Disclaimer: Any people you recognize from the TV show aren't mine.
Thank you to all reviewers. You all resuscitated my ego and inspired me to keep going.( First Chapter is polished up for all of you picky grammer people. ( sorry!
CHAPTER 2
It was a twenty minutes until the melee had ceased. The loss of gravity was due to an incredible amount of energy being used up by the synthesizer. Scotty swore it would never happen again and grumbled his way down to engineering to personally deal with the crewman who had diverted power from gravity controls to make king size pillows. The crewman was properly dressed down, but Scotty failed to get the pillows in time. They were already up in the rec. room.
Reinforcements had arrived soon after the gravity had been restored. Beta shift had just come off duty and was delighted to join in. By the time Kirk had called a halt, 25 crewmembers had prepared for an assault on 'officers country'. Kirk's makeshift barracks now concealed himself, Spock, Scotty, McCoy, Uhura, Zybrowski, and Smith. A white pillowcase was waved in surrender, coffee tables were tipped upright, and order was slowly restored. McCoy began to collect rubber bands from the combatants.
"Red Alert! Red Alert! Captain to the bridge. All hands Red Alert!
As the group looked from one to another in surprise, Kirk was already halfway out of the room.
Lieutenant commander Eliza Marie Stanton disappointedly looked around the bridge of the Enterprise. All was quiet, everyone was gone. She sat down in the center seat and sighed.
Being of high rank on the Enterprise brought you one of two things. Renown and prestige all over the universe, or third shift bridge duty for a year. She stared at the empty stations. It was between the times of Alpha and Beta shifts when the bridge of the Enterprise was empty except for the officer at the con. All of the stations had been switched to automation, and the buzzes and beeps of the control panels were the only sound in the room.
" Hmm HM Hmm Hmm HMM HMM HMMMM AAARUGHH!"
Ok so humming didn't work. Maybe music will drown out that annoying beeping. Liza sighed and brought up a song list on the screen.
"No"
"Nope"
"To alien"
"To stupid"
"UUGGH!"
Ok music wasn't going to work either.
Liza put her feet down and turned the chair to the turbo lift, hoping someone would come.
Then she turned back to the helm.
Then she turned a full circle.
Hmmm not bad!
The next time she put her full weight into the push.
"WEEEEEEE" cried Liza as she spun dizzying circles in the center command chair of the USS Enterprise. She began to laugh at her newfound distraction.
"WEEEEEEE."
"AAAYEEEE!"
Right in the middle of one of her turns, the gravity had cut out, and now she was spinning like a dervish somewhere near the ceiling. Liza grabbed for the first thing she saw, the communications panel. Her head had a floaty feeling and her stomach felt like there were a dozen Gorns inside her dancing the fox trot.
"Bridge to engineering, What the heck is going on!"
"Um uhh… . hey don't forget the pillows…. Uh Bridge hello! Bridge"
Eliza rolled her eyes, "This is the bridge. Where is Commander Scott? Why has the gravity failed? Who the hell is this?!!"
"Uhthisisensigntomas, Um gravity failed due to power surge, it will be back on in a minute, engineering out!"
Liza smacked the console as if it were the Ensign's head.
"Bridge to Rec Deck one, is anyone down there?"
The tunes to "staying alive" floated in through the intercom, along with cries and laughter and loud thumping and twanging noises.
"Has everyone on this ship lost their mind!" Liza said to no one in particular.
The gravity slowly came back, and Liza floated right down on top of the helm. After resituating herself in the center seat, she compiled a report on all that had just occurred and sent it down to the Captains computer. "For all the good that will do me, she thought aloud, "I swear Kirk wouldn't care if I didn't show up. Nothing happens here anyway!"
As soon as the words were out of her mouth, consoles all over the bridge began to sound. Liza ran from one to the other, looking into viewers and reading signals. Each one confirmed the findings that were spit out of the science station.
A Klingon bird of prey had just come into firing range.
