I own nothing of Star Trek or any other series that might pop up. This is an AU. Kudos to those who guessed Reaper's ID.
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Subject: Starfleet vs. alternate reality future Romulans
WTF. That's all I can really think to say at this time. I'm sure you've heard about the incident and if you haven't I'm sure you will. Needless to say the Enterprise just saved the entire earth. How's that for serving your country? In case you haven't heard I'll tell you about it. And even if you have I'm going to write about it in any case because I need a release of some kind.
The day after I sent the last email Starfleet gets a distress signal from Vulcan. The higher ups decide to send seven of its ships to Vulcan to find out what the problem is. Sounds pretty standard right? One problem, the ships are not fully staffed and most like the Enterprise are fairly new. In their infinite wisdom the Admiralty decides, hey we have an academy near by with a bunch of soon to be graduates they can fill the empty spots. I'm sure you're seeing the brilliance already.
So CE Olson and I find ourselves surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears engineer cadets that think they know everything since they read the book. Idiots. (And that's referring to the cadets and the professors that led them to thinking such nonsense.) So those of us that have experience end up splitting the kids into groups and give them a crash course in real engineering. By the time we actually leave space dock to head to Vulcan several look more than slightly shell shocked. I almost feel bad about bursting their bubble.
So we finally hit warp speed to Vulcan, and let me tell you the engine works like a charm! It's bloody wonderful. Anyway, for some reason we end up showing up after the other six ships, which turns out to be a godsend as they have been destroyed by the futuristic Romulan ship. That was not a good discovery. I knew a few of the engineering guys on the other ships. We had our giant pre-departure poker game the night before.
The moment we dropped out of warp to find the debris of the other ships the Romulans fired, hitting several of the lower decks, including some of the engineering decks. Olson and I were NOT happy campers. There we are working our tails off to salvage what we could and pull those that were injured or dead out of the way when Pike calls down asking for Olson to join him in the shuttle bay, along with suits for an Orbital dive. That's where you actually jump from the shuttle outside of orbit and pass through the ozone of a planet. It's a lot of fun actually, though maybe not in this situation. Turns out the captain of the Romulan ship, named Narada, ordered Pike over to his ship for negotiations. Yeah, I know it was a load of BS. Pike knew it too, he had Olson, and two cadets, Sulu and Kirk, do the orbital jump to try and stop the giant planetary drill that was cutting into Vulcan's core. It almost worked, but as you know Vulcan is no longer there so the plan failed. We also lost Olson. We would have lost the cadets as well but Chekov, this cute little Russian kid, did some really fast thinking with the transporter and got them on board.
After that Acting-Captain Spock, he's a half-Vulcan, beamed down to the surface and rescued several of the Vulcan elders. I heard his mother didn't make it though.
Most of what happened after that I heard after the fact, as I was obviously busy trying to keep engineering intact and make it so the ship didn't blow up. So if I get the facts wrong then too bad.
Apparently Narada was headed to earth to turn it into a black hole like it did to Vulcan. AC Spock wanted to join the fleet, but First Officer Kirk, not even sure why Pike made him the FO but whatever, disagreed and it got 'physical'. So AC Spock in his 'logic' tossed FO Kirk off the ship onto Delta Vega. Yeah, the overly cold completely useless unless you want to hunt large life threatening creatures planet. Somehow though the kid made it back. I feel justified calling him a kid, as he is only 25. With him he brought Montgomery Scott or Scotty as I have come to know him. An absolutely brilliant engineer, who is quickly becoming my new drinking buddy. (And yes I drink. I would have shared a drink with you if you didn't decide to ignore me.)
Somehow Kirk manages to get the cold-blooded hobgoblin, as Dr. McCoy calls him, to admit he is emotionally compromised and Kirk becomes the AC. Yeah I wasn't feeling too confident when I heard that either. So Kirk, Scotty, Chekov and Spock come up with a plan to drop us out of warp around Saturn and then Scotty would beam the AC and Spock over to Narada, somehow the Scot has discovered the ability for transwarping, that's the ability to transport onto a ship from another place when one ship or both are in warp. It is a really fascinating equation that I plan on studying further once I get the chance. Though that will likely take a long time given the repairs we're going to have to do.
Amazingly the plot worked, and they managed to rescue Pike who had been a captive on Narada. They even stuck this gross looking alien bug in him to control him. I'm glad McCoy is one hell of a surgeon and he managed to get that thing out. Pike is doing much better though he's stuck in sickbay until we get back to earth.
Why are we not at earth if we have already won? Well, destroying the Narada caused a black hole. To avoid being sucked into said black hole we had to drop the warp core into it. Needless to say the ship is limping along and Scotty and I are doing what we can to keep the haul from cracking further. It doesn't help that the majority of the engineering cadets were injured in some way and are now regulated to sickbay or if they're really lucky their rooms.
I'm ok in case you're wondering. I did get a small cut or two and some bruises, but they healed quickly. Yay C24! Thankfully no one has noticed, and McCoy is too busy in sickbay being the new CMO to come bother me. You'd like him, very straightforward and cantankerous…like you. Though I heard the man is a Ninja with the hypospray. I'll have to keep my guard up when he's around. The only other person who might have noticed is Scotty, and he's too busy falling in love with the Enterprise to pay attention to anything else. I'm not sure if it's due to being stuck on Delta Vega for so long, but the man has a serious attachment to the ship…and sandwiches.
Well that's all of it I think. We'll hopefully get to earth in another day or so, and then we can fully repair the damage. At least that done to the ship. There's nothing that's going to repair the loss of lives, as you well know. I feel especially bad for the cadets. They lost 85% of their graduating class.
Sigh…I feel so old. Yeah, yeah I know I'm not old compared to you, geezer. But seeing these fresh naïve young kids really makes me feel ancient. Especially after watching them grow up so fast…
Well that's enough of a pity party. I'm alive and mostly well. Hope you're having a better week than I am.
Take care of yourself. Don't get killed.
Love,
Lexi.
The young woman of 29 years sat at her computer for a moment after sending the email. She considered going to bed like ordered but she was still too wound up to close her eyes and rest. A knock at her door broke through her dulled thoughts.
"Come in."
The door slid open to reveal Scotty holding a bottle of scotch. "Hey there missy. Thought ye could use a wee belt too."
"Excellent timing Scotty," Lexi grinned broadly moving over to join the man as he plopped into one of the easy chairs in her quarters. The man had taken to hanging out with her, as he didn't officially have quarters. It didn't bother her in the least as the past days had led to a mutual respect and understanding of one another. "So how'd you manage to break out of sickbay?"
"Easy, Kirk distracted the good doctor for meh and I ran," he chuckled, passing her a tumbler of the dark liquid.
"I highly doubt our Acting Captain did it out of the kindness of his heart," she snorted playfully. "From what I've heard he hates sickbay more than me. And that's saying something."
"Just be glad ye didn'a get hurt," the Scot huffed. "Otherwise ye'd be stuck in that hellhole too."
Lexi just chuckled and listened as the man broke into a rant about what the cadets have done today and how they know absolutely nothing about real engineering. Enjoying his company she wondered what would happen once they got back to earth and if she would get reassigned. If she did she hoped to have some of the same crewmembers that were on board currently. If nothing else it would prove highly interesting.