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Hello everyone,

I'm here because I'm losing my mind with desperation. I've hit the age old problem of not being able to tell if something I remember is from fanon or canon, because there's just so much of both in this fandom! And I've read so much that I can't distinguish between the two anymore!

I'm remembering this scene where Sulu is piloting the Enterprise (obv) and for some reason the ship is falling out of the sky for no particular reason (the gravitational pull or something), and they can't keep it in orbit automaticaly. So he has to sit at the helm and keep it steady in orbit, manually. And it's an insanely difficult thing to do, but he's a very skilled pilot (which is why Kirk fights for him?) and he managed to keep it perfectly steady in orbit.

And then he kind of zones out, and only zones back in a few hours later, and the shift has changed (I think) and everyone is kind of staring at him in awe because no one else would have been able to do what he's just done. And his hands are stiff and he doesn't remember anything but the focus, and it was just really impressive.

I can't remember if it was a fic? It could have been a book (of which I've read a fair few), but I have no clue and it's making me crazy.

Help?