Star Trek: The Enterprise
Wasn’t There
The Enterprise was in
the past, again. Captain James T. Kirk was annoyed. Was it a random subspace fluctuation
as Spock had theorised at first, or was it a small black hole, very close to the
starship’s path. Yet, here they were, in the early 21st Century. He
looked at the viewscreen and saw the Japanese island of Hokkaido below them.
Clearly they were in a rather low inclined orbit. “Report, Lieutenant Sulu, is our
orbit stable?”
“Yes, Captain, approximately 400
kilometres above the surface.”
“Odd.” Spock reported.
“What’s odd, Mr. Spock?”
“Sensors are picking up
strange energy readings from a rural seaside village in Hokkaido, Captain.”
“And you think they shouldn’t
be there?”
“I have cross-referenced, the
historical database. There was nothing unusual recorded there in this period.”
“So, it’s something to investigate,”
Kirk pondered. Most of the crew would stick out like a sore thumb, but Sulu
wasn’t the only one who traced their ancestry to Japan. “Mr. Sulu, begin preparing
a landing party.”
“Aye, Captain.”
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