Why Kids should not Command a Starship

by Carlotta's twin

Summary: McCoy, Spock, and Scotty have changed into children! Ack! Not the best time to, especially when there's hostile aliens nearby...

D/C: Don't own Star Trek.

Author's Note: I had a vision of young children on the bridge, and here is the result...

Chappie One: Alien Attacks

"Red alert! An alien has boarded this vessel without our consent!" Kirk cried. "Uhura, where is the alien right now?"

"The transporter room." Uhura replied. "I'm sending Security down there right now."

Kirk nodded in agreement. Suddenly, a burst of energy sprouted from the alien vessel in front of them and rocked the ship. Kirk was flung from his captain's chair and onto the floor. "Chekov, hit the damn ship!"

"Aye, sir!" Chekov fired at the ship when another burst of energy rocked the Enterprise, causing the phasers to fail.

"Scotty, how's the engines?" Kirk asked, sitting on the captain's chair once more.

"We're losing impulse power, and our matter-antimatter chambers are shot." Scotty replied. "I can fix it in a few hours-"

"We don't have a few hours!" Kirk yelled.

"We only have five minutes and two seconds until the alien vessel and the Enterprise meet headfirst, Captain." Spock said.

"Jim, what the hell are you doing?" cried McCoy's voice from sickbay.

"Bones, come up here! You too, Scotty." Kirk ordered. "Uhura, where is the alien right now?"

Before she could answer, a bolt of energy struck the Enterprise, and Uhura's communication station exploded. She collapsed on the floor.

"May I repeat: Jim, what the hell is going on?" McCoy asked, running onto the bridge, followed by Scotty.

"Actually, Doctor, you had said 'what the hell are you doing?'." Spock told him.

"Shut up." growled McCoy.

A bolt of energy hit the Enterprise. Kirk's controls exploded, and he collapsed on the floor, semi-conscious. "Jim!" screamed McCoy, bending down to examine him.

"Is he alright?" Scotty asked.

Kirk tried to speak, but found he could not. "He'll live," McCoy answered, "but he needs to go down to sickbay."

"Then let's-" Scotty's idea was cut off by a new voice on the bridge.

"Give me the Enterprise." the alien said, dropping a dead redshirt on the floor. "And Captain Kirk."

"That statement was illogical." Spock said. "You should fully well know we would never give up our ship, or our captain." He, McCoy, and Scotty formed a protective barrier around Kirk.

"Then you will suffer instead of he." the alien snapped. It grabbed out a phaser-like weapon. Kirk tried to say something, but it was too late. A burst of light blinded him, and then everything went dark.

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"Drink this, Captain. Everything will be alright."

Kirk awoke in sickbay. Nurse Chapel was bending over him, mopping his sweaty brow. "What... happened?"

"Well," Chapel said, "Mr. Spock, Mr. Scott, and Dr. McCoy were hit by that weapon of the alien's. When the alien was distracted, Mr. Chekov and Mr. Sulu attacked the alien. They subdued it. The alien is in the brig, sir."

"Good old Sulu and Chekov." muttered Kirk, feeling drowsy. "And, of course, Spock and the others...where are they?"

"Ha ha ha." chuckled Chapel nervously. "About them..."

"Are they alright?" Kirk asked.

"They've checked out, sir." Chapel replied, looking anxious.

"Then send them to the bridge, if you will, and heal me so I can too." Kirk ordered.

"Um...aye, sir."

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A few hours later, Kirk was walking back to the bridge. Sulu was walking out, looking grumpy and a bit ticked off.

"You handled that alien wonderfully, Mr. Sulu." Kirk said.

"Thank you, Captain. May I spend some time in my room, sir?" Sulu asked.

"Of course, but why?"

Sulu opened his mouth to respond, but found he couldn't describe. "You'll find out, sir."

At that enigmatic statement, Kirk walked onto the bridge and mistook it for a zoo. There were papers strewn on the floor covered with messy fingerprints and stick people. Crackers were all over the floor and a juice carton was dripping apple juice all over Spock's chair.

Uhura was holding a five-year-old with a red shirt on. He seemed to be very energetic and was trying to push buttons on Uhura's damaged communication station. The boy seemed to giggle a lot.

Another child was on the captain's chair, his eyes closed. He seemed to be meditating, his slanted eyebrows raising at the sound of the first boy's laughter. He had pointed ears. This child wore a blue shirt.

The last kid aboard the bridge was on Chekov's lap. He seemed very interested in the colors whirling about. He kept tugging on Chekov's arm and asking about random unimportant things. The boy too was wearing a blue shirt.

"What is this, a nursery?" Kirk yelled. The Vulcan child walked up to him and began speaking in a language Kirk had heard, but never known.

"Here you are, sir." Uhura said, leaning over the red-shirted boy to give him a ear-piece. "You'll be able to understand now."

"Where is my sehlat?" The boy kept asking. "I would never leave without him. Where is this place? I should be on Vulcan learning...it would be illogical of me to leave Vulcan so early in my life. Where is I-Chaya?"

Kirk had no response to the young Vulcan. He only shrugged, gave the Vulcan the ear-piece and said, "I do not know." He looked over at Uhura. "What's going on? Why are these kids here?"

"You asked them to come to the bridge, Keptain." Chekov said.

"No I didn't!" Kirk exclaimed. "I asked McCoy, Spock, and Scotty to..." he trailed off. "What did the alien weapon do?"

"Well, sir," Uhura said. "Once Chekov and Sulu had attacked the alien, the three who had protected you began rapidly de-aging. In the blink of an eye, they were teenagers! I got Nurse Chapel up here...she used some medical drugs to keep them at their present age, which is 5 for Mr. Scott, 6 for Dr. McCoy, and...well, we aren't sure what age Mr. Spock is at, but it's obviously a young one."

"Why are ya calling me a doctor?" the little McCoy asked. "I ain't no doctor!" Uhura only chuckled, took McCoy from Chekov, and hugged the boy.

"Aren't they precious, Captain?" she asked, smiling at the three officers.

"You're behaving as if they're tribbles!" screamed Kirk. "They are my senior officers!"

"That doesn't mean they can't be cute." Uhura protested.

"Are ya the captain?" little Scotty asked. Kirk nodded. "Can I see some a dat fancy stuff? All the technology?"

"Do you want to be an engineer?" Chekov asked.

"It'd be fun!" Scotty replied.

"Well, at least Mr. Scott hasn't changed." laughed Uhura.

"This is not funny!" yelled Kirk.

"Vhat do you want to be, Dr.- Leonard?" asked Chekov, laughing.

"Why, I don't know yet. I'm just a good ol country kid." said McCoy, grinning at the Russian.

"Oh, this is just great." growled Kirk, reminding himself of the adult-McCoy. "My senior officers are kids."

What will happen to the little ones? Why did those aliens attack? Is there a reason the author didn't mention what the alien looked like? (For the last one, yes!) Find out, in the next chappie!