"Mr. President!" Kirk again, this time more urgent.
The Klingon thug aimed his pistol squarely at Kirk, and prepared to squeeze the trigger.
But he never got his chance, as the familiar hiss of a hypospray signified the injection of massive amounts of sedatives into his body. Turning blearily, he growled at Julie for a moment, then collapsed to the floor.
"Mr. President!" Kirk shouted once more, then leapt towards the podium.
At exactly the same instant, Julie heard a thud from behind her, and the whine of a phaser rifle discharging. The phaser blast shot down from above, barely missing the President, who had been roughly tackled to the floor by the ever-heroic Captain Kirk.
Julie could hear the legendary captain identify himself, somewhat needlessly, she thought: "Kirk, Enterprise."
"Are you all right?" T'Katha asked.
Whirling around, Julie could see another Klingon slumped on the floor. She suddenly realized she had never seen him. Less than two paces away, T'Katha stood calmly over the unconscious Klingon.
"You?" Julie asked, pointing to the Klingon.
"Of course," T'Katha replied.
Vulcan nerve pinch, Julie realized.
There was a second phaser blast, a crashing sound, and the sight of an apparently Klingon body hurtling to the ground from an observation window high above.
"Colonel West," T'Katha observed. "It would appear that Joshua was successful. We should find him and leave as quickly as possible."
"What about them?" Julie asked, pointing to the Klingons.
"When time is restored, they will be restored along with it," T'Katha replied. "There is little else we can do."
"Okay, let's go," Julie answered. Slipping away unnoticed was not difficult in the chaos, and within moments they had met up with Josh. He was beaten up a bit but otherwise appeared unharmed.
Standing at the back of the room, the trio took one last look at the scene before departing.
"You know," Julie commented, "I somehow always imagined that Captain Kirk would be taller – and thinner."
Josh chuckled to himself, in spite of everything.
From the front of the room, he heard Azetbur call out, "What's happened? What's the meaning of all of this?"
And Kirk's answer: "It's about the future, Madame Chancellor..."
In more ways than one, Josh thought.