Love: A Complex Frontier
Having the honor and privilege of exploring new worlds is one thing that comes as a great experience in one's life. For Zora, a young Vulcan and recent graduate of Starfleet Academy, this was the much-awaited day that she had been looking forward to for as long as she could remember. This day meant that her destiny was now entirely in her hands.
She entered the starship that she had been assigned to as a crew member, the USS Enterprise, with awe, eager to learn everything she could about her new surroundings. They fascinated and intrigued her to no end. Excitement could not even come close to describing the sense of pride running through her as she made her way around the ship.
Zora then met Captain James T. Kirk, and from there she started to observe things and take notes. She was figuring out the ins and outs of the ship already, and from there, she knew that she was right at home on board the ship.
Then, she ran into a handsome young Vulcan with a quiet, sweet, unassuming demeanor. To finally see a face that was at least familiar as in from home was comforting to her. She introduced herself to him.
"I'm Zora. I'm a recent graduate of Starfleet Academy," she said.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Spock," he replied.
"Nice meeting you, too. I think we'll have a lot of fun working together, " she said.
He smiled and turned around and headed back to work.
Suddenly, Zora found herself thinking, 'My brain feels heavy with jumbled thoughts inside of it. Why now? Why today of all days?'
The handsome Vulcan whom she had just met had literally taken her breath away, unbeknownst to her. This was something that was totally unexpected and confusing to her. She had been caught off guard by this event, and she was now trying to make sense of it.