Chapter 1 – Meeting Q

I don't own Star Trek the Next Generation or Voltron Legendary Defender. I'm taking the characters out for a spin.

Bored again the dark-haired imp thought as he scanned the dimensions for something to do. He brightened slightly but frowned again at the thought of Picard yelling at him to get off his ship.

Maybe something else would ease his boredom, and then he saw it. A Castle that flew through space in one of those dimensions. He recognized that ship and wondered how King Alfor was faring. A smirk pulled at his lips as he disappeared.

Princess Allura stood on the bridge of the Castle of Lions as it flew through space towards the Blade of Marmora base. Her dark skin glowed from under the Balmeran Crystal that hung over her head powering the huge ship. Her white hair was tinged a lite blue from the crystal.

All the Paladins sat in their chairs and Coran. The ginger-haired, mustachioed Altean stood at his position at the helm of the ship. Everything was in order, but there was a hint of uneasiness but also excitement in the air.

A bright flash appeared, and a man appeared with dark hair with blueish green eyes. He smiled at everyone as the Paladins leaped out of their chairs. Shiro activated his Galra arm and held it back in a ready position if needed.

"Is this any way to welcome a fellow traveler?" the man asked. He glanced around, "Where is King Alfor?"

"What do you want with my father, and who the quiznak are you?" Princess Allura asked as her large purple eyes narrowed.

"Ah, so that would make you Princess Allura."

Coran turned around and stared at the man, but he groaned as the realization came over him. "Be careful Princess, this being is dangerous."

Before the dark-haired man could say anything in response to Coran Princess Allura spoke. She held her head high, "For your information, my father was killed by Zarkon ten thousand years ago."

"Oh, what a shame. I was looking for some fun."

Keith glared at him, "You never answered the Princess's question. Who are you?"

The dark-haired man looked around again. "Oh please Princess, don't tell me you now have humans for Paladins. How the mighty have fallen." He shook his head as he tsked. "To answer your question I am Q from the Q continuum."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Lance asked as he scratched his head.

"I don't care what it means," Allura replied. "Get the quiznak off my ship."

The being known as Q groaned. "You just had to go there. Now I have to teach you some manners." He snapped his fingers, and a light flashed over Allura and in her space stood a dark-colored poodle with white hair on its head.

Shiro lowered his arm as it deactivated. "Look, we have no idea who you are. But we can come to some agreement if you turn her back into herself."

A whine came from Allura.

The man known as Q looked around him again. "There's only seven of you. Hmm… not enough, but you might still be able to provide me with some entertainment." He thought again, and his face brightened. "I know." He said as he snapped his fingers and Allura regained her original shape. "Let's see how you deal with a new problem that confounds an old friend of mine."

He snapped his fingers again, and he disappeared off the ship.

Coran looked up at the viewscreen. "By the ancients what is that?"

"It looks like a ship of some kind, but where could it have come from and where are we?" Allura asked as she stared at the ship in equal size as the Castle of Lions but in a distinctly different shape.

"We're being hailed," Coran spoke.

Shiro stepped up beside the ginger-haired Altean. "Put it on screen."

They all saw a man who stood in the center of the screen with two people flanking him. He was balding, but the amazing thing was this man was human. He spoke with a definite English sounding accent. "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets Starship Enterprise. Identify yourself, or we'll be forced to fire upon you."

The Paladins glanced at each other as Pidge spoke up from her seat. "He must have plucked us up out of own reality and put us in a different one."

Hunk gazed at the screen, "One where humans made it into space."

Allura stood her ground as she held her head high, "I am Princess Allura of the Planet Altea. We seem to have been taken from our reality and placed in this one."

"We've never heard of the Planet Altea."

The dark-haired woman standing next to the Captain said, "I sense no deception from her."

Picard nodded. "How did you get to this reality, as you put it?"

"Would you believe by someone who calls himself Q?"

Picard closed his eyes for a moment and seemed to cringe. He opened them again. "Yes, I do. We've had dealings with him ourselves." He paused for a moment. Perhaps you should beam over here, and we can talk about this situation."

It was Coran's turn to scratch his head. "Beam, what are you talking about?"

"Don't you have transporters?" Picard asked.

"No, we don't. What is a transporter?"

"Put your ship in orbit with ours, and we'll beam you over," Picard replied.

Coran nodded as he turned to the Princess.

"Do as he says Coran."