Fan stories – you could probably consider these to be in one or more alternate universes.
Triptych (ST-OS – Melissa Dickinson): Kirk and Spock have gone back to Earth in 1930 to set right the damage that Dr. McCoy had inadvertently done, but as the truck was hurtling towards Edith Keeler, McCoy pulls himself out of Spock’s grasp and rescues her and the three find themselves trapped in the past. When Kirk and the others don’t return to the Guardian’s planet, Scotty and Ensign Jameson go through the portal to try and do their part to help. They meet up with Kirk and Spock (before those have discovered McCoy), but this time it ends with Kirk being killed by the truck. Finally, Uhura and Ensign Worsley (the only two left on the Guardian’s planet) go through the portal. Kirk finds Uhura singing at a club, and the Enterprise team (including Scotty) work to find McCoy. This time it does end in Edith Keeler’s death, and the Enterprise team find themselves reappearing on the Guardian’s planet, and the Enterprise is once more in orbit and asking if they should be beamed up.
The Quick and the Dead (ST-OS – Kathy Oltion): Kirk, Spock, Sulu and McCoy beam down to a planet (Theta Tau V) that seems ideal for colonization, with plant and animal life but no sentient beings. Then they notice that the plants are growing at a fantastic rate, and McCoy realizes the phenomenal metabolic rate applies to bacteria as well and warns Kirk (who is climbing some rocks) not to injure himself. Unfortunately, Kirk slips and grazes himself and is soon unconscious with septicemia. McCoy requests beam up, but Scotty tells them that there is a storm fast approaching their location that is affecting the ability to transport and communicate, and indeed the signal starts breaking up. Sulu finds them shelter in a cave, but they do have to stun a bear-type creature. Kirk initially responds to treatment, but the bacteria keep coming back, until finally McCoy is able to extract an antidote from the one plant root sample they had. With the storm over, most of the vegetation had been destroyed but began growing back, and they realize this planet is not really suitable for colonizing.
The First Law of Metaphysics (ST-OS – Michael S. Poteet): It was just after Kirk had supposedly died on the Enterprise B, and Spock gets a message from Saavik asking him if he would be than’tha (one who guides someone through their first mindmeld) for a girl (Sanara, who is part Vulcan, part human) that Saavik is tutoring on Vulcan. Seeing the girl’s age, Spock begins to wonder if she might be his daughter from the time that he experienced Pon farr on the Genesis planet and Saavik had offered to help him out. Arriving at Vulcan, he meets Dr. Tully who is heading a Starfleet-archaeological dig that T’Ryth (Spock’s old tutor who is very prejudiced against aliens and is also known as ‘The Vulture’) hopes will reveal the legendary ShiGral. Sanara is unwilling to proceed with the First Meld, quoting her ‘other tutor’. When she walks out on him, Spock track her down to a cave where she seems to be talking with Surak, but Spock reveals that it is actually T’Ryth. T’Ryth has to resign in disgrace, Dr. Tully is relieved when the funding for the dig is withdrawn and she can now pursue realistic work. Sanara proceeds with the First Meld and Spock finds out from Saavik that Sanara’s parents are dead.
Hero of My Own Life (ST-OS – Peg Robinson): Uhura is the captain of the U.S.S. Hermes which is at a water world (Pacifica) where Dr. Carol Marcus is testing the Genesis process again, and Dr. Gillian Taylor is assisting with Harpo (the whale who is offspring of the two whales brought forward in time). Harpo has gone missing, and Taylor wants the experiment put on hold while they locate him, but Marcus doesn’t want any further delay. Uhura locates an area where some form of interference is affecting the sensors, and Taylor and Marcus take an amphibious shuttle (the Nautilus) down to investigate, but they get taken captive and brought to a vast cavern by somewhat seal-like creatures. Harpo is also there and helps them communicate with the creatures who were not native to the planet but had arrived there after escaping from Orion pirates almost 200 years before. They agree to at least temporarily vacate the planet so that the Genesis test can proceed.
Doctors Three (TNG – Charles Skaggs): Admiral Leonard McCoy (‘Bones’) has his doubts about a plan to develop an Emergency Medical Hologram doctor (EMH) for use in emergency situations aboard starships, and he goes to investigate. Arriving at Jupiter Station, he is met by Commander David Clarke and Lieutenant Reginald Barclay (who is assisting Dr. Lewis Zimmerman in the development). Zimmerman reluctantly gives a demonstration of what they had achieved so far. McCoy is not particularly impressed but goes back when he believes the lab will be empty and activates the EMH (known as AK-1) to talk with it. That gives him a better feeling about the project, and he gives his approval despite some lingering reservations about its bedside manner.
