The craft hummed to life with Kirk and Spock at the helm and lifted sharply off the shrapnel-embedded ground of Kronos.

Uhura set the communications system at nominal and punched in the auto-code to keep an eye on it. She left her seat and gathered the left out weapons, disabling them and putting them back in the locker.

She looked over to Kirk and Spock, who was intermittently watching her and his work station screen.

"Uhura, you okay?" Kirk asked her, a frown on his face and his eyes not leaving his screen.

"Yes, Captain." She replied, although she hadn't thought about how she felt until that moment. In fact she felt a little wired, still pumped with adrenaline from their Klingon encounter and capturing Harrison. She quickly recounted the events in her head, speaking Klingon after so long, almost being killed. She had never felt so terrified, so brave, so alive.

"Then would you go check on that son-of-a-bitch for me?" Kirk asked, snapping her out of her thoughts and absentmindedly pointed at the locker behind her, "Take a phaser, just in case." He trailed off.

She nodded, still thinking as she grabbed a phaser and set it to stun before heading through the small shuttle towards the guarded cell-room Harrison was in. She could have died talking to those Klingons alone. She revelled at her bravery, but then thought of the shot that saved her. She stood just outside the door of the room concealing the prisoner as the guard entered the key code to unlock it, it was a shot fired from Harrison that had saved her life.