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Teaching people how to fight like a Klingon turned out to do good things for Thal's reputation on the ship, back when it had only been Alex who would speak to Thal, now it seemed everyone wanted to talk to the resident Klingon, who despite his newfound popularity, would still eat every meal with Alex, who despite being the time traveler, was old news. It made her smile, how quickly things could become status quo around the ship, and how quickly people could accept things- given the chance.

Months went by, Alex and Spock were approved to move in together, and they were given new quarters with more space, Alex was doing well at her job, she was learning more and more from Thal, and Spock alike and she had started to develop a healthy understanding of both the Klingon and Vulcan fighting styles, as well as languages.

The evenings she spent with Spock fighting, she loved the energy, she loved the fighting, and the way he would throw her onto a mat and pin her, it was exhilarating to truly feel how strong he was compared to her- without even trying. But on the other hand, she liked the mornings fighting with Thal, the precise movements of the Klingon fighting style that was so close to Thai Chi from her time, it was fascinating.

Kirk had even gotten in on training with Alex, she had begun to spar with him as well, and he was soon teaching her his style of fighting as well, and Alex loved learning.

Life was good, they did their jobs, they managed the ship, they did whatever Starfleet had them do, checking in on colonies, and transporting stuff here and there. It was on one such transport mission when Alex was bringing Kirk a load of papers from Engineering when she heard an alarm ringing through the ship. She looked up at the elevator ceiling and then when the elevator stopped she stepped out onto the bridge and looked around, everyone seemed to be focused on the screen and as she stepped onto the bridge, she could see why.

There was a ship on the screen, one that was completely dark, and not moving. "Try hailing it again," Kirk said to Lt. Uhura who did just that.

"It looks like an old Earth Ship," Spock was saying. "Late twentieth century,"

"Very late," Kirk agreed as Alex walked up to his side.

"Sign these," she held the pen and the papers out to him and he absentmindedly signed where she indicated. "What's going on?"

"That's what we're trying to figure out," Kirk said as he stared at the screen. "Did you ever see a ship like that before?"

Alex took a long look at the screen before signing, something nagged at the back of her head, like a memory of a memory of something similar to what was in front of them. She frowned as she stared at it before sighing. "I don't think so," she said as she stared at the screen.

"No response Captain," Lt. Uhura said and Alex took the papers back from Kirk before moving over to Spock who was sitting at his station. He looked at her and she glanced at him.

"It may be from after I went to sleep," she said and he nodded.

"Mr. Spock, any signs of life?" Kirk asked and Spock looked at his screen.

"Some sort of life Captain," he replied. "Probably not human- I'm registering very slow, faint heartbeats, about four beats per minute,"

"How many?"

"It's hard to tell captain- there may be as many as sixty?" He said and Kirk frowned.

"Get Engineering on the line," he said to Uhura who did as she was told and called Engineering. Soon Mr. Scott from engineering was on the bridge while Alex continued to stare at the ship.

"I think I kind of remember that ship," Alex said softly to Spock, knowing he'd hear her.

"You told the captain-"

"I told him I had never seen it- and I haven't- but I swear- I think I've seen- maybe a design for it?" She sighed and looked at him. "Can you help me remember?"

Spock stood up wordlessly and stood in front of her, placing his fingers on either side of her face, at her temples, he began to merge their minds together, searching for the memory she was sure she had somewhere in her mind.

Spock helped filter her memories, helping her search for that specific one, it was not comfortable when he was searching for a specific memory- but she quickly had him stop, go back to something, and as he did she couldn't help but wonder why that one in particular stuck out to her.

It was when she was in basic training, it had been a rough day on the obstacle course, and she walked over to her only friend, a brilliant young man who was drawing as he often did.

"What are you working on?" Alex heard herself asking as she sat down next to him.

"It's just a concept," he replied.

"For what?"

"It's a new type of aircraft," he said and turned the drawing to her. A lot of flat surfaces, a long cigar shaped craft with four boxes that were attached to the cigar with tunnels, and each box was connected with tunnels as well.

