An: I hope everyone enjoyed the last chapter. I worked really hard on it! Is the story making sense to you? I suddenly got the idea to make Spock a prince because of a movie (I think Star Trek-The Final Frontier) when Spock says his half brother's mother was a Vulcan princess.
Also, since I want my readers to follow along, I am going to address questions to the story in my author notes. One reviewer asked how is Syon an adult when he was born on 1999 Earth. That answer is easy; Syon who is with Sulu is living the future of the same Universe. His mother gave birth to him in the past as she was on a federation mission at the time. Remember Nero took Syon as a young child and brought him back to the current time this Universe. That is why Syon is older.
Note
This chapter and next chapters to come are going to be a wee bit more complicated, but really only in terms of political intrigue and character relationships. Some may not like the pairs I create, but I felt they were necessary given the story. Also, it's REALLY important to know the names of the characters I've listed in the last chapter or else you are going to get lost like a fart in the wind.
Please read "Mama Said Knock You Out' and Spock Bigalow: Male Gigolo and other stories I've worked on
Enough of my ramblings. Enjoy this chapter!
I don't own.
A Wrinkle in Time
Chapter Five
The Glory of Vulcan
Acting Captain's Log 22019
After traveling through an ion storm, the Enterprise received a mysterious transmission from what appeared to be an 'older' Nyota. This Nyota has informed us that she and the crew of the Enterprise were living on Earth during the year 1999, in an attempt to stop the Romulans from destroying the population with a deadly disease. Her unusual response was to tell us we needed to travel back in time to 1999 Earth to stop Nero, a Romulan we thought was dead. However, she failed to give us an exact time or any further details about her predicament. Captain Kirk, Bones, Scotty, Spock and our Nyota transported themselves to 1999 Earth to figure out what is going on, and Captain Kirk has place me as acting Captain.
Things have become more complicated. First, I discovered that the message sent from this 'older' Nyota was not meant for us as we were somehow transported to this Universe during the ion storm. Second, we were attacked by a young Vulcan/human hybrid named Syon who claims this same Nyota is his mother and Spock is father. To make matters worst, Nero has raised him claiming that Nyota gave him permission to do so.
Nero has brainwashed Syon into believing the federation was responsible for the destruction of both Romulus and Vulcan in our Universe, however, Syon now views Nero with suspicion and has agreed to work with us.
We are in the process of contacting Prince Spock, the mysterious member of the Vulcan Royal Family and the father of Syon. I want to know what is so important about Syon, apart from his Royal heritage and reestablish communications with Captain Kirk.
Sulu finished his Captain's log and turned to Syon.
"So your father is Prince Spock?" Sulu inquired. He almost wanted to laugh at the idea that Spock was a prince in this universe and wanted to meet this mysterious Vulcan.
Syon nodded his head.
"Yes. I have mixed feelings about him. He was never there for me." Syon was working on establishing contact with Sybok, his uncle.
"What do you know of this Sybok?" As a historian by hobby, Sulu was obsessed with studying the royal houses of both Earth and alien civilizations. It fascinated him how royal families operated, dictated lines of succession, and how they claim their divine right to rule over the lives of others.
However, Sulu also knew about the power vacuums that resulted when a ruler died without a successor and wondered if this Syon was important for this reason. If that was the case then, Sulu wanted to know just who would benefit from Prince's Spock exile and Syon being either dead or alive.
Too bad the young Vulcan didn't know he was a pawn in a major scheme, his strings being pulled to force him in whatever direction someone wanted him to go in, but the question was who were pulling the strings?
It couldn't be Nero. Sure, the Romulan raised Syon, but in this universe the Vulcan Empire was one of the largest in the galaxy and the Romulans were reduced to clamoring for their share of wealth and power.
Whoever it was, it had to be Vulcan.
"I am receiving a response to my signal!" Syon shouted.
Sulu commanded Lt. Balana to put the image on screen.
"Hail them!" Turning to Syon he asked, "What is Sybok's title?"
Syon didn't know.
He didn't know the truth about Sybok or why the Vulcan prince no longer lived on Vulcan.
"Just call him your majesty; he is still the son of King Sarek."
Sulu waited until Lt. Balana put the image on screen. As a member of the Vulcan Royal Family, Sybok was given a ship at birth for his own personal use. It was a small ship but grand and beautiful all the same. Its Vulcan name was impossible to pronounce, but Syon told Sulu that in the common language the name was pronounced T'more.
Sybok's face appeared on the screen.
He was older and less handsome than his young brother.
Sulu prayed this wasn't a mistake.
As did Syon.
"Greetings, I am Captain Sulu of the USS Enterprise. I believe you are Prince Sybok."
Sybok nodded his head.
