Chapter 6: Bridging the Gaps

Space…a vacuum of black silent emptiness dotted with twinkling points of light. It was a space that for thousands of years had fascinated and awed the humans of Earth. It had been the source for myths, a makeshift compass for maps but most importantly of all it was the inspiration for some of the greatest endeavours that small blue and green planet had ever seen.

One such journey was starting right at that moment though James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk was completely unaware of it.

He was too busy trying to keep himself from throwing up.

"I may throw up on you" he glared sidelong at the figures of Leonard and Layla, the former of whom was rolling his eyes whilst the latter gazed avidly out the shuttle window beside her.

"Jim" She whispered in awe tugging at her blonde friends' clammy sweaty hand. "Jim! You really have to see this it's incredible"

"What?" Jim grunted as he leaned over to peer out the window with his blurred eyes only for his breath to catch in his throat. "whoa…"

There in the distance was a massive round structure gleaming brightly in the light of the distant but very bright yellow sun. It was far bigger than the city on earth they had just left. It was so large in fact that the shuttles that flew around it looked as small as tiny ants next to a house.

But none of the cadet's faces were focused on the base. All their eyes were only focused on one of the base's large transverse arms where a starship was docked securely waiting for them as they sped towards it.

She was a magnificent ship. Her metal sheeting was a gleaming ivory grey that made her markings on her disk like main hull starkly stand out even from a distance.

U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC-1701

"Now that's what I call a beauty" Layla whistled under her breath and McCoy hummed in agreement. Jim just gave a small nod afraid that if he opened his mouth he'd let loose chunks.

Throwing up over the new upholstery? Well that would be one hell of a way to christen a ship

Jim remained silent as the shuttle docked in the ships shuttle bay, doing his best to keep on his legs as he was dragged out by Leonard, away from the platform and into the engineering portion of the ship.

Layla followed them looking around with intrigue and excitement in spite of her friend's predicament.

Everyone was bustling about them as they tried to find their way to their stations. Friends were talking in soft hushed tones whilst commanding officers made to call out orders loudly over the hubbub. One of them caught her attention at once, a tall strongly built man with greying black hair and a stern dark eyes that fixed on her within two seconds flat.

"Oh crap…"

"Who's that?" Leonard muttered as he eyed the man up and down.

"Lieutenant Commander Giotto, Chief of Security" Layla hissed, wincing as said senior officer barked loudly in her direction.

"Pike! Come here!"

"Just a moment sir! Go-go-go I'll find you as soon as I can!" she hissed the last bit at her two friends with shooing motions before dashing off towards the man.

Layla gulped as she spared both her friends one last fleeting look over her shoulder. She snorted as she saw Jim squinting to see where she was as Leonard rolled his eyes and roughly dragged him off.

"Ahem!" someone coughed and with a deep breath she turned to face her commanding officer stiffly.

"What seems to be the problem sir?"

"The problem is that my new deputy chief needs to get changed" Giotto roughly jerked his thumb over his shoulder to a doorway where other female cadets were quickly darting through.

Layla's eyes however were fixed on his face, wide and shocked.

"Deputy?"

"Yes" Giotto grunted, folding his arms with a scowl. "So get a move on quickly Lieutenant Pike! You're up first on the alpha shift on the bridge with Captain Pike"

Layla could've almost hugged the man she was so happy and it took a lot of effort on her part to refrain from doing so.

Deputy Chief of Security! Deputy F-ing Chief of F-ing Security! And on Alpha shift too! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!

Lieutenant Commander Giotto smirked and shook his head as the younger girl before him gave a vigorous nod before dashing off towards the change rooms not even bothering to restrain the loud victorious whoop for joy as she bounded through the automatic doors.

"Are we there yet?" Jim grunted as he looked about their surroundings in a daze. Thanks to whatever godforsaken concoction his doctor friend had injected into his system, his vision was now so blurred that he could barely see a thing.

"Nearly but first let's go get you changed." Leonard grumbled.

It had been ten minutes and they were still in the Enterprise's Engineering bays. Leonard McCoy sighed heavily as he did his best to doing his best to manoeuvre himself and a now very sick Jim Kirk as sneakily as he could through the crowd of crew members.

"I don't feel right. I feel like I'm leaking-" Jim whined as he stumbled on his feet as unstably as a newborn gazelle.

