Time Search (ST:BH)

Time Search is a story written about the USS Shiloh, which was originally part of the Star Trek: Shiloh Fan Fiction Website but now is part of the Star Trek: Black Hawk Fan Fiction Website.

In March 26, 1997, after a major storms, that spawned tornadoes in the area, hits the Shiloh National Military Park & Cemetery, Park Ranger Brian McCutcheon with a visitor, who is actually named Jeff Higdon, inspects the damage to the Indian Mounds near the cemetery. While they walk, Higdon kick at something and finds what looks like a small handle of an unknown origin. McCutchen picks it up and turnsed it over to reveal a label bearing: PH Mark II Serial Number 74683-0201-09ZP DH Shiloh Starfleet UFP. They muse over it then McCutchen has place in storage with the following note:

''March 27, 1997. Shiloh has almost lost two of it's most important sites to the storms that raged the area yesterday - The Indian Mound and the landing. This is devastating coming at a time of big budget cuts to all national monuments. An old friend of mine, Jeff Higdon, and I inspected the damage mound. While walking around it we stumbled across something that seemed to be buried there but looked so new it could not be an original part of the mound, a handle of some kind. I confiscated it and turned it over to the superintendent. ''

The USS Shiloh is assigned the Temproal Investigations Historical Department to go back into time, using the slingshot around the Sun, in order to observe the Battle of Shiloh. It is revealed to him prior to the mission about the discovery of a Typer II Phaser in a storage unit not opened since 1997.

Joining the crewo of the Shiloh on the mission are newly posted Ship's Counsellor, Lieutenant Command Peggy Ridgeway, Park Ranger and Historical Coordinator at Shiloh National Park, Ranger Mike McCutchen, Temporial Service Special Agents Calvin Harrison, Stonak of Vulcan and Latos of Borillia, along with Lieutenant Commander Sondra Palamus of Starfleet Scientifco (Science Division).

It is also revealed that Commander Ridgeway's 400 year old DNA is found on the handle.

The Slingshot Effect in getting the Shiloh a few days before April 6, 1862. Placing the ship in a stationary orbit directly above the battlefield, the crew started observations of movements of both the Union and Confederate Armies. Later, at a dinner hosted by the Captain, Henderson boast that he is a direct decendant of General Nathan B. Forrest, who at the time of the battle was Calvary Colonel under the command of Confederate General Johnston, overall commander of the expidition to surprise the Union Army, which think they are in Corinth, Mississippi.

Prior to the arrival of the Union forces, several advance scouts stet up sensor positions in order to observe that battle better. When the scouts are beamed up, Henderson is not among them.