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Chappie Five: Blissfully Unaware...

"Will they survive, Doctor?" Nurse Chapel asked in sickbay, after Kirk and the bridge members were taken down for examination.

"Yes." McCoy said. "But they won't be up on their feet for a few days at least- maybe more if Jim insists on doing physical labor...which he will, of course..." He glanced at Shatner and the rest, who were standing around, unsure of what to do. "Get to the bridge. You'll need a plan of attack."

"What? Shouldn't...Kirk do that?" Shatner asked.

"Dammit, Bill, you are Kirk! Your DNA is the same- you are captain of the Enterprise!" McCoy snapped.

"What..." Shatner whispered feebly.

"Scotty can do it." Koenig said. "Or you-"

"I'm a doctor, not a captain- thank you very much." McCoy said. "I'd hate to be captain of anything. Except sickbay."

"You're the captain of sickbay in your own mind." Chapel muttered.

"Christine, get back to work!" McCoy snapped.

"Hey, Majel Barrett portrayed you." Nichols said. "She later married the creator of Star Trek."

"Creator?" McCoy muttered. "More like a rip-offer."

"Don't be mean." Takei said. "Maybe he didn't know about the real Enterprise."

"Can we beam up this Majel Barrett?" Chapel asked.

"No." McCoy said. "If we can't beam up my actor we can't beam up yours!" Chapel frowned.

"You can't beam up a corpse!" Koenig argued.

"We've beamed up worse." McCoy said indifferently.

"Quite." Nimoy agreed, walking into sickbay.

"Where were you?" Nichols asked.

"Studying some technical journals." Nimoy lied. "I'm trying to learn as much about the Enterprise as I can- you know, when we all take over the stations on the bridge."

"You won't." McCoy said. "You don't have the same DNA as-"

"Spock appointed me as Acting First and Science Officer." Nimoy interrupted.

"When did you two speak?" Takei asked.

"Before he passed out because of the Wh'Han bomb." Nimoy answered.

"How do you know its name?" Koenig asked.

"Spock told me." Nimoy lied. McCoy raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.

"You all should go to your stations." Chapel said. "We need to stop the Klingons before they attack the world!"

"This is heavy." Nichols whispered.

"What's weight got to do with it?" Chapel asked. (lol Back to the Future line)

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The actors walked into the bridge. Nichols slowly sat down in her communication station. She thought back to her acting days. Which button had she pushed to see if there was a communication? She mentally slapped her forehead. Why didn't she remember that? Admittedly, Nichols had never thought she'd be on the real Enterprise trying to communicate with real Klingons, but still... Ah, yes! That red button right there and that yellow one... Nichols punched them tentatively. "Communication request." the computer said in her headpiece.

"The USS Enterprise calling the Klingon vessel." she said.

"Communication open." the computer replied.

"I have the Klingons on, Bill!" Nichols said.

"Thanks..." Shatner replied. "Audio or visual?"

"Only audio." Nichols answered.

"Good. I want to try to trick the Klingons into believing we really are the bridge members." Shatner said. "I hope it works. Put me on speaker, Nichols." She pressed another button. "This is Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise."

"Impossible!" the Klingon replied. "The Wh'Han bomb should have-"

"But it didn't." Shatner interrupted. Scotty arrived. "Now, for the terms of your surrender..."

"Ha! Don't make me laugh, Kirk." the Klingon said. "You don't have enough power to attack us- let alone win!"

"We will discuss the terms of your surrender in 2 minutes. Kirk out." Shatner said. Nichols punched another button. "Scotty, isn't there anything we can do?"

"Well, we could try to fire at em but I dunno think it can work." Scotty said. "Unless...the Klingon ship is fully shielded right now. That takes an enormous amount of power- especially for a ship that size! If we could try to disable some of the engines...the shields'll go."

"Takei, set a course for the Klingon ship."

He glanced at Shatner. Takei, like Nichols, tried to remember which buttons he had pressed. Those two! He pushed them. Course plotted to Klingon ship, unknown class, identifying code KL 12.98X. A screen below read. "Course plotted." Takei reported. McCoy walked on the bridge. "We should arrive there in 2 minutes."

"Actually, Mr. Takei," Nimoy said, "We will be arriving at the Klingon vessel in 134.23 seconds."

"Dammit." McCoy said, "I thought there were no Vulcans on the bridge."

"I am no Vulcan. I am human." Nimoy answered, raising an eyebrow. Nichols and Koenig glanced at one another.

"Uh-huh. Right." McCoy said sarcastically. "I might need to do another scan of you."

"But not right now." Shatner said. "I'm going to distract the Klingons. Koenig, fire photon torpedoes at the engines when we are close enough."

"How close is that?" Koenig asked.