"Hell, it's that pointy-eared bastard" Leonard grumbled darkly as he saw a familiar tall emotionless figure of Commander Spock dressed in Sciences Blue, stride in their direction.

Thankfully he didn't notice them as they suspiciously ducked out of sight, for his eyes were focused solely on the PADD in his hands as he strode into the turbo lift to his left.

"Wait!" a voice called and Spock looked up quickly to see a short and petite young woman dash into the lift space beside him. She was wearing the long-sleeved operations red shirt with tight fitted but flexible black pants tucked into knee high black combat boots. Her face was pale with icy blue eyes that frowned as she concentrated on tying back her long black hair into a messy but functional single side plait.

"Miss Pike" Spock quirked an eyebrow and Layla nodded.

"Commander Spock" Layla grunted as she took the hair tie from her mouth and wrapped it about the ends of the braid.

"I expect Lieutenant Commander Giotto has informed you of your duties?"

"Yes and I've also sent both the personnel and engineering reports to your station aboard the bridge-sir" she added quickly.

"Thank you Lieutenant" he bobbed his head courteously noticing the single silver band over the girl's wrist as the lift came to a stop and the doors opened.

When Layla had first seen the outside of the Enterprise she'd thought she'd faint. Now she saw the bridge she thought she might just have a heart attack.

Every surface on the bridge was immaculately clean, all consoles polished, monitor's buzzing with life and awaiting their designated officers who were all currently mulling around doing their best to familiarise themselves with their surroundings.

Layla internally squealed as she skipped out of the lift and away from Spock towards the Operations Weapons console that sat right in front of the navigator's and helmsman's seats in which two young men in Command gold were seated, talking to one another and fiddling with their controls.

Layla grinned as she recognised a distinctive Russian accent coming from a head of curly brown head of hair that sat in the navigator's chair

"So I guess this is it…. On our first mission…"

"I know" the dark haired man that sat in the helmsman's chair gulped.

Layla's grin widened as she stepped forwards so that her shadow fell over them.

"Nervous boys?"

Both men jumped in their seats as they wheeled about to face her.

"Oh iz just you mizz Pike" the curly haired navigator, Pavel Chekov, smiled with relief as the Asian man, Hikaru Sulu sighed heavily before addressing her.

"Not wearing the skirt."

"Nah! Too short" Layla snorted as she leaned over to inspect the console. "Everything working ok?"

"Ok? She's perfect" Sulu smirked as he gestured to all his controls.

"Vell ov course, she iz the newest ship in ze fleet" Chekov's grin was excitable even as he two made to turn back to his console, his gaze fixed avidly on the large bridge front viewing window.

Layla looked out it too and couldn't help but smile as she caught sight of the big expanse of empty blackness dotted with tiny points of light that stretched out before them into infinity.

Well…this is it…we're finally going to do this…

She jumped as the familiar voice of a man made to call out from her side.

"Mr Spock."

Layla's head snapped round just in time to see her father's greying head of hair as he stepped in from the Captain's ready room.

He hadn't noticed her yet for he was striding past the science station where the Vulcan commander swiftly proceeded to answer his unasked query.

"All Engineering reports ready for launch"

"Thank you" Christopher Pike nodded, smirking widely as he finally caught sight of his daughter standing before the captain's chair.

"Lieutenant" he nodded.

"Dad-I-I mean Captain" Layla coughed doing her best to keep her face as professionally neutral as possible. However she could not prevent the corners of her lips from quirking upwards even as he made to stand next to her and look out the front view window.

"Nervous?" Christopher muttered softly.

"A little" Layla admitted with a small gulp.

Christopher's smile only warmed with pride.

"You'll do fine. Now off to your console, captain's orders" he added the last bit with a small grin as he gently made to pat her back.

"Yes sir" Layla gave a playful two fingered salute before quickly dashing off to a console based just to the left of the navigation station at the front of the bridge.

She hissed happily as she assessed the entirety of the weapons subsystem's checkout station. Everything was in place, new and shiny. Her fingers were itching with anticipation as she made to check all weapons systems, which as expected were spick and span and ready to go.

She turned back to the captain's chair as her father made to speak again this time to the whole bridge crew.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the maiden voyage of our newest flagship deserves more pomp and circumstance than we can afford today. Her christening will just have to be our reward for a safe return. Carry on."

He quickly pressed a button on the arm of the captain's chair.

"All decks this is Captain Pike, prepare for immediate departure. Helm thrusters" he added nodding to Sulu who at once began to fiddle at his station.

