Disclaimer
I'm not making a cent from this story.
Kirk, Pike, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Chekov all belong to Star Trek.
The name U.S.S. Saratoga is from Neferit's story, but everything about the ship's class/design I made up!

Acknowledgment
Those of you who have read Neferit's works may have come across her 'This is the End' trilogy.
In it Kirk is raped during shore leave. Instead of supporting him his crew, with the exception of Dr. McCoy,
assumes that he was just fooling around and basically turn their backs on him. This betrayal, added to
the devastating trauma of the rape, leads Kirk to step down as Captain of the Enterprise. Several months
later he accepts command of a very different ship, the USS Saratoga.

When I read the series I was fascinated with the entire premise because it opened up a whole universe
of new stories and possibilities. This story is my take on Kirk accepting his new command. I've written
it with Neferit's kind permission.

Notes
Other stories in this universe are, in chronological order:
Dreams to Nightmares
Prologue
Chastise
A New Start
A New Season
Amethyst Skies
Parallels
Final Flight
Unforgiven
Endeavor

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GOD bless
John 3:16

4/13/2258
Enterprise Brig

Lieutenant Uhura leaned back against the cell wall, awash in misery. She glanced across the cell at Scotty
and saw that his expression was absolutely wretched.

Spock's face was expressionless but she had learned to read both his manner and his eyes and both reflected
his inner turmoil.

She heard a sob and looked across the room to the other cell where Sulu and Chekov where. Chekov was crying
while Sulu tried to comfort him.

The Senior staff of the Flagship in the brig. It should have been ludicrous but it was all too horribly real.

The Enterprise had returned to Spacedock yesterday. Each crewmember had been given two days shore leave
after which they were, according to the strict orders given them the brass, to remain onboard at all times.

She and the remaining Senior Staff had taken their two days right away and all of them had immediately
headed towards the block where a certain flat was. Each of them with only one thought or desire in their minds.

To try to make things right. To try to make amends for what they'd done.

To somehow end the nightmare.

A nightmare that had begun with another shore leave less than a month before.