Disclaimer: Star Trek belongs to its owner. Sadly that person is not I. I did however, come up with the predicament and the children (except Miral and Naomi).

Home Again

"Hi Mommy! Hi babies!" shouted a dark-haired girl as she ran down the corridor towards a woman. The woman's dark hair came past her shoulder and she was just beginning to show the fact that she was pregnant.

"Haylee, there you are! Where is your father?" The woman says as she leans over to plant a kiss on her daughter's head. "Harry!" She says as she looks up to see a man standing there. " Did you find out how the shuttle got to the far corner of the Beta Quadrant?"

"No, Libby, We aren't sure yet. B'Elanna is working on it right now." Harry said as they walked through a door and into a larger room. "We all want to know how a shuttle from the Enterprise-E could find its way out here and how something could get stuck in the transporter."

"It will all work out sooner or latter."

As the doors opened in front of her, Kathryn Janeway was curious as to how a simple shuttlecraft could confuse her Chief Engineer, B'Elanna Torres, but it did.

"Captain, I can't figure out why the transporter is cycling like that. It doesn't make sense." A woman with a bumpy forehead said as she rounded the shuttle. "It's stuck in diagnostic mode, and I can't get whatever is in there out." Bang "Ouch! Hey it's working now!" The faint whine of a transporter reached their ears.

"What did you do?"

"I kicked it."

"Why did you do that?"

"Because I was m-"

Crash

"Ouch!" a deep, rich voice boomed from inside the shuttle.

"What was that?" B'Elanna asked.

She and Captain Janeway ran into the shuttle. What they saw startled them. There, sitting in a heap of metal that used to be a bulkhead, was a man with gray hair, in a red and black Starfleet uniform.

"Of all the captains that could have responded to my distress call, I never thought that it would be Kathryn Janeway, the only one that doesn't know that she is dead!"