"For the photon torpedoes to have an effect, 2,238 kilometers." Nimoy answered. "We are currently 59,087 kilometers away."

"But who's counting?" Takei muttered.

"Nichols, get me the Klingons." Shatner ordered.

"Aye, Captain- I mean, Bill." Nichols said, doing as instructed.

"This is James Kirk." Shatner said, smiling slightly. "We need your terms for surrender."

"I see you have moved closer." the Klingon said. "What are you trying to, fire at us with your little phasers? Ha! Don't make me laugh."

"3,012 kilometers away." Nimoy reported.

"Cap'n." Scotty said, "I'm giving all power to the photon torpedoes." Shatner nodded.

"So, you really think you can destroy the Federation?" Shatner asked. "You may destroy cities, but you can't destroy ideas! The Federation will live on, whether or not you attack San Fransisco or any other city! San Fransisco has gone through earthquakes, fires...as the old expression goes, 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'. You cannot kill our ideas! You are only making them stronger!"

"Shatner's doing a wery good job of Kirk's dramatic speeches." Koenig whispered to Takei. Takei laughed.

"1,557 kilometers away." Nimoy reported, reminding them that this was not a fake scene that Gene Roddenberry had created, but a real fight that could alter the course of human history. "I must admit," he continued to the Klingons, "that it was highly illogical of you to tell us of your plan. It is like telling an opponent their move and suitable counter-moves in chess."

"Jeez." McCoy muttered. "Either that Nimoy's a good actor, or he's part Vulcan."

"Unless it isn't all acting..." Nichols mused.

"You fools!" the Klingon snapped. "You act like you can really stop us! We are bigger than you, faster than you...you can't beat us!"

"His arrogance is extremely illogical, Captain." Nimoy said.

"Quite Ni- Mr. Spock." Shatner said.

"What were you going to say?" the Klingon asked.

"What do you mean?" Shatner replied, looking a bit panicked.

"You were about to say something else- what was it?"

"How much farther?" Shatner asked.

"1412 kilometers away." Nimoy answered.

"I want visual communication!" the Klingon screamed. "Now, the alleged Kirk!"

"Alleged? I am Kirk!" Shatner snapped.

"3 kilometers and closing." Takei whispered. "2..."

"Fire, Chekov!" Shatner cried.

Koenig pressed a button, remembering it to be the one he always hit. A memory of his came rushing to his mind- he remembered that Gene Roddenberry had told him exactly which button to push. 'That red one's the ticket.' the creator of Star Trek had said. 'Always push that one.' And Koenig had obeyed.

"Got 'im!" Koenig cried.

"Direct hit on the engines!" Scotty said. "Their power's cut by at least one half!"

"Fire phasers at the engines again!" Shatner cried.

"Another direct hit." Nimoy said, calm as a Vulcan.

"They are losing warp drive!" Scotty reported happily.

"Fire at will, Koenig." Shatner said.

He did so. The main engines were blown off, as was part of the 'wing' of the ship.

"So, you want the terms of our surrender?" the Klingon asked weakly.

"I would." Shatner replied.

"Too bad." the Klingon snapped.

"They're leaving!"Koenig reported.

"Their course is to the sun." Takei said.

"They will be attempting the slingshot effect, but will fail with so little power." Nimoy said.

"We did it." Shatner said. "All of us. Good job."

"No problem, Bill."

"We were apt for the job, Mr. Shatner." Nimoy said.

"What is wrong with you, Leonard?" Nichols asked.

"I'm Leonard!" McCoy snapped.

"There is nothing wrong with me." Nimoy replied. "I'm physically and mentally well."

"No one is mentally well when they're speaking like a Vulcan!" McCoy argued. Nimoy raised an eyebrow.

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A few days later, all of the real bridge members were out of sickbay and onto the bridge where they belonged. Kirk was talking to Shatner about how he would have handled the situation, Sulu and Chekov were showing their counterparts what all the buttons did, and Spock and Nimoy were speaking about tricorders. "So that's how they really work!" Nimoy exclaimed. The effect of the mind-meld was wearing off, but Spock's memories still remained.

Nichols and Uhura were talking about cosmetics. "So they really have no-run mascara in the future?" Nichols asked. Uhura nodded. "Wow. They advertise that it's no-run in this time period, but it isn't."

"Liars, those ad companies." Uhura said. "But you should see the lip balm. It takes two seconds, and your lips are fully moisturized!"

"No way!"

McCoy walked onto the bridge. "I've got the serum ready."

"What serum?" Takei asked.

"I'm sorry." Kirk said. "But...the Prime Directive...I can't let you all remember this."

"WHAT?"

