The Curse of Roberta's Purse-chapter 8
"Captain's log. Using the light speed breakaway factor, the Enterprise has moved backwards in time to the twentieth century to the year 1968. Our announced mission before we left was historical research; we told everyone that we were going back to find out if the nuclear warhead that our beloved country launched malfunctioned by accident or by design. Our actual mission that we have decided to undertake is that we have come to try and prevent the nuclear holocaust that obliterated a large population of Russians, resulting in World War Three. The war destroyed our beloved country and divided our planet into two warring factions. We Americans were enslaved by the mutated telepathic survivors and have been fighting for our freedom and the restoration of our homeland for the past three centuries. Now that we have discovered time travel, it gives us a unique opportunity to make things right and to free ourselves from the tyranny of the Russian Republic."
Suddenly, the ship shook violently.
"Riley, what was that?" Kirk asked anxiously, looking at his navigator.
"We have company, sir." The Irishman answered calmly. "I think we were just fired upon by the Potemkin. It would appear that Captain Burkhov has borrowed the Romulan Cloaking Device and followed us back in time."
An alert alarm sounded and Kirk heard another anxious voice from the transporter room. It was transporter chief Kyle.
"Sir, this is Kyle in the transporter room. An immensely powerful transporter beam has locked our circuits wide open. Someone or something is attempting to beam aboard."
Kirk flipped a communications toggle switch on his command chair.
"Security to the transporter room on the double. Set your phasers on stun and shoot immediately if it's Burkhov or one of his men."
"Acknowledged, sir. We are on our way." The security chief responded, excitement evident in her voice. Kirk glanced at his Vulcan first officer.
"Let's go, Spock. If it is Burkhov, we will have to explain our presence here when he wakes up from the stun."
The Vulcan followed him to the transporter room, where they found Montgomery Scott examining sputtering circuits.
"Whatever this transporter system is, it's not from Burkhov's ship but from an incredibly powerful signal reaching us from at least one thousand light years away."
"That's impossible, Scotty. No transporter beam could reach that far, not even in our century."
"Captain," Spock announced, looking towards a transporter platform with interest. "Someone is beaming aboard."
The security men had their phasers trained on the area where the new arrival was materializing. Correction: two new arrivals. One was a man dressed in a twentieth century business suit. He was holding a black cat with a shimmering ribbon-like collar. He stepped calmly off the platform.
"Why have you intercepted me?" He asked tranquilly. "Please identify yourselves."
Kirk stared at the new arrival for a few seconds, astonished at his calm demeanor. If the man was really a man of this century, he would have been at the very least surprised or frightened by his surroundings. Kirk came to the conclusion that he could be from the starship that had followed them back in time, despite the fact that the new arrival had no detectable Russian accent. He glanced at the security officers, who kept their weapons at the ready.
"I'm Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise." Kirk answered warily. "Who are you?"
Warehouse 13 had not yet been discovered by the Russian authorities, which was quite a feat, considering it had been over forty years since they had taken complete control of the United States, renaming it the Soviet Republic of States. The warehouse was also protected from Russian incursion by a number of advanced security devices in their employ. When Myka returned, she was appalled to learn that she had not been successful, and had made things much worse than had Claudia. She had been sure that she had played the part of Roberta Lincoln exactly like in the original episode, except for the fact that she hadn't clunked Mr. Seven over the head with the metal box and something seemed a little odd about his attitude when the warhead exploded. He seemed quite somber and shaken. She was whisked away back to the warehouse before she had discovered that the warhead had impacted just outside of Moscow. They all decided to view the only existing episode of "Assignment: Earth" again to get some answers. Peter's DVD was protected somehow from the alternate time line. They found out that this episode had never aired in this reality; nor had any episode after first season. In this reality, Roddenberry could not bring himself to invent a Russian character, considering the world war that had begun. He could not think of another nationality to use, so the series ended abruptly after first season. Myka had thought that she did everything right, until they got to the part when Roberta had fiddled with the controls of Seven's transporter and had yanked him away from Scotty's attempt to beam him back aboard the Enterprise. Myka had not done that. After they Googled the historical information in this time line with their computer, they came to the conclusion that Seven had been detained by the Enterprise too long, resulting in the nuclear warhead being dropped, obliterating all life in the Russian city. It also occurred to Claudia that Mr. Chekov had probably never been born; his ancestors wiped out by the nuclear fallout. Roberta's purse still remained, and they wondered how they were going to fix things now. Artie wondered if Claudia could go back again; this time making sure to do everything right, including yanking Mr. Seven away from Scotty in time to save the world and the United States and to fix things so there would once again be three seasons of the original television series and millions of die hard fans. They soon found out that they could as she opened the purse again.