I Am Klingon (TNG – Ken Rand): A Klingon lifeboat (an object virtually unheard of) is discovered, and the sole occupant is found in stasis and appears to be from about 100 years in the past, and is dying. When he is revived, it is learned that he was from System Loski, which had been cut off from the main Klingon Empire for a while. Wanting to help the Klingon Empire against the growing Federation, some had volunteered to be genetically changed to resemble humans, and infiltrate Starfleet, and all their warrior ended up having at least some of the transformation carried out. K’pril (the Klingon in the lifeboat) had been a scientist, but when it looked as if the Loski would be defeated in a civil war, he had himself transformed and cast adrift, hoping to get brought aboard a Federation ship where he could kill as many as possible before dying as a warrior. Worf thinks he’s rather pathetic but sets up a scenario on the holodeck using a training program he has been developing, where K’pril thinks he has escaped into what he knows is a Federation ship and starts killing the crew before being himself killed by a simulation of Deanna Troy. Actually, it was complications from his disease that killed him, but he died content as a warrior.
Reciprocity (TNG – Brad Curry): The Enterprise is watching the merging of two stars, when a wormhole forms and they have to back off quickly. Sending a probe through it they find that it terminates over 4 billion years in the past, and Picard takes the opportunity to send a message back to the Progenitors who had seeded the galaxy with DNA. The message is encoded using a piece of DNA in an otherwise empty capsule. The message is found and played back for the female Progenitor who worked to carry out the seeding, thanking her.
Calculated Risk (TNG – Christina F. York): A couple of scientists (the Prescotts), who had been planning to get divorced after 23 years, get infected by some unknown pathogen that makes them act infatuated with each other. Dr. Katherine Pulaski has them kept in isolation aboard the Debakey and gets Reg Barclay to work on adapting the transporter so that it can remove the unknown pathogen. When he gets the alterations done, the exercise seems to be successful and the removed pathogens are handed over in a carefully sealed container to lab technicians to ensure they’ve got the right pathogen. But then it is noticed that the Prescotts are still affectionate towards each other, and the lab measures a slightly smaller quantity than the transporter had reported, leading to the fear that some had escaped. Pulaski orders everyone who might have been infected, including one of her ex-husbands (Admiral Brian Anderson) who had been visiting to suggest a reconciliation, to remain in isolation until the issue is resolved. It turns out that the error was caused by a calibration error with the transformer, and the Prescotts had got over the forced infatuation, but were still genuinely fond of each other and intended to stay together now.
Gods, Fate, and Fractals (TNG – William Leisner): Lucsly and Dulmur intervene after it is realized that the timeline had been altered when a report from Sisko in the original timeline mentions the Marquis who are unknown in what was then the current timeline. The cause is tracked to Wesley who is with the Traveler and is becoming a Traveler himself. The Traveler lets the two temporal investigators interview Wesley, and the Traveler makes it clear that he doesn’t approve of Wesley’s intervention. When it becomes apparent that the intervention had prevented the Dominion War for the sake of a six-day Battle of Border, Dulmer has his doubts about changing things back, but Lucsly persists and demands the space-time continuum be corrected. Wesley gives in and the Traveler corrects the timeline. Back in their office, Dulmer doesn’t recall the changed timeline but Lucsly does and hopes that who or whatever shapes the real timeline knows more than the kid Wesley did. [Timeline: Stardate 50564.2, with the divergence having happened on Stardate 47751]
I Am Become Death (TNG – Franklin Thatcher): Data believes that retrieving Lore is the only way to prevent a future where humans have died out and ‘The Children of Soong’ on Omicron Theta are left trying to emulate them. Data had been taken into that future (where he is revered as Father Data) but escapes back, and, with the assistance of a couple of Pakleds, retrieves Lore’s body, only to find that Lore’s positronic brain is irretrievably fused. However, he is able to dress himself up as Lore and set up Lore’s body as himself, and supposedly have ‘Lore’ destroy ‘Data’, changing the future and the android Children of Soong will not come to be.
