Hello everyone, after watching all three seasons of The Original Series and then the six movies, I had to get a Star Trek story out there. And here it is!
Disclaimer-I own nothing but my OC.
The last few days roaming the galaxy were uneventful. Not that that was a bad thing.
"Captain, our scanners have picked up a ship dead ahead of us, but it isn't moving." Chekov said in what could almost be described as relief.
Kirk jumped at this, he had been picking at his nails for the last twelve minutes.
"Lieutenant Uhura-"
"All channels are open sir, we aren't getting any communications from them."
"Are we transmitting friendly messages?"
" Yes sir?"
"Spock, what is it?"
"...Fascinating."
"Spock?"
"Our scanners have no information of this ship."
"….what?"
"That Vessel does not exist in the Starfleet database."
"Well, I think that is a good enough excuse to go check it out. Are there any life forms aboard?"
"Running a full systems scan as we speak Captain."
"The ship captain, is essentially floating in space. All engines are dead, the little power left is being used for life support in a small chamber on the ship. The only life form our scanners pick up is within this chamber."
"Lieutenant, prepare a boarding party with suits. Spock and I will beam aboard with them."
"Yes sir."
Six minutes later a boarding party of five was standing in the transporter room.
"Energize."
The small group was beamed just outside the only livable part of the ship. And luckily they were wearing suits because it was cold and they wouldn't have been able to survive the atmosphere and the zero gravity without them. They were floating in space.
"Activate gravity boots."
Kirk reached to open the door to get to the life form but it was frozen shut. Jim tried using his body weight, see if it would give, but no success.
"Well shit. Is there any other way in?"
"Negative captain."
"Spock give me a hand."
"Captain, I would rather not give you my appendage, in this climate, I would freeze before bleeding to d-"
"Spock you know what I meant, help me." Kirk rolled his eyes at his first officer.
"I do not think-"
Both men combined their strength to try to crack the ice and open the sealed door. But it was no use.
"Captain there appears to be a layer of ice quite thick on the other side of this door."
"Set Phasers to the lowest setting."
"Captain, I would advise against breaking down that door until whoever is on the other side has the proper equipment on, there is little to no power left and the individual in that room will suffocate if we open this door."
"Kirk to Enterprise."
"Enterprise here, this is Uhura."
"Uhura beam Bones over with his kit and an extra suit, and beam him inside the room directly in front of us."
"Aye captain."
Mccoy materialized into the room minutes later.
"Bones….what's in there?" Kirk spoke through the communicators that all the suits had built in. McCoy observed his surroundings, there was a dark haired young woman lying on a mattress breathing deeply.
"A woman Jim. She appears to be in a coma. All her organs are slowed, but she's alive."
"How's the weather in there?"
"Jim I'm a doctor, not a meteorologist. It's cold. She's like an ice cube."
"Can you get the suit on her?"
"I can try Jim, give me a minute."
Everyone listened intently to the communicator.
"Alright, she's in, but I had to change the temperatures to match this room, a rapid change could kill her."
"Stand back from the door, we are going to break it open."
"Wait a minute Jim, let me check the life support settings, alright go ahead."
Kirk and Spock used their phasers to melt the ice and crack the door open.
"According to the life support settings she needs the same oxygen levels as us, but a higher temperature. But there was so little power left the ship focused the remaining energy on filtering the air and lowering the temperature to a livable but power saving state." McCoy explained.
The boarding part stepped into the room to get a look at the woman, all the suit allowed was her dark curls and pale face.
"Alright you and her can beam back up to the ship and get her to the sick bay. We'll stay and look around. Spock, Let's go find the bridge. Everyone else look for anything useful."
"Aye captain."
The two Starfleet officers left the rest of the party to scavenge the ship elsewhere for any useful information. It was a bit spooky in Jim's opinion, it was pitch black and eerily quiet. The only sounds that could be heard were the distant chatter of the rest of the boarding party and the oxygen masks he and Spock were wearing.
The captain and his first officer roamed the remains of the ship, hoping to find the bridge. Eventually they did and found the information they were looking for.
"Captain, this ships name is Imperial I and it was completed three-hundred and twenty-five years ago. And Admiral Terelle was the commanding officer of the ship." Spock had a flashlight pointed at the plaque at the entrance of the bridge.
Kirk's eyes bugged out, over three hundred years ago? Starfleet hasn't even been around for that long. Hell Earth was probably still in the Dark Ages.
"Can you get any information out of the computer drives?"
"Not without power."
"Kirk to Enterprise."
"Enterprise here, Uhura speaking."
"Uhura can you beam down Scotty, I need him to transfer the remaining power on this ship to the computers."
"Aye captain."
"Scotty, I know there isn't much juice left in this thing but can you get what is left and get the computer up and running, see what this Ship has been through."
"Aye Captain."
Scotty started floating toward where he guessed the engineering department was to start getting all remaining power to those computers. Of course he was able to, and endless amounts of information was gained, but not exactly what they wanted at the moment. But what Scotty wasn't prepared for was the dead floating body in engineering.
