Melissa got behind a Klingon as they began to shuffle around.
"You are the pilot?" the Klingon asked.
"Yes, that's right, but I'm not the only one. There's also a male pilot," she replied.
"Are you paired up?"
"No. I have," she paused for a second. That was an odd choice of words, "the former Armory Officer. There," she pointed.
"Fairly tall for a human," said the Klingon, "I think the mismatches are intentional, at least for the first pairing. Do you have duplicated skill sets or positions?"
"Two Armory Officers – one current, one former. Two engineers. And two pilots," Melissa said, "Otherwise, nothing matches."
"And are any of them paired up?"
Melissa thought for a second, "Uh, no. The female engineer is with the male pilot. And the Armory Officers are both male."
"So a pairing is impossible for them."
"Why does that matter – particularly for the first pairing?"
"The Witannen seem to have done that – at least this is my own pet theory – they kept similar people apart because, I suspect, they thought there would be more conspiring that way. More attempting to escape. And then as a species stays longer and longer, the attempts to escape become less and less frequent."
"Huh," Melissa said, "I wonder if the Andorians saw a lot of that, or if that's a more recent development."
"Leveqa," the Klingon asked the Andorian in front of her, "were there a lot of escape attempts in the beginning?"
"Some. No one got very far."
"Question," Melissa said, "Have any species been here longer than the Andorians?"
"Well?" asked the Klingon.
"There was one here when we got here. They looked a lot like humans. But they were telepathic. The Witannen did not realize this. So this other species – I recall they called themselves Beta-something-or-others – they conspired, and it didn't matter that they were separated. They made a big attempt."
"How?" asked Melissa.
"A rush at the guards."
"So they failed, of course," said the Klingon.
"I guess – are they in another unit?" Melissa inquired.
"No. The Witannen had the Imvari kill them all. Losing good stock is not preferred, I am sure, but they could not have this kind of behavior occurring. They cannot do anything against telepathy."
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Together {Star Trek Enterprise Fan Fiction}
FanfictionTheir lives seemed perfect – or, at least, close enough. They were happy, and together. And then they were forced to do things that they didn’t want to do – and then discovered that they did want to do them. How could they go back, and save what the...