"Moorings retracted, Captain. Dock Control reports ready. Thrusters fired. Separating from space-dock."

"Set a course for Vulcan."

"Aye-aye Captain. Course laid in."

Layla watched with bated breath as the image in the large bridge window began to change as the Enterprise began to turn. The ships movements were as smooth as silk and it was with no difficulties that its new helmsman to manoeuvre it into position alongside all the other ships.

Once it was set in place Christopher Pike's eyes hardened on the empty mass of space before their eyes.

"Maximum Warp. Punch it"

Layla bit her lip as she saw, as if in slow motion, Sulu's hand push down on a silver lever set before his left hand.

There was a hum as the whole ship seemed to buzz with energy and then…

There were several flashes of blue lights before them as the rest of the fleet before them disappeared into the dark void of space in a blip as the Enterprise just…stayed still?

There was silence as everyone turned to look at Sulu blankly.

"Lieutenant" Christopher's voice was tense as he frowned down from the captain's chair. "Where is Helmsman McKenna?"

"He has lungworms sir. He couldn't report to his post. I'm Hikaru Sulu" Layla bit her lip nervously as she saw a bead of sweat begin to form on her friend's brow as her father gave him a shrewd calculating look.

"And you are a pilot right?"

"Very much so sir" Sulu gulped as he quickly began to check every single setting at his console. "I'm not sure what's wrong here?"

"Is the parking brake on?" Christopher remarked dryly.

"Uh…no" Sulu shook his head nervously "I'll figure it out I'm just-"

"Have you disengaged the external inertial dampener?" Spock quickly cut across him from the sciences station.

Layla exchanged a small sympathetic glance with Chekov as Sulu sighed heavily, his fingers quickly making to press a couple of buttons which resulted in a very positive beep from the machine in front of him.

"Ready for warp sir" he announced again to the bridge, though unlike the first time he sounded a lot more deflated even as Christopher made to smirk with amusement.

"Let's punch it"

And once more Sulu made to push the lever forwards.

Layla gripped at her seat hard as suddenly the whole ship seemed to jerk gently forwards, sucked into warp speed and deep into the vacuum of space.

Jim Kirk was wandering in the darkness between sleep and the waking world when an odd voice of a young man entered his brain.

"May I have your attention please? At twenty-two hundred hours, telementary detected an anomaly in the Neutral Zone. What appeared to be a lightning storm in space. Soon after, Starfleet received a distress signal from Vwulcan High Command that their planet was experiencing seismic activity. Our mission is to assess the condition of Wulcan, and to assist in evwacuations if necessary. We should be arriving at Wulcan within three minutes. Thank you for your time."

Lightning Storm…

Jim frowned, vaguely aware that his face was moving even though his eyes were shut.

Lightning storm…why does that sound familiar…Lightning storm in space?

Then suddenly out of nowhere images started popping up in his brain of documents, words, pictures, news headlines…dissertations…

Dissertations?

Of course…how could I have been so slow?

"Lightning Storm!" he spluttered eyes flying open as he jerked straight up to sit. He was sitting on what appeared to be a medical bio bed. Around him medical staff dressed either in sciences blue or in sterilised white clothing walked about, checking supplies and equipment settings and even some sick crew members.

"Ah Jim you're awake. How do you feel?" Leonard's voice called out as the doctor made to stride across the room from an office with a PADD in hand. However when he caught sight of his patient/friend seated on the bio bed his eyes widened with panic.

"Good God man."

"What?" Jim blinked quickly checking himself over only to cry out in absolute horror.

His hands were about the size of two small balloons each, the fingers each as fat as sausages in a New York hot dog.

"What the hell is this?" he yelped, not caring how surprisingly girlish and high his voice had gone in his terror as he tried to move his fingers, only to find that even his top digits could barely bend one millimetre.

"A reaction to the vaccine damn it! Nurse Chapel I need about 50 cc's of Cortisone" Leonard barked at a blonde nurse that was checking over a nearby table. At the sound of the gruff doctor's voice she quickly snapped to attention and began to fill up a large hypo-spray with the required drug.

Jim however didn't care. The thought he had struck was now once more replaying over in his mind. In an almost blind panic he dashed over to the nearest console and began slamming his giant swollen fingers against the replay button for the last transmission.

