This got all of the children's undivided attention. Emboldened by this, the boy continued, "Well, that's not all. Starfleet is also recalling people back to the service."
"Ooh!" exclaimed one of the younger girls. "Did you know about that?" she asked her teacher.
The woman smiled and addressed the class. Her voice was smooth, like honey. "I have something important to say," she told them. "I will be leaving soon. I may not ever see you again. I want you to remember me and your history lessons. Who was your favorite person in history?"
The answers were varied:
"Captain Kirk!" "Spock." "The Doctor!" "Ensign Chekov!"
Doctor McCoy!" "Sulu!" "Mr. Scott!" "Nurse Chapel!" "Scotty!" "Mr. Kyle!"
However, one little girl piped up at the very end. "I liked Lieutenant Uhura," she said. "I wonder if she would have liked me."
At that instant, a young man burst into the room and said to the teacher, "Admiral Uhura? Your shuttle is waiting to depart."
Uhura walked to the door quickly. Before she left, she said to the little girl, "I like you very much. Be good for your substitute teacher."
THen she left the room, walking quickly toward the shuttle just outside the building. She left behind 27 second graders, 26 with stunned looks on their faces, the last with both eyebrows raised high.
"Will you look at that," a short, pot-bellied man remarked tot he 70 some year-old woman next to him. "I can tell you that I won't be doing stuff like that when I'm that old."
The man was referring to the 120 year old man doing cartwheels and back flips in the middle of the floor. The Asian man had pure white hair, and his bared muscular chest was one that could have been an extremely athletic 40 year-old's. After finishing up his routine, the man slung a towel over his neck and started talking to one of his onlookers.
After talking for a few minutes, the man came up to the woman to whom the pot-bellied man had been talking to. His eyes bright, he said, "Deborah, I've decided. I'm going back to Starfleet!" With that, he strode from the circus tent, leaving Deborah staring after him. THe pot-bellied man asked her, "Who was that?"
Not taking her eyes away from the door, Deborah replied, "That was my father. That was Admiral Hikaru Sulu. I feel so sorry for the Borg at this point."
Someone thudded on the door. Pavel Chekov sighed and said, "Bozhe moi! Can't anyone leave me alone?"
The door opened, and Sulu stuck his head in and said, "Surprise, Pavel! Can I come it? It's cold out here."
The white-haired Russia jumped to his feet from where he at been sitting in a recliner to go and greet his long lost friend.
After getting reacquainted, the two were sitting around the old fashioned fire place in recliners, sipping coffee and talking. Sulu turned to Chekov and asked, "Say Pavel, why did you choose to live here anyway? You're in an otherwise uninhabited spot in Northern Russia. You're literally out in the middle of nowhere!"
"That's a wery easy question," replied Chekov. "After Keptin Kirk and the B, and after I served my term as President, I didn't really want to talk to anyone. I guess that the Keptin's demise affected me more than I thought."
Sulu nodded, his eyes sad. "You were pretty messed up by what happened on the B. It seemed to affect Mr. Spock and the Doctor the most." He sighed, then continued. "But Pavel, couldn't you at least have told your friends where you were going to live? I had to ask the Rozhenkos for directions."
"Sorry, Hikaru. But ven you came in, I could tell that you had more to say than just 'Hello.' Vell, I'm vaiting."
So Sulu told him about the Federation-wide red alert, the recalling, and that he was going to reopen his account. He finished up with "I'm coming back. Want to come?"
"I don't know...."
"Come on, Pavel. I'm trying to find all of our friends and get them to come back. Uhura's already rejoined. Dr. McCoy never bothered to leave. Ambassador Spock is on Romulus and I couldn't contact him. All I have to do is convince you and Scotty. It would help if I knew where to find him...."
Chekov grinned and replied, "Vell you can count me in. I know exactly vere Scotty is. You see, he's coming for a wisit in a few minutes. I'll help you convince him."
They didn't have long to wait. A few minutes later, the heavy, Oaken door was shoved open and a snow-covered Scotty stomped in. Since he had spent 75 years in a transporter, his hair wasn't pure white like Chekov's and Sulu's. Instead, it was the same silver-gray that it had been on the Enterprise-B.
Wiping snow off of his arms, Scotty said, "Och, 'tis damn cold. Sulu, lad! Ye're lookin' god. Same wi' you, Pavel."
He sat down and accepted the mug of hot coffee that Chekov offered him. Sulu said, "Scotty, you've heard about the recalling, right?" After receiving a confirming nod, he continued: "Well, you see, Chekov and I are going to rejoin. Uhura's already gone back. Dr. McCoy never left. We'd like to know if you'd come with us."
Scotty stared down into his mug. He didn't even bother to look up when he spoke again. "I never did believe that Cap'n Kirk was dead, even when I was th' Deflector Control Room. I don't think 'e's dead now." The engineer looked up, and Sulu was surprised to see tears in his dark eyes. Scotty continued, "I'm comin' back. I'm a'doin' it fer Cap'n Kirk."
It was very late at Starfleet Academy. The line of people waiting for re-registration had shortened to the odd person entering at random intervals. Admiral Solok, who was playing receptionist that day, was preparing to turn in, when Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu entered. The Admiral heard their names, entered them into his computer, and reopened their accounts. Then he gave them keys for their rooms, and said, "Someone asked to see you. Please go through the third door to the right."
The three thanked the Vulcan Admiral, then entered the room which he had directed them to. When they entered, shocked silence filled the office until the elderly doctor sitting behind the desk said, "Well, I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker. I'll leave that to Scotty. But this is as close to a miracle that I've seen in ages."
"I concur," added Spock, who was standing a little to the right of Doctor McCoy.
Uhura just smiled.
Thus, the original Enterprise crew was reunited. All of them, with one exception.
Captain James T. Kirk was elsewhere, and in trouble.