Uhura's Head Is Getting Very Crowded

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 18483

It started small: an almost-inaudible whisper in the back of her head suggesting that it would be so much nicer, so much more right, somehow, if it were her sitting in the command chair instead of Captain Kirk. She dismissed it without much thought as an idle daydream.

But over the course of the day, it grew louder, more insistent, more... seductive. Fantasies of what it would be like to command the Enterprise. Seemingly logical aguments about how unfair it was that all the other bridge officers were male, of what a good, positive thing it would be for her to rise up in protest, to redress this injustice. Eventually, the voice was joined by images, immediate and vivid: herself and the other female crew storming the bridge, assualting the male officers with phasers or hand-to-hand, seizing the ship for themselves and declaring their independence from Starfleet and the men that ran it...

She tried to fight it, to suppress the voice and banish the images from her head, but they grew stronger and stronger.

What's happening to me? she wondered. Was this the voice that had sent her -- the Fred part of her -- here in the first place? She didn't think it was. Could it possibly be her unborn child, attempting to control her mind? The very thought was absurd, surely? But the Uhura part of her had encountered stranger things... She felt frightened.

I must talk to the Captain about this, she thought. I must tell him...

Tell him what? Whatever Fred had just been thinking, it was gone from her mind. I'm tired, worried, distracted. Maybe I ought to go see Dr. McCoy again, see if there are any drugs he can give me to help me concentrate that won't harm the baby. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. As soon as I get off duty.

Mutiny, the voice in her head whispered. Mutiny...

  1. Eventually, her duty shift ended and she headed back down to sickbay.
  2. And that's when the turbolift doors opened and five women poured out waving phasers.

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