"What like a new ISS?"

"No," he turned and smiled at Alex and she felt herself smiling back. "Something else- something new. Something to help us reach the stars,"

Spock pulled out of Alex's mind and when she opened her eyes he was staring down at her with an indescribable look in his eyes.

"What?" She asked and he stared down at her.

"That boy," he said as he looked at her. "Who was he?"

"He was someone I met in basic training," she said with a slight frown. What was his name? "He was the only friend I had," she said thoughtfully. "He was young- too young to be in the military," she sighed as she put her hands on Spock's elbows. "Singh," she said after a moment. "The older guys used to tease him, asking him to sing, 'Give us a song Singh,'," she remembered.

"Singh?" He asked and she nodded. "What was his first name?"

"I don't remember," she admitted with a slight frown. "We mostly used surnames in the military," she explained. "Why?"

"He developed this ship," he said and she looked at the ship- it was very similar, the same cigar shaped middle, but the boxes had been replaced by rings, like the rings of Saturn, around the ship. There were three of them, and they were connected to the cigar by tunnels in three places, as well as being connected to each other by tunnels in four places.

She looked back at Spock and nodded, she could see the similarities. "Captain," Spock said. "I would estimate, from looking through Lt. Ramirez's memory, that the ship is possibly from fifty years after her time,"

"There's no way we could have made such technological advancements in just fifty years after I went to sleep," she said with a frown. "We only barely had learned how to retrieve ships and land them again,"

"Aye when you went to sleep, that's true," Mr. Scott said as he turned and looked at Alex. "But there was a sort of- technological elightenment when you were asleep,"

"Well, I'd assumed so," Alex said as she gestured to the ship around them. "But to go from crash landers to that in fifty years- that's absurd," she said with a shake of her head.

"You forget," Spock said and she looked up at him. "The military had many projects that were secret to the people of your time," he explained and she sighed before looking at Kirk who was rubbing his chin in thought.

"Alex," he said and she straightened up. "Go get a phaser and report to the transport bay,"

"Yes sir," Alex agreed and Spock watched as she tucked the papers under her arms.

"Captain," Spock said with a slight edge to his voice, one that would have been imperceptible to anyone but Alex and Kirk, the people who knew Spock the best.

"Relax Mr. Spock," Kirk said. "We're going with her. Mr. Scott, I'd like you as well,"

"Aye Cap'n," Scotty said and then glanced at Alex who stood by the elevator doors, waiting for them.

"We'll meet you down there," Kirk said and Alex stepped into the elevator alone. When the doors closed they waited for a beat before Kirk walked over to Spock almost casually.

"Captain," Spock said, just loud enough for Kirk to hear. "Alex doesn't know about the wars that plagued your world after she went to sleep,"

"Yes, I gathered that," Kirk said. "Why the concern though Mr. Spock?"

"The man that designed that ship- I cannot be sure, but the man in Alex's memory strikes a surprising resemblance to Kahn Noonien Singh," he said and Kirk looked at Spock in surprise.

"Are you sure?" He asked and Spock placed his hands behind his back.

"No," he admitted. "But the timelines do match. Singh was an old earth military man, he was a brilliant man, and terrible at the same time," he said slowly. "Alex's memory was from when she was quite young, maybe eighteen or nineteen," he said slowly. "And Singh and his people were never accounted for,"

Kirk seemed to think about that for a few moments before he nodded. "Have Dr. McCoy and Thal join us at the transporter room," he said to Lt. Uhura who nodded and put out the call on the PA system while Kirk, Spock and Mr. Scott made their way to the elevator.

"The ship is the right age," Scotty was saying as they stepped into the elevator. "Very old Earth- an Ion drive from what I could see,"

"Before the discovery of Dilithium Crystals," Spock pointed out.

"Well what do you want us to do Spock?" Kirk asked as he looked up at his friend. "Would you like us to question Alex about her connection to one of the most prolific terrorists of her time- after she was asleep?"