Research (DSN – J.R. Rasmussen): J.R. had been doing time travel for Paramount Studios and ended up on DSN instead of Voyager. There she had an orb experience that showed her getting close to Wesley Crusher, and she was now resigning her position with Paramount because she definitely didn’t want that to happen.
Change of Heart (DSN – Steven Scott Ripley): The female changeling goes to the planet called Bleak Prime, in the guise of a Marmosan Iherical named Anchet Mariole, to investigate a report that the Vorta, who have been organizing the mining of the planet in support of the Dominion’s war effort, have been diverting some of the carnacite for some reason. She executes Havok as the chief culprit, but a Vulcan (Bicek) who also works there tells ‘Anchet’ that she believes it is Oblette who is behind it. Anchet takes Bicek along as she goes to investigate and discovers that the Vorta (affected by the chemicals on the planet) had been planning on using carnacite to dilute the ketracel-white that the Jem’Hadar need. The Vorta (led by Oblette) attack the two of them and Bicek is killed, but the changeling turns herself into a spear and kills all the Vorta. The planet is abandoned after that, and the changeling (in the form of Anchet) returns Bicep’s ashes to Vulcan.
A Ribbon for Rosie (Voy – Ilsa J. Bick): Anika is almost 6 years old and living on Heronius II where her father is working on an idea to travel faster than warp that involved quantum-phase shifts and playing with time. However, the Federation does not approve of his experiment and he announces that the family will be moving to the Delta Quadrant, where the Federation has no influence. His efforts at creating a temporal rift had allowed Seven of Nine to lock onto their time and location and travel back in time to warn her parents not to go to the Delta Quadrant, but her father doesn’t believe her and insists on going, even though his wife and daughter are against the idea. Anika starts to have unsettling dreams of black cube-shaped starships and part-humanoid, part-machine beings. Having failed to convince her father, and with the rift about to collapse, Seven has to leave her new friend Anika, but gives her a gift of two red ribbons, one for Anika, the other for her doll Rosie.
Touched (Voy – Kim Sheard): A boy (Quator) discovers B’Elanna and Chakotay whose shuttle has crash-landed on the planet Panthon. He helps them get to a higher elevation so they can contact Voyager and arrange for beam out, after they have destroyed the shuttle with explosives that Voyager also beams down. The boy explains that no one would believe him if he mentioned anything about the encounter because he was known for making up stories, but he does go on later to become quite famous on his planet, writing stories about aliens.
Almost … But Not Quite (Voy – Dayton Ward): Dulmer and Lucsly are on a PVR (Post-temporal Violation Reconnaissance) mission for the Department of Temporal Investigations (checking up on the aftereffects of time-travel events) and have done their reconnaissance of the scene after Picard’s Enterprise had gone back to the time of Cochrane’s first warp flight (and Dulmer only just escapes from a bear attack). Then they use the portal on the Guardian planet to check out events on Earth after Kirk’s trip in the late 20th century. When they get there, they find that something has happened to the timeline, and 1996 is established as the point of deviance, and they realize they must go and try to correct it. Happily, they have tricorder records of the time from the Guardian, and they establish that the deviation occurs when a blue car is either destroyed or not by a phaser blast. They find that the occupants of the car are Tuvok and Tom Paris (who, as far as Dulmer and Lucsly currently know have been lost aboard Voyager in the Badlands) who were at the Griffith Observatory covering up their temporal incursion, and Rain Robinson from the 20th century who had found them there. Our temporal investigators are in a quandary as to whether they should ensure the safety or destruction of the car and its occupants, but they do end up saving it and setting the timeline right.
The Healing Arts (Voy – E. Cristy Ruteshouser and Lynda Martinez Foley): Janeway is at a banquet on the planet of the Vashnar and goes into anaphylactic shock from something she ate, but is saved by a ‘healer’, a member of a mute race of empaths known as the Anjurwan who had been brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Vians. A little while later, the same healer is called in to help with a seriously injured youth and, being already drained from the earlier healing, goes into shock and collapses. The Voyager crew are horrified to find that no one is going to try and save her, although when the Doctor says he can cure her, he is allowed to try. Initially, it looks as if his efforts are working, but the healer’s body seems to start fighting against his treatment. The Doctor calls up a holographic version of Dr. McCoy who comes to realize that the Anjurwan are the same race as the person he had named Gem, and that he had inadvertently taught the Anjurwan to practice self-sacrifice and refuse healing by another. With the Doctor and Janeway (with whom the healer, named Pearl by McCoy, had made a connection) they come up with a method for teaching her that such severe self-sacrifice is not needed in the name of healing. Through their empathic connection, Pearl lets Janeway know that she will pass on the lesson to the other Anjurwan.
