Chapter 6

Ensign Kim stood at his station at the bridge, performing the continous scans Admiral Janeway had ordered; something about a Klingon vessel? Anyway, he had been staring at this monitor for nearly four hours straight now, and he was getting pretty sick of it.

He checked the chronometer that he had programmed into his consol that morning, and saw that he only had (oh no) four more hours of scans to perform. This shift is never going to end, he thought to himself. He shifted his feet, and glanced back at his monitor. He was about to turn around to another viewscreen, when he saw the small blip on the chart.

"Captain, I've got something!" he said, switching the format to the viewscreen.

"Onscreen." the captain said from her seat.

Called it, he thought, then transferred it to the viewscreen.

The captain stood up in her chair, then walked closer to the screen. "I don't believe it. A Klingon vessel, out in the Delta quadrant..." she said in pure awe.

She tapped her commbadge, and said, "Janeway to Janeway. You've got to see this." Through the comm, Kim could hear the admiral say, "Told you so!"

After a few minutes, the admiral rushed into the bridge, then said, "Oh my lord! That's it! That's the Klingon vessel!"

She stepped forward, and said, "Hail them."

Tom glanced over to Captain Janeway, who nodded, and Tom hailed them.

The Klingon vessel appeared onscreen, along with the weathered face of a Klingon commander.

The captain and the admiral both stepped forward, and started to talk at the same time. The captain cleared her throat, glaring at the admiral, and said, "This is Captain Janeway of the starship Voyager, may I ask you why you are this far from home?"

The Klingon commander, who had been getting quite impatient with the captain, said, "We are looking for the kuvah'magh, the savior of the Klingon race. It is prophesized that the kuvah'magh will be born of a member of both the Klingon empire and another race."

Captain Janeway paused, then asked, "We happen to have an officer onboard our ship that is half-Klingon, and she's also pregnant. Could she be the mother of this kuvah'magh?"

The Klingon commander paused, then said, "We request permission to transport onboard your ship and meet this susposed half-Klingon. End transmission."

The view screen flashed back to the stars and the Klingon vessel, and the captain and the admiral headed towards the turbolift.