Seems I cant not be late… -_- still don't own star trek.
Episode 1-20 Court Martial
They had gone through an Ion storm and lost one crewman in the incident. After all the chaos calmed Spock, after shift, showed Saya the device he had made so Saya could charge her archaic devices. Saya bounced for a bit and her eyes positively lit up when he managed to get her ipod to turn on. Spock carried the box that he had made to her room and helped put it on the shelf behind her desk and next to her books.
Saya immediately started charging her kindle and phone. She looked through the ipod as she bounced in place and Spock watched her with a twitch of a smile. Suddenly she squealed quietly and ran up giving Spock a chaste kiss on the cheek. "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" She said excitedly as she turned it for him to see showing a list of text. "I can listen to all my old music now!"
Spock stood there keeping his expression neutral as she twirled about her room touching different spots on the screen of her device. Suddenly music started to play and he recognized the tune to be the same she would randomly play that she said was from 'Sound of Music.' Taking a seat he watched as she swayed back and forth to the music until she finally sat down as well.
"Fascinating device." Spock commented and Saya eagerly showed him how it worked and how she could play playlists and had books and such on it. Spock was intrigued by it and she let him mess with it for a bit. He hit another button on it and it started playing 'I'll Make a Man out of You.' from Mulan. Saya started to sing along mimicking the voices from the song as well.
After some time Spock went to his room to go to bed for the night. Saya lovingly put her ipod down and went to bed herself. Spock laid in his bed for a bit thinking on her reactions. He wondered if she gave other's kisses like he had gotten the 2 times she had gotten quite excited. He calculated that the odds were quite slim as they still spent almost all their time together. Checking for her mind and finding it asleep he went to sleep himself.
They got to layover at Starbase 11 and Spock was to get a computer log extract to the captain but something was wrong with it. Saya didn't understand what had Spock agitated but knew something was wrong as he watched it again in search of something. Finally Spock left his room telling Saya to wait for him. Saya was slightly thrown as he usually sent her to her quarters or had her wait in the transporter room. Shrugging she assumed he meant to wait where she was for him so she did.
She looked around his room observing what was there curious about many of the decorations. She observed each in turn wondering what they meant. Though the temptation to touch each was strong she didn't for a few reasons. She didn't want to upset Spock and she didn't know if any could hurt her. After a few hours by herself she moved to playing Chess with herself trying to improve her play.
She wondered what was going on as Spock usually gave her a little to go on but this time he seemed almost concerned and confused when he left and had given her no answers. It had been a long day and Saya wondered if she should go to her quarters and sleep or stay waiting on Spock. She fell asleep in one of his chairs trying to make the decision.
Spock returned some hours later and saw Saya asleep in a chair. Gently moving her to his bed he continued to work on solving the problem with the computer facts. Every so often he would glance over at Saya's sleeping form. A few more hours later Saya stretched and looked around slightly confused. She was pretty sure she was still in Spock's room but was unsure how she had gotten in his bed.
Spock saw her get up but said nothing as he continued to try and find the error in the computer system. "Sorry I fell asleep… though I don't know how I wound up in your bed. Sorry for that too." She told him as she ruffled her hair. Thankfully it was a ponytail today instead of a painful clip.
"You fell asleep in a chair, I moved you to the bed." Spock answered as he continued to work.
"Hate to bug, but I'm gonna." Saya started before asking "What is wrong, something seems to be bothering you and … well something feels very very wrong."
Spock looked at her a moment before saying "Captain Kirk has been court martialed over a discrepancy between the computer and his word about the jettisoning of the pod in the ion storm."
Saya sat across from Spock and thought about it. She didn't quite understand all the implications. She had read almost non stop and tried to catch up but she hadn't quite made it to starfleet regulations and the other rulebooks. They sat together for quite some time more. Spock was also preparing his information for the trial. When the com notified them it was 7am Spock sent Saya to do as she pleased until the whole affair was over.
Saya did her reading for a while then answered her essay. After that she went to get herself breakfast. Riley and Uhura met her in the mess hall. "Pretty lady Saya, where is your usual escort?" Riley asked.
Saya smiled at him and answered "He has other engagements today. Since he isn't here you don't have to keep that up. I still don't get why you do that to irritate him."
Uhura laughed her musical laugh and they all got breakfast. Sitting together Saya asked how they were doing and they did in return. Uhura asked about her studying and essays. Finally the question the other 2 were dying to know came up "So how are you and ?" Uhura asked.
Saya gave a slightly puzzled look. "Umm. Well I can't speak for him but I'm doing good?" She answered not quite sure what was being asked.
"Oh come on Saya. You like him, he likes you… well as much as a Vulcan can. How is that progressing?" Riley clarified.
"About the same as you and I , or Uhura and I, or McCoy and I. I don't really get the question." Saya answered again still confused.
Uhura laughed and told Riley "Better off leaving it this time. She is almost willfully ignorant of the matter. Maybe this upcoming thanksgiving we can manage something to nudge them."
Saya was quite thrown but left it as she was still quite worried about whatever had Spock concerned. "Well Saya, since I don't have to report in for a while how about we spend some time together?" Uhura suggested.
