Disclaimer: I do not own Chuck or Star Trek or any of its characters.
AN: All I want to say is Happy Birthday Star Trek, you defined generations.
Hi I'm Chuck, here's a few things you might need to know.
Six years ago, I met the most beautiful woman in the Alpha Quadrant. Turned out she worked for Section 31, the spy agency of the Federation. That's a long story. She was looking for a device called the Intersect, which was downloaded into my head. That's an even longer story. Once I downloaded it, I met a fellow hybrid by the name of John Casey. For someone who is half-Vulcan, he has some serious anger management issues. Anyway, we left on a six-year mission to the Triangulum Galaxy. With Kai Nierys' blessing, of course.
There's an old Klingon proverb: never overestimate yourself and never underestimate your enemy. Of course that's what my mother's people did a century and half ago during the Dominion War. And I didn't learn that lesson, either. Former Prime Minister Garak would never let me hear the end of it...
May 25, 2512
First City, Qo'noS
Located near the western edge of the planet's major continental landmass, the First City sits along the Qam-Chee river. The sprawling and storied metropolis had been home to his mother's birth family. Chuck never knew them, as they had died when his mother was a toddler. She had been raised by a Vulcan science officer and his Romulan wife, but her birth family had left her a few items behind, such as the house that Chuck and Sarah now called home. It was first built over a century ago.
But today they were celebrating their wedding, a traditional Earth wedding that mirrored many of Earth's wedding traditions from the past. One difference was the groom's mother officiating the ceremony. But both ceremonies had a best man, and Chuck was glad to have his best friend growing up next to him now. Kai Nierys sat at the front and smiled, her lined face crinkling with delight.
They were in a temple of the Thousand Gods, the main religion on the planet. Chuck wasn't overly religious but it felt right. They planned on having a traditional wedding sometime next week.
"Alright my vows, my vows…" Chuck smiled nervously. Sarah grinned in her white dress. She didn't think she could ever grow tired of that boyish charm Chuck had. And that smile he had could put her in a wonderful mood at any time
"How do I express the depth of my love for you? Or the dreams for the future? Or that our kids will be like those superheroes from Earth's past?" Chuck grinned and the guests laughed.
"See, this is what you get when you ask for your friend's help on writing vows. So let me try it this way. No vows; just know how much I love you and that I'll keep proving it to you, for every moment of our lives."
Mary grinned, tears rolling down her light brown cheeks.
"You are now life mates, you may kiss your companion!" Mary closed the book. Chuck grabbed his new wife and planted a passionate kiss on her lips. The guests clapped and cheered.
(~~~)
Triangulum Galaxy
January 9, 2515
The planet Almisia orbited a 4.7-billion-year old K-type main sequence star that burned at a cool 5213K at a distance of 79,135,876.45 miles. The planet itself was roughly the same size as the Earth. The sapient natives of the planet called themselves the Castegi. Castegi were violet skinned humanoids with pitch black eyes, although many of the species had skin color ranging from dark purple to light blue.
Chuck gasped, opening his eyes and seeing that he was in a clinic of sorts. A firm hand put him back down on the table.
"Easy there, son. You've been through a traumatic experience." said a firm but kind voice.
"Where the heck am I?" asked Chuck.
"In my private clinic. Kind of a bad idea getting involved in a foolish protest. Those stupid kids have absolutely no clue the horror going on in the north!"
Rilin Faront checked the medical scans of the younger man and immediately noticed something very wrong. The curly haired young man on the table had his organs in the wrong places and some he didn't know what they were.
"Unless my machine is on the fritz, it says here you have an eight chambered heart, iron based blood and other redundant organs." Rilin was more perplexed than shocked, and after being a military doctor for three decades and seeing the carnage he had, nothing shocked him anymore.
"There's a logical explanation for that," Chuck protested, only to be cut off by the sound of gunfire and lots of shouting. Rilin fell to the floor to avoid any projectiles.
