STAR TREK: USS CORSAIR

"To boldly go…", Vol. I

Disclaimer: Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. Tony Castro and the USS Corsair were created by me

Spoilers: Spoilers for Star Trek: Generations

Author Note: the crossover element isn't going to appear for a few chapters. So be a bit patient.

2. Heroes

USS Corsair. NCC-1721-C. Bridge

After a split second of incredulity, they started to react.

"Khalev, scan for life signs." ordered Captain Castro.

"One human female…" started to say the Andorian when a new stream of data stopped him cold "Captain! The shuttlecraft life support is failing!"

"T'Sara, lock on her life signs and beam her directly to Sickbay!" ordered Captain Castro to the Deputy Chief Engineer, who was manning the engineering station in the bridge.

The pregnant Vulcan womanr quickly tapped a few commands in her console

"Done, captain!"

"Good work, T'Sara. " she then turned to her first officer and stood, straightening the jacket as she got up "Korg, you have the bridge. I'm going to see our guest." Said Captain Castro

Corsair's sickabay

A few minutes later, Antonia Castro found the new Chief Medical Officer, Sandra Pertini, an attractive blonde in her early 30s, examining the woman that they had transported from the shuttlecraft.

She was a sandy-haired woman who looked to be in her mid thirties, a bit in the stocky side. The woman was wearing a mini-skirted variant of the green wrap-around tunic that she had seen Jim wearing in recordings of his first five-year mission aboard the Enterprise. Although… there seemed to be some slight differences, the center line of her captain rank braids was silver instead of gold, and the tunic was wrapped to the other side. And her face looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't place her.

"Well, Doctor, how is she?" asked the Captain

"Unconscious from a momentary oxygen deprivation." said the doctor and continued "And I have sedated her, only in case."

"Well done, Sandra, and what can you tell me about her?" said approvingly the captain. Alessandra Pertini had come a long way from the nervous wreck that boarded the ship three years ago.

"Human, female, 36 years old, good health, although seems to have not been well fed of late, nothing serious. No sign of pregnancies." said the doctor, reading from the screen. And turning from the screen to face the captain she added. "And she comes from another reality."

"How do you know?" asked the Captain, curious.

"After the Mirror Universe… incidents past year, I thought that it was a reasonable security measure to install a quantum frequency scanner in sickbay." explained the doctor.

"That's an excellent idea, Sandra." Said captain Castro in a commending tone "You are doing a very good job as CMO. "

"Not as good as Dr. Tsen, he was the best doctor that I have seen since I left the Academy." Said Sandra speaking of her late predecessor. "If I had checked Komarov in depth then, maybe he would be here instead of me."

"It's not your fault, Sandra. How could you have known that Misha wasn't... himself?"

"Still, I..." started to argue the doctor

"It's no use to cry over spilt milk, Sandra. Believe me, I know" said the captain, putting a hand on the doctor's shoulder "We can only do our best to avoid repeat the same errors." .

They stood in silence for a moment, before Sandra sighed and said:

"Yes, I know."

Seeing the look in the doctor face, she thought of scheduling her a session with Counselor D'Arla, before trying to deflect her attention back to the matter at hand.

"Sandra, I have seen this face somewhere. Can you compare her DNA with the records from Starfleet Officers of a century ago?"

"Yes, of course. But, why a century ago?"

"Alternate universes time tracks sometimes don't run at the same speed." She said, speaking from experience "And judging from her uniform she hails from the 2260s."

Doctor Pertini nodded and said, starting to key in the console of the diagnostic bed:

"How accurate do you want the match?"

"We don't know when the point of divergence of her universe took place… Ninety percent?"

"Ok. It will suffice, I guess." Said the doctor.

She quickly keyed the appropriate commands, while Captain Castro studied the woman with more attention.

She had seen this face before, but where?

Instead of focusing in the features that were there, she unfocused her eyes a moment to see the general frame. That jaw, that nose...

'No. She can't be...' she thought while the solution started to insinuate in her mind.

She put the hand on the woman forehead, leaving out the elaborated hairstyle, so she could see the face better, and then, at the same time that the answer appeared on the screen, she knew the identity of the woman. Even if it was seemingly impossible.

"Incredible." Said Dr. Pertini looking at the result. Captain Castro glanced to the screen, and saw the confirmation of what she had guessed.

'Damn' she thought and countered "Not at all, I think that has its twisted logic. The slight genetic difference must be the change of the Y chromosome by an X chromosome." said the captain, still looking to the screen, where the computer had identified the woman, with more than 90% accuracy, as James Tiberius Kirk.

TO BE CONTINUED...