STAR TREK
"Foolish but Noble"
The Tholians were constantly on the run as they had only recently made their claim to the galaxy. They began building many ships.
Harenda opened his eyes, "How did I get here? I thought there was no more than this cave."
"Come with us," Tholians said using lasers to free him from hanging upside down.
He hit his head on the cave floor, "Hey, watch it now. I would like to not lose my head over this."
"Hey, where is he going?" the other Tholians heard as they were with their eyes shut.
"Nothing. Harenda here has passed school," the two guards said. "Keep practicing, you guys."
It was a birth. A Tholian was being born. He would crawl, at first. Then he stood up to float out the cave. The cave held many others.
"Harenda, let me show you the light," it was said to him. "It is an inverted world of beauty. If you look up, a small star sits directly above us."
"Good," he smiled. "I can see that. They told me I had a mission in school. What must I do?"
They smiled back, "You have to first climb that mountain. It will tell you what gender you are."
"I must ask, what is this big place?" Harenda said brushing off the two guards.
They responded, "This is your home planet. It is called Tholia. It is the only world we have."
"Tell me more," the Tholian named Harenda asked them. "Are there such a thing as aliens?"
"Just climb up that mountain," they replied as they then returned to guarding the cave.
The young Tholian climbed and climbed. Once he got to the top of the mountain, he would find a communicator, "You have no gender."
"Great," he said sarcastically, to himself, as he stood. "How am I going to justify my existence?"
He looked up to see his first starship. His eyes widened open at the massive vessel. He found out how he was to live, "Wow, that's nice."
In his dreams, he saw the stars. It was time to see if they existed. Many others were there.
"Yo! Can I join the party, friends?!"
"How old are you!" they replied. The men of the starship were working off in the distance.
"About thirty minutes!" he cried. He slipped as he almost shattered an arm doing so.
"Come on down!" it was yelled to the Tholian beginning his life in the Holdfast.
As he floated up to them, he had questions. But it was a good time to tell his friends his name, "This starship is nice. My name is Harenda."
"If you could stop working for a second, what is her name?" Harenda inquired of the men.
They looked up to their star and said, "Its name is Stalwart. I hope you like law, sir."
"Why?" he had to ask. "I mean, in school, I was a fan of law. But can't this ship do more."
"Well, it is a patrol corvette used to defend," it was said to him. "You are also a crewman."
He paused to say, "May I see the bridge? I hope that someday I might become a leader."
"Let's go there right now," a technician said to the new crewman. They entered a turbolift. In a matter of seconds, they were on deck one.
"Cool, the Stalwart is quite nice."
As other technicians worked around him, his host asked, "Would you like the center seat?"
"Yes," he said with no hesitation. "Is this the seat of the leader of this fine ship?"
He sat down. Then the Tholian showing him these things noted, "Most usually, a crewman is too coward to sit down that quickly."
He repeated, "Would you like to be the captain of this ship and fire at aliens out there?"
"I thought we had a captain already," Harenda said. It was important that he make that clear.
"Actually, no one has had the bravery to claim the captain's chair," another told him.
He stood up to float to the intercom. He said, "I am taking command of this ship. I am Harenda. It is time to look for trouble in the worst way."
The second officer started, "Everyone to their stations. Let's find some adventure."
In space, he had fun. The space doors of Tholia scared him, though. After he played it off, a mission to defend Tholia would save many lives.
The End