"Captain!"
"Yes Scotty?"
"There is a corpse in engineering." Spock and Kirk went to investigate along with everyone else.
They found exactly that, a young male frozen solid. That was a sight none of them would forget. But what to do with him? Kirk figured McCoy would want to do an autopsy on him for any more information.
Luckily no other little surprises were found, then they beamed up to the Enterprise with the corpse, which was taken to the morgue.
Jim made his way to the medical bay and Spock went to the bridge.
"Well Bones, what's the verdict?"
"I have to keep her in the suit until her body is at a normal temperature. I set the suit to do the work for me, come back in the morning, I will be able to take the suit off then."
The Captain went to the bridge to record the findings and report to Starfleet. He was directed to stay and continue to investigate the information the Imperial I had to offer before leaving the area. Spock had been going through everything as soon as he had arrived on the bridge.
"Find anything interesting yet Spock?"
"Affirmative. The ship was made on a planet called Lyridia. However our databanks have no information on a planet with that name. I then looked for the location of this planet with the information retrieved from the Imperial I, the planet was in this galaxy, and however it no longer exists. The last ship log was logged three hundred and twenty years ago."
"Does the log say what happened? Play it."
Spock pressed a few buttons and then a male's voice sounded.
"This is Commander Attano, the Klingons-, I did what I could, and Admiral Terelle is safe for -…" There was distortion and explosions gargling the recording, that was all Kirk got out of it.
"…that's it?"
"Affirmative."
Jim sighed, they were going to be stuck here until they got some decent information.
"Alright, Spock have Uhura help with the info from the Imperial, I'm starving."
Jim went to his quarters to replicate some soup, he was still a bit chilled from earlier, then went to his desk chair and put his feet up to eat his soup. He figured giving Bones a call would be a good idea.
"Bones, any updates."
"No Jim, just a slight increase in her bodily functions, completely normal."
"Keep me posted. Kirk out."
The next morning the first thing he did after his daily routine was go to the med bay to check up on their alien.
Bones had taken her out of the suit finally, she was now under a thick quilt. Jim could finally get a good look at her. She was freakishly pale for one, and she had dark brown curls that seemed to be long enough to touch her collar bone, couldn't be for sure though. About average height, pretty slim but muscular…not bad, he thought to himself.
Bones cleared his throat.
"Jim I would appreciate it if you would not ogle my patients."
"C'mon Bones, don't tell me you didn't."
"I didn't."
Jim didn't believe him.
"Whats with the huge blanket."
"It's a heated quilt, keep her at the temperature she needs to be without everyone else having to sweat."
"Did she wake up yet?" Spock walked in at that moment.
"Not yet, but her brain activity continues to increase…which I am a bit worried about."
"Is an increase in brain activity not what you are looking for Doctor?"
"It is, but hers is already higher than the average human, and it is almost close to yours at the moment Spock."
Bones got a raised eyebrow in response.
"Indeed?"
"Yup."
"Fascinating. Perhaps her species is more like Vulcans then Humans."
"Maybe, I won't know anything until she wakes up though."
"Which will be..?" Jim asked.
"Well I just got her to the correct temperature, so soon hopefully. Maybe she'll need a little boost to get her up and running. I just need time."
And they gave her time, another twenty-four hours passed. Bones had waited twelve before he gave her anything. But even that didn't work. He was frustrated and sleep deprived.
"I've tried everything Jim, I don't know why she won't wake up. She's completely healthy besides the fact that she was practically an ice cube two days ago. She doesn't show any signs of head trauma, her brain scans show activity, high brain activity. I don't know what else to do besides just wait it out and see what happens." Kirk was back to check up on the woman.
"Well, we have no idea how long she has been asleep, what can a day or two more do?"
"If her brain activity wasn't so high I would say she was comatose, but there's a lot of stuff going on in there so I have no idea Jim. I'll give her another twenty-four hours, if she hasn't regained consciousness maybe I could have Spock try a mind meld.
A day later, the woman was still in her deep sleep, and Bones caught up on his.
Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy paged Spock to come down to the medical bay, he wanted him to try the Vulcan mind meld. He could think of no other options.
The half Vulcan arrived in the medical bay, suspecting it was about the woman they found on the dead ship. And he was correct, however he had not the faintest idea that the Captain and Medical Officer wanted him to mind meld with this creature. He didn't believe they understood that a mind meld was a very personal exchange, very personal.
Spock stepped in, hands clasped behind his back, the Captain was already there.
"Spock, Bones has tried everything he knows to get this woman out of her sleep, we want you to try a mind meld."
Both waited for the rebuttal, but it didn't come, which surprised them both.
"Very well." Both officers could detect the apprehension in his voice, and watched him curiously as he sat in the chair next to her bed.
The first officer had been rather curious of the female the rescued from the Lyridian ship. He was interested to find out more of her species, what happened to the planet, what happened to the ship, how she was able to survive….along with a long list of questions.
Spock placed his fingertips in the correct positions, but he was not at all prepared for what greeted him next.
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