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The Enterprise NCC-1701 looked quite majestic parked in space next to the outdated space station. Wesley stared in awe at the sight. His expression changed quickly to horror as he realized that he wasn't in his own time and he didn't know how to get home, or even how he had gotten there.
Wesley shook his head, but only made his head hurt worse. He moaned, then said, "Computer, how did we get here?"
"Scanning wormhole signature." Replied the computer in its female mechanical voice. Wesley turned his foggy attention to the screen, where raw data was pouring onto it. On another screen, the computer was translating the scans and data into a more understandable form. Wes saw immediately that his wormhole had destabilized upon spitting out the shuttle, and that the overload that had rocked the ship had also shifted the frequency of the wormhole to traverse time instead of space.
Upon understanding this, Wes murmured, "Oh, no." He started punching buttons, making calculations to open a return wormhole. He didn't want to be around long enough to be noticed by the space station or the Enterprise and contaminate the timeline by interacting with them.
When he was finished with the calculations, Wes powered up the deflector array. He jabbed the initiate button, and a shower of sparks erupted from the back of the shuttlecraft. A siren started beeping. Wes looked at the diagnostic display, which indicating that the deflector array had completely overloaded, and the life support system had been damaged by the small explosions.
The siren was starting to worsen Wesley's headache. The air was thick with smoke from the various sparks, meltdowns and overloads, and the life support couldn't get rid of the noxious gas. Wes knew that he had to get to solid ground or bulkheads to make repairs. The only option was Space Station K-7.
On the space station, a crewmember was sitting at the communication station. He had access to the external scanners, and had been following a small shuttle that had appeared from thin space an hour or so ago. A few times, he had been directed to hail the craft, but had gotten no response from it. They hadn't been able to find out much about the shuttle from interior scans. All the bridge crew could do was find out that there was one life sign, and it looked human. They also knew the shuttle was damaged, and it appeared to be a Starfleet vessel, but they were too suspicious to bring the shuttle into the docking bay until they had spoken with the pilot. Suddenly, a hail came to the bridge. The whole space station bridge crew looked up, hoping it was the mysterious pilot of the mysterious ship.
They were disappointed to see that the hail was from the Enterprise, not the shuttle. Captain Kirk addressed the bridge commander.
"Have you noticed a small ship on your scanners?" He asked.
"Yeah," replied the commander, "It came out of nowhere. We think it's Starfleet, and that there's a human on board. They haven't answered out hails."
"Ours either," said Kirk. "Maybe we should beam over there and see what's going on." Before the bridge commander could reply, another hail came in. Another face replaced Kirk's. It was a young man in what could have been a strange Starfleet uniform. It was obvious he was a bit bruised up from whatever had happened to the ship.
The commander stood up; "Who are you?" He asked, unable to contain his curiosity.
"I'm Lieutenant Commander Wesley Crusher. My ship is damaged, I can't fix it unless I dock."
"Your ship is unusual technology. Will anything on board harm my crew?"
"I'm working with Research and Development. This ship is classified technology until such time as Starfleet deems it ready to be made widely available. It would not be wise for others to come aboard the ship. If no one comes aboard, no harm can come to them" He said. Wes knew he shouldn't lie too much, but that he couldn't let anyone from this time get into his ship. It would be more harmful then they could ever know if they saw his technology.
"You may dock, Lieutenant Commander. The second shuttle bay is empty right now, you may have it to yourself." Said the commander.
"Thank you," said Wesley. The picture fizzled out, and was replaced once again with Captain Kirk.
"Did you hear all of that?" Asked the bridge commander.
"I did," said Kirk. "That answers some of my questions."
"That only adds to my questions." Said the commander.
And I'll bet it adds to your questions, too. Hey, Twinny the ball is in your court!