The face of a curly haired young man appeared on the screen speaking as clearly as he could with that same strange accent that Jim had heard in his dream.

"May I have your attention- Telemetry detected- appeared to be a lightning storm in space-Lightning storm in space-in space – seismic activity-" the language ended up garbled slightly as Jim kept rewinding and fast forwarding the message so that he got the main words.

"Hey!" Leonard yelled as he tried to grab hold of his patient only for his patient to grab hold of him with swollen hands and steamroll over him in a breathless voice.

"Bones we gotta stop the ship!"

"Sir! Sir! We have news"

"Yes Lieutenant?"

"Sir we've just received a report that Cadet Pike has boarded the Enterprise"

"WHAT?! When did this happen?"

"Just an hour or so ago sir. She is currently én route to assist in the evacuation of Vulcan"

"VULCAN?! You imbicile! I told you to keep an eye on that brat! Didn't I specifically say that under no circumstances was she to be allowed to ever leave Earth! Why wasn't she stopped at the shuttle bay?"

"I'm afraid I don't know sir. Our agents did their best to locate her but she slipped right past us. She along with that Cadet Kirk. But by the time we found out about where they were, the shuttle was already docking into the Enterprise at Starbase 1"

"The Enterprise? SHIT!"

"Sir?"

"Don't sir me you ass! This is a disaster! Neither of those two were ever supposed to get on that ship! Never! And now everything will be ruined."

"Sir-"

"get out"

"-but-"

"GET OUT!"

"Jim! I'm not kidding we need to keep your heart rate down!" Leonard McCoy yelled loudly startling several officers in the corridor as he sped down it carrying a white medical case in his hands.

Just ahead of him, Jim Kirk had skidded to a full stop at another computer station and was calling out into the machine loudly. "Computer locate crew member Layla Pike"

"Lieutenant Pike is on the bridge would you like to communicate with her now?" the cool digital voice of a computer responded calmly even as Jim made to snarl at it.

"yes goddamnit!"

"Contacting Lieutenant Pike"

There were a series of three computerised beeps and then suddenly Layla's pale face appeared on the screen frowning in confusion.

"Jim" she hissed as soon as she saw her friend's panicked face. "Jim what are you doing? You're supposed to be in med bay"

"I know Layla but this is important. Listen you have to tell your dad to stop the-"

"Layla? Who are you talking to?"

Jim froze and Layla's face turned the colour of parchment as she gulped over her shoulder.

"Uh…no one dad-I mean Captain" Layla gulped over her shoulder before quickly whispering back to the screen. "Jim I'm sorry ok but I'll have to call you later when I'm off my shift. Ok? Bye"

"Layla!" Jim cried out but too late. The connection was already dead.

"Jesus Christ! Computer locate crew member Uhura" he growled hammering away at the computer once more just as Leonard finally came level with him.

"You know I haven't seen such a severe reaction like this since med school" the doctor grunted, but Jim paid him no heed as he made to nearly fly away from the console.

"We're flying into a trap!"

"Damn it Jim stand still!"

"OW! STOP IT!" Jim cried out as the doctor caught up with him and jabbed a hypospray into his neck.

Leonard just scowled at him, an expression that only deepened as the young man quickly made to dash off once more, this time weaving his way amongst several seated red shirted Communications officers.

Jim's eyes were wide even as he made to peer at all the stations, searching desperately for the dark long ponytail that belonged to the woman just at the-

"UHURA!"

Uhura looked up quickly just in time to see Kirk nearly hurtle headlong into her station.

"Kirk what are you doing here?" she cried out jumping to her feet but already Jim was hurtling on ahead with his question.

"The transmission from the Klingon prison planet. What exactly-"

"Oh my god! What's wrong with your hands?" Uhura recoiled in horror as she caught sight of the swollen limbs.

Jim just shook his head. He'd explain to her later. He'd probably look like an idiot again but still. Later.

"No its-just look! Who is responsible for the Klingon attack? And was the ship womuwown?" he trailed off as his words slurred horribly.

"Was the ship what?" Uhura frowned in confusion and Jim's eyes widened.

"What's happening with my mouth?" he frowned back at Leonard who had come up behind him with a tricorder and began to examine him.

At the sound of the slurred tongue the doctor's face paled.

"You got numb tongue?"

"Nomb tong?" Jim replied his voice thick as his tongue almost went completely slack.

"I can fix that"

"Was the ship what?" Uhura asked desperately, doing her best not to reach out and strangle Jim before her for his interruption of her work.

