SKYTREK - CHAPTER 2 (standard:humor, 3876 words) [2/15] show all parts
Author: Danny Miami	Added: May 01 2010	Views/Reads: 2290/1628	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A comedy adventure novel based on the original Star Trek characters.

CHAPTER TW0 

“The most intelligent person I've ever met in the                 
entire Universe? Unquestionably it's me. The worst thing about being 
me? Unquestionably it's the way my damned ears keep changing shape 
every month. Totally preposterous.” 

MR SPROCK 

PART ONE 

Unaware of the plans for the Orion's imminent destruction, Captain Kork
stepped out of the lift and strolled along the short corridor to the 
bridge. Three quarters of the way along he slowed deliberately, an 
anticipatory smile playing about the corners of his mouth. 

God how he loved the bridge door! Unlike most of the others on the ship
it didn't slide open from side to side but parted in the middle, each 
half disappearing neatly into the opposing wall with a lovely hissing 
sound at exactly the same time. 

After a final check that there were no give-away bulges from his Tummy
Trimmer Corset he stepped up to the door. It swished open when he was 
about a foot away from it and he glanced quickly from side to side so 
he could see the halves disappearing into the walls. 

He took a couple of paces into the bridge and turned to watch them
hissing out again and meeting in the centre with that delightful little 
click. ‘Ah, wonderful!' he thought, grinning to himself. ‘Absolutely 
wonderful.' 

Resisting the impulse to step back out and re-enter so he could watch
the door again he turned and surveyed the scene on the bridge. The crew 
were quietly and calmly going about their work and everything appeared 
under control. 

Satisfied, he strolled down to his chair and slipped into it. “Status
report, Mr Crackers,” he requested. 

“We're still on course to investigate that distress call, Captain,”
replied Crackers. 

The Captain nodded. “Is it growing any stronger?” 

“The closer we get the stronger it gets, sir. It's definitely coming
from a ship near the centre of the Avalon System.” 

“Have we tried contacting it yet?” 

“Yes sir. We're sending out an automatic message every half hour but so
far there's been no response.” 

“How long till we reach it at our present speed?” 

“One day, sir.” 

The Captain frowned. A day. It was highly unlikely they were going to
find anybody alive after all this time. Still they had to try. 

“There's something else, sir,” said Crackers. “The outer scanners picked
up a Klinger Mother Ship a few minutes ago heading straight towards us. 
We changed course to avoid it.” 

“A Klinger Mother Ship?” I wonder what they're doing in this area?” 

Before Crackers had a chance to reply the lights above the Transporter
Platform started flashing, indicating someone was being beamed aboard. 
Several of the crew suddenly remembered who it was and groaning 
inwardly, pretended an all-consuming interest in their work. 

Captain Kork swivelled round. “Who's arriving?” he asked Lieutenant
Youhoor. 

“It's uh, just a couple of the crew,” she replied and quickly returned
to her scanners. 


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