Part One, written August 9, 2002

An officer like no other.

Meet Ensign Hoshi Sato, Communications Officer of the NX-01 Enterprise, the first Warp-5 vessel in Earth’s Starfleet. She’s trained in exo-linguistics, can learn alien languages faster than the universal translator, and gets space sick every time the ship jumps to warp.

Everyone knows she has trained to be in Starfleet. Everyone knows she has been trained in exo-linguistics. Nobody realises she has been trained to blend in. Nor do they realise she is from the future. And they most certainly don’t realise that she knows languages they have never heard of...because she has been to planets they don’t know exist.

Hoshi is from 3082, and as a member of a secret organisation founded to protect the timeline, she possesses knowledge that not even the Vulcan High Command of her time have heard about. Unlike Crewman Daniels, who blew his cover less than six months into the mission, Hoshi is an expert at keeping secrets.

She was trained in stealth tactics from the age of 3, can read, write and speak 53,962 languages fluently, and is currently learning a further 43,691 languages. She has a cortical implant, enabling 75% of her brain to function at a time, unlike the usual 10% or so used by the average human being.

What is perhaps most startling about Hoshi Sato is her rank. Undercover on the Enterprise, she is a lowly ensign. In reality, she is an upper-level Admiral, and one of the leaders of the secretive Starfleet organisation involved in the temporal cold war against the Suliban, or more accurately, the Cabal.

Ms Sato was sent to the past to protect the future, and is under direct orders from her superiors (the few that exist) to use whatever means necessary to prevent any changes to the timeline. Her space sickness is due to the fact that people in her time have perfected warp drive to the extent where the change in velocity is undetectable to even the most motion-sensitive of alien species.

Everyone thinks Hoshi is a miracle worker when it comes to the translation of alien languages...imagine their reactions if they were ever to discover what a marvel the woman truly is...

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