January 2260

Leonard

"You and Carol, huh?" Jim teased. Leonard blushed, he and the weapons expert had spent quite a bit of time together. He glanced across the room at Carol laughing with Joanna, Nyota, Gaila and Christine.

"I like her," he told his friend. "Are you gonna give me grief for it?"

Jim smiled, "I have to figure out which one of you gets the shovel speech, though. What's Joanna think?"

"She likes Carol too, look at 'em," he said. Jim looked back over her shoulder and pouted.

"They didn't invite me to the hang out with the girls, I might cry," she said with mock hurt.

Leonard laughed, "You don't hang out with the girls, not really anyway, so shut your trap." She laughed and rolled her eyes.

"Just don't hurt her, she's been through enough," the crazy woman said.

With Admiral Marcus being arrested there came a lot of questions, the details were kept under wraps but as his daughter, Carol was caught in the middle. Fortunately, the Admiralty had her back so the press left her alone but there were still questions that everyone wanted answered. She told him at one point that she wished Jim had killed her father but after talking to him about losing his dad, she changed her mind.

"Can I ask you a question, Jim?" He continued when she nodded, "How did you know that Marcus' ship had that super-warp stuff?" After all was said and done, Jamie was questioned by the brass and now it was his- and everyone else's- turn.

"Oh, that's easy. Scotty came up with that," she shrugged. The engineer sat down and nodded.

"I've been workin' on a way ta improve what the warp core can do. I told ya about tha nine years ago, lass. I cannae believe you remembered it," Scotty said.

When Leonard first met the crazy Scotsman, he was in the academy and came across Scotty and Jim at a café near campus. They were talking about the Enterprise and Scotty was stuffing his face and forcing Jamie to eat, "Come on, lass. The wee one needs ya ta eat." He looked at Scotty and Jim, sometimes he forgets that they aren't actually related, they've just known each since before she went to the academy. If he thought about it, they really were a family, even him. He looked around the room and saw Pike and his dad with little Charlie. Cody, Zane, Chekov and Kevin were together, goofing off. Spock's mom and Pike's mom were in the kitchen trading stories and making cookies. Spock, Sulu, Kelso and Sarek were talking about something. Leonard, Jim and Scotty were sitting together watching the girls giggling about whatever girls giggle about.

"So, Kevin and Chekov?" Scotty asked. The two young men were her little brothers and when they had started going out Jim warned them both not to hurt each other or they had to deal with her.

"Don't remind me," Jim groaned.

Chris

"This is everything, sir."

Chris had been in Admiral Archer's office with Barnett, Komack, Reed and Johnson for hours. They went over everything that the crew found, that Harrison gave them and that Marcus told them himself. They allowed Jamie, Spock, Scotty, Chekov and Riley to go through the ship with the engineers and the group of geniuses found a lot of interesting things. Stuff that some of the fleet's brightest had come up with made in onto the ship, including stuff designed by Jamie, Scotty and Spock. They also found that there was another ship and it had a cloaking device; the ship Harrison told them about. Chris was getting ready to leave when Archer looked at him.

"Chris, I have an interesting proposal for you."

Jamie

"I heard you wanted to see me," she said as she stepped into the room and sat down.

"Indeed. I wanted to wish you a late happy birthday," he nodded.

She smiled, "Thanks, Harrison. Have they told you where you'll be going?"

"It's difficult to find a commanding officer who would take me with my genetic enhancements," he told her. Altered genes generally weren't allowed in the fleet but because he got his on orders from Marcus, the brass was letting it go. The hard part was that it had to be disclosed to his new commanding officer and many captains turned him down.

"I know what your orders are. And your CO doesn't mind the enhancements. Some of the crew might be leery of you though," Jamie told him.

He looked at her, "Admiral Pike?"

"Nope, You'll see," she said with a wink.

Jamie couldn't actually tell him where he was going until her own orders came in. The next day, they did.

… Per Starfleet Regulation 28455, you are to report to Admiral Christopher Pike, Commanding Officer of the USS Enterprise, for duty as his relief...

When Chris got out of his meeting with the brass, he came home, sat her down and asked what she would think about him stepping down as commanding officer. At first she was upset that they would take the ship from him. Chris just laughed and explained that the brass had offered him a new job as a Diplomatic Officer, he would be on the ship, but not in the chain of command unless absolutely necessary. "I'm done making the decisions, J. You should've been the CO already. Besides, you look better in the chair then I do."