With weapon on full power.
Thank you to all reviewers. You all resuscitated my ego and inspired me to keep going.( First Chapter is polished up for all of you picky grammer people. ( sorry!
CHAPTER 2
It was a twenty minutes until the melee had ceased. The loss of gravity was due to an incredible amount of energy being used up by the synthesizer. Scotty swore it would never happen again and grumbled his way down to engineering to personally deal with the crewman who had diverted power from gravity controls to make king size pillows. The crewman was properly dressed down, but Scotty failed to get the pillows in time. They were already up in the rec. room.
Reinforcements had arrived soon after the gravity had been restored. Beta shift had just come off duty and was delighted to join in. By the time Kirk had called a halt, 25 crewmembers had prepared for an assault on 'officers country'. Kirk's makeshift barracks now concealed himself, Spock, Scotty, McCoy, Uhura, Zybrowski, and Smith. A white pillowcase was waved in surrender, coffee tables were tipped upright, and order was slowly restored. McCoy began to collect rubber bands from the combatants.
"Red Alert! Red Alert! Captain to the bridge. All hands Red Alert!
As the group looked from one to another in surprise, Kirk was already halfway out of the room.
Lieutenant commander Eliza Marie Stanton disappointedly looked around the bridge of the Enterprise. All was quiet, everyone was gone. She sat down in the center seat and sighed.
Being of high rank on the Enterprise brought you one of two things. Renown and prestige all over the universe, or third shift bridge duty for a year. She stared at the empty stations. It was between the times of Alpha and Beta shifts when the bridge of the Enterprise was empty except for the officer at the con. All of the stations had been switched to automation, and the buzzes and beeps of the control panels were the only sound in the room.
" Hmm HM Hmm Hmm HMM HMM HMMMM AAARUGHH!"
Ok so humming didn't work. Maybe music will drown out that annoying beeping. Liza sighed and brought up a song list on the screen.
"No"
"Nope"
"To alien"
"To stupid"
"UUGGH!"
Ok music wasn't going to work either.
Liza put her feet down and turned the chair to the turbo lift, hoping someone would come.
Then she turned back to the helm.
Then she turned a full circle.
Hmmm not bad!
The next time she put her full weight into the push.
"WEEEEEEE" cried Liza as she spun dizzying circles in the center command chair of the USS Enterprise. She began to laugh at her newfound distraction.
"WEEEEEEE."
"AAAYEEEE!"
Right in the middle of one of her turns, the gravity had cut out, and now she was spinning like a dervish somewhere near the ceiling. Liza grabbed for the first thing she saw, the communications panel. Her head had a floaty feeling and her stomach felt like there were a dozen Gorns inside her dancing the fox trot.
"Bridge to engineering, What the heck is going on!"
"Um uhh… . hey don't forget the pillows…. Uh Bridge hello! Bridge"
Eliza rolled her eyes, "This is the bridge. Where is Commander Scott? Why has the gravity failed? Who the hell is this?!!"
"Uhthisisensigntomas, Um gravity failed due to power surge, it will be back on in a minute, engineering out!"
Liza smacked the console as if it were the Ensign's head.
"Bridge to Rec Deck one, is anyone down there?"
The tunes to "staying alive" floated in through the intercom, along with cries and laughter and loud thumping and twanging noises.
"Has everyone on this ship lost their mind!" Liza said to no one in particular.
The gravity slowly came back, and Liza floated right down on top of the helm. After resituating herself in the center seat, she compiled a report on all that had just occurred and sent it down to the Captains computer. "For all the good that will do me, she thought aloud, "I swear Kirk wouldn't care if I didn't show up. Nothing happens here anyway!"
As soon as the words were out of her mouth, consoles all over the bridge began to sound. Liza ran from one to the other, looking into viewers and reading signals. Each one confirmed the findings that were spit out of the science station.
A Klingon bird of prey had just come into firing range.
With weapon on full power.