Saya grinned "Well, made it so my old tech could get charged without frying and now it works. I could totally show you that!" Saya was eager to laugh and giggle over her old music and pictures with Uhura. Uhura agreed and they went to Saya's room. She got out her ipod and started a disney playlist. Uhura marveled at the old device's ability to play music.
Saya grinned and showed her pictures on her now charged phone. "This is mum. And these are our dogs. This one is Princess, that one is Lady and the other is Charm. Sadly I don't have pictures of Fetch or Perenn on this. They died before i got this phone."
Uhura looked them over and commented "I wonder what your dad looked like. You have a similar build to your mom but your coloration is quite different."
Saya laughed "Actually dad was pretty dark colored too. I was a genetic throwback. I got the lightest hair, the color changing eyes, the pale skin, the long torso and other things though my parents and brothers are brown eyed, brown or black haired and have shorter torsos. I do have some family traits like the wild hair and the huge feet but it's funny to see family pictures cause I kinda look adopted."
Uhura smiled and asked if she had any family photos on her phone. "Sadly no. My family kinda broke… a few times… so again, by the time i got this phone that photo wasn't available to get." Saya said with a shrug.
Uhura apologized for bringing up something painful and Saya kidded that after 200 years she was over it. They continued to go through the pictures and Saya got to show off nail art, cakes, duct tape crafts and many of the other things she had created over the life of the phone. "I always did like making weird and useless things. It's quite fun to create something especially from things that people think are useless." She said as they came across a picture of quite a few random objects.
"Everything in this picture was created from a cast off. The vase and flower were because someone got a flower for some event and threw the vase away when the flower died. I made the flower from duct tape and a straw and gave the vase new life. The box thing holds pens and pencils and the like. With a new coloration it was well wanted by someone else. That kind of thing is so fun."
After another long string of images depicting nail art Uhura asked Saya if she would do her nails. Saya agreed if Uhura could get her some polish to work with. Soon they were sitting at Saya's desk and painting nails as they chatted about life. Uhura had noticed that Saya almost seemed to run from every question about Spock and guessed that she just really didn't want to talk about it. She also guessed that Saya was fighting the hope that time built.
Spock came back late that evening and ran another complete diagnostic. Saya and Uhura entered the recreational room and saw Spock playing chess against the computer. Saya stopped, tilting her head and examining Spock. "He figured it out." Saya said softly. Uhura was curious about what Saya was referring to but smiled and told her "I'll leave you with . I think I will practice something in my quarters." Saya nodded and took a seat near Spock, watching him play game after game.
McCoy burst in saying "Well, I had to see it to believe it." Spock said explain and McCoy answered "They're about to lop off the captain's professional head, and you're sitting here playing chess with the computer." Spock told him it was true and McCoy said " , you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known."
Saya wanted to say something but before she could Spock said "Why, thank you, Doctor. I've just won my fourth game." McCoy said it was impossible and Spock showed him. Saya didn't understand why Spock couldn't win against the computer. "Now, this is the computer's move. And now mine. (takes the bishop) Checkmate. Mechanically, the computer's flawless. Therefore, logically, its report of the captain's guilt is infallible. I could not accept that, however."
McCoy seemed to catch on saying Spock tested the programme bank. "Exactly. I programmed it myself for chess some months ago. The best I should have been able to attain was a draw." McCoy asked why he was just sitting there and Spock said into the com "Transporter room, stand by. We're beaming down."
Saya was intrigued and glad. Spock had found the answer he was looking for and as they left Saya took his seat and started trying to play against the computer since it was now possible to beat it. After quite some time Spock dropped by the rec room to pick up the chess set. He instructed Saya to again follow him as they all went to the briefing room. Soon the questions started again.
A man named Cogley asked Spock how many games he won and when Spock said 5 he asked if it was unusual. Spock said yes and Cogley asked why. "I personally programmed the computer for chess months ago. I gave the machine an understanding of the game equal to my own. The computer cannot make an error and assuming that I do not either, the best that could normally be hoped for would be stalemate after stalemate, and yet I beat the machine five times. Someone, either accidentally or deliberately, adjusted the programming and therefore the memory banks of that computer." Spock answered.
Cogley then asked if it could affect the visual playback. A woman called objection and Cogley rephrased to ask if it could hypothetically be done which aboard the ship would be capable. Spock answered that only Kirk, Spock and the lost records officer could do that. Cogley asked what steps Kirk took to find and Kirk did so. Cogley then said that the search was for a man they assumed wanted to be found. He then submitted to the court that Finney was not dead.
Saya was not following everything but it seemed that Kirk had been framed and that much she understood. Cogley asked for all personnel including himself to be beamed down. With a look at Spock, Saya nodded and left to follow orders. Thankfully she found Uhura in the transporter room and they beamed down together. Uhura took Saya to one of the shops and they browsed and talked.
Thankfully it wasn't long before they could return. Saya commented to Uhura as they walked back to the bridge "You know, I didn't realize how much this ship felt like home till I wasn't allowed on it for a while."
Uhura smiled asking "and the people feel like family?"
As they stepped out of the turbolift Saya's eyes immediately found Spock as she answered "yes, and the people that feel like family." Smiling she took her customary seat next to Spock softly saying "it's good to be home." and started reading again. Spock gave her a brief sideways glance before returning to his duties.
*END*