Prologue: Welcome to the Enterprise
A girl walked onto the deck in the shuttle bay. She was dressed in the short skirt that all women had to wear. She left the shuttle bay and smiled as the crewmen stop in their tracks as she walked by. Her curly auburn hair was pulled into a ponytail fixed on the top of her head.
She enters the turbo lift and turned around to see all of the men staring at her. She gave them a wave as the lift doors closed and she thought to herself why are they all looking at me like that?
The doors opened on the bridge. Everything seemed normal or somewhat normal.
"Permission to come aboard Captain?" She asked the man in the yellow shirt sitting in the chair in the middle.
"Permission…" The man trailed off and just stared at her.
Then the whole bridge stared at the captain and then at her.
"The Captain meant to say permission granted Lieutenant." A man dressed in blue with pointed ears informed her. "You are Lieutenant …"
"Lieutenant Caylynn Archer, new Chief Security officer on this ship, and with a hell of a shot if I might say so myself."
"Nice to meet you lieutenant, I am Commander Spock and this is Captain Kirk," The pointed ear man said and pointed at the man still speechless sitting in the chair in the center of the room. "Your post is to the left of the Captain," Spock said and pointed at the station.
"Nice," Caylynn said and smiled as she walked behind her station.
Caylynn's station was small. Her job there was to do target locks and organize security teams. Also to check the status of the phasers and photon torpedoes. She didn't get to fire them unless they switched to auxiliary control. That was the job of the helm officer and the navigator.
Caylynn stared at the screen in front of her for what seemed like forever, and then Kirk got out of the chair and left the bridge. It seemed as the same instant when the rest of the senior officers left the bridge. Caylynn guessed that it is the end of the shift because another group of officers quickly entered the bridge.
Caylynn left her station and followed a man into a turbolift.
"Hello lass I am Montgomery Scott, but my friends call me, Scotty," The man in the turbolift told Caylynn.
"You," Caylynn said.
"Lass have I met you before?"
"You have met me but you know my father."
"I know many people but you are going to have to enlighten me."
"I am Caylynn Archer and beamed my dog Porthos jr. into the middle of space."
"Well I am truly sorry about lass."
"Yeah right you are such a jerk, I will never forgive you for that."
"You don't have to forgive me but I hope you will learn to tolerate me."
With that the doors opened on the recreation deck.
"If it is okay with you like to introduce you to my friends/ acquaintances. This as you already know is Captain Kirk and Commander Spock." He pointed to the speechless man from the bridge and the guy with the pointed ears. "That lovely lass next to Spock is Uhura," This time he pointed to one of the females at the table. "The young boy with the curly hair is Chekov," Scotty pointed to the kid next to an Asian man. "That guy next to him is Sulu," He pointed to the Asian man. "Those two playing chess are Leonard McCoy or Bones and the Vulcan sitting across from him is Ta'kel."
After all of the introductions Caylynn sat at the table across from Kirk and watched Ta'kel trump Bones in chess, most likely because he was going easy on her. Soon after the game was finished the group broke off in pairs. Spock left with Uhura, Scotty left with Bones and Ta'Kel after too much to drink and Chekov left with Sulu. Then there was only Caylynn and Kirk.
"It has been years Caylynn and you haven't changed a bit."
"Neither have you James."
"You know you are prettier then I remember."
"And you are even more of a womanizer then I remember, which until now I didn't think was possible."
"Oh well if that is what you think of me I will just leave."
"No stay."
"Bye Caylynn talk to you later."
That wasn't the first time Caylynn felt sad when Kirk left the room. It all started at Star Fleet academy when she first met Kirk. Her feelings for him had been buried under 13 years of not seeing him. Caylynn frowned and left the rec room.
She entered a turbolift, ordered it to deck six she was ready to get some sleep.
In her quarters P3 runs up to her. P3 or Porthos the third. She is form the third litter of puppies that are decanted by the original Porthos. Caylynn smiled and petted the beagle on the head. She changed out of her uniform and went into bed. She put P3 next to her and fell asleep.