CHAPTER 10 “Captain, please! Do something!” Owen shouted. Janeway looked back from the co-pilot seat and studied her bereft pretty officer. With all six seats in the shuttle occupied, Owen was left standing in the aisle, hands braced on the backs of Crewman Thorold’s and Ensign Vorik’s chairs. “We’re doing everything we can, Chief,” she […]

CHAPTER 9 “Good news, Commander!” said Hux. The holographic avatar of the station apparated half a meter away from Chakotay’s face, startling him out of his fretful reverie. “Your crew have returned for you!” “They’re here now?” said Chakotay. “They’ve just arrived through the Travel Network, and hardly a moment to spare. I have to […]

CHAPTER 8 Chakotay sampled a dab of protein paste and grimaced. It resembled old, plain oatmeal, congealed and devoid of flavor. Chakotay took a moment to gird himself, then he picked up the tube of paste and squeezed its contents directly into his mouth. “Ugh, ack.” He grabbed the water bladder he’d been provided with […]

CHAPTER 7 “I say we fly Voyager in there and ram a few photon torpedoes up their aft ventral porthole! See how they like that!” Lieutenant Torres raged. The senior staff was gathered in the conference room, minus Chakotay, who was still being held captive on the space station. They hadn’t been sitting at the […]

CHAPTER 6 “Zut! That test was absolute merde!” said Lucy. She was still enjoying her newfound grasp of twentieth-century French. She’d studied Vulcan and Tellar languages in the Academy just to meet the core requirements, but she never really had a good head for languages. And besides, the universal translator was simply too convenient of […]

CHAPTER 5 “Here we go again,” said Tom. He was seated on Chakotay’s left, in the pilot seat of the shuttlecraft. Tuvok, Torres, and Kim filled out the rest of the party. Ahead of the shuttle, the violet eye of the wormhole loomed large. Chakotay found that the experience of having passed through the aperture […]

CHAPTER 4 Lucy tromped her way along a narrow path through an overgrown field, an irrepressible skip in her step and a giddy smile glued on her face. She had to step high and hold her voluminous skirts up with both hands to keep their fringes out of the wet grass and mud, but if […]

CHAPTER 3 “She’s stable,” said the Doctor. “That’s the good news.” “All right,” said Chakotay, “What’s the bad?” They stood in the Doctor’s office in sickbay, looking out the window at Ensign Kang where she lay on a sickbay bed, still unconscious. Kes was sitting at her bedside watching the biomonitor. “It appears the ensign […]

Ensign Kang has been a technician on Voyager for three years, tasked with maintaining the ship’s finicky bioneural gel packs. She didn’t join Starfleet and study biochemistry just to work on glorified microchips all her life, but such is fate. When Voyager encounters a wormhole in the depths of the Nekrit Expanse, though, she’ll finally have […]