Star Trek: Ranma's Story20 – By DS Wynne

Disclaimer: "Ranma ½", "Sailor Moon", "Star Trek" and other genres belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is multi-epic story with many elements to it.

Special note: While this is a spin-off story to "Sailor Moon ST", you don't have to read that one to enjoy this one.

Part 20

Q'onos, Klingon Empire.

It has been a month since the legendary Captain James Tiberius Kirk has lost his life, while trying to save others. At the time, he, along with Captain Montgomery ("Scotty") Scott, and Commander Pavel Chekov, were present to see off the christening of the Enterprise-B. It was the latest of the newer Excelsior-class starships, and Commander Ranma Saotome was its first officer. However, thanks to an encounter with an energy "ribbon", the Enterprise-B was back in space-dock undergoing major repairs, and would not be space-worthy for another six months.

In the meantime, Ranma had decided to attend a seminar on Q'onos, where he can perfect his training in "Mok'bar", which were Klingon martial arts. Think of it Tai Chi with attitude…a lot of attitude. And during the seminar, Ranma would be staying with Lord Kang's home. He could have stayed at the Federation embassy with Federation Ambassador Curzon Dax, but Kang's wife Marta insisted that he should stay with her and her husband. And you don't want to get a Klingon woman upset. Sometimes, Ranma wonders if Akane was part Klingon or something.

SPLASH!

"Gah!" Ranma-chan says, as she bolted up from her bedding.

"Get up, if you want to eat," Marta says, as she twirled her bucket of water.

"Did you have to do that!"

"Well, I could try to have my men to attack you, as a way of waking you up," Marta smirks.

"Gee, thanks."

"Any time, godfather of my youngest child."

And with that, Marta leaves.

As Ranma-chan gets up, she switches back to normal. When Ranma dries himself off at the wash bin, he looks in the mirror.

"Why couldn't I save you, Captain?" Ranma mutters to himself. "Why…?"

FLASHBACK!

"I hate this," Commander Ranma Saotome says, as he escorted Captains Kirk and Scott, and Commander Pavel Chekov to the bridge of the newest ship to be dubbed "Enterprise". While Ranma's companions were on the verge of retirement, Ranma himself was being groomed for bigger things. Already, Ranma has been assigned to the Diplomatic Corp as an attaché to Federation Ambassador Curzon Dax, who is the ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Ranma was thankful that he was doing that, rather than just being a mere bodyguard the last time he was on Q'onos. Of course, being assigned to such a dangerous job did require a martial spirit.

Now that his assignment was over, Starfleet has picked Ranma to become the Enterprise-B's "First Officer". Furthermore, it was rumored that Ranma was supposed to become the Captain of the Enterprise-B. However, politics within Starfleet Command insisted that someone else be chosen to succeed Captain Kirk. So now, if Ranma still wanted the job, he would have to wait until Captain Harrington completes his five-year assignment as the commanding officer of the Enterprise-B. And since he wasn't going anyway any time soon, Ranma could bide his time.

"Sorry for all the press coverage," Ranma said, as he pushed the throngs of reporters out of the way. "It's something that the brass wanted."

"Don't worry about it, Commander," Captain Kirk replies. "Believe me, I was a part of that 'illustrious' group."

"She is a pretty ship at least," Scotty says.

"That she is," Chekov interjects.

"Captain Kirk, welcome," Captain Harrington says. "So, what do you think?"

"I think that you will do just fine. Thankfully, Commander Saotome will be here to back you up."

"Ah, yes. Anyway, I would like to introduce Lt. Demora Sulu, who will be the 'Conn'."

"'Sulu'?" Kirk asks.

"She's Hikaru's daughter," Chekov whispers.

"You're Captain Sulu's daughter?" Kirk asks.

"Yes, sir," Demora replies. "My father has told me a lot about you."

"Well, if you can take your seats, we will be leaving Space Dock shortly," Harrington says.

As Kirk and company takes their seats, Kirk turns to Ranma. "When did Sulu manage to have a family?" Kirk asks.

"A while back, right after your first five-year mission," Ranma replies.

"Hikaru met someone, had a family, and the rest is history."

"I see." Kirk was REALLY feeling his age, though he did his best not to show it. A short time later, the Enterprise-B was underway. For that day's exercise, Harrington was to show everyone around the bridge. Suddenly…

"Sir!" said Lt. S'Lok, a female Vulcan communications officers. We are receiving a distress signal from a group of refugees. Audio only."

"Okay, proceed," said Harrington. According to the audio, a group of wanderers called the "El-Aurien" were caught up in the wake of a cosmic phenomenon known as "the Nexus", which the Vulcan Science center has tracked for centuries. Because of the gravitational wake of the energy ribbon, they could not escape long enough to avoid the damage being doing by stray energy streams. With this bit of news, Harrington was worried. So he turned to his first officer. "Commander, what should we do?"

Ranma looked at Harrington, then looked at Kirk. Kirk gives to the nod. "Sir, I suggest we help the refugees," Ranma says.

"But…we're under equipped."