Seventh Heaven (Voy – Dustan Moon): Seven of Nine gets abducted from the bridge of Voyager by two Borg from an unusual triangular-shaped Borg ship, and Janeway has Voyager chase the ship through a transwarp corridor. The ship was captained by Hugh, the Borg that Picard’s crew had restored to its individuality then left to infect the Borg empire. Hugh was now known as the Primary of the Independent Nation of Borg and had established a colony of freed Borgs and was hoping Seven would join them. However, despite feeling sympathy for their cause, and developing a romantic attraction (which she finds unsettling) for Hugh, she insists on being returned to Voyager. Hugh and his freed Borg help return Voyager and help them a little bit on their journey homeward.
A Test of Character (ST-OS – Kevin Lauderdale): After Kirk’s second failed attempt at the Kobayashi Maru simulation, he gets his hands on a copy of the software controlling it and discovers sections that are impossible to succeed at. He spends two months trimming out the parts that make it unrealistic, and at 2 a.m. the morning before his third try at the scenario he uploads his adapted version. This time he is able to trick the Klingons into chasing phantoms and the Kobayashi Maru is rescued. Admiral Jublik and Admiral Zheng who run the simulation initially think the system has broken, but Kirk admits what he had done and why. After hearing his side of the story, Jublik and Zheng award Kirk 99 demerits (100 would get him expelled), but they also give him commendations for original thinking.
Indomitable (ST-OS – Kevin Killiany): Chekov had been at the top of his class in navigation at the Academy, but since joining the Enterprise he had been mostly manning auxiliary control watching what others were doing on the bridge. Suddenly, he realized that the conversation he had been hearing from the bridge had gone silent and there was a sound that indicated the engines were cycling to maximum and then down a bit. He was locked out of control, but sensors indicated a sideward motion to the ship at maximum warp and, when he tried leaving auxiliary control, he found gravity increasing the further he went. He comes to realize that they must be being pulled into orbit of something like a black hole, and it was tidal forces, not gravity, he experienced. Realizing that he has to get to the bridge to try and correct matters, he prepares a rope to anchor himself, which proves vital because the bridge crew have been pinned to the perimeter by the forces. He sets up a spiral path to pull the ship away from the black hole, but the change in forces as they start to break free throw him away from navigation and he gets knocked out. When he wakes up in sickbay, Kirk informs him that the regular navigator had been injured more than Chekov had, so Chekov was being assigned temporarily, and maybe permanently, to fill his spot.
Project Blue Book (ST-OS – Christian Grainger): Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelmina Carver, in 2003, is preparing a report related to old Blue Book files and notices contradictory reports, one from a guard about a plane that crashed, but another showing that the same plane was apparently later retired from service and sold for scrap. She and her assistant, John Baker, track down the guard, who is still working, but he strikes them as being mentally unstable. He does give them an object (later identified as a phaser) that he said he pocketed while on some sort of ship. Then they locate the pilot of the supposed crashed plane, Captain John Christopher, who is a patient in a mental institution. He claims to have memories of a son who headed up the first manned mission to Saturn, but he also knows he doesn’t have a son, and his wife divorced him after his report of a UFO encounter was ridiculed. Carver doesn’t know what to make of this, until Baker helps her with her computer work by explaining the difference between copying and moving a file, and what has been happening becomes clear to her. Then she notices that Baker has disappeared, and then she finds she can’t move. Two agents from the Temporal Integrity Commission (from the year 2892) arrive, having been alerted to the remaining time rift from Kirk’s misadventure, having been alerted to it by the discovery of the phaser. Once they have corrected the timeline, Baker had died four years earlier and Captain Christopher’s son had carried out the Saturn mission. Carver still has some residual memories from the events.
The Trouble with Tribals (ST-OS – Paul J Kaplan): The little furballs are amused by the antics of the bipeds, who get so excited by their discoveries but can be very arrogant at times. The bipeds are also concerned about each other’s skin color and other differences, which is why the furballs call them Tribals. Nevertheless, they still consider the bipeds to be cute, yet showing potential.
