Threads - [Original Enterprise]

The walls of the office were the usual gray, and the rest was all shades of red and black.  The typical Starfleet color scheme, and after a jaunt into a universe where it wasn't, he appreciated it more than ever.

Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott stood straight-backed at attention in front of Commodore Wolfe's desk  She was a tough woman; shrewd and smart and not exactly all that fond of James Kirk or the Enterprise.  Starfleet higher-ups always did seem to be of two minds about the captain and crew; on one side, those who considered Kirk the golden boy and the Enterprise the golden ship, and those who most emphatically did not.

( Montana Wolfe did not. )

Windowpanes - [Risa, morning]

          "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.
          "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes."
          "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..."
          "They are lucky," the switchman said.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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