STAR TREK
"Knowing the Alpha"
It was adrift in space. Around a gas giant, a sixteen-year-old saw the freighter with his telescope. His name was Don Silo. Don Silo lived on the moon and was not the best student. He lived with his mother and was flunking out of high school. Therefore, he took the three hundred credits she gave him as a birthday present and used it to invest in transport to the freighter. Since it was in Orion space, a shuttle from the Orion Syndicate would have to take him to the distant DY-100 class freighter. He had never seen space before. Sky was the name of his Orion pilot. Apparently, he paid too much for the trip. Because, she could not keep her hands off him. She was a slave. Before them was his prize – an unclaimed DY-100 class small freighter. It had only two cargo carriers. One of them contained a shuttle bay complete with a force field. There was a Klingon listening device inside. Sky landed the shuttle. It was sealed in by the force field. As a new captain, Don Silo named it the Alpha. Then a Klingon battlecruiser came out of high warp for the kill. Don and Sky ran to the bridge. The Klingons came in too fast. The IKV Stalker collided with them as they attempted evasive maneuvers. The freighter sustained a hull breach. They put on breathing masks and ran. There was a security breach which allowed a mutiny on board the Klingon ship. A boom separation also took place. Don forced Sky to escape in the shuttle. She did not hesitate. He put on a thruster suit and disappeared through the gaping hole in his ship. He blasted towards the separated boom section of the Klingon battlecruiser. It was halfway within the gas giant's atmosphere when he got there. As he opened up an airlock, blue sky followed him into the boom section. He closed it holding a phaser. The blue sky turned into a liquid around his feet. He faced a locked door. Don blasted it in search of a transporter room. Behind the door were two soldiers. The liquid burned them. Gravity was compromised by how close they were to the gas giant. Captain Silo was in gravity boots. There was no evidence of a mutiny on the boom – which was the nature of the boom separation. It was a trap. The transporter room was filled with Klingons trying to escape just as he was. They would all beam to safety. The mutiny proved unsuccessful. Don Silo was taken to the brig. Yet, he was not a prisoner. As they forced off his thruster suit, he turned to see his own father there. His father was a businessman. The captain of the Stalker extended an invitation for them to dine with her. It was accepted. At first, things went fine. Then she demanded their worship. It was not the human thing to do. For that, Don was vaporized in the back of the head. He didn't even see it coming. Sky returned to the Orion Syndicate to find out she was pregnant. She chose to keep the child. This meant she was no longer a slave. The child's name was Dan Silo. She was ever so happy to raise him. The IKV Stalker decided to use gravity to return to Klingon space without the boom section. They simply took advantage of the orbit of things around them.
The End