Authors Notes

More Detailed Summary (Books 1 - 3) ~

Four years after stopping Henry Starling on Earth in 1996, (VOY EP : The Futures End), Janeway and her crew discover the damage may have already been done, and it's effects can be seen even as far out as the Delta Quadrant.
(This story is set just before the end of the last season of the VOY TV series, after the episode "Homestead" in which Neelix left the crew.

Book 1 (37 chapters) is Completed.

Book 1 Summary

Crashed on an alien planet and facing the wrath of the indigenous species, the crew discovers an unexpected connection to Earth, and their own previous travels in time.

Book 2 Summary (Coming soon!)

Chakotay has disappeared, but Janeway and the crew have no time to spare to look for him. They are facing an enemy of overwhelming numbers. Can they save themselves and their new allies?

Characters : All of the crew you know and love, and even some returning characters from the TV series, such as...

*Rain Robinson from the VOY episode "The Futures End".
*Admiral Paris from Season 7 of VOY
*Gariff Luclsy from DS9 Episode "Trials and Tribble-ations"
*And introducing a new original character ~ Christopher Moss, this "episodes" main antagonist is actually related to a character shown in the ST: VOY episode "11:59", so he's not just thrown into the story for no reason as it may seem at first.

Other Connections : This story references (in a few lines here or there) plot events from a few of the officially published voyager book series. You do not need to have read these books to understand fully what is happening in the main story, but if you have, you may understand more what is being referenced in these lines. For example, I mention the Iconian gateways from the "Gateways" series of Star Trek books. I feel most Star Trek fans will understand the references and I felt I would leave it in for dialogue flavor and some back history, but I realize it is not "necessary" and that I could have removed these lines.

(I do not own the rights to Star Trek, or its characters. This is a non-commercial fan written story.)

I have tried to make this story as accurate (timeline and canon-wise) as possible, using all the references at my disposal. Enjoy!

BOOK 1

Prologue
The Debriefing

The small conference room was dimly lit, remaining eerily quiet as it had been for almost an hour. She sat at the end of the table alone as she waited for Admiral Paris and the Starfleet committee to arrive.

Admiral Kathryn Janeway sighed silently to herself.

Three years ago she had been in this exact room upon their return to the Alpha Quadrant, and at that time she had been hastily debriefed. However events during that time which involved an immediate threat on Earth by the Borg had caused it to be a quicker than usual debriefing, and because of that she knew someday they would call her back to review the logs from their seven year journey in much greater detail.

She looked up as the door to the room opened with a soft hiss, and from it emerged Admiral Paris looking down at the padd he was carrying.

She quickly stood to her feet as protocol required, all the while straightening her dress uniforms vest by tugging on it firmly. As Paris came to a halt a few paces into the room, she saw that he was followed by two others, a man and a woman. Both appeared at first to be civilians, however upon a moments study she saw that they were dressed in black-gray outfits which she immediately recognized. Temporal Investigations uniforms.

Janeway quickly ran through her mind all of the times the crew of the Voyager had found themselves dealing with time travel and altered time lines.

"Admiral Janeway, May I introduce you to Gariff Lucsly and Rita Hollis from Temporal Investigations. Please, be seated and we will begin." Admiral Paris said, and Janeway gave a nod to each of them and then took her seat once again.

After they were all seated, she at her end of the table and them at theirs, Admiral Paris looked up at her from the padd and smiled. "First of all Admiral, I feel I must again commend you on many successfully completed missions in the Delta Quadrant. You did very well with the limited resources you had. We have been reviewing all of your logs from your time in the Delta Quadrant with a more in depth analysis, and some of the things in that database are really quite amazing."

Janeway looked down at her hands which were clasped on the table in front of her. He was right, they had been through a lot, but after the long trip, it was very hard to let it sink in that it was over, even now, three years later.

"I would never be able to say it was only my doing. You also have my crew to thank for all the hard work they did over the years. Without them Voyager would have surely been lost."

"Of course, Admiral. Now, shall we move on to why we are here." Admiral Paris said picking up a padd in front of him.

"Admiral Janeway, as I'm sure you are aware, you broke many starfleet protocols on many occasions. Sometimes in more serious cases than others." Lucsly said abruptly, his attitude towards Janeway showing fully. He was glaring at her angrily, yet somehow still professionally. It was then Janeway knew that this debriefing would be a long one.

Admiral Paris looked slightly to his right at Lucsly, without actually making eye contact. It was clear he wasn't fond of Lucsly either.

"Gariff, starfleet understands the situation that the Voyager had been in. As you already know we have previously dropped all the charges that could have been placed on Admiral Janeway and her crew. Of course, there are some things we must discuss, that is why we are here."
Lucsly merely blinked and continued to glare at Janeway.

Rita Hollis was the next to speak.

"Why don't we begin again," she said softly, "Admiral Janeway, we have asked you here today because something rather unexpected has happened."

"We have received a direct communication from a species you seem to have encountered on your journey home." Admiral Paris said.

"I would have been surprised if none of the species we had encountered were to contact us" Janeway asked drawing forward slightly. Her crew had encountered many species who might have eventually had an interest in contacting the Federation. She wondered which it would be. "What is the source?"

"We also expected to receive communication from some of the species you encountered, however this is not why they message is unexpected. It is the fact that this name and the species involved does not appear in your logs that is the surprise to us. The message is from an individual named Christopher Moss, a human, speaking on behalf of another species called the Frain." Lucsly said, again in an abrupt and angry tone.

Janeway blinked and sat back in recollection. She indeed did know of who they were speaking, but as far as she knew he was still well inside the Delta Quadrant, and he nor the Frain had the means of contacting earth. "Yes, I know of whom you speak, but as far as I knew he was—"

"In the Delta Quadrant, yes ... we know. However, we have done a recursive review of your logs from stardate 54870.4, we know what you reported happened in the Frain system, what we don't understand is why you felt the need to omit some of the happenings from your logs, like the existence of Christopher Moss or the Frain species themselves. All that you reported was that you intersected with a spacial anomaly, but it in no way adversely affected the ship or its crew. in fact, there was no more to the log beyond the name of the Frain system and its planets, which is how we even knew were to look." Hollis said.

Janeway understood their question. She had left out everything that had happened, all the important details of the entire happenstance. It was for Moss's protection that she had left the whole thing out of her logs. But at the time she assumed he would be well out of the mind set of the Federation since he was in the Delta Quadrant. It now seemed however, that he was well on their minds.

"What does the message say?" she asked seeking more information on why he had broke the silence they had agreed upon.

Admiral Paris activated a console embedded in the table, then from countless speakers that were well hidden around the room came the message.

"Come in Earth, My name is Christopher Moss, and I am a human. I am broadcasting from the planet Fra within what you call the Delta Quadrant, I am an acquaintance of Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Starship Voyager. Please, return this signal using the same telemetry and frequency I am now using to transmit." said the voice which she knew was Christopher's. The message then began to repeat, but Admiral Paris cut it off before it finished a second time.

"Have you responded to the message?" She asked, her eagerness to find out what caused him to send a message halfway across the galaxy growing.

"Without knowing the details of who he is and why he is there, we felt that we would hold off responding until we spoke with you." Hollis said.

"Shall I start from the beginning?" She asked sitting up as strait as she could. She inwardly wished Chakotay was here to offer his aide in this debriefing, but he was seeing to his duties as the new Captain of Voyager.

"Yes, please do." said Admiral Paris as he activated the computer to record what she was about to say. "From the very beginning."

So, she began, from the very beginning.