August 29th, 2255. It had finally arrived. That was a fact that made Griffin so excited she felt that she may burst. She had her three suitcases and backpack ready to go. She had consulted her mother about what she brought when she had gone off to the academy, during which she found out that yes, the academy does supply uniforms, you still want to bring street clothes for any out of school activities. On the matter of books, Winona Conway-Kirk had told her daughter that yes the Academy had a fully stocked library of both real paper books and electronic books you could download to your PAD, so no, you did not need to bring a years worth of books.
Besides several books and clothes, she had also packed her favorite pictures of her brother and parents, the posters of her favorite 21st-century movies and TV, and The ancient Walkman CD player she had saved from a thrift store.
A lot of the things that Griffin owned were from some thrift store or another. This wasn't because her family was poor, no. It was more to do with fact that Griffin was absolutely enthralled with American Culture from 1995 to 2020. The books, the movies, the TV, the idea of "memes", fandoms, the website called Tumblr. Even the music (though in her research, she had found that the songs from the 1970s-80s were the best). Of course the fact that the time period she was fascinated with was 220 years ago it was hard to find the books and fandom "merch" as it had been called was at some secondhand store. Her various comic books, old CDs, Doctor Who and Avengers posters, and even her black high tops.
Of course, all those items now resided in her suitcases, waiting to go to San Francisco.
For her last night in Iowa, her father, Frank Conway, had made her favorite meal, beef tacos. Her mom had gotten permission to spend a few days on earth to say goodbye to her daughter (She had been off world on the U.S.S. Nimoy for the last six months) Even Jim had put aside the quarrel he had with his step father to come see his mom and little sister.
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The shuttle was supposed to leave at 11:30. It was 10:30 now. Griffin's mom said that she'd take her, she also had to board a transport, but that would be going to the USS Nimoy, not San Francisco.
They arrived at the shipyards without incident. Griffin hugged her mom and said goodbye. She loaded her luggage into the storage compartments, and boarded the shuttle.
She found a seat on board, with a green-skinned Orion girl on one side, and a sullen human male on the other. The Orion said her name was Gaila and told Griffin that she would be studying starship engineering at the academy. As the shuttle there was a sound of southern drunken shouting from the front area of the shuttle and a blond man darting in. After a few minutes the pilot got both men seated and the shuttle was about to take off.
Wait! Was that Jim up there?
A/N: I made it to a second chapter! Yippee! I promise that in the next few chapters, I'll start to introduce some of the other characters like Uhura, McCoy, Jim and Chekov. As before, if you have any advice whatsoever, please comment or message me!