"Yes, I am Prince Sybok. How odd for a federation starship to contact a member of the Vulcan royal family without first going through the proper channels, that is against the law you know."
Sybok didn't know who Syon was and paid him no attention.
"I will have to worry about punishment later, your majesty. We have a serious situation going on and need your help. I must find your brother, Prince Spock!"
Sybok's face hardened, "You mean half brother!" He spat.
"Do you know where is he is?"
"Why do you want to know?" Sybok asked.
Sulu did not wish to tell Sybok about Syon for he could already see that there was some conflict between Sybok and his brother, Spock. What if he told him about Syon? What would he do?
Before Sulu could answer, Syon being young and impulsive answered.
"I am the son of Prince Spock and I want to know!"
Sybok couldn't believe his ears.
"Prince….Syon!" The words struggled to free themselves from his lips.
"Yes, I am the son of his concubine Nyota!" Syon stood tall and although he did not wear any insignias of his Vulcan royal heritage, his commanding presence told all he was truly the son of a Vulcan prince.
Sybok kept quiet.
"Where is Prince Spock?"
"The last I heard he was living in exile after contracting a nasty and very taboo disease. I am sorry, but that is all I know." Sybok lied.
Sulu sensed something was wrong.
"My mother told me you knew where my father was. What changed?" Syon demanded and Sybok felt offended that an illegitimate hybrid of his brother would dare to speak to him in such a way.
"I haven't spoken with my brother in some years; I don't know where he is. I will, however, help to find him, if finding him is so important to you." Sybok turned off the link.
Syon was pleased.
Sulu was suspicious.
"Sybok didn't seem to even be aware of your existence, Syon. This might not be the best approach."
Syon being so young couldn't understand. "What is wrong? Sybok has told us he will find my father."
"Yes, but I think he knew the location of your father in first place and just chose not to tell us."
"Why would he do that?" Syon inquired.
Sulu thought back to all the royal families he studied and knew that succession had always been a tricky thing. The Vulcan empire was wealthy beyond measure, as well as feared among the other civilizations.
It was the kind of power that all in the royal would kill for.
(Ship—T'more)
Sybok was angry; he had been lied to all these years by T'Pring. The Vulcan princess told him that Spock's lover and her son died when the disease took over Earth.
He contacted T'Pring.
T'Pring lived on Vulcan while he was exiled to live with his mother's family on Linar, a Vulcan outpost.
Sybok carried a deep seeded hatred for his half-younger brother, because of what happened to him as a child.
Sybok's mother had been King Sarek's wife and a member of a powerful warrior family who hoped that a marriage would increase their political influence in the empire. His mother T'lana was beautiful and gave the king, a son. Nevertheless, the King who had many concubines from the far reaches of the universe fell in love with a human.
Spock's mother Amanda.
It insulted T'lana having to watch Sarek to go his harem and take Amanda back to his room. The human female's beauty surpassed all those he had ever been with and he indulged in his sexual passions with abandon.
Sybok was only ten years old when Amanda had gotten pregnant with Spock.
News of the pregnancy broke out among the royal family and Sarek was under increasing pressure to force Amanda to have an abortion. Not that such a child endangered Sybok's claim to the throne, he was after all, a full-blooded Vulcan, and his mother's family was distantly related to Sarek's. However, T'lana worried that since Sarek highly favored Amanda she would try convinced her lover to name Spock as his successor.
T'lana's family led by her influential father Takaou, planned to overthrow Sarek, and kill Spock.
It was a plan that never came to fruition, Sarek's spies many of whom worked for T'lana informed the king.
As punishment, T'lana, her father and several brothers were put to death and Sybok having to bear the shame of his mother's actions was exiled along with the remaining survivors.
During his time in exile, Sybok grew to hate his father, his brother and worked everyday of his life to secretly plot against the King and to finally take his rightful place on the throne.
However, such plans were dashed to winds, when he discovered his father named Spock as successor. A half human taking the throne of Vulcan! It was enough to make his green blood boil. When he discovered Sarek arranged a marriage between Spock and T'Pring, a cousin of his mother, Sarek saw his chance to seize power, as he and T'Pring were lovers.
Working with T'Pring was tricky, she was just as ambitious as he was and worked hard to overcome the stigma her family endured because of her cousin's actions.
Sybok's plan was to allow T'Pring and Spock to marry, then kill Spock or have him exile and marry T'Pring using the laws of succession to support his claim.
It was a great plan. Until, Spock, following in the ways of his father began to have affairs with multiple women from his large harem and refused T'Pring. At, first, this was not seen as a problem for Vulcan kings always had concubines, usually slave women from the civilizations they conquered, but Spock like his father always had a soft spot for human women.
And one woman took his heart and ran with it.
Nyota.