Ranma hands Harrington a data pad.

"We may be short on staff, but I managed to acquire our much needed equipment before out departure. We only need to hook them up." Harrington smiled. "Go for it, Commander."

Ranma turns to Demora. "Lt. Sulu, head straight for the anomaly, maximum warp."

"Aye, sir."

Ranma quickly turned to his old colleagues.

"Sirs, Commander Chekov, I could use your much needed experience."

"Okay," Kirk said. "Tell us what to do."

Teams were divided according to knowledge. Chekov manned the medical aspect, Scotty manned the engineering, and Kirk took care of auxiliary and weapons systems. Ranma directed the rest of the crew and passengers to take their parts seriously. Finally, the Enterprise-B made it to the refugee ships, which were trying stay ahead of the Nexus.

"Captain Kirk," Harrington began. "We'll need those extra transporters online as soon as possible."

"Working on it," Kirk replied over the com-link.

In the mean time, the first wave of refugees was being transported.

"Let me go back!" yelled a man with short, spiky white hair. Chekov quickly subdued the man with a tranquilizer. A dark skinned woman with dreadlocks caught the man, as he fell.

"Chekov, what's going on?" Ranma said, as he entered the transporter room. He wanted to get a quick assessment from the refugees, in order to accommodate them better. The dark-skinned woman looked up, and saw Ranma. Her eyes widened.

"L-Lord Ranshin?" the woman said. Ranma frowned. This was the second time he has heard that name referred to him. The first time was when he had just returned from the dead, and assisted in a time traveling adventure involving humpback whales.

"I…I don't know what you mean," Ranma replied evenly.

The woman calmed down.

"That's right, you have reached your next evolution yet." The woman extended a hand. "My name is 'Guinan', and I am pleased to meet the great 'Wild Horse'."

"Pleasure."

Even though the Enterprise-B managed to get the refugees, the starship was now caught up in the gravitational wake of the Nexus.

"What are we going to do?" cried Harrington.

"Relax, sir," Ranma said. "Captain Kirk is taking care of that. Captain Scott, are you ready?"

"All set, Commander! As soon as Captain Kirk is ready, we go maximum."

"Sir, if you can do the honors?" Ranma said.

Harrington turned to Lt. Sulu. "When Captain Kirk is ready, get us the hell out of here."

"Yes, sir," Demora replies.

"We're ready!" Kirk says. With the modification of the deflector dish done, Scotty used his skills to channel power through the dish, as a means of pushing the Enterprise-B away from the gravitational wake of the Nexus.

"We're doing it!" Harrington said.

Suddenly, Ranma's danger senses rang.

"Everyone, brace for impact!" Ranma began.

BOOM! An energy arc lanced out from the Nexus, and hit the Enterprise-B.

"Uh…is everyone okay?" Harrington asked, as he picked himself up.

Ranma quickly checked damaged control. Then, his eyes widened.

"Saotome to Captain Kirk! Come in, Captain Kirk! James-sama!"

Ranma ran to the turbo-lift.

"What happened?" Harrington asks.

"Hopefully, nothing."

Ranma ran down to the auxiliary bay, which was near the deflector dish. Unfortunately, there wasn't an auxiliary bay to go to. Ranma looked out the shattered hull of the Enterprise-B, which was being held together by the hull integrity systems.

"…"

And thus, as far as the Alpha Quadrant was concerned, the legendary Captain James Tiberius Kirk was no more…

END FLASHBACK!

Ranma sighed. For all the power at his disposal, it didn't make one bit a difference where it counted.

That evening, Ambassador Curzon Daz was given a party at the embassy. And since Ranma was the only Starfleet officer on the planet, he was required to attend. Unfortunately for him, he was rather bored with the entire affair.

"Man, I could be doing something more interesting…like sleeping," Ranma smirked, as he squirmed in his dress uniform.

"Well, you could interact more," Curzon replied. "I'm sure that you can start a fight or two."

"Ha, ha. I'm going to get some more 'blood wine'."

As Ranma went to get some wine, a pair of eyes was spying on him. Their owner decided to saunter over the Starfleet officer.

"Hello, Commander Saotome," said Azetbur, the daughter of Chancellor Gorkon, leader of the Klingon High Council.

"Evening, ma'am," Ranma says. "How is your father?"

"He is doing better," Azetbur says. "His duties as Chancellor have not been impeded."

"That's good."

"So, what do you think of the party?"

"It's kinda of boring."

"I concur."

A moment of silence occurs.

"I…never did properly thank you for saving my father's life."

"Ah, it's nothing."

"Oh, but I insist…"

And with that, the Klingon woman whispers something Ranma's ear, causing his pig-tail to straighten out.

"Well, when you put it that way, how can I refuse?" Ranma said with a blush. "Besides, it's been a while since…well, you know."

"I see," Azetbur says with a smile. "Well, I am looking forward to the challenge."

And with that, Ranma left the party for the evening, with chancellor's daughter in tow. After all, one must remember what Kirk would do in a situation like this.

Fin.