"No," Spock said immediately. "I think we should proceed with caution, see what this ship has to show us and only inform Alex of Singh's terrorism if we have to,"

"You want to protect her," Scotty said as he looked at the Vulcan in surprise, which made Spock look back at him with a slight frown.

"Would you not want to protect a loved one from harm?" Spock asked and the two men stared at the first officer in surprise.

"So, you're saying you love Alex?" Kirk asked making Spock give him a slight frown.

"Must you put an emphasis on emotions?" He asked. "Alex is my t'hy'la, she and I cohabitate, she is to be my wife one day," he said. "In human terms, I suppose that would mean that I love her,"

"Huh," Scotty said simply and Kirk smiled at Spock before the elevator doors opened. The three men made their way to the transporter room where Alex was batting Thal's hand away from her phaser.

"Jim, what's going on?" Dr. McCoy asked as the three men approached the three who were waiting for them.

"There's an old earth ship- we're registering some sort of heartbeats," Kirk explained as Scotty approached the control panel and started to put in the coordinates on the transporter.

"And just why do you need me?" Dr. McCoy asked and Jim smiled at him.

"There could be someone who needs help," he pointed out.

"I signed up to practice medicine, not go flinging my atoms all over the cosmos," Dr. McCoy grumbled, but approached the transporter pad. Alex stood on the pad next to Thal and Spock took his usual spot next to Kirk. When another engineer took his place, Mr. Scott stepped onto the pad as well and they looked at Kirk.

"Energize," he said and within a moment they were standing inside of a very dark room.

"Life support: Online," a cool metallic voice said and a moment later lights turned on in the room. They seemed to be in a control room, and Mr. Scott approached the screen.

"This is old news," he reported to the others while Alex walked over to a screen with a crest on it. The logo looked familiar too, but on the circle around it read the name "U. S. S. Shining Star,"

"Does anyone know the name Shining Star?" She asked and looked over at them. Kirk seemed to freeze where he was leaning down next to Mr. Scott and he looked over his shoulder at Spock before looking at Alex.

"It sounds familiar," he finally said and she looked back at the screen before tapping it. It brought her to a login page and she rolled her eyes with a slight smile- there was no way she'd ever guess the password. But out of a childish energy she typed her own name into the User Name prompt.

As soon as she stopped typing the screen in front of her began to load and she looked at it in surprise.

"What did I do?" She pulled her hand away from the screen and Scotty approached.

"What did you do?"

"I just typed my name in," she explained and he glanced at Kirk again before looking back at the screen.

"Well," he said simply. "It would seem we're lucky enough to have someone with the same name as someone else involved with this ship," he said simply and Alex looked at Thal who looked at Scotty as if he had grown two heads.

Scotty began to clumsily shift through the antiquated system but Alex moved back over to the control panel he had been at before and easily navigated through the touch screen.

"It looks like there had been Eighty five people onboard," she said and the others looked at her. "Look," she pointed and then brought what she was looking at onto their screen.

"How do you know how to work this system?" Thal asked and she shrugged.

"It's similar to some old exercises we had to do, training for a proposed computer system- I guess they ended up using a similar system," she said as she scrolled through the options available to her.

"Can you find the medical report?" McCoy asked and she nodded.

"Sure," she said and found the medical report before showing it on the screen they were in front of.

"Now that's interesting," McCoy said and she looked through the system, clicking on things at random.

"What's that?" Kirk asked.

"These people are humans Jim," the surgeon told him. "They are from a little after Alex's time- and they've been put to sleep using virtually the same compound that brought Alex to us,"

"Really?" Alex asked as she looked over. "I thought that what happened to me was an accident,"

"Well," Kirk said slowly as he rubbed his chin. "Maybe because your results weren't publicized- it's not illogical to think that someone else developed something similar," Alex frowned at that before glancing at Spock who moved over to her and looked down at the screen. He'd seen many of her memories and he had apparently been watching her scrolling though the system because as he clicked on the registry of names and brought it up, he did so with ease.