All Fall Down (ST-OS – Muri McCage): McCoy and Kirk end up sleeping in McCoy’s cabin, which had had the temperature set very low after their acclimatization to conditions on Rura Penthe, from which they had been recently rescued. The two are getting to sleep when Spock joins them, announces that he thinks he might be going mad. He explains that he keeps hearing the voice of a young girl singing a nonsense song and laughing. After Kirk and McCoy get Spock to let them know what the song is, it turns out to be the childhood nursery rhyme, ‘Ring Around the Rosey’. Kirk had never heard of it, but McCoy recalled his daughter singing and laughing to that rhyme, which makes him wonder if Spock had picked up on it from the time McCoy had held his katra in his head. McCoy explained that he had been left with some residual memory of Spock’s sehlat, I-Chaya. McCoy initiates a mindmeld with Spock and shares his memory of his daughter singing the nursery rhyme, and then Spock shares his memory of I-Chaya. Now both of them have context for their memories and can handle them better. Now Spock knows he is not going mad, he goes back to his quarters to turn up the heat and meditate while McCoy and Kirk get back to sleep in their icy room.
A Sucker Born (ST-OS – Pat Detmer): Spock and Uhura had been left at the unaligned world, Tttnicktttnor, to assist in fixing a communications upgrade at a Federation outpost and, while they wait for the Enterprise to return, they take a tour organized by HFM Enterprises to observe the floaters at a gas giant. They are horrified to realize that the tour organizers are feeding the floaters to draw them to the tour ship, a practice that is illegal in most places and which nearly causes a calamity on this trip. Spock insists on complaining to the company proprietor, only to find that he is Harcourt (Harry) Fenton Mudd. Mudd agrees to stop feeding the floaters if Spock and Uhura help him complete a staged Enterprise tour that he has been working on. Spock agrees and works tirelessly to complete the replica of the Enterprise bridge that Mudd had started. He also downloads actual recordings from the Enterprise and insists on the audience getting an authentic feel of being isolated in space by having the doors locked and unopenable until the three-hour show is complete. Spock and Uhura have been picked up by the Enterprise before the first show, but Mudd is excited as the audience enters and doors close and lock. Recorded voices show Kirk and Spock are on the bridge and Spock mentions about the mapping mission they are on. Then Kirk leaves the bridge, and the audience hears the voices of Spock and Chekov as they engage in a game of three-dimensional chess. Mudd knows it will be a long three hours and he will have some very unhappy customers.
Obligation Discharged (ST-OS - Gerri Leen): Elaan of Troyius, formerly the Dohlman of Elas, was thinking back on her thirty years of servitude as wife of the Monarch. Her husband loved her, but she could never love him and his pampered lifestyle. She loved her children, and tolerated her grandchildren, but she couldn’t say she enjoyed her life. For the first time in thirty years, she had told her husband to go away and not bother her with his latest invention or whatever it was he wanted to show her. Today her thoughts were on Kirk, their affair on the Enterprise, and the only other time she had met him, at the Federation-Klingon peace accord at Khitomer. She had just heard of Kirk’s supposed death on the Enterprise-B.
Life’s Work (TNG – Julie A Hyzy): Doctor Noonien Soong is annoyed when his wife, Juliana, interrupts his work on the emotion chip for Data, but he is far more taken aback when she says that she is leaving him. She explains that she cares for him but has come to realize that she will always come second to his androids. She doesn’t realize that she is also an android and his pride and joy. He talks her into staying one more night, and he takes that opportunity to turn her off. He tweaks her subroutines to stop her discontent with him, but then thinks better of it. Undoing the changes, he reactivates her and tries to act unconcerned when she bids him farewell.
Adventures in Jazz and Time (TNG – Kelly Cairo): Wesley Crusher had wanted to give Riker a present and, now that he was back on the Enterprise in the persona of Prof. Jackson, an idea occurred to him. Crusher/Jackson requested Riker’s assistance in using the holodeck, and Riker noticed a program that he had never seen before, and which intrigued him. Jackson said that any program would suffice, so Riker selected the ‘new’ program, and they entered the holodeck. Except that Wesley actually used his Traveler-abilities to transport Riker back to Illinois in the 1950’s, where they meet Stan Kenton. Kenton had met Jackson before, but he plays along when Jackson acts as if he didn’t know him. Riker is amazed at the realism in the program. Jackson excused himself while Stan Kenton gave Riker a lesson in playing the trombone, or maybe it was more a lesson in life. Wesley knew he could monitor Riker from anywhere and get him back to the holodeck arch whenever needed.
