The Journey Home

[Cptn J. Tiberius Kirk 0]

=/\= Personal Log, Encrypted, Classified =/\=

 

Stardate nine five three one point two. James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise.

 

We are, once again, on our way home for decommissioning after finding and assisting the Reaent NCC 3345... G, with their trip home... their trip back to the future... whenever that may be. Officially... we were on maneuvers. Unofficially... we were hopefully not contaminating the timeline.

 

Anyway, after consulting with the Guardian, Starfleet decided Spock was the one to configure their systems so they could slingshot around star... JG ten eighty-six. So...he did. We watched until they disappeared towards the star, and... I hope they made it.

 

But I must say that the most amazing... the most encouraging thing about all this... is that I have seen the future, and... there is hope. No, there is more than hope, there's progress. There is... unity of purpose. Spock said there are... Klingons... working side by side with Humans and Vulcans on that ship; and there were so many other species I've never even seen before.

 

Chancellor Gorkon said that if there is to be a brave new world... our generation was going to have the hardest time living in it. He was right. David's death. Gorkon's assassination. Forgiveness for past transgressions... on both sides... will be a long time coming. It will take generations. But I wish he could have lived to see the world... the universe... that he gave his life to help create.

 

When I set foot on the bridge of that ship... the Reaent G, I... I could not believe that I was on the bridge of a Starfleet vessel. It was all I could do to contain myself, and I almost wished I could live so long... to serve aboard such a ship... to command her.

 

So many things I wanted to know, so many things I wanted to ask. I did ask one... put their captain on the spot. He gave a... noncommittal answer. He had to preserve the timeline. For the sake of that_very_future, he couldn't answer. I wish he had... but I'm glad he didn't.

 

But I did leave my own mark, in a manner of speaking. Before beaming back to Enterprise I gave her captain, Patrick McQueen, my lucky solid gold challenge coin. Enterprise-A on the front with her commissioning date... my personal engraved mark on the back. I've carried it for over a decade, and it's brought me luck. Since we're about to be decommissioned and I'll be in retirement, I figured he'd need it more than I. A captain needs... all the luck he can get.

 

Now, with this maneuver around JG ten eighty-six, if they are successful... if they make it back to the future and if... that coin... makes it to the future... I will have a small place in it... something of me will have survived.

 

I left him a little note, too. Had to ask the security officer... a Lieutenant Commander I was not introduced to... for obvious reasons. I had to ask her for a pen... and she had to replicate one! So, there are... few pens in the future, at least I know that.

 

Anyway, I took a napkin from the table in the conference room... nicely decorated place, I might add... and I wrote the captain a note. Simple. So as not to give away... anything.

 

I wrote Make a difference, Captain. Make a difference in the undiscovered countries. And I signed it. Yes, I did. James... Tiberius... Kirk. Never signed anything like that before... probably never will again. Hate that name... Tiberius.

 

And I kept a napkin for myself. It says USS Reaent but it doesn't say anything about a date... or a G. I don't think it will hurt the timeline. I'll keep it with my personal papers, and... who knows? Maybe Captain_Patrick_McQueen will see it in a museum some day. And won't he be surprised.

[DrDMatthews 0]

Wonderful log! Read just like the real McCoy.....errrr.....Kirk. ;)

[TKAR 0]

excellent log - the only question is who was the security officer,TKAR or someone else?

[Cptn J. Tiberius Kirk 0]

excellent log - the only question is who was the security officer,TKAR or someone else?

 

 

You know... we weren't introduced and she didn't offer her name, so... I didn't ask. To preserve the time line....

 

But... she was a Lieutenant Commander... and not very tall. And she was... a handsome woman. Dark, piercing eyes.... If I had to guess I would say she was from Earth. A Native American, as we say. She had that.... fierce look. No nonsense... know what I mean? Whoever she was, she knew her job. And if I were you... I'd watch my step. Yes. I would.

[TKAR 0]

You know... we weren't introduced and she didn't offer her name, so... I didn't ask. To preserve the time line....

 

But... she was a Lieutenant Commander... and not very tall. And she was... a handsome woman. Dark, piercing eyes.... If I had to guess I would say she was from Earth. A Native American, as we say. She had that.... fierce look. No nonsense... know what I mean? Whoever she was, she knew her job. And if I were you... I'd watch my step. Yes. I would.

 

she,is the best security officer in the fleet-i do watch my step