"Captain," he said and Kirk walked over and looked at the screen before looking at Spock grimly.

"What's going on?" Alex asked and Spock looked at her.

"This ship is from when you were asleep- and we believe it to have people from your military aboard," he told her, and Kirk looked at Spock in surprise- like he hadn't expected Spock to tell her that.

"Well- it's no one I would know," she shrugged. "I would have been asleep,"

"That may not be entirely so," Spock said and the sound of a door hissing open behind them made everyone look at Scott who had opened the door.

"Sorry," he apologized. "But I am curious to see the rest of the ship,"

"It would seem the survivors are still in the same sleep stasis that Alex was in," McCoy said before glancing at the screen again. "Hold on," he clicked on the screen and looked closer. "Jim, I need to get to level three, one of these men is nearly in respiratory failure,"

"What do you mean Bones?"

"I mean this man needs me now or he's going to die,"

"Which bed?" Alex asked.

"Lever three, bed fourteen," he said and started to move. Everyone let the doctor go first before Alex looked at Thal who let Scotty, Kirk and Spock move out after McCoy.

"Is it just me or are they not telling us everything?" She asked and he nodded.

"I would not expect humans to react honestly," he reminded her and she scoffed softly.

"I know," she admitted, and the two followed after everyone else.

Level three bed fourteen was in the rings of the ship, when they got there Alex could see Mr. Scott trying to open a tempered glass cubby that seemed to have some sort of silent alarm going off.

"Get it open," Dr. McCoy was insisting and Mr. Scott sighed with impatience.

"Figuring out this system could take me hours,"

"Bones, how long does he have?" Kirk asked and Dr. McCoy looked back at the Captain.

"Minutes at most," he said and Kirk looked over at Alex. She stepped forward and knelt down by the screen next to the cubby before trying to initiate opening the glass cubby.

"I don't know the password," she said before jumping to the side as Thal's foot came out of nowhere and crashed into the tempered glass next to her head. She covered her face with her arms and Spock quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet and away from Thal who kicked the glass again, this time cracking it.

He knelt down where Alex had been kneeling moments before and he punched the glass a few times before fitting his fist through and unlatching the inside of the door. He pulled the door open, lavender blood seeping from the small cuts he had sustained but he didn't say anything about it as Dr. McCoy knelt down next to him and began to work on the man.

As they worked on him, Alex glanced st the computer screens next to each cubby before she stopped at one in particular. "Oh my god," she said and they looked at her. "I remember his name," Spock and Kirk looked over at her and she nodded as she pointed to the screen. "This is him, this is Singh," she said and Spock joined her at the screen.

"Kahn Noonien Singh," he read the name aloud and then gave a grin look to Kirk for a moment before he looked at Alex who was pressing a button on the screen. "Wait-" he said and she looked up at him as the mechanical voice said simply 'Reanimation in Process'.

"Cancel that," Kirk said to Alex who frowned and looked at him.

"What?" She asked and Kirk pointed at the screen.

"Cancel the reanimation- that's an order," he said sternly and she looked at the screen and then back at Kirk.

"I don't think I can- what's going on?"

"What's going on is this ship needs to be brought to the closest star port before we start reanimating everyone," he explained, and Alex frowned.

"That'll take us weeks," she pointed out and he sighed as his face softened.

"Alex, I know it's been hard for you to be alone but-"

"But what Jim?" She challenged him as she stared at him. "But what, being alone in this time is more important than me seeing an old friend? It's not enough that I have to be alone, and in a time I still don't fully understand? It's okay to let the time traveller join the crew, but god forbid she see people that she had once known in the past?" She asked. "How could you possibly know what I'm going through? You had your own experiences with time travel- but you made it back to your time didn't you?" She asked as she squared her shoulders. "I'll never be able to do that- and I've accepted that, but I have a chance to not only speak to someone from my own time, but someone I actually knew," she felt tears springing to her eyes as she let loose what she had been feeling for a long time now, before she looked away, letting out a sharp breath before she took a deep breath and sighed.

