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// Cure 
// Story: Star Trek: Into Equestria Part 3 of 4: Contagion 
// by admiralthunderstorm 
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So, surprisingly, we put the dead Influenza viruses in the replicators and it made more of the cure. The next day, we beamed down to Canterlot and delivered the cure. Later, we discovered that someone at Starfleet purposely sent us the wrong cure. So, after all the remaining ponies had been given the cure, we decided to have a party and celebrate. I walked into the banquet hall and found Celestia.
"Hey, Tia. How's it doin'?" I asked her.
"How's what doing?" She replied.
"Yourself. You were one of the first to contract the disease."
"I'm an alicorn. Alicorns don't die."
"Dang. I wish I had that ability."
"Leonard, do you have any fears?"
"I have a big one."
"What is it?"
"Aviaphobia. It means fear of dying on--"
"--Something that flies. I know. Kirk told me that is what you told him when you met."
"When did he tell you that?"
"Let's just not talk about it. Tell me about space, Leonard."
"Space is okay... i guess. What do you want to know?"
"tell me what you think when you're up there."
"What.... do you want to know what I think or what probably everybody else thinks?"
"What you think."
"Please don't let me die."
"Now what everypony else thinks."
"Well, there was this qute that I heard once. It went, 'In the vastness of space, there is only yourself, your ship, and your crew. It is a space in time without end. It is easier than you think... to get lost. But, sometimes, it is when you get lost that you find the most about yourself, who you really are and who... or rather... what  you were always meant to be.'"
"Tell me about Earth."
"Earth. It's just... beautiful... Agreen, blue and white ball sitting in the expanse of space. With one moon. It's really disheartening, though."
"Why is that?"
"We know more about space than we do our own planet. It makes a person... or in your case pony think; is space truly the final frontier?"
"I agree."
So, i stopped conversing with Celestia and walked over to where Kirk and Spock were.
They were looking up at the great hulks of the Enterprise and the Shackleton out above Canterlot, spreading light on objects below.
"So, Bones, are you ready to go back to Earth after 2 years?" Kirk said.
"Rainbows and ponies are not for me so, yeah, Kirk. I am." I replied.
So, after the party, we beamed back up to the Enterprise and left the planet; hoping to find something greater than ourselves... 


...Again.
But, does it really make you wonder?
It's like the Shackleton's captain oath states in its first line.
Space is not the final fronteir...
Is it really? Or is there something out there greater than Space itself.
I believe time will tell but, there is really no guarantee. 


End of part 3.