Star Trek One-Shots!!

4. Anything for a T'hy'la [Spork]

This one will be longer. And more angsty. A LOT more angsty. And depressing. And a lot of other things like that. Hehehehehe >:D

(P.S. Shit title. Whatever. dEAL WITH IT.)

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The entire crew watched the planet with horror.

It was about to be destroyed.

And what made it worse was that somehow, located on the small dwarf planet was an orphanage filled with children of many different species, alien and human alike.

"We have to try and save them, captain!" Sulu snapped out of his state of shock. He radioed Chekov. "Pavel, can you beam them up? Any of them at all?!"

His response came through the comms, garbled because of both his accent and static. "—cannot—reading—moving too fast—"

Uhura fiddled with several knobs and switches. "All I'm hearing is static!"

"The magnetic pull of the dwarf planet is managing to somehow interfere with our communications," Spock stated, flicking a few switches here and there on the panel in front of him. "We must get away from the planet or we risk other issues as well."

The entire time his crew was talking frantically, Kirk was sitting there, eyes wide, frozen in shock. But Spock's words made him jump out of it. "No!" he shouted. "We have to do what we can to save those children!" He looked pleadingly at his crew. "They're just children! We can't abandon them!"

"—getting some—there's a—" Chekov said from the radio. "I'll—Sco—"

"With the speed the planet is orbiting and the gravity pulling us towards the planet, we can't keep up for long, sir," Sulu stated worriedly. "Soon enough it'll overtake us. And if we go up a gear, we will overtake it."

"I—don't—care!" Kirk shouted. "Keep up with it! Do what it takes!"

"But sir—" Sulu began, but Kirk was already turning to others on the bridge.

"And you!" Kirk turned on Spock angrily. "How could you say that! You—of all people, you should know why—"

Spock indeed knew why.

Neither Kirk nor Spock had ever expressed much interest in having a child or even settling down someday. They weren't really the fathering type, and they both knew it. In addition, having a child while simultaneously being a part of Starfleet and being constantly on a starship was difficult. Usually it resulted badly for any parents and children involved.

They had discovered a tiny dwarf planet while flying in space one day (if nearly ramming into it at warp speed counted as "discovering" it), and noticed it was deviating greatly from its orbit, alongside other signs that the planet was going to destruct.