You open the old time novel, where the heart is gone, and the hero would be me

Part 6

Captain Treadway watched the flock of Bird of Prey's fly away as though making retreat. Treadway stood up and straightened his uniform looking on to see a small oncoming shuttle. It looked like a federation shuttle craft. The communications officer, T'Pal, turned from his station informing the captain that they were being hailed.

"On screen," Treadway said.

McCoy appeared on the screen.

"Now, I heard what ya did to the Klingons," McCoy said.

"We had to do it," Treadway said. McCoy narrowed his eyes.

"Treadway, the stardate is 2258," McCoy said. "A couple years since the federation-Klingon war. We are in the age of exploration, a golden era, and ya decided to start a skirmish," he placed his hands onto the console into the shape of a fist. "Ya to return through the anomaly and report back to Starbase One for violating the Temporal Prime Direcive. Ya know these models aren't used anymore! Ya knew!" he shook his finger then leaned back into the chai. "Have your first officer tow ya back. And when I back, I ought to hear your resignation."

"Admiral McCoy," the first officer, White, began. "You are his superior officer."

"That's right," McCoy said. "Ya relieved of duty as of this moment," he turned his attention toward the standing security first officer. "Commander White."

Commander White stood from his security station.

"Yes, admiral?" White asked.

"Work with the team and find other ways to get power on," McCoy said.

"But there isn't," White said.

"There is. Trust me. Ya got more dilithium crystals than it looks," McCoy said. "Check Scott's biography. There's a entry regarding the one time the Enterprise lost power and it seemed we had none."

"If you say so," White said, with a nod as Treadway looked down toward the ground.

McCoy shook his head looking over toward the former captain.

"You were such a promisin' officer, Blake," McCoy said. "I am ashamed to have recommended ya to this ship. You're not a soldier, no one is, you're a explorer and peace seeker. I should taken the note on your file more seriously than I had. Ya handed over a elder. A VULCAN ELDER to KLINGONS!" there was silence on the bridge. "Now . . he is going to fall into the hands of Captain Pike. Ya don't hand over a elder so easily like that. He was supposed to negotiate a treaty between Romulans and Cardassians! Not go through a anomaly. What was on ya mind? Got caught in somethin' ya don't want shared. That makes a captain dangerous. And you should be barred from ever being on the bridge. Discharged dishonorably." McCoy shook his head then lowered it and lowly muttered, "McCoy out."