Chapter 2

The U.S.S. Enterprise hovered about in outer space, awaiting the two men from down below caught in its beams. The man in gold and Superman were transported aboard in the transporter room.

Superman immediately collapsed from shock.

When Superman came to again, he found himself in strange surroundings. A mechanical hum was all around him. Slowly, his vision returned to normal as he found himself being talked about.

"Fascinating. It really is the actual Superman."

"It's an honor to have him in my sickbay!"

"He's coming to."

"Captain, won't he be frightened?"

"For a time, but I'll explain everything to him in just a little while."

Superman found several people all around him, staring at him as he lay down on a bed. Several of them were wearing the same uniform as the man in gold, only some in gold, red and blue. One of them was an extraterrestrial with pointed ears. He awoke suddenly in fright.

"Where am I? Who are all of you? What's going on?"

"If you'll let me explain," said the man in gold..."I am Captain James T. Kirk. You've been beamed aboard the spacecraft called the Starship Enterprise."

"Beamed aboard a spacecraft? What sort of nonsense are you talking about?"

"You see, we are from what would be on the earth calendar as the twenty third century. We've come back through time by means of solar trajectory travel. We're hunting down the aliens who were bombing the Daily Planet. We're going to-"

"What in blue blazes is all this?"

"Would you like to see for yourself?" asked Kirk. "We have windows."

Superman had been to starnge alien worlds in his lifetime and had even been in different realities, but he could never be too sure about certain things. In this case...

"Seeing's believing," he insisted.

Kirk took Superman out of bed and the sickbay of the Enterprise and led him to a window (much to the reluctance of Dr. McCoy, the ship's Chief Medical Officer.). Superman looked and, much to his awe and amazement, saw blacknees and stars, and looking down, saw the entire Planet Earth, right before his very eyes. As amazed as he was, he calmed down.

"It seems you're legit," said Superman with a smile.

"This is my Chief Medical Officer, Dr. McCoy," he announced, then pointing to the extraterrestrial, "My Science Officer, Spock of Vulcan, Lieutenant Commander Montgomerey Scott, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Ensign Pavel Chekov, and Yeoman Janice Rand."

The men and women shook his hand and pleasantries were exchanged.

Superman was still full of questions. How in the world did the Enterprise acheive time travel? How did they know about the aliens? What was the aliens' motive for planting the bomb in the Daily Planet?

"The aliens you're after are called Klingons," explained Kirk. "We don't exactly know how they acheived time travel or why they planted a bomb inside the Daily Planet, but we're going to find out, because we believe it has something to do with the space program we work for-Starfleet Command, what NASA eventually gave way to. If we can find them, we can get them to diffuse the bomb in your era, thus save the existence of Starfleet Command in ours."

Superman was still a little baffled.

"Crew, to the bridge! We're heading back to our era and finding those Klingons!" He turned to Superman. "Superman, do you trust me when I tell you we can get you back to your era and Metropolis to diffuse the bomb before your three days are over. Do you trust me when I can tell you we can get you back seconds after you left your century?"

"You seem like a trustable man. Why not?"

"Follow me."