Leonard McCoy (Star Trek AOS)

Leonard sat at the bar, staring at his glass of whiskey before picking it up and downing about half of it in one gulp. It burned going down, but it was a good burn. Least this bar in the middle of god-knew-where Iowa stocked the good stuff. Not that most of the youngsters talking and laughing around him would have known Jack from the cheap knockoffs.

Youngsters. Every last one of them. He looked around, still not believing that he was there. That he was actually going to get on that damned transport in the morning and join Starfleet. He was willingly going to go into space.

It was the only place he had left.

Someone knocked into him, causing him to nearly spill the rest of his drink. Looking back, he shot a glare at the kid, who didn't even seem to realize what he had done and called out to a friend. Sighing, he shook his head and turned back to the bar.

These were gonna be the people he'd be treating on the starships. These were the people who were gonna be running the starships. God help 'em all.