"What the hell!" Rilin growled, more annoyed than terrified. After so many years, violence didn't even make him pause.
Then the door opened, and now Rilin was truly shocked. A behemoth of a man with pointy ears and a blond woman with beige skin entered. They looked like...space aliens.
"I hate first contact missions!" Casey growled. His mother always tried to teach her volatile son Vulcan meditation techniques to little effect. He may have been part Denobulan but he was 100% John Casey.
"Hi, baby!" Sarah greeted mate as she holstered her phaser.
"What..." Rilin blinked for the first time in a while, unable to find his voice. His initial theory relating to the young man appeared to be right after all. A space alien registering on the medical scanner on his desk was the only logical explanation. "What is going on here?"
"I can answer that dear." Rilin saw his scientist wife enter the room. "I finished the warp drive."
"Um…okay..." Rilin replied with a considerably nervous laugh.
(~%~)
After three years of hard work and using the notes of her old professor in combination with her equations, theoretical physicist and full-time dreamer Chrona Faront and her team of engineers had finally completed the warp drive, which was theorized by her late college professor nearly sixty years ago. The basic concept was to distort the local space-time continuum and envelop a spacecraft in a warp bubble propelling the craft at velocities greatly exceeding the speed of light. The nearest star was about seven light years away, and using the fastest spacecraft would take roughly a century to get there. But with the warp drive, it would take only three months.
After the world war fifteen years ago that had killed roughly a quarter of a billion people, Chrona hoped this warp drive would unite the planet, bringing it much needed harmony. She stared at the two moons hanging in the night sky. Today had been quite an adventure, and it changed her perspective of the universe in ways she had never imagined. There was life beyond this planet, life in another galaxy. Castegians referred to it as the Milky Road, based on it looking like long white streaks, and it sat roughly three million light years from here.
"You never get tired of it," smiled Chuck as he looked up at the stars behind her, the Milky Way in the distance shining brightly. They were at her family's cabin outside the city, which meant the stars were unencumbered by the light pollution of the more densely populated area. His mother, Mary, who happened to be the captain of the Enterprise was busy with long discussions with the Prime Minister of the nation.
"How did your people invent the warp drive?" Chrona asked the young man standing next to her, who was Chief Engineer on the Enterprise, a magnificent space craft she toured when she was transported up there. She met many different alien species on the ship and was now talking with a living, breathing space alien. Even better, he appeared to be a hybrid of two species.
"On my father's planet a world war had left most of the world devastated, people had lost hope until the inventor of the warp drive inadvertently made contact with an alien species. And as a result, his world changed forever. On my mother's planet well it was accidental really"
Chuck smiled at the nostalgia, having read the autobiography of Zefram Cochrane countless times. During the 2060s, Cochrane lived in Bozeman, Montana, where he and his team of engineers began developing the warp drive. The challenge of inventing warp theory took Cochrane an extremely long time. In 2061, he was responsible for Earth's first successful demonstration of light speed propulsion, though his work was far from complete.
He also claimed cybernetic beings from the future had come to enslave humanity and humans also from the future had stopped he didn't believe it until years later he had hacked into the database of the Temporal agency.
"Your husband saved my life today, I can never repay you for this." Chuck smiled already healing thanks to the attention of his sister. First contact missions was never easy some governments were still too insular to be prepared for the concept of life beyond their world. Chuck had gotten injured in a student protest by riot police, Chrona's surgeon husband had been nearby and rescued the half Klingon.
"Trust me Chuck I'm the one who can never repay you for all that you've done, my hope for the future has been restored again thanks to you." Chrona said with a smile.
"I hope we meet again someday, my wife needs me." Chuck pressed on his combadge smiling at the scientist.
"Don't leave so soon, I was wondering if you and your wife wanted too..." She was cut by the beaming effect of the transporter and Chuck suddenly vanished as if by magic. "Stay for dinner."
Chrona chuckled and sighed happily, and for the first time in a long time the scientist felt at peace.
THE END
