CHAPTER BY ADMIRAL ANDALITE
CHAPTER THREE - KIRK DISAPPEARS-AGAIN
USS ENTERPRISE
NCC-1701-A
CONSTITUTION CLASS
Captain James Tiberius Kirk wondered if he'd just thrown his life away. He had just refused a direct order from Starfleet Command to return to Earth to have the Enterprise decommissioned. After all his years of commanding a starship, he could not bear to lose another ship he had so quickly became attached to. No matter. He was on another exploration "mission," a mission of his own assigning.
Kirk looked around the bridge, taking time to observe his senior bridge officers. They were calm as could be, but ready to fight at a moment's notice. Only Uhura was not at her station.
"Problem, Uhura?" he inquired his communications officer.
She returned his gaze. "Starfleet is screaming repeatedly for us to return to port. I'm ignoring them in the least stressful way I can think of now. And boy, do I have a headache."
"Report to Sickbay," Kirk siad, concerned. Uhura smiled at him. "Oh, Captain, it's not that serious." With that, she grabbed her head and fainted to the deck.
Kirk pushed the internal comm button, and opened a channel to Sickbay. "Bones, get up here. Uhura fainted on duty; and something's wrong with Spock," he said, noticing his first officer clutching his head and trembling violently.
Kirk closed the channel and ran over to Spock. "Spock? What's wrong?"
Spock strained his head to meet Kirk's concerned gaze. "Strange...energy...source...nearby..." Spock said weakly, between forced breaths.
Kirk turned to Chekov, who had a surprised look on his face. "Captain, he's right. A spatial anomaly emitting a strange energy signature has sprung up off the port nacelle." Chekov said.
"On screen," Kirk ordered. On the main viewscreen, a green, pulsating "cloud" thundered and increased slowly in size. Bones McCoy and a medical team came through the turbolift doors. The team picked up Uhura, and grabbed Spock, and reentered the turbolift.
McCoy turned to Kirk. "Jim, what the hell happened?" he inquired his captain.
"I think it's connected with that." Jim pointed at the screen, where the "thing" was now twice its original size.
Bones stared at it. "My god, what is that?"
"I intend to find out." Jim replied. "Mr. Chekov, take Spock's station. Give me details as to what that thing is. Ensign Chara, take the weapons station."
Chekov moved to the science station, as a female Vulcan Ensign replaced him at the weapons' console.
"Analysis, Mr Chekov?" Kirk asked.
Chekov looked up. "Sir, the scanners read the object as a nebula, but not of the usual composition. It seems to be some sort of hole. A hole in space itself."
The helmsman turned to Kirk. "We're moving toward it! Helm controls are not responding."
"Red Alert! Stand by photon torpedoes," Kirk commanded as Dr. McCoy went to the turbolift to return to Sickbay.
Chara spoke. "Torpedoes ready, Captain. Ready to fire on your orders."
"Fire!" Kirk yelled.
There was a flash as the torpedoes were consumed by the anomaly. But instead of exploding, the object expanded rapidly. It was now larger than a Starbase, and was only two hundred kilometers from the Enterprise. The distance was closing rapidly.
Kirk slapped the internal comm controls again. "Scotty, can you give me warp speed?"
Scotty's exhausted voice replied, "Sorry, Captain. All the power's goin' to the shields to block the radiation from the damned thing."
Then, the object engulfed the Enterprise.
CHAPTER THREE - KIRK DISAPPEARS-AGAIN
USS ENTERPRISE
NCC-1701-A
CONSTITUTION CLASS
Captain James Tiberius Kirk wondered if he'd just thrown his life away. He had just refused a direct order from Starfleet Command to return to Earth to have the Enterprise decommissioned. After all his years of commanding a starship, he could not bear to lose another ship he had so quickly became attached to. No matter. He was on another exploration "mission," a mission of his own assigning.
Kirk looked around the bridge, taking time to observe his senior bridge officers. They were calm as could be, but ready to fight at a moment's notice. Only Uhura was not at her station.
"Problem, Uhura?" he inquired his communications officer.
She returned his gaze. "Starfleet is screaming repeatedly for us to return to port. I'm ignoring them in the least stressful way I can think of now. And boy, do I have a headache."
"Report to Sickbay," Kirk siad, concerned. Uhura smiled at him. "Oh, Captain, it's not that serious." With that, she grabbed her head and fainted to the deck.
Kirk pushed the internal comm button, and opened a channel to Sickbay. "Bones, get up here. Uhura fainted on duty; and something's wrong with Spock," he said, noticing his first officer clutching his head and trembling violently.
Kirk closed the channel and ran over to Spock. "Spock? What's wrong?"
Spock strained his head to meet Kirk's concerned gaze. "Strange...energy...source...nearby..." Spock said weakly, between forced breaths.
Kirk turned to Chekov, who had a surprised look on his face. "Captain, he's right. A spatial anomaly emitting a strange energy signature has sprung up off the port nacelle." Chekov said.
"On screen," Kirk ordered. On the main viewscreen, a green, pulsating "cloud" thundered and increased slowly in size. Bones McCoy and a medical team came through the turbolift doors. The team picked up Uhura, and grabbed Spock, and reentered the turbolift.
McCoy turned to Kirk. "Jim, what the hell happened?" he inquired his captain.
"I think it's connected with that." Jim pointed at the screen, where the "thing" was now twice its original size.
Bones stared at it. "My god, what is that?"
"I intend to find out." Jim replied. "Mr. Chekov, take Spock's station. Give me details as to what that thing is. Ensign Chara, take the weapons station."
Chekov moved to the science station, as a female Vulcan Ensign replaced him at the weapons' console.
"Analysis, Mr Chekov?" Kirk asked.
Chekov looked up. "Sir, the scanners read the object as a nebula, but not of the usual composition. It seems to be some sort of hole. A hole in space itself."
The helmsman turned to Kirk. "We're moving toward it! Helm controls are not responding."
"Red Alert! Stand by photon torpedoes," Kirk commanded as Dr. McCoy went to the turbolift to return to Sickbay.
Chara spoke. "Torpedoes ready, Captain. Ready to fire on your orders."
"Fire!" Kirk yelled.
There was a flash as the torpedoes were consumed by the anomaly. But instead of exploding, the object expanded rapidly. It was now larger than a Starbase, and was only two hundred kilometers from the Enterprise. The distance was closing rapidly.
Kirk slapped the internal comm controls again. "Scotty, can you give me warp speed?"
Scotty's exhausted voice replied, "Sorry, Captain. All the power's goin' to the shields to block the radiation from the damned thing."
Then, the object engulfed the Enterprise.