The Hoshi Sato Story

Part Six, written April 28, 2003.

Back to the drawing board.

After more than a year since joining the crew of the NX-01 Enterprise, Hoshi Sato is really feeling at home. She doesn’t get sick from jumping to warp anymore, she’s got friends - she even had a pet for a short while. Sure, she misses the creature comforts of “home” in the 31st century, but life has taken her on enough adventures in the 22nd to keep her from getting bored.

With no sight of the wretched Cabal in some time, Hoshi’s finally had some time to relax, too. She’s having more fun now than she had as a child - and all because she can be herself, rather than being manipulated to the extremes of her old life. Of course, she still keeps in touch with her family and superiors in the 3080's, but with suspiciously little activity on the front of the Temporal Cold War, even those contacts have become limited.

Her fellow crewmates think she’s finally found her space legs - in reality, she’s finally found herself. Hoshi loves that she can sleep in on her days off if she wants too - she never does, but just having the option to do so thrills her to bits. For the first time in her life, Hoshi is really loving what she does. In her spare time, she can relax with her Denobulan friend Dr. Phlox, and learn his language, or watch a movie in the mess hall on crew night. If she wanted to, she could even go and sit upside down on the ship’s sweet spot with fellow ensign, Travis Mayweather.

Hoshi Sato is happy. She never thought she’d really be able to say that...but she is. Comparing her 22nd century life to her 31st, you could easily say that someone went right back to the drawing board, and started her off fresh again. That’s quite literally the way Hoshi feels - as though a breath of fresh air came into her life, right when she needed it most. This mission was precisely was Hoshi had needed. And now her dreams are coming true because of it.

Hoshi just hopes those dreams don’t come crashing down around her when the Cabal come back. Which they undoubtably will. It’s only a matter of time...

Bec's note: As you all know, the temporal cold war had virtually no attention in season 2, and as you may not know (depending on where you live and who you talk to), season 3 has not yet reached Australia. If/when the TCW comes back, the Hoshi Sato Story will continue. And if these Xindi happen to play a part in it, then all the better!! We will just have to wait and see.

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