Jamie knew that the whole thing had gotten to him, learning that one of your senior officers was manipulating your wife's life and tried to kill you had that affect. She was surprised that they decided to just advance her up to CO, apparently, she was Archer's first choice. The ship was going to be out in uncharted space and there would be many diplomatic situations. The brass preferred to have someone on the ship whose job was diplomacy. Officially, Chris was assigned to HQ but stationed on the ship. It would also give her the advantage of not having to deal with diplomats and politicians unless she wanted to.

It wasn't even a minute after her orders came in that her PADD lit up with messages from almost everyone. She ignored them for the moment and continued to Spock's door, Uhura answered.

"Hey Kirk," the communications officer said as she let Jamie into the apartment. "Should I go?"

"Nope," Jamie said with a shake of her head. "Nothing you won't find out about."

"How can I help you, Jamison?" Spock asked. Jamie sat down in the chair that her friend pulled out for her and looked at him.

"I'm guessing you heard that I got command of the ship. I want you to be my first officer."

April 2260

Chris

'And once more with feeling,' as the saying goes. After a re-fit and a change of command, the Enterprise was ready to go again. Chris was sitting with the Enterprise's crew instead of on the stage where they forced Jamie to sit. She didn't look as uncomfortable as he knew she felt, she looked beautiful. Admiral Barnett introduced her and she walked to the podium.

"There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are. We are here today to rechristen the USS Enterprise, and to honor those who are no longer with us. When I think to our mission, I think back to something Admiral Archer said before the Federation Charter was signed, 'We are all explorers, driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet... the more I've experienced, the more I've learned... that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there... the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other.' When Admiral Pike talked to me about taking over as the commanding officer of the Enterprise, he sat me down and had me recite the Captain's oath. He told me that no matter what happens, I had to remember those words and what they meant. Those words… 'Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of Starship Enterprise. Her five year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization. To boldly go where no one has gone before.' It is a call for every member of the Federation to remember who we once were and who we must become again. That no matter where we go, we must always remember to be the very best that we can be, for ourselves and for each other."

She locked eyes with him and he smiled, he doesn't know what she was so nervous about that speech, he couldn't have done it better if he tried.

Jamie

Almost everyone was staying on the Enterprise, Kelso was offered the position of first officer on the Yorktown, he almost turned it down but Jamie told him that she'd kick his ass if he did. The rest of the senior staff stayed the same people with a little reorganization, Scotty took second officer, Sulu took third, Chekov was assistant chief engineer and Carol was the assistant chief science officer. Right now, almost everyone was on the bridge including her son and god-daughter.

"Having fun in my chair, you two?" Jamie asked the children. Joanna was sitting in the command chair with Charlie in her lap as the crew prepped for departure. She looked at Charlie, "You know when your sister gets here, you all won't fit." There was something in the water on the Enterprise and they were gonna to have a few more little ones on the ship in the coming months, Scotty and Christine were due in July while Jamie and Chris were due with number two in August. Spock and Uhura, as well as Gaila and Sulu were getting married, Scotty tried but Christine said no for now. Jamie was sure that the first year out was going to be interesting.

"You get to sit in this chair all the time Aunt Jamie, that's really cool," Joanna said. Charlie agreed with her.

"Yep, mama, it's really cool," her son declared. She and Chris had decided to let him go to school, he was four but worked at the eight year old level, Joanna was eleven at the thirteen year old level. When they weren't in school, they were with Spock or Scotty, "those wee ones are gonna take over the ship one day, lass. Just wait, tha might even have ta rescue us." Jamie laughed, but the more she thought about it, the more she realized that they were almost the same ages as her and Kevin on Tarsus, it was possible.

"Permission to enter the bridge, Captain?" Chris asked from the door.

"Permission granted, Admiral," she said with a smile. "Did you come for the little people?" He nodded and scooped Charlie up.

"Come on guys, the Captain and crew have work to do," Chris told them. Both kids pouted but went willingly, Charlie kissed her cheek.

"Bye Captain Mama!" he said with a mini version of Chris' smile on his little face. Everyone laughed.

"Later, Captain Aunt Jamie. Bye daddy," Jo said. Jamie smiled as her family left the bridge. She hit the controls on her chair.

"Monty, how's our core?" she asked.

The Scot chuckled, "Purring like a kitten, Captain. She's ready for a long journey."

