Hello. I'm new here, well not new to FFN but new to the whole crossover thing, not to mention the Star Trek fanfiction thing. For a while I've been tempted to write Star Trek fanfiction but it always seemed a bit out of my league.
Well, okay on with the story.
Prologue
First Contact
"Make it so."
Jean-Luc Picard
"Make it so," Picard thought about the phrase. "Make it so."
"Captain?" the new helmsman asked. Well actually she was a helmswoman, but…
"Yes Lieutenant Seven?" he asked back.
Seven of Nine looked back at him with a raised eyebrow, "Admiral Janeway never speaks with herself."
Worf winked at his captain, Seven was so much like Data. And yet much more appeasing, Worf thought.
Picard just smiled to himself, had Commander Worf just winked? Was it possible for a Klingon to wink? He sighed; it was one long boring day. The nebula they where charting was nothing new, in fact Picard had been to so many 'new nebula's' that he wondered as to whether he could ever be interested in them again.
Not that he didn't enjoy a peaceful moment when he had one. The whole affair with Shinzon had been tiring, exhausting. When had it ever been easy to lose a friend?
Worst of all had been training the new First Officer, Martin Madden, what a name! Well, here he was, sitting on the bridge of yet another Enterprise with nothing to do.
So he let his mind wonder about. The nebula was called Graysha if he remembered correctly.
What he wouldn't give for Riker and Troy! Or Data, or Beverly. How many of his old crew had left him?
He supposed that all captains went through a phase like this. Surly at one point in his career even Captain Kirk must have been bored out of his mind?
"Captain?" Seven said again, "I am picking up a ship on sensors."
Picard jerked himself awake. "Is it anyone we should know?"
Seven raised an eyebrow and said "I am not able to match its hull configuration with any ship in the records."
"On screen" Picard ordered. "Magnify."
The ship that appeared was, well, it was….
"It's an umbrella!" Commander Madden cried.
Picard turned to glare at Madden, but to be honest it did look like an umbrella.
This umbrella-shaped craft was enormous. The main saucer-shaped section was maybe half a mile across, with a clear dome covering a park over the centre.
The "stem" section had what appeared to be drive engines and weapons. The long narrow stem connected the dome at one end and the 'bridge' at the other.
"Hail the…the…the ship," Picard said.
Instantly the screen switched to the face of an alien like nothing Picard had ever seen. It had a humanoid face, and yet the features reminded him of a deer. Its eyes were large and an electric green.
The ears stood out like that of a deer's. Sprouting from the top of its head were antenna, much like an Andorians except that in the top of those antenna where eyes. Yes, eyes.
The creature, or alien, was covered in what appeared to be blue and tanned fur.
Though as to whether the fur covered its entire body, Picard knew not. All he could see of the creature, or alien, whatever, was its shoulders and head.
Another rather disturbing thing was that this alien had no mouth. None. All it had was three small vertical slits that he assumed was a nose. It was defiantly feminine. Picard had not spoken with dozens of alien races not know what gender a creature was.
"Hello, ma'am. I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise," Picard put on his best diplomatic smile.
The alien narrowed 'her' eyes. (I am Captain-Prince Sofor-Litarouth-Gahar of the Andalite domeship Aximili.)
Picard swallowed; the 'voice' had been male. He felt the amused eyes of Madden staring at him, "We are explorers. I would be honoured to have you aboard our ship so we can learn about each other's peoples, Captain Sofor."
Captain Sofor simply stared back at Picard, (I believe that would be an interesting idea, Captain. Perhaps we will be able to talk about how one recognises a gender?)
Picard refused to acknowledge the hidden insult and smiled, "If you would like to beam over I'm sure that Commander Madden would be pleased to come and greet you. We're transmitting the co-ordinates as I speak."
The Andalite bowed its head and smiled, with just its eyes, obviously as he had no mouth, (Until we meet in person.)
The screen went blank. Madden looked at Picard, "Surly not … me sir?"
Picard got up and smiled at the young commander, "Why yes, Commander Madden, this is no different than any other first contact."
"But sir," Madden pleaded. "He wasn't wearing any clothes!"
Picard smiled, "From what you saw."
"From what I saw. Yes, sir," Madden replied.
The Captain just continued to smile at poor shaking Madden and said, "Just put on your best poker face, Commander Madden."
There we are. Now I realise that this is short but it's just a short preview into the actual story, please REVIEW and tell me what you think.