"It's just a simple serum that causes you to forget what's happened in the last few days. I have to hypospray you all with it. I'm sorry." Kirk apologized again, looking downcast. "I wish I could let you all remember, but...the Prime Directive..."

"Damn the Prime Directive!" Nimoy snapped. "We helped save the Federation, and we won't even remember it?"

"I have to agree with the fake Vulcan." McCoy said. "They already know all about us...I can't see the harm in letting them know it's real."

"For once, I have to agree with the doctor." Spock said. "I mind-melded with Leonard-"

"NIMOY!"

"and gave him many of my memories." Spock completed, ignoring McCoy. "Should he be injected with the serum and forget what has happened, but remembers my memories, then the results could be insanity."

"Keptain." Chekov said. "I von't let you do this."

"They're a part of us!" Sulu agreed.

Uhura nodded. Kirk glanced at all of them. "I guess I have to agree with you all." Kirk said. "You saved the Federation. Instead of a medal I'll just let you keep your memories."

"Fair trade." Nichols said.

"How are you going to fix the damage already done?" Shatner asked Kirk.

"Nothing like sabotage and fixing up the past." Kirk replied. "We'll just beam you down from the moment in time where we met."

"But then...von't ve forget anyway? I mean, if ve beam down in the past, von't ve forget this future has happened?" Koenig asked.

"I'll make sure you remember." Kirk said, smiling.

Four days ago later, they headed to the transporter room. "Goodbye." Kirk said to Shatner. "Good luck. I wish...we could meet each other again, but I doubt that will happen."

"It was an honor to meet the man I acted." Shatner said.

Nichols and Uhura began to cry, hugging each other. Koenig and Chekov were saying their goodbyes, and so were Takei and Sulu. Spock mind-melded with Nimoy one last time, perhaps showing his emotion to the actor. "Goodbye!" the bridge members said before the actors beamed down.

"Energize." Shatner whispered.

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Shatner looked around. He was in the makeup room. He could have sworn...no. He could have sworn he had been on the Enterprise... "Wow." Shatner whispered to himself. "Must be car fumes going to my head."

He walked out to the cheers of the audience and watched as a woman named Georgina lost $112,000. He took out a card which had the name of the next contestant. For a second he thought the name should have been 'Captain Kirk' but it was really 'Jim Adams'. The man won $100,000.

Shatner went home, his mind full of half-memories. He shook his head, confused. Why did he think he should be on the bridge of the Enterprise? Shatner grabbed a phone. "Hey, Leonard?"

"You do know it's five in the morning." Nimoy replied, but he sounded fully awake. "I've had the weirdest dream...it's about-"

"The Enterprise?"

"Vulcan. So many memories...it's so weird." Nimoy said. "I...I don't know how I know about all this stuff! Did you know Spock's last name is T'Xa'Re?"

"Gene never wrote Spock's surname."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Maybe it was just a dream..."

"I hope so. Night, Bill."

"Night."

Shatner turned on the television. "This is Carlotta Richards reporting. Blurry photos of a UFO have been identified by NASA to be a fallen satellite." He rolled his eyes.

"Get worked up over nothing. What'd they think, it was a Klingon ship?" Shatner asked.

He was about to go to out to eat when there was a knock at his porch door. The actor went out, looking around. There was no one there. Only a...Shatner leaned down to peer at it. A phaser and a note. What was going on? In closer inspection, he could see the letters James T. Kirk written on the side of the phaser. He looked at the note.

Dear William Shatner,

If the beam down went according to plan, then all of your memories have been, as McCoy so eloquently put it, 'stuffed into the back of your mind.' He does have a way with words, doesn't he?

You saved the world only a few hours ago. It's hard to believe but you did do it. Remember? You were so surprised that the Enterprise really existed. Well, this is James T. Kirk writing you, and I'm telling you- The USS Enterprise representing the United Federation of Planets really exists.

Memories rushed forward from the back of Shatner's mind. He had saved the world- the Klingons were going to destroy it, but he...and Nimoy, Takei, Koenig, and Nichols- had saved the world and the Federation!

As a souvenir we've decided to give you- along with all the other actors- a phaser. Just in case any more Klingons stir up trouble!

I hope you don't mind, but we stole a few of your Star Trek DVD's. Let me be the first to tell you: you portrayed me wonderfully. I have to admit, you got my personality down, though I do NOT fight that way and I hope I'm not as melodramatic.

Don't worry. Just as you've helped us- we've helped you. That pesky Carlotta Richards will never report on your disappearance, and there's nothing like some sabotage to a picture of a Klingon ship.

Bill, it's been a pleasure meeting you and, though we may not meet again, I wish we could.

Live Long and Prosper,

James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise

This isn't the end yet. Can the author be so terrible as to not let Bones and Scotty see their actors? Find out...in the last chappie!