Old, but insanely cute

Chapter 3

Data and Geordi were on another ship, married, as captain and chief officer of engineering. They were exploring the Delta Quadrant on the starship Echo. Worf was the captain of a Klingon vessel dealing with Klingon affairs. Beverly? She was out there somewhere, no one was quite sure where, but the last they heard was that she was going after Wesley's father who was dead.  Picard went after Beverly but he never found her. Just the shuttle craft she had been manning. Picard was heartbroken.

Deanna stood by her imzadi's side sensing a different feeling from her husband.

They were in the transporter room.

"I sense you are worried about sending them off." Deanna said.

"They are legends, Deanna," Riker said. His hair was graying at the sides. "And they are fully capable of getting into a mess they may never come out of." Deanna nodded, agreeing with that assessment. "I might be the last officer to see them alive."

"They may be old but they are not senile or fragile," Deanna said. "In fact they are quite excited about being on the planet."

"I thought they would never find out." Riker said.

"It took them two weeks to get passage here," Deanna said. "They are stubborn."

"That's what made them great officers." Riker said.

"Don't they remind you of certain someones we know?" Deanna asked.

Riker sighed.

"Yes." Riker said.

"Don't worry about them," Deanna said. "They will be fine. You can see them for yourself when we come to pick them up one year from now."

The doors to the transporter room opened. Deanna and Riker looked in the direction of the doors. Two old men came in through the door side by side. Jim had shorts on, a untucked yellow decorated plaid polo with a green shirt on top, and a glasses on the bridge of his nose. Jim had a wrist band on his left wrist. Spock was wearing a fishermen's hat without all the hooks and the lines. Spock had on a short pair of pants that ended at his wrist. Spock had on a blue buttoned up tucked shirt with a yellow line in the middle including two breast pockets. Spock had a pair of socks on in a pair of unusual shoes that looked like a mix of flip-flops merged with sandels. Spock had on a big pair of glasses.

"Greetings, captain, counselor." Spock said.

"Ambassador." Riker reciprocated the ta'al sign as the two were followed by a young male lifting luggage with difficulty.

"Terrance?" Deanna said, as Terrance fell right over.

"He offered." Jim said.

"You insisted." Spock replied.

"He accepted." Jim said.

The luggage fell right open revealing a pair of sehlat's.

"These are for you," Jim said. "Our congratulations for the marriage."

Deanna then noticed that Spock had a knapsack on his back with a rolled up meditation mat at the top behind Spock's head. The five units of pups were around the feet of the couple who had their cheeks highlight their flustering. Deanna then picked up the small pups into her arms with a huge smile on her face in kindness. Deanna had gone to know the two men quite well. Jim had gone along with Spock to Romulus during the attempt at reunification between Romulans and Vulcans a bit under a disguise. He made a good impression of a Romulan needless to say. Jim refused to leave Spock instead of being taken to the Enterprise D as Spock believed Jim would be in more harm than good on Romulus. Last time Spock brought Jim with him to unify a species with another it ended with Jim being framed including McCoy. Anyway, Jim did not leave Spock's side.