She smiled, "That's excellent." She closed the channel and looked at her best friend, "Come on, Bones, don't be grumpy. It's gonna be fun."

"You always say that, and I always end up patching you up," he grumbled as he shook his head. "Five years in space. God help me."

"Carol, tell your boyfriend to relax. He's with his family, what could be more awesome then that?" Jamie said.

Carol smiled, "She's right, Leonard, it's nice to be with family." Jamie caught the double meaning, even if no one else did. Jamie walked over to the tactical station.

"Settling in, Commander?" she asked. The officer occupying her old position smiled.

"I am indeed, Captain. You could have told me that you were my new CO," Harrison told her.

"Where's the fun in that, John?" she smiled and walked over to her first officer. "Spock."

"Captain." He didn't smile, but if he did, he would have.

"Where should we go?" she asked him with wonder in her voice.

"As a mission of this duration has never been attempted, I defer to your good judgment, Captain," he said. Spock turned at walked to his station, Jamie took her seat.

"Hikaru, take us out," Jamie ordered.

He nodded, "Aye, Captain."

Chris

"So how is it, not being on the bridge?" He looked up at his wife and smiled at her.

"It's nice, I got a chance to do paperwork and nobody needed me but Charlie. I met your yeoman, she's nice. I had lunch without interruption, I could get used to this. How are my favorite girls?" he said.

She smiled, "Excited. Tired. Excited and tired." He chuckled as she laid down on the couch and rested her head on his leg, "Tell me why I decided to spend the first four months of this tour pregnant."

It wasn't planned but the timing could've been a lot worse since they were going to be in charted space for a while. McCoy brought her home from lunch a few days after she was named the Enterprise's CO. She looked more tired than usual so the doctor decided to look her over, a quick scan with the tricorder showed him that she was expecting, they only just found out that it was a little girl, she wanted to know. Since Jamie picked Charlie's name, Chris got to pick this time… it was easier said than done. Chris took the pins out of her hair and ran his fingers through it.

"You know that there was no way you would turn this down, pregnant or not. At least you aren't alone, Christine is a month ahead of you," he reminded her. Chapel and Scott was not something he expected, but he was happy for them. "When are the weddings?"

"Spock and Uhura's will be in a few days, as soon as we get to New Vulcan. I don't have to marry them, one of the Vulcan Elders will do it. I get to be there as a member of Spock's family, so do you. Sulu and Gaila want to do theirs after we leave charted space," she said.

1 Week Later

Jamie

"Congratulations, S'chn T'gai Nyota," Jamie said. The communications officer smiled and hugged Jamie as she stepped into the turbolift.

"Thank you. It's weird, you say it better than Lady Amanda does," Nyota told her. It was sad but true, Lady Amanda can say the family name but it took her years of practice. Because Jamie learned Vulcan when she was a kid, her pronunciation was slightly better but Nyota was better than both of them.

Jamie and Chris were there when Spock and Uhura married in a Vulcan ceremony, there were a few Vulcans who weren't happy that Spock was marrying a human but none of them had the guts to say as much near Sarek. Jamie did a good job at holding her tongue at some of the things she heard. The smirk that Lady Amanda sent her way told Jamie that this wasn't anything new, they just had to get over it. The crew was now reporting back to ship, she gave everyone a few days of shore leave in order to let Spock and Nyota have a honeymoon but it was time to go.

"You ready to begin our adventure, again?" Jamie asked. Technically, this was the second start of their five year mission, since the Gorn and Marcus tossed a wrench into that.

Nyota laughed, "Ready to go, Ma'am." The duo stepped onto the bridge and were greeted by Sulu.

"Captain on the bridge," the helmsman said.

Jamie smiled, "Hello all. Status?"

July 2260

Jamie

"What the…?" Jamie mumbled into Chris' chest. It was in the middle of the night, not that there was a night in space but it was the ship's night cycle. Jamie was going to kill the person ringing the buzzer for her door. Chris got out of bed to answer it. He came back a few minutes later. "What's wrong?" she asked her husband.

"It's Uhura, Chapel is in labor and she's asking for you," he told her. Jamie rubbed her eyes and nodded. She pulled on a pair of leggings and looked at Chris.

"Gimme your shirt," she told him. He smiled and pulled the t-shirt over his head.

"Stealing my clothes again, J?" Chris asked as Jamie pulled the shirt on over her sports bra.