Future Shock (TNG – John Coffren): The captain of the Bozeman is instructed to keep a diary, and the whole crew has to go through Starfleet Academy again to acquaint themselves with the technology and politics for the time they find themselves in. The peace between the Federation and the Klingons is one thing they have to get used to, as does a Klingon, Captain K’Temoc, who made a similar time-jump. But he still believes hostilities might get back to ‘normal’. When they graduate again from the Academy, all of the crew opt to remain with the Bozeman (now upgraded) even though they were told they had first choice wherever they wanted to go. Karen, who the captain had befriended at the Academy, becomes first officer and, when the Nexus is identified, she points out they could effectively return home by entering it, although the Bozeman wouldn’t make it in. The captain turns down that idea because the Bozeman had become their home. [Timeline: starting year 2368]
Full Circle (TNG – Scott Pearson): 112-year-old Admiral Harriman and his wife, Amina (a retired captain), are celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary at a restaurant in San Francisco, when most of their guests (who are still active in Starfleet) get called away. Scotty is about the only guest left. Then Harriman’s assistant, Lieutenant Clarke, arrives and explains that there has been a Romulan incursion, and the Amargosa Observatory had been attacked. When they see the list of survivors that the Enterprise has rescued, the name Soran jumps out to both Harriman and Scotty. After hearing that the Romulan incursion was to do with trilithium, Scotty believes that Soran is planning something that will bring the Nexus energy ribbon back to him. When Harriman notifies Admiral Nechayev about this idea, she calls Harriman back to Starfleet HQ. Scotty goes with him, and Scotty has his commission reactivated. Harriman is told to go back and continue his anniversary celebration. Scotty proves to have been right, and Soran’s actions lead to his own death, the recovery and then the death of Captain Kirk, and the destruction of the Enterprise, with the saucer section crashing on Veridian III. Scotty brings the news to Harriman, and they toast and mourn the lost together. Harriman takes this as an opportune moment to finally retire, while Scotty plans on resuming his work. Harriman suggests that Scotty take over his current role overseeing the S.C.E.
Beginnings (TNG – Jeff D Jacques): Keiko Ishikawa asks Data to introduce her to Miles O’Brien, but that doesn’t go well when Keiko mentions a previous encounter that she remembers, but O’Brien says it couldn’t have been very memorable because he didn’t recall it. He finally plucks up courage to go and apologize to her and she invites him to dinner in Ten-Forward, where O’Brien keeps putting his foot in it and, when she later suggests a walk through the arboretum, he keeps sneezing due to some allergic reaction to the pollens. Next day, he tries to locate her to apologize again, but finds her in Ten-Forward having dinner with a ship Casanova, Ensign Markson. His jealousy leads him to accidentally-on-purpose spill some concoction, that Guinan had come up with, all over Markson. When he leaves, in disgust, to clean up, Keiko is trying hard to contain her laughter. That quickly leads to her telling O’Brien to shut up and plonking a big kiss on his lips. To say O’Brien was surprised and delighted might be to understate it.
Solemn Duty (TNG – Jim Johnson): [This can be read as an alternate to the story ‘Full Circle’ above.] Picard arrives at Admiral McCoy’s house in Georgia, ready to perform a sad but necessary duty. When there is no response at the front door, he walks around the house and finds McCoy asleep with Scotty keeping him company and sampling a local vintage. Picard had requested Scotty be there, and had hoped that Spock could be there too, but he had been unable to track down Spock. After being coerced into sampling the wine and being told by both of them to stop standing on ceremony, Picard loses track of how he planned to pass on the news. Finally, he gets to tell them of the events at Veridian III and how Kirk had been brought out of the Nexus only to die after thwarting Soran and saving over two hundred million people on Veridian IV. Both Scotty and McCoy had made their peace with the loss of Kirk about a hundred years previous, but McCoy is happy to join Scotty aboard his shuttlecraft, Goddard, to go and to Veridian III and bid their farewells to Kirk again.
Infinite Bureaucracy (DS9 – Anne E Clements): Quarks orders a glerint of self-sealing stembolts from Flem after he hears about a Tzenkethi manufacturer going bankrupt. Along the path that the bolts travel they are redirected when the warp drive fails on one ship a