"Womulon"

"what?"

"Rowmulan" Jim slowed down his words and was pleased to see the linguist follow his lip pattern with her own mouth.

"Romulan?! YES! Yes it was!" she nodded vigorously.

Jim could have almost kissed her had it not been for the fact his mouth felt as numb as an ice cube and that Leonard had just jabbed another hypo-spray into his neck.

"Ah-ah! Damn it!"

There were looks of stunned surprise as Jim Kirk, Nyota Uhura and Leonard McCoy all dashed onto the Enterprise's bridge.

Everything before had been calm with only the slightest amount of tension, though that was mostly from nerves of a new crew as they accustomed themselves to their new ship.

Layla Pike herself had just been checking out the calibration of the beam array from her station when her three closest academy friends ran helter skelter with Jim bringing up the front of the charge bellowing loudly over the other two

"Captain Pike we have to stop the ship!"

"Kirk how the hell did you get on board the Enterprise?!" Captain Christopher Pike barked as he stood up from his Captain's chair.

Layla gulped as she saw that his eyes were the stoniest she had ever seen them and was glad she wasn't on the receiving end like Jim and Leonard currently were.

It was the latter who spoke first to the captain barely managing to retain his terror behind a professional doctor's bedside manner.

"Captain, this man's under the influence of a severe reaction to a vaccine"

"Bone's please-"

"He's completely delusional and I will take full responsibility-"

"Vulcan is not experiencing a natural disaster. It's being attacked by Romulans!" Jim boomed over the voice of the doctor.

There was a very pregnant, very awkward pause in which Layla swore she could hear a cricket chirping loudly even as she stood up in her seat.

"…come again? Romulans?"

But Christopher was not impressed even as he glared sternly down at the younger man before him.

"Cadet Kirk, I think you've had enough attention for one day. McCoy take him back to medical, we'll have words later. Layla you escort them both and see if you can knock some sense into your friend!"

He turned his gaze upon his daughter who quickly averted her eyes down to the ground and nodded.

"Aye Captain. Come on Jim." She added in an undertone as she made to grab his arm but Jim brushed her off and strode up to the Captain.

"Look sir, that same anomaly that we saw today-"

"Mr Kirk is not cleared to be aboard this vessel Captain" the emotionless voice of Spock piped in as he strode in from his station to stand in-between the two men.

Jim just rolled his eyes at the newcomer with obvious disdain.

"Look I get it. You're a great arguer-"

"By Regulations-"

"-I'd love to do it again"

"-that makes him a stowaway. I can remove the cadet-"

"Try it!" Jim growled over the top of the Vulcan "this cadet is trying to save the bridge!"

"By recommending a full stop mid-warp during a rescue mission?" Spock quirked an eyebrow as he straightened up to his fullest height

"It's not a rescue mission" Jim's eyes narrowed as he too straightened up so that he was chest to chest with the tall Vulcan "Listen to me it's an attack-"

"Based on what-"

"OH FOR F'S SAKE WILL THE TWO OF YOU JUST SHUT THE F- UP FOR ONE GODDAMN MOMENT!"

Both Jim's and Spock's mouths shut at once as Layla stormed her way over to the pair of them her icy eyes flaring even as she made to wrench the two of them apart muttering darkly under her breath.

"Men and their stupid egos!"

Christopher just watched on with his eyebrows raised in surprise as the short petite girl suddenly turned on Jim, pointing a finger up at him when he opened his mouth to complain.

"No James Tiberius Kirk! Either you step down from the commander and explain yourself or else it's the brig for you!"

Had the other officers aboard the bridge not been so terrified by the young woman's snarling face they might have been awed by the fact that Jim somehow managed to keep a calm neutral face.

But they weren't seeing what he was seeing.

Layla was angry. By the high heavens she was. But Jim could also see that she was worried, not just because of him being found out, but because she had understood his words. She knew him when he lied or made up yarns, could tell he was lying before he'd even told the lie. And now she knew better than anyone else in the room (besides Leonard) that Jim was definitely not lying.

"Jim…" she muttered softly so that only he, Spock and Christopher could hear. "Please…I don't want to lock you up down there…"

Jim nodded quietly before looking up at a still very stern faced, but now concerned Captain and the rest of an equally disconcerted crew.

