//------------------------------// // Chapter One // Story: Star Trek 7: The Equestrian Frontier // by Graviton //------------------------------// Star Trek VII By Graviton, the galaxy's geekiest pony Chapter 1 Jim Kirk stood up from the captain's chair of the Enterprise, sighing in relief that the Federation/Klingon negotiations had come to a close.  He had been in many near death situations, but by far the worst one was ferrying 20 ambassadors across the galaxy, as they somehow managed to take up more space and resources then half of the ship's 400 crew members.  Now that it was over, all he was looking forward to was a cup of coffee and an afternoon without being bothered.  He glanced around the room, wondering if anyone else hated diplomats as much as he did.  There was Commander Sulu, the helmsman, who had visibly smiled when they had dropped the diplomats off, Lieutenant Uhara, who had jumped for joy, and Lieutenant Chekov, who had stood up on his chair and celebrated.  Not exactly perfect behaivior, but hey, who could blame him?  And then there was Commander Spock, the Vulcan First officer/Science officer.  He of course, showed no emotion whatsoever, as Vulcans tend to do.  But that was beside the point.  He had just been approved for several weeks of shore leave on earth, and was preparing the ship to go to warp.   "Mister Chekov, are you done plotting out that course yet?" He asked, anxious to leave so he could excuse himself for a nice, hot cup of coffee.   "Aye-Aye, Sir!" Chekov replied with a grin.   "Mister Sulu, Warp 5.". "Yessir", and the ship vibrated softly as it shot towards earth, thousands of light-years away. Twilight Sparkle was in the Royal Observatory, mapping out stars.  She was putting together a catalog with details on every star.  Right now, she was working on a star that had just appeared about ten minutes ago.   "Oh wow!  Maybe I'll be the first to see it!  Let me just triple check my readings, and then I can show the princesses!  I bet they'll be so proud of me!" Exclaimed Twilight, as she looked at the brightness gauge.   "Maybe they'll even let me name it!  I-  Wait a minute, the brightness can't be a five, it was a 3 just a few minutes ago!  Let me refresh, and...  SIX?!?  Let's try that again.  I hit refresh, and then... EIGHT!?!  How bright is it gonna get?". She made careful note of the star's coordinates, and then rushed off to tell her friends. Rainbow Dash was having the most fun she'd had in years. She and Pinkie had spent all night planning pranks on Ponyville's inhabitants. A rock here, a bucket of water there, virtually nopony would be spared. Now she was flying through the night sky with Pinkie on her back, enjoying a close-up view of the moon and stars. Suddenly, Pinkie started convulsing wildly. "I just had a super Pinkie twitch!" She exclaimed. "But I don't know what it means! Door open, someone is coming, big flash? That doesn't even make sense!". Then it happened. The entire sky was lit up by a bright flash as one particularly bright star seemed to explode into a giant monster. It was silver and shone in the moonlight, and was much higher than anypony could hope to go. Not to mention big enough to crush half of Equestria if it were to land on the planet. Dash gasped. "I've got to warn the others!" And took a steep dive, before remembering that she was still carrying Pinkie and settling for a slow, steady descent instead. "Applejack! I need to talk to you!". The orange earth pony sat up in her bed, wondering why Twilight was coming to her house at ten o' clock at night. "What can I do for ya, sugarcube?" she asked, desperate to hide her annoyance at her sleep being interrupted. "I need you to come look at this thing in the sky, to make sure I'm not hallucinating!" Yelled Twilight, clearly in hysterics. "Well, I suppose that it couldn't hurt.". She said groggily, sliding out of bed and looking through the telescope. "But I have no idea what would get you so worked up! I mean, it's not as if-" And then she saw it. A huge shining monster, floating with the stars. And it was getting closer. Jim Kirk, having finally managed to get a cup of coffee, was about to take a sip when the ship suddenly ground to a halt, depositing the contents of his cup all over the floor/his shirt.  He, after changing shirts, ran up to the bridge to see what was wrong, cursing his bad luck all the way.   "What is the situation?  Why are we stopped?  And WHY can't a guy have a cup of coffee in peace?" He asked, now very annoyed.   "Sir, we entered an uncharted wormhole and ended up in a large bubble of some sort, with a class M planet in the middle.  It is a single-planet system, but most puzzling is the fact that both the sun and moon appear to orbit the planet, locked on opposite sides of each other." Spock answered, showing his usual tendency of knowing a lot more information than anyone could ever need.   "Do you have a long-range scan of the inhabitants?" Kirk asked, curiosity overpowering his annoyance.   "Yes" said Spock, pulling up a 3-D diagram on his computer.   "I have had the computer do a cross-reference with the diagram, and one result was returned.  It says in the entry that the diagram's body structure has a 98 percent correlation with that of the twenty-first century cartoon character Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn." A/N: I know, at the moment it kinda sux, but at some point I will make it better. Eventually. Anyway, If you like it, be awesome and give it 5 stars. If you don't? Be awesome and tell me what you hate in the comments, and I'll fix it. Eventually. I plan on releasing a couple thousand words a week, so if it's been several days since the last chapter, that means I'm planning a big update. Point is, Imma new at this, so please don't give it 1 star until I'm done improving it, which will happen. Eventually.