Summary

The short but sweet tale of the final days of Enterprise's ships janitor, James "Jimmy" Horn, and how he gave his life in the line of duty.

In 2153/4, Jimmy was cleaning Main Engineering when a spatial distortion hit, causing part of an engineering component to become exposed. Jimmy was injured, and quickly used his sweeper to seal the hole until a repair could be made. Later Jimmy awoke in Sickbay, and Phlox told him that he was "very sick," mortally injured. Finally, he drifted off to sleep, with the assurance that he was a hero.

References

Characters

Jonathan Archer • James Horn • Phlox • Charles Tucker III

Referenced only

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Starships and vehicles

Locations

Delphic Expanse • Florida

Races and cultures

Denobulan • Human

Appendices

Background

• Lorraine Andersons first Star Trek fiction to be published, she didn't even expect it to be accepted at a mere 900 words.

Connections

Star Trek: Enterprise collected short stories, novellas and short novels
Strange New Worlds	V ("Remnant" • "A Girl for Every Star" • "Hoshi's Gift") • VI ("Savior" • "Preconceptions" • "Cabin E-14") • VII ("Earthquake Weather") • 8 ("Egg Drop Soup" • "Hero" • "Insanity") • 9 ("Rounding a Corner Already Turned" • "Mother Nature's Little Reminders" • "Mestral") • 10 ("The Dream" • "Universal Chord" • "You Are Not in Space")
Misc. short stories	"Prelude: Discovery" • "Have Beagle, Will Travel: The Legend of Porthos" • "Nobunaga" • "The Offer" • "Control"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"Age of the Empress" • "A Less Perfect Union"
Comics	"The Fragile Beauty of Loyalty"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Egg Drop Soup	Strange New Worlds 8	Next story: Insanity
Previous story: Egg Drop Soup Strange New Worlds 8	Enterprise short stories	Next story: Insanity Strange New Worlds 8
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Lorraine Anderson	Next story: most recent work
chronological order
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