Uhura and the Xeno-Phobe
Starfleet could make even getting your own deep space star ship an annoying occurrence.
Kirk didn't expect the price of captaincy to include a perpetual smile and no privacy for weeks on end. Spock, poor guy, worked himself into forced medical leave but not before he traversed half the universe with his father on behalf of the Vulcan refugees. Kirk and Uhura became the Federation face of "Peace and Security" to be quickly followed by Federation council members quietly (and sometimes secretly) upping the dues of Federation membership and renegotiating more preferential contracts for everything necessary to restore Starfleet to full capability.
After listening to the two young officers recount their harrowing encounter with the Romulan called Nero, each planetary government wrote big checks to ensure Kirk and Uhura and Spock made frequent trips to their part of the universe when the Enterprise came out of drydock.
McCoy saved two of them - he put Uhura on involuntary medical leave with Spock in Seattle. With a two-week break before she reported back to the Academy to meet with McCoy, Uhura took Kirk up on his invitation to decompress at his place in the mountains.
Summer wildflower blooms surrounded Jim's house since her last visit four months ago. Wild berry bushes and trees sagged with their loads of fruit creating Seurat-style color dots on the green hillsides. Uhura lost herself in the view as Jim's motorcycle climbed the trail to his house. Stowing their gear and changing into casual clothes, both decided dinner out beat the hell out of cooking. Arriving in Santa Rosa took only 20 minutes at the speeds that Kirk drove. Uhura walked into the bar followed by Kirk.