crew will be seen and heard from before it's over.
Chapter 1: What Now?
Captain's Log - All of the remaining adult Vulcanoids are still unconscious in the sickbay. We lost the Romulan male yesterday. His heart gave out, but he lived to see his son. Doctor McCoy had determined the drugs are extremely toxic over the log term. Unfortunately, the drugs also can't be detoxed out of their systems; they must be purged naturally.
The surviving Klingon contingent is their ship with the exception of Captain Korthos. He is in our sickbay, since his ship doesn't have a skilled Doctor. He has recovered from the effect of the drugs. All of the races represented from the cages have come to an uneasy alliance and all of them want to know if the Vulcanoids will wake up.
The hybrid children are fairly well, all things considered. The three older ones have all recovered from the drugs and the two young ones were never exposed. The Orions have waved any claim to the one of the children, so she will be coming with us. Two of the children are orphans and will be coming with us back to New Vulcan as well. The parents of the last two children will have to figure out how and were they are going to live.
Starfleet Command will be getting a full report once our communication equipment has been repaired. We still need Mr. Spock to wake up and supply us with all the details. He and the other Vulcanoids liberated all of the prisoners and freed the starships from the grip of the Driggins. The problem we face now, all of the races 'studied', is that we don't know the face of the enemy that has declared war on our respective races.
Kirk signed off, gave the con to Sulu, and made his way down to Sickbay. The five Vulcanoids were in private rooms. The heat and lights had been adjusted to their requirements. Uhura was asleep by her Husband's side. Bones must have given at, some point, because she was sound asleep on a bed of her own, holding Spock's bandaged hand.
If he was perfectly honest with himself he could see that Spock looked terrible. However, as the only adult hybrid he was having an easier time than the rest and they had only been in the facility for less than four weeks.
He didn't want to disturb Uhura. This was probably the most sleep she had gotten since this started, so he walked into Bone's office. Not surprising the Chief Medical Officer was not only awake, but was looking at patient charts. He looked up as Jim entered his office and rubbed his tired eyes.
"They all still look terrible, so tell me you've figured out what's going on with them."
McCoy's faced clouded over as he looked at the five remaining monitors of his patients. "No Jim. I'm no closer to being able to help them than when they came on board. Based on the information Korthos provided, the longer it's in their systems, the more toxic and damaging the long term effects. It shuts down their touch telepathy and releases their emotions. It's fatal long term. The Romulan we lost had been in the cages for two years and his telepathy receptors were damaged beyond repair. The stronger the telepath - the more damage it does to the victim."
Jim scrubbed a hand over his own eyes. "Spock is a high level psi, how did he manage to break this thing. How did he get them to break it and get all of us out?"
"Until and if he wakes up, we might not know the answer to that question Jim. The hobgoblin's physical make-up is unique, so it might not have effected him the same way or it could have worn off early. We just don't know right now. What I do know is that the last dose they used wasn't regulated or controlled, it was a pure cut and they are all very lucky to be alive."
Kirk started at the screen that had Spock's readings on it. "Scotty almost has the warp engines back online and Ensign U'Aidat will have communications up and running in the morning. The Orions, the Klingons, Tellarites, and Andorians are all under a peace flag, but I'll feel better when the ship is functioning like normal."
Both Bones and Jim fell silent looking at Spock and Uhura lost in their own thoughts.
To be continued...
Please review...I Love the feedback and no I haven't abandoned Revelations or Dark Horizons but this one just kept run around in my head.