"What's yours is mine and it smells like you. Besides, I can't fit most of my civvies and I'm not wearing my uniform," she told him. The maternity version of her uniform wasn't bad, it was really the unisex uniform but modified for a pregnant woman. She refused to wear the duty dress when she could barely see her feet. Jamie was considering wearing the pants version of her uniform more often, at least on away missions. Chris chuckled, he kissed her baby bump and then her lips.

"Go help Christine," her husband said with another kiss before releasing the gentle hold he had on her.

Jamie and Nyota walked into the medbay, the nurse on duty pointed them towards one of the private rooms. They were heading that way when Scotty came out of the room and pulled them both into a hug.

"She said yes, she said yes and she wants you marry us right now," Scotty rambled. Jamie wasn't as shocked as she should've been, he looked at her. "You saw this coming, lass?" Jamie and Nyota both nodded.

"Yep," she told him. Christine made up her mind a while ago but she didn't want to get married just because of the baby. The nurse was worried that that's what everyone would think. Of course, Jamie, Uhura and Carol told her that she was being crazy and think about it some more because Scotty loves the hell out of her. Jamie asked Uhura to grab a PADD from one of the nurses and they followed Scotty into the room.

"How she doing, Bonesy?" she asked her brother from another mother. The doctor looked at her and smiled.

"she's progressing fast but she wants to get married before the baby shows up. Told her to say yes months ago but she didn't listen to me," Bones said. Luckily, he missed the glare that Christine sent his way.

"Bones, she's gonna kick you if you don't shut up. How are you doing, Christine?" Jamie asked. Christine was holding Scotty's hand and looked up at Jamie.

"I feel like I'm being pulled apart, how the hell did you do this?" the usually calm nurse asked. Jamie smiled and sat next to Christine across from Scotty.

"I wish I could say that it was because had Chris and his step-mom and Bones but the truth is, I just wanted to meet Charlie. Everything was worth it when Bones put the little guy in my arms. He looked up at me with my eyes and looking like his dad and the rest of the world just faded away. You got this," Jamie told the other woman. Christine smiled as Jamie hit some commands into the PADD, "Do you want Nyota and Leonard to stay?" Scotty and Christine both nodded.

"They're the best man and matron of honor," Monty told her.

"Official stuff first, sign this." She handed over the PADD which had their marriage forms in it, Scotty looked at her and realized that not only did she expect it, she made sure the forms were filled out for HQ. Bones and Uhura signed as witnesses, Jamie signed last and looked at them, "I'm going to keep this short and sweet since your little one is on the way. Do you, Christine take Montgomery Scott to be your partner for life. To walk by his side forever, to love, help, and encourage him in all he does? Will you share his laughter and his tears, as his partner, lover, and best friend? Do you take him as your lawfully wedded husband for now and forevermore?"

Christine smiled, "I do."

"Do you, Montgomery take Christine Chapel to be your partner for life. To walk by her side forever, to love, help, and encourage her in all she does? Will you share her laughter, and her tears, as her partner, lover and best friend? Do you take her as your lawfully wedded wife for now and forevermore?" Jamie asked. She had never seen the look on his face before, he smiled at Christine.

"I do," Monty said.

Jamie smiled, "By the power invested in me as commanding officer of this vessel, I now pronounce you married. Kiss your wife, Monty." The two kissed, then Jamie and Nyota hugged them both. "Okay, baby time. Comm me when the little one gets here, Bones." He nodded, a contraction hit Christine, Bones kicked her and Nyota out of the room.

It was a few minutes before the start of Alpha shift when Bones sent her the message that the baby was here, she almost cried when she saw his name. "Uhura, open a channel to the whole ship."

Nyota smiled and hit the commands, "Ready, ma'am."

Jamie took a deep breath, "Attention, crew of the Enterprise, I was just notified that we have a new crew member. Our head nurse, Lieutenant Chapel and our Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Commander Scott welcomed their son into the universe about an hour ago. According to Doctor McCoy, little James Christopher Scott is happy and healthy. Let us all wish the newlyweds and new parents our congratulations. Kirk out."

AN: So, I could've ended the story where the movie did, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I know I cheated with Pike's job but I had to give them something good and my Archer likes them, so yay!

I wanted baby Scott to have his dad's middle name, well turns out that it's Christopher. Named him James after Kirk but also after the amazing James Montgomery Doohan, who is not only the original Scotty but he came up with a lot of who the character is, notice that Scotty is named after him. I might have to do a Scotty story one of these days.