Here's a challenge, that's narrower in scope than most, but hopefully a fun and challenging . . . challenge.

Write a story that features Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. You can bring in other characters, but those three must be featured. It can be dramatic, funny, tragic, laid back, etc. - your choice. No word limit, but I suggest a short story rather than a novella. Deadline to submit your entry is June 26. Voting will end June 30.

A Mother Horta has been illegally transplanted in hopes of mining a distant moon.

When things go wrong, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are called in for a consult...

PART NINE OF NINE

Episode 26 - Rain Over Rising Sun - As the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire begin to work more closely on the Saketh project, a terrorist plot is underway on the Federation colony of Rising Sun...

Episode 27 - Sword of Destiny - Tensions between the three great powers in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants reach a flashpoint...

Episode 28 - The Covenant - The haunting conclusion to the Star Trek Hunter series... Hint - think BORG...

PART EIGHT OF NINE

Episode 23 - JAG Wars - Now the flagship of a new fleet of ultra-fast Prowler Class patrol vessels, the U.S.S. Hunter and its new captain are on the front lines of growing strife within the Federation...

Episode 24 - A Trillian Problem - The U.S.S. Hunter's new captain is about to be tested in back-to-back police actions on the Vulcan and Andorian colonies on Weythan and on Trillus Prime...

Episode 25 - I Dream of Shiva - While Captain Dolphin stands trial for his actions on Trillus Prime, a terrifying new religion is taking hold deep within the Romulan Star Empire...

PART SIX of NINE

Episode 17: Terms of Surrender - Justice Minerva Irons must negotiate the surrender of Vulcan to the Romulan Imperial Senate...

Episode 18: World on Fire - The U.S.S. Hunter travels to a distant world to prevent the Romulan Star Empire from obtaining a particularly dangerous biological weapon...

Episode 19: The Ivonovic Commission - Federation CouncilMember Emory Ivonovic empanels a commission to investigate Star Fleet's culpability in the surrender of Vulcan...

PART THREE OF NINE

Episode 8 - The Bolian Web - A weaponized virus threatens the survival of the Bolian people. The U.S.S. Hunter's crew must act quickly to contain the virus and find a way to defeat the virus.

Episode 9 - The Library - The U.S.S. Hunter travels to The Sanctuary of the Waterbirds on Cophus II in search of a cure for the Bolian virus in an ancient Vulcan library...

Episode 10 - The Philosopher - While the U.S.S. Hunter goes off in search of a far more ancient library, Lt. Dolpin returns to The Colonhy of New Hope to appear on Governor Emory Ivonovic's podcast...

PART FIVE OF NINE

Episode 14 - When Death Comes - The crew of the U.S.S. Hunter are visited by death and are taken one by one...

Episode 15 - A Stitch in Spacetime - The U.S.S. Hunter is caught in a paradox caused by a malfunction of its new experimental warp drive. Wesley Crusher arrives to help... only to find Wesley Crusher has already arrived... and Wesley Crusher...

Episode 16 - Slavers - Orion slave runners are causing serious problems for the Federation, putting several planets at risk... Including Vulcan...