"Are you done?" Kirk asked and she nodded.

"Yes Sir,"

"Kirk to Enterprise," he said into his communicator.

"Go ahead Captain,"

"Lock onto Ramirez, McCoy and one patient," Kirk said. "And beam over."

"Captain," Spock said and Kirk looked at him. "I'd like permission to go back with Lt. Ramirez,"

"Not now Spock, I want you and Thal here with me," Kirk told him and a moment later Alex felt the familiar feeling of being transported back to the ship.

When they got there she looked at Dr. McCoy who was working on his patient, a medical team had come to wait for him and they took the man back to the med bay with McCoy shouting instructions to them before he looked back at Alex.

"Did you feel good about that?" He asked and she looked away.

"Not really," she admitted. "I just let myself lose control for a minute,"

"Hey it happens, you're human," he reminded her and she smiled slightly before she leaned back against the transporter panel.

"I'm going to get reprimanded," she said softly and he shrugged.

"Jim won't hold it against you," he assured her and she gave him a weak smile before she sighed and nodded.

"Right,"

"Come on," he gestured for her to follow him, and she did, hoping that Kirk would at least let her explain that she was sorry.

Back on the Shooting Star Kirk looked at Spock who was watching where Alex had been when she had transported away before he looked at the man Alex had woken up, he was going through a reanimation process and Spock knelt down to watch.

"Be careful," Kirk warned his first lieutenant, and Spock glanced at him before nodding as he watched the process. Finally the screen next to Singh's bunk beeped and Spock moved back as the glass panel slid open and the bed holding Singh slid out.

The three men watched as Singh's eyelids fluttered and he seemed to take his first breath of unaided air in centuries. After that however- nothing happened.

"We're either of you expecting more?" Thal asked and Kirk shrugged.

"I don't know what we were expecting honestly- if you've read Alex's medical records, you'd know it took her nearly two weeks to fully wake up,"

"Singh had a different reanimation process than Alex did though," Spock pointed out. "And Alex was surrounded by medical professionals,"

"Yes, speaking of," Kirk sighed before picking up his communicator. "Kirk to enterprise,"

"Go ahead Kirk,"

"Lock onto myself, Thal, and Mr. Spock, there's one more patient with us. Also begin towing of this ship," he ordered.

"Ready to beam Kirk,"

"Energize,"

The four were transported back to the Enterprise, and when they got there, a medical team was there to take Singh to the med bay.

"Someone get that historian- what's her name?" Kirk looked at Spock who lifted his PADD up and looked at it.

"Lt. McIvers," he read off.

"Yeah, get her, have her get all of the information on the eugenics war, Kahn Singh, and have her bring it to meeting room 2," Kirk ordered and Spock lifted an eyebrow.

"You plan to brush up on your ancient earth history Captain?" He asked and Kirk gave him a slight smile.

"Brush up, and brush your girlfriend up on it," he said and Spock glanced at Thal who looked back at him.

"I do not think that would be wise at the moment Captain," Spock said and Kirk looked at him in surprise.

"What do you mean?"

"Given the emotional response she had when you questioned her reanimating Singh in the first place," Spock explained. "I wonder if it is wise to tell her of her former friend's military career and attempted dictatorship,"

"I agree," Thal said. "Knowing Ramirez, she will likely try to kill him,"

"I don't think she'd go that far," Kirk said a little warily as he looked at Thal.

"She should. Many would rejoice,"

"I think Alex is more likely to confront her old cohort- when we need her level headed," Spock explained to Thal who shrugged.

"Either way- let's go see how Bones is holding up with the other man," Kirk said to his two cohorts, and the two nodded before heading to the med bay, heavy with the knowledge that they had one of the most prolific terrorists on their ship.

I am so excited to start this storyline, this is going to be a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy it!