"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Disclaimer: I do not own the Star Trek characters, nor am making any profit on this story.
Chapter 1"Activate the rift." The captain of the vessel stood at the helm of his ship. His surroundings are dark, and there were many others on the bridge.
"Rift generating, parameters of the rift?" A Klingon male behind him working on a console, who was most obviously the chief engineer.
"Set parameters, December 13, year 2265. Aboard U.S.S Enterprise orbiting the Deep Space Station K-7." The captain ordered the chief engineer to set the parameters of the rift they were opening,
"Aye, captain." The engineer obeyed like any good officer would do. He started keying in hard at the console, and he speaks again. "The rift is open."
The captain looked ahead of him and shouted to all of his officers. "View screen on, front view."
The view screen flipped on and he glanced at it, there was nothing. There and that worried the captain, he thought that it was visible.
"Where is it?"
"Sir, I opened it in your ready room, unless you intended to take the entire ship into the rift, to be on a deck of the Enterprise." The engineer sneered at his captain.
The Captain turned and walked to the entrance to his ready room. "Thank you, much. And, please lose the attitude." The captain sneered right back and walked into the captain's ready room. A Romulan man follows him and enters the ready room as well. The captain is sitting on his chair, and the Romulan sat on the opposite seat.
"What can I do for you T'mek?" The Captain asked him.
"Are you sure you want to do this sir? As your second in command you should let me go." T'mek asked his captain.
"Yes T'mek, I am positive. It is what I must do, it is the only morally correct thing for me to do. What…he…did was terrible. It is my place to fix it."
"Who elected you to that position? Nobody you are taking it upon yourself to help them. You have nothing to gain and nothing to lose. Neither does your crew!" T'mek argued.
"T'mek I won't have this argument with you, I made my decision nearly a year ago. I did everything I could to get my hands on my ship. Do you know how hard it was to recruit this crew? It has all been for one purpose, and I intend on following through on what I set out to do. Let me put this in layman's terms for you T'mek, I am going to fix this. If you don't like that, you can go straight to hell!" The captain screamed at T'mek who was his second in command. The captain was a very boisterous and abrasive person, and T'mek had angered him, and he went into his rage.
"More power to you than!" T'mek said viciously. T'mek tossed him a small hand device and the captain snatched it up quickly.
"You forgot that captain, how were you going to open another rift to come back? Or did you plan on living out the rest of your days there?" T'mek asked rhetorically.
"T'mek you don't have to like me. Damnit I don't even like you. All you have to do is follow my orders, and you get paid." The captain said to him, and he watched as T'mek snickered and stayed quiet. The captain knew that T'mek would do whatever he told him, because he wanted to get paid.
"Good T'mek. Now, you must keep the rift open. If this is destroyed. I won't be able to get back." The captain said pointing to the anomaly that appeared as a blurry distortion. If that rift was destroyed the captain would be stuck on the other side.
"Yes captain." T'mek said, the captain nodded again and stood up off of his chair. He walked over to the corner of the room, and starred into the distortion. T'mek turned in his chair to watch his captain, he continued to say no words.
The captain looked into it more, and stepped into it. He disappeared from the room and T'mek was shocked. He knew what would happen, but yet he was still shocked. The captain was gone and it was his job to keep this rift open. T'mek stood up off of the chair, and walked to the corner as well. He was thinking about it, he didn't want to, but he was tired of being pushed around by his pathetic excuse for a captain. He wielded his phaser, and looked at it, it was a Romulan phaser, because he used to be a part of the Romulan army. He kept his phaser, when he went AWOL.
T'mek made his decision and he as well stepped into the rift. He may have made a rash decision, but his life was already ruined, he had betrayed the people he loved, and he blames it all on the captain. He will exact his revenge.