Story:Star Trek: Continues/The Lucky One/Prologue


 * "A wise man has great power,
 * and a man of knowledge
 * increases strength;
 * for waging war you need guidance,
 * and for victory many advisers."


 * Proverbs 24: 5, 6 (NIV Bible)


 * "When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success."


 * John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

part one

prologue

15 June 2248

Earth, John and Paige's apartment

In the living room both John and Kelly are working on a model together of the Enterprise (NX-01) as she's reciting the words of Doctor Cochrane spoke the day of the first warp five vessel departed Earth space.

Where no one has gone before says Kelly who is at the age 18 of as she's looking at her father.

John smiles at her amazed by how she said it.

Sure, it was the paint brush, but it made the perfect sound of the soft whisk of the starship's super engine, just the way Kelly who's at the age of 18 heard it in her head, over and over the way her father described it.

You know if Doctor Cochrane was alive still he's be very proud of you for remembering the words John says as he looks at his daughter.

She smiles at him.

I know the whole speech by heart its required at the Academy to graduate Kelly says as she looks at her father. He looks at her and nods.

Hmm, don't remember that when me and your uncle went there John says as he looks at Kelly. She then looks at the model their working on.

I heard that the Constitution version of this vessel has been launched already Kelly says as she looks at her parents and uncle who's visiting his sister.

Typhuss looks at Kelly then at Paige.

She's very smart for her age, Typhuss says as he looks at both John and Paige.

Paige looks at her brother.

Well, she needs to if she's my daughter, Paige says as she looks at both Typhuss and John.

(Federation space, sector 798)

The USS Enterprise flies through a nebula cloud badly damaged with plasma venting from the starboard nacelle housing and several hull breaches along the ship's outer hull.

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