STAR TREK

"NEW POWER"

The adventures of the USSc Shake

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An epic storie about the new powerfull Starship Carrier. Join Captain Christ van Silfhout and his Crew on their journey into the unknown future of the United Federation of Planets after the Dominion War and the return of Voyager.

(c)2002 Deuzige Shake.

Startrek, the startrek universe and everything in it is (c) Paramount Inc. This includes the characters Ezri Dax and Quark used in this storie.

All other characters, the vessel USS Shake and all it carries are not (c) Paramount. I created them myself.

Chapter 1: Arriving at DS9.

The space station around which much of the Dominion War was fought.

Commander Christ van Silfhout stepped off the Transporter pad. He'd just beamed down to the spacestation from "his" ship to be reassigned. He tapped his communicator "van Silfhout to Neanderthall, thank you leutenant commander. You are now in command, take her home Jack" He said. "Thank you commander for keeping us all alive" a voice replied from the communicator "Neanderthall out".

With a sad feeling coming over him he looked around the transporter room. Except for the engeneer working the transporter controls noone was there. "Welcome to deep Space 9" the engineer said. "You're expected in briefing room 5 for a meeting with Admiral Gabber in 2 hours, commander van Silfhout.". "Thank you Leutenant, I'll be there." Christ said as he left the room.

He went to the stations bar, the famous "Quark's" and ordered a Wodka Redbull. After the young bajorran woman working the bar gave him the drink he looked around and sat down at an empty table near the dartboard. There his thoughts drifted away and Christ went back through the past months in thought.

The Uss Neanderthall had been on a mission to identify, analise and neutralize any remaining Jem Hadar resistance there might have remained. The went into Breen Space, as that part of space had not been entered by any Federation vessel since the end of the war. It should have been a routine mission. It wasn't.

The Uss Neanderthall found some tetracil white production fascillities, no longer running ofcourse. Nothing odd really. Until they found a Romulan Armada heading for Federation Space. Since that discovery, the crew had fought space battle after space battle just to stay alive and make it back to Federation space. Only half the crew had survived and one of the casualties had been the captain, one and a half months ago. Since than Christ had been acting captain.

They were able to inform Starfleet who intervened, diplomatically, by letting the Romulans know Starfleet was aware of their Armada and had sent her own to meet them. The Romulans knew and aborted the invasion. A few warbirds continued to persue the Neanderthall as long as they could.

Christ'd been first officer ever since the Neanderthalls refit, at the beginning of the Dominion war. It had been fitted with an illegal Klingon cloaking device, and with an extra 6 torpedo tubes 3 phaserbanks and new shields. By the time they made it back from enemy space, the only thing the Neanderthall was able to do was run! It's engines, lifesupport and navigation were the only systems aboard operating. It was enough though.

Christ would have brought the ship all the way back to spacedock to be repaired and recrewed but Starfleet wouldn't let him. They had reassigned him to a new ship. Back to first officer he thought.

As he was thinking he never noticed the young trill coming up to his table and sitting down. "I've never seen anyone this deep in thought" she opened. Startled Christ looked up. The sight he saw did not improve his reactional skills. He couldn't utter a word or move a muscle as he looked into a set of beutifull innocent sweet blue eyes.

She sure is a stunner!

He looked at the rest of the face to find it was equally beautifull and innocent looking. After a 20 second pause he finally replied "Err...I'm sorry... I never noticed you... I err... wouw... eeeh err... I am commander Christ van Silfhout, nice to meet you..." he stumbled. A reddish blush appeared on the young trills face as her 9 past lives's experiences told her the reason for his stumbling: He had a crush on her. "Nice to meet you to commander. My name is..."

"the famous Ezri Dax, Joined Trill, former host Jadzia Dax... The FAMOUS Jadzia Dax." Christ finished. "I've seen Jake Sisko's reports and the Starfleet journals. I've admired the stories that Jake Sisko wrote about you, and the rest of the DS9 crew." He said. Then another famous face appeared

"Well, than you must have heard about my heroics as well" a ferrengi asked.

"Ofcourse he has, don't worry Quark, you're just as famous as I am isn't he?" Ezri asked Christ. He noticed the blink she gave him and said "Quark? Wasn't that the greedy, clumsy, desceptive, sneaky, criminal Ferrengi? The one that owned the bar?" He asked quark, trying not to show he was joking and keeping a frowned face. A shocked looked appeared on the ferrengi face.

"WHAT?! IS THAT WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ME IN THE FEDERATION MEDIA?! I HAVE RISKED MY LIFE AND FORTUNE ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION AND THEY CALL ME A CRIMINAL?! I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I AM AN HONOUST BUSINESS MAN AND I HAVE..." Quark yelled In virtual rage. Christ interrupted him before Quark could get really angry and say things they'd all regret. With a big smile on his face Christ said:

"Hold on hold on... I was kidding, relax. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to upset you. The Federation media actually were quite praising when it came to you. And so they should, If what they write is true.

Not only is your brother the inventor of the selfreplicating mines that kept Dominion reinforcements out of the Alpha Quadrant long enough for the federation to survive, but you were part of the resistance on the station during the dominion occupation. You saved your Grand Nagus on several occasions and led the, to my knowledge first and only Ferrengi Commando force ever into Dominion controlled territory and resqued the Nagus's woman. You're also accredited with being the inspiration for your nephew to become the first Ferrengi to attend Starfleet academy"

"Err... Yes... Oh... Well..." Quark stumbled as he realized he'd been had, and Christ even thought he could see the Ferrengi blush.

Quark's thoughts were not really happy though. The extent of the knowledge this humaan had about the things that had happened to Quark the past years had surprised him. He thought his name must have been mentioned somewhere, but this ment that Jake had received a lot more details from Nog and Rom than he'd been comfortable with.

The fact that they had made him out to be a hero made Quark even more uncomfortable. He was so used to be made to look like the bad guy that he was very comfortable in that role. "Well Don't you forget it!" he stated as firm as he could to Christ and turned his attention to Ezri.

"What can I get you today?" he asked her. "Raktajino... no wait... Synthale... no, tea, or maybe a cola? Oh, I don't know, since I've been joined I haven't been able to make up my mind about anything! Well, I guess I don't want anything right now" She decided. Quark rolled up his eyes and let out a sigh. "I hope you someday will be able to make up your mind again" Quark replied and skipped off to serve someone else.

"Well, you must be on the same ship I am." Ezri suddenly said to Christ. "Why do you say that?" Christ asked. "Well, youre due for the same meeting I am, where I'll be informed of my new assignment. I suppose so will you." She simply replied.

The two officers talked some more, enjoying their conversation, until it was time to go to the meeting room.