Authors Note: I don't own Stat Trek, Star Wars, or any of their subsidaries, i have just taken the liberty to combine the two universes. This is a work in progress, please feel free to send me edits and recomendations for future chapters. I'll see what I can do to integrate them. Just nothing with the Borg please, I already plan on having them totally wiped out about eighty years, in the timeline, after this tale. Enjoy!
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E
Mid 2384
The aged and balding man sat in an office looking out at the back of his ship. He was watching as the flagship was refitted to meet new requirements. Among these was a third nacelle equipped with a pair of warp coils for the new quantum slipstream drive that his chief engineer was currently learning about proper operation for.
The Enterprise had been in dock for almost two months with the modifications to her external appearance all taking place in the first three weeks in dock. Although there was some doubt among the crew about the reliability of the new main propulsion system that they felt Starfleet Command was holding a veil over their eyes.
Despite Captain Genova's assurances that the technology was safe for use with starships the size of the Enterprise, Picard was unsure of the reliability of most of the technology that was being crammed into his ship. As he sat thoughtfully looking out at the warp nacelle that he had been looking at for the last four and a half weeks, he wondered how much longer he would be in command of this beautiful starship that Command was having refitted to better handle the new threats through the wormhole that ended up causing a bloody war with the Romulans who had grudgingly signed the Second Treaty of Algeron which restored their territory to what it was before the war, but let Starfleet use cloaking devices on its starships and stations at will.
A chime startled Picard out of his revere.
"Come," he said looking towards the door as an imposing figure walked in. Standing to greet his visitor he said, "Ah, Mr. Genova, I had heard that you were running rampant around my ship."
"You heard correctly, Captain. Geordi is just as stubborn with this Enterprise as he was with the last one," his visitor replied calmly as they both sat down. "Sir, I have wanted to ask what happened to Data?"
"Data, now that's a topic none of the crew aboard when that happened has talked about for a long time," Picard replied sorrowfully. "Data died saving this ship and her crew from a clone of me gone wrong, who was trying to destroy the Federation and the Star Empire. One from the inside out, the other from the outside in. Starting with me."
"I'm sorry to here that sir."
"Genova, please call me Jean Luc."
"Very well then Jean Luc, I will so long as you call me Gabri."
"Will do Gabri," Picard replied as a grin tugged as his face. "Now I must ask, exactly what is the purpose for all of this new technology?"
"Jean Luc, you must know that the Integrity and several other starships have been working under cover in another galaxy, while still making appearances here in ours, gathering information about the peoples running the civilization there and have observed millennia of peace interrupted by a civil war that transformed the main governing body into an empire in which order is maintained by terror and sheer force. The Integrity also intercepted a transmission that was forwarded on to me for decryption and translation. It was just two years ago when I learned that there was an extermination order for the Jedi," Genova said as his voice broke. "Months before I returned to Deep Space Nine, I felt their deaths, each turned on by those who served them, shot, and killed in battle. Decoding that intercepted transmission just confirmed that devastation."
"Gabri, I am sorry for your loss," Picard quietly said, stunned to see an apparent Vulcan, break and lose control of his emotions. "But this story doesn't really answer my question."
"Quite true, Jean Luc," Genova replied gathering himself back together. "The Quantum Slipstream Drive that has been installed on the Enterprise is faster than anything that the large capital ships of my home galaxy have, in fact, it's faster than the class one hyperdrive that my personal freighter has, we have also equipped the Enterprise with a class one hyperdrive making it among the fastest ships in the fleet and capable of out running anything that anyone throws at you."
"That covers the engines," Picard muttered feeling slightly uplifted. "What else have you done to her?"
"The weapons systems have been upgraded sense the Romulan war to be capable of boring through a Borg cube's shields even after they have had time to remodulate," Genova said as Picard's eyebrows shot up. "Although the heavy quantum phaser cannon under the saucer section can sever a nacelle off a Jem Hedar Stand-off Cruiser or pulverize a Jem Hedar Attack-ship with one hit. Your photon torpedo count has been reduced and the space made up for with new transphasic torpedoes, which your tactical officer has shown much approval for. Although he seems to have more of a taste for the forward torpedo launcher being on the underside of the primary hull rather than on the front edge of the secondary hull above the navigational deflector."
"That sounds like Worf, and actually, he's my first officer," Picard said smirking.
"Jean-Luc, am I correct in thinking that you have had experience with planetary grade nadion pulse cannon?" Genova asked quickly realizing his mistake and making a mental note to spend a bit more time around Klingons.
"Yes you would be correct in assuming that, Gabri," Picard said nodding, recalling the Tezwa incedent, "but I don't see what that has to do with my ship."
"Jean-Luc, we have added four type-one starship grade nadion pulse cannons to the forward dorsal and forward ventral weapons arcs," Genova said smirking as Picard's jaw slightly dropped, "giving you more of an advantage against multiple threat ships although with all the other technologies that have heavy power consumptions, they will take a longer time to charge."
"This refit has made the Enterprise capable of destroying a Borg Cube wholly on its own," Picard said slightly recovering.
"Finally, the old warp core has been left in place along with the old warp nacelles as you noticed. This is so you have an escape route if both of your primary propulsion systems fail and to provide power just for the quantum shields and for the quantum phasers," Genova continued. "That would be all of the modifications to the major systems. There were more but they are all detailed in the report that the station supervisor will give you prior to launch."
"Very well," Picard noted. Then looking out the view port he said, "How, much longer until we can leave port?"
"Starfleet wasn't planning on having you command the Enterprise, Jean Luc," Genova stated calmly as he pulled out a padd from under his cloak. Handing it to Picard he said, "It's your promotion and transfer order to head Starfleet's ships in the Maelstrom. I'm sorry, Jean Luc, but their giving her to Mr. Worf."
"Why didn't they offer a promotion like they did last time?" Picard asked as he read the official document.
"I believe that they believe that the infamous Jean Luc Picard deserves to be tried with more than just one warship," Genova guessed.
"Gabri, they aren't removing me from command," Picard said grinning slyly. "They just gave me an advancement in rank, and a permanent post."
"Hold on, you're planning on taking the Enterprise as your personal flagship right?"
"Correct, and everyone will get promotions at their own due time."
"Jean Luc, don't take the Enterprise. I have a feeling that if you take her, she will be destroyed with all hands," Genova said worriedly. "It may fall to the Borg or this new empire in my home galaxy. Please don't kill yourself by taking her as your flagship."
"Gabri, while yes I have been nearly killed while in command of her, there is absolutely no way the Enterprise can fail to protect me and I her," Picard said confidently once more turning towards Genova. "The Enterprise is one of the most powerful warships in Starfleet and in the galaxy, it has been so even after you came back with all this new weaponry, shielding, and propulsion."
"Jean Luc, listen," Genova said, raising his voice as his face colored slightly. "Do you want to die in another galaxy, or do you want to die on Earth, back where you grew up?"
"To tell you the truth Mr. Genova, I would rather die sitting in the command chair on the bridge of this starship than anywhere else," Picard replied sternly.
"I apologize for my out burst sir."
"It's all right old friend. I didn't mention this before but you adopted family on Earth was killed during the joint Dominion and Breen attack on San Francisco during the Dominion war."
"You could have held out on that for several years still, Jean Luc."
"So, when can we get under way to the Maelstrom?"
"In two days, sir," Genova said standing, "I can't guarantee it, but you should be ready to leave in two days."