Star Trek Odyssey: Dark Reflections
The Sovereign class I.S.S. Alexandria flew through the vastness of space conquered by the Terran Empire. It used to be territory under the rule of the Romulan Star Empire. The Empire conquered the Romulans in less than a year shortly before they made first contact with the Cardassians and then they conquered them as well. The real challenge of the Beta Quadrant was the Klingons. It took three years for the Empire to fully conquer that barbaric race. That race was practically extinct because they'd rather die than be slaves to the Empire. They had even gone into the Gamma Quadrant and took out the Dominion.
The Vulcans, Betazoids, Tellarites, Andorians and other races that were not major powers became slaves of the Empire. Even the Borg fell to the Empire. Not long after the capture of Lieutenant Commander Zofchak from the other side, the Empire used the information on the transphasic torpedo they got from Zofchak and took the fight to the Borg.
The Empire did lose a lot of ships but they were able to destroy the Borg threat once and for all in their universe. The one thing that the Federation could never do was destroy their own Borg threat. Although, the Federation would never conquer other races, just become allies if they could agree on things. According to the Terran Empire, that would be the Federation's downfall.
Captain Jeramine Allensworth sat in his ready room going over battle reports of their latest victory against the Federation, keeping the Federation out of their universe. A mischievous grin spread across his face. It looked like that the Empire would come out of this war victorious.
They had attacked the Utopia Planitia Ship Yards, taken Betazed for a short while as well as Cestus Three that they just lost and they even attacked Earth. He had to admit that their counterparts were persistent and resilient, but the Empire was superior.
His door chimed, bringing his attention to the door. He looked at the door with a scowl as if the door itself was the problem instead of the person on the other side.
"What is it?" He demanded.
The door opened to reveal his first officer, Commander Alex Merriell. Merriell had taken the first officer position from Jason Sparhawk after he assassinated Sparhawk when the, then first officer, dropped his guard in the corridor outside his quarters.
The new first officer walked into the captain's ready room with a padd in his hand. He took a few steps and handed the padd to the captain. The captain took it and looked it over.
"It would appear that our counterparts have obtained a new ship." Allensworth said. "The Alexandria-A, eh? They must be running out of names. Now we can find them and fight them ship to ship. And their own Zofchak and Sato had twins just like ours. Which reminds me, good work on taking care of Doctor Fogelsong, who tried to kill the twins."
"Aside from Commander Zofchak and Commander Sato, I will kill anyone tries to harm their twins." Merriell said.
Allensworth heard a tone in his voice that suggested there was more to it than just being protective of his comrade's offspring. It reminded the captain that Merriell and Nycz were seeing each other when she went on the mission to the other universe to take the place of their Counselor Nycz, who was held on Ceti Alpha Five.
"I take it that our Nycz is still in Federation custody?"
"Yes, sir." Merriell said.
Allensworth could sense the animosity in his first officer because her capture. However, due to her failure, she would be either executed or severely tortured.
"I do plan to get her back, sir."
Allensworth chose not to respond to Merriell's statement. He knew that Merriell would do whatever he pleased, regardless of what his captain ordered him to do.
In Nycz's absence, Ashley Freed has taken over as ship's counselor. The ship's crew seem to fear her more than they did with Nycz. Freed had a habit for throwing crewmembers in the agony booth for even the slightest infraction or dereliction of duties.
Allensworth got up from his chair and walked out onto the bridge with Merriell in tow. The armed guard stationed just outside the ready room, saluted the captain with a fist to the chest and then extending it outward. He did stay aware of Alex's movements so that he didn't fall victim to his first officer's ambitions. Merriell was very good at keeping his ambitions a secret and not showing them. It wasn't until he heard of Sparhawk's death was when he realized that Merriell did have some sort of ambition.
"I'll be in my quarters. You have the bridge, Merriell." The captain said as he walked across the bridge to the turbolift. The armed guard joined the captain in the turbolift.
The turbolift came to a stop a few seconds later, and its doors opened. The guard walked out first with his hand on his phaser just in case that there was someone with enough spine to assassinate the captain. There was no threat and that's when the captain walked out of the turbolift.
He only walked a few meters before stopping at a set of doors. The doors didn't immediately open, which he expected. He entered a few commands into the keypad on the wall next to the door and the door opened. The guard stood outside next to the door as the captain walked into his quarters.
He sat down at a computer terminal and proceeded to do work that he didn't feel like doing work in his ready room.
It was either he was so immersed in his work or that he stopped paying attention to his surroundings, which could be fatal to someone in his position; he didn't even notice the person approaching him from behind. It wasn't until the person put their hands on his shoulders was when he noticed.
He turned around in his chair to see that it was the crewmember he had taken an interest in and chosen to be the captain's woman. Lieutenant Elizabeth Dowler.
Dowler wore her hair down, instead of a pony tail like she normally sported while on duty. She was wearing a very revealing robe, which showed off her purple colored lingerie, not to mention her athletically toned body, that the captain really enjoyed looking at.
"What do you think, you're doing?" She asked while sitting on his lap, more specifically straddling him.
"Trying to come up with a plan to eliminate our other universe counterparts." Allensworth replied.
"Can't you do that while you're on duty in your ready room, not when you're here with me?" She asked in almost a begging voice. She began kissing him and unzipping his uniform jacket. He decided to give in and returned the kisses.
"You're the only person whom I don't mind giving in to." He said as he gripped her firmly and held her as he stood up from his chair. She wrapped her legs around his waist to grip him tighter. They kissed even more intimately as he took her to bed.