When T'Pring and Sybok learned that this human woman was carrying Spock's child, it threaten their chances.
So the two created yet another plan. This time believing that such a plan could not fail given what they were going to do.
They learned that Syon was born on Earth 1999, while his mother was on a mission for the federation. So they decided to kill both mother and son, which would prevent Spock from naming Syon as his successor. To deal with Spock, T'Pring knew she could not kill him outright, as that would mean death for her family, so she infected with him a disease.
One that was taboo among the Vulcans and forced him into exile.
However, Spock spreading the disease among the humans on the 1999 Earth, while he was there with his lover was not apart of the plan. It did however; make things much more interesting and deflected attention from her and Sybok's actions.
Sybok loved this plan. He and T'Pring would be married and there would only full blooded Vulcans on the throne from here on out.
However.
T'Pring told him that Syon was dead and Sybok took her word for it.
Now he knew T'Pring had her own agenda.
Why leave Syon alive?
The screen in front of Sybok showed the image of T'Pring, and Sybok marveled at her beauty.
"T'Pring, how has everything been?" Sybok tried to suppress the anger he had for the princess.
"Fine." T'Pring had no idea Sybok was aware of the truth.
Sybok debated in his mind if he should tell her he knew of Syon and decided not to.
He wanted the throne as much as she did, although Vulcan females could not succeed to the throne, Sybok reasoned T'Pring had to have another lover working with her.
"It would appear as though we ran into a problem. I just finished talking to a Mr. Sulu the captain of the federation ship Enterprise and he wants to know the location of Spock."
"Why?" T'Pring pretended not to know.
"I guess to inform him that Nyota is still alive, the younger one and not the older Nyota in this time whose ship you destroyed." Sybok was careful to avoid mentioning Syon.
T'Pring cursed under her breath.
"You told them nothing. I assume."
"Of course, I don't want anyone to get to Spock before I do."
"Fine, I will take my ship and met with you. We have to resolve this matter quickly, the King is dying, and soon he will name his successor."
"No, we don't want him to name Spock as his successor nor any off spring he might have." Sybok hinted at the existence of Syon.
"Spock has no heirs! I will meet with you in a few hours."
T'Pring signed off.
(Vulcan-Palace)
T'Pring stripped off her clothing and lay next to her lover Stonn, a young Vulcan and member of a powerful military family. They had been lovers for twice as long as she had been with Sybok.
"I take it you are planning to kill Sybok when this all over?" Stonn stroked T'Pring's hair.
T'Pring sighed.
"It's more complicated than that. We can't start our rebellion without me being married to at least one of Sarek's sons. I would have to either marry Spock or Sybok and then kill them and remarry a member of another powerful family. That would end Sarek's bloodline for good."
Stonn wasn't following along.
"In case you forgot, females can't succeed to the throne. Spock has been exiled thanks to you infecting him with the disease. You have to marry Sybok and use that time to strengthen your family's political influence to take over. When that is done, Sybok can be overthrown and you can marry me."
"We can start our own royal dynasty!" T'Pring shouted.
"And not pollute the greatness of our blood with inferior races unlike Sarek."
"Sarek is a disgrace to Vulcan! A king who wants to place a half human on the throne of Vulcan!"
T'Pring kissed Stonn.
"I must get ready to leave."
(Nero's ship)
Nero learned of Syon contacting his uncle Sybok and knew T'Pring would eventually learn of his failure.
He was losing control and it worried him. The Vulcans in this universe were not the ones to mess with.
T'Pring was contacting him.
Nero hadn't wanted to talk to her but had no choice.
He answered.
"What are you doing? I thought you had everything under control!" T'Pring yelled. Her eyes were flushed with green blood and it gave her a haunted appearance.
"Syon is just as strong willed as his father."
"That miserable half breed contacted Sybok!"
"What?"
"Why aren't you with him?"
"Sulu has force me off the ship!"
"I am not sure if Sybok knows of his existence or if he is pretending like he doesn't and I am no longer sure if you can handle the job!"
Nero shook. T'Pring could order the Vulcans on his ship to kill him at anytime.
"I can take care of this."
"I want Syon dead!" T'Pring ended the message.
(Earth)
"So that is how came to this Earth?" Sulu finally understood and apologized to Spock. He wasn't the prince who abandoned them on Earth.
"Why did you initially come to Earth's past?" Kirk asked and noticed Ny jealous stare at Nyota's swollen belly.
"We responded to a distress call from a Vulcan ship that was on a survey mission to study ancient Earth culture. Their ship was damaged from a Romulan attacked and we came to assist them, Prince Spock was on aboard helping with the mission." Sulu responded.
"Sulu didn't know I was involved with the Prince." Nyota hugged her stomach and smile warmly at Spock.
Spock raised an eyebrow.