"That same anomaly, a lightning storm in space that we saw today, also occurred on the day of my birth, before a Romulan ship attacked the U.S.S. Kelvin. You know that sir I read your dissertation. That ship which had formidable and advanced weaponry was never seen or heard from again. The Kelvin attack took place on the edge of Klingon space, and at twenty-three hundred hours last night there was an attack. Forty-seven Klingon warbirds destroyed by Romulans sir, and it was reported that the Romulans were in one ship, one massive ship"

"and you know of this Klingon attack how?" Christopher narrowed his eyes suspiciously but Jim only turned towards Uhura who started slightly at being suddenly the centre of attention as all eyes swivelled to her.

"Sir, I intercepted and translated the message myself. Kirk's report is accurate"

"But if that's true then won't the fleet be walking into a trap?" Layla's eyes widened as she looked at Kirk who nodded.

"Yeah and the Romulans are going to be the ones waiting for us I promise you that"

There was another small pause as everyone digested this news. It was almost absurd and yet…

"The cadet's logic is sound" Spock spoke up quietly with a nod towards a still frowning captain. "And lieutenant Uhura is unmatched in xenolinguistics it would be wise to accept her conclusion."

"Scan Vulcan space" Christopher shrewdly eyed the communications consoles "Check for any transmissions in Romulan"

But the red shirted male lieutenant at the station just shook his head in befuddlement.

"Sir I'm not sure I can distinguish the Romulan Language from Vulcan"

Christopher quickly turned to Uhura.

"What about you? Do you speak Romulan, Cadet?"

"Uhura. All three dialects" Uhura nodded uncertainly even as the Captain made to order.

"Uhura relieve the Lieutenant"

"Yes sir…"

There was a tense pause as the male Lieutenant gave Uhura a small but silent scathing glower before striding out towards the Bridge's turbo lift.

But no one paid him the slightest attention for the Captain was once more issuing orders in a hurry.

"Hannity, hail the U.S.S Truman."

"All the other ships are out of warp sir and have arrived at Vulcan but we seem to have lost all contact" A female Lieutenant announced as Uhura also checked over her new station's scanners.

"Sir, I pick up no Romulan transmission. Or transmission of any kind in the area"

"Not even a distress signal from the planet?" Layla asked quickly looking over her friends shoulder, but Uhura just shook her head.

"No, not even that."

"It's because they're being attacked" Jim stated.

Christopher paused for a moment, almost as if he were still taking all of this new information in. but as he spoke his voice was steady.

"Layla back to your station, ready the weapons and sound the red alert. Everyone else shields up and prepare yourselves."

"Yes sir!" came the collective call from all the junior officers.

Layla was quick to make her way back to her station, pressing the red alert button just in time to as Sulu's voice called out loudly over the wailing sirens and flashing red lights.

"Arrival at Vulcan in five seconds"

Jim turned to look at Leonard whose face was pale as death.

"-Four-"

He turned to Uhura at her station. She too was looking like she was about to faint.

"Three"

He turned to Layla whose entire body was so tense she looked like a bomb about to be set off even as her fingers hovered over her controls. She looked up at him and gave a pointed look to his hands. He nodded and had just about set them to grip on tight to the sides of two consoles.

"Two"

Jim quickly turned to the side and saw to his surprise, Spock standing close by, looking back at him with cool disdain even as the last number was announced loudly.

"ONE!"

There was a small jerk, as suddenly the whole ship was thrust out of warp…and into absolute chaos.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA! Let the games begin my prettys!

lol but seriously yay the Enterprise is finally trekking and on my B'Day too! yay! nothing beats a relaxed birthday morning than sitting with my laptop on my lap as i lounge about in an air-conditioned living room, hogging a great big couch all to myself as i listen to my ipod, drink hot chocolate and write/doodle to my hearts content :)

So yeah, i placed Layla in security. it took me a lot of researching but apparently in TOS the security chief (Like Lieutenant Commander Giotto who is really in TOS) was still considered a part of Operations and not Tactical like ST:Next Generation and beyond.

Also i just want to ask. what do you guys think of Layla's uniform with the red shirt and pants?

I know it sounds like a dumb question but seriously, it took me a long while to research the uniforms. I had read in many sources online that even in TOS it was acceptable for female crew members to wear pants and shirt combo, however in the reboot we actually don't get to see any female officers wear it so i had to make it up. Pity it could've looked pretty kickass on some women :P

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and keep R&Ring for more