"So how was the prince infected?"
"We don't know, but somehow he managed to come aboard the Enterprise and shortly after certain members of the crew began getting sick. I don't know how we managed to say immune from the disease, perhaps it was because Nyota, Bones, and I lived Vulcan for a while and managed to build up immunity. Either way Kirk and others who beamed down to Earth to assist with the damaged Vulcan ship infected the humans living here. The disease hasn't spread as fast as we thought, but there are reported cases. We been here trying to stop it, but without much progress."
"Shortly, after, Spock became sick and thought it would be best if he left and returned once he found a cure. But he left us here and never came back! I thought it was my fault because I told him I was pregnant." Nyota held her head down. "I lived in his harem for a while and promised to leave Starfleet to live as his concubine."
Ny found herself disgusted with this universe's version of Nyota.
She seemed so happy, submissive, loyal, and so ready to throw away her career for a Vulcan prince.
Sulu hated Prince Spock for taking the woman he loved away from him. Nyota should have been pregnant with his child.
Nyota had no clue how Sulu felt about her despite the fact he took a low paying job to care for her pregnancy made her weak and sickly. He wanted her and it pained him that she did not want him.
Prince Spock made it clear that Nyota was not to be touched and Sulu felt inferior in the presence of the prince. The Vulcan prince had everything, good looks, wealth, strength, and power. Spock could give Nyota things that Sulu as a former Starfleet officer turned fast food worker could not.
"Bones will be here soon. I hope he has more medical equipment." Sulu pointed to the refrigerator, "You are welcome to eat."
Ny wanted to talk to Nyota and learn more about her relationship with this Prince Spock.
When the men went into the kitchen, Ny asked.
"So you met the prince on Vulcan?"
"Yes, I met him there." Nyota spoke of the prince as if he was a god. Ny looked into the kitchen at her stoic, unemotional Spock and couldn't understand it.
"You conceive here?" Ny asked.
"Yes, during Prince Spock's Pon Farr." Nyota giggled. She was so childish and simple, how could she be apart of Starfleet?
"You must be happy with him."
"I miss him greatly!"
Ny thought of the relationship with Nyota and Prince Spock, they seem so in love, until he left and never came back.
Spock was in the kitchen but over heard Nyota talk about Prince's Spock's Pon Farr. How, ironic it was that soon in a few days he would be going through his own Pon Farr.
The blood fever was around the corner.
(Vulcan-Palace)
King Sarek was dying but couldn't die in peace; both of his sons were now living in exile. He worried that his bloodline would end and the empire would be thrown into chaos with the competing Vulcan noble families fighting for power.
He knew what he had to do.
He called for his must-trusted spy to report to him about what was going on among the noble families.
"Tell him to come in," Sarek ordered. His voice was weak and full of pain.
The servant opened the door and Stonn came into the room.
"Your majesty." Stonn bowed his head.
"Stonn, what is going on?"
"T'Pring knows about Syon and is going to kill him. Both she and Sybok are meeting up later today to discuss what to do with Spock. She wants her family to rise to power much like her cousin T'lana and your son, Sybok wants the throne for himself. Neither trusts the other despite being lovers. Nyota, is on the earth and I am sure is pregnant with the infant Syon as he was conceived while she was living in Earth's past."
Stonn had been Sarek's spy for years.
The King was aware of what was going on between T'Pring and Sybok, but illness made him slow to act. Both of their families were powerful allies and Sarek had to be discreet.
"Go to Solaris Prime to Tilian and bring me back my son! We need him to take the throne!"
Stonn lowered his head and was dismissed.
"Come here Amanda!"
Amanda his beautiful concubine came near the bed, she was old, but in her prime, no woman could match her beauty. Sarek loved her and expressed it freely.
Only Amanda could do what he needed done now.
"My love, I need for you to go to the Earth's past and bring back Nyota. I won't allow my grandson to be raised on such a primitive world, not if he going to be a Vulcan prince."
"We are just alike, Nyota and myself. But you realize that if I take Syon, then this alters the future." Amanda touch the King's forehead.
"It is already altered." King Sarek coughed.
He is time was running out.
An: I had to shorten it so sorry if it appears rushed. I am leaving to go home for a few days. Let this hold you over until I return. Is it making sense? Nyota raised Syon until Nero (under orders from T'Pring) took Syon and raised him to turn against his father and support her. However, now those things have changed with the Enterprise getting the wrong message and everything. Nyota will be taken off the Earth, which changes how Syon is brought up. That is why T'Pring is so pissed off because the Enterprise interfering has changed everything.
In addition, yes, the issue of Spock's Pon Farr will make one chapter rated M.
I will go into more detail about Prince Spock's disease.
Oh, I didn't forget about the tribble!