The following was my attempt at Fan Fiction. I HAD the brilliant idea to merge the universe Star Trek and BSG 2.0. Due to the ever changing plot in BSG 2.0 I had to sit back and wait until the show ran its course. Well It did... and the way the Series of 2.0 ended my feeble attempt was now useless to finish. Rather than let it sit and take up space on the hard drive or flush it through the recycle bin, I felt I should let the short unfinished story be read. So in the words of The Joker played by the late Heath Ledger, And.. Here.. We..... Go......

This story is dedicated to my late friend Pam Farmer Fox.

A Forward By The Author

First of all let me say, I am not so much a fan of either series that I know who every character is or what happened to everyone in each time line. I chose some characters from each series line that I, myself, liked. I made new characters to fit in where a new face was needed. But for a true fan I did do some research to make you happy. I have dropped subtle hints to the backgrounds of both new Federation and Galactica characters. I did take some liberty also. Thats what makes the genre of science fiction so great. If there is something you didn't like about how a story line goes or ends. You sit down and write a story to change it. My case in point, William Shatner. He was not very happy with the way the writers, producers, and directors killed off Captain Kirk. So how did he change it? He continued the story and ended the story on his terms.

Thats all I have done. The fifth story of the Federation just ended and Galatica has a very promising story line with the new series. In the second story line Galatica did find earth, in the then modern day 1980. That would make this story not work, so that story line is out. I chose the New & Original Series lines because the hope of finding Earth was for safe refuge and protection from the Cylons. Plus it opens up possibilities of explanations. Now that I had the idea of in my mind the Galatica finding Earth. How was I going to make it a safe finding where in their story line Earth was a safe haven? The storyline of Star Trek would have to be the most feasible.

Now which Star Trek incarnation? Enterprise? Nope that would conflict every line out there. Original Series, please. I don't even want to go there. DS9, Never really liked that story line although the rag tag fugitive fleet being saved by the Defiant and escaping through the worm hole would have been cool. That would have made for a good fifty two minute episode. OK, the Voyager storyline, now we are getting there. Janeway bumping into the fleet and guiding them home from the Delta Quadrant while being chased by the Cylons? Cool idea but Voayger made it home and no fleet came with them. So that leaves The Next Generation, now there is an evolving storyline I could work with. The Famed Enterprise saving the day. Picard has retired now to run the family winery. Riker as captain? We all liked the idea but come on, Data is gone, Geordi is now a admiral and in charge of Starfleets design and construction. Who would be captain? That left me totally perplexed on how to make this story happen.

Enter an old friend who is nearly the epitome of all things scifi. He showed me one day something he picked up at one of the cons he attended. It was this fan film slash non-movie trailer. The idea of that movie just simmered in my brain. What a fantastic idea. It always made me wonder what ever happened to this or that character after a movie ended. What did they do next? But that was as far as it went. For some crazy reason one day while I was sitting at my computer working on my eBay, yes eBay, the Wal-Mart bane of the internet. But hey this place you can make money instead of just spending it. OK sorry I digress, This film popped into my head so a did a search about it. It was listed! So now it is downloaded on my hard drive, and viewed occasionally.

Well rule one that is broken quite often in my house is NO KIDS ON MY COMPUTER. One day I came home frazzled to the gills about my job and my son was on the computer. He promptly did a quick slip and cleared the area. My first instinct was to make a new password but was not sure what the steps were, sooo I went to my handy list of things to do and neat ideas on the computer to find the steps. There was this one thing that literally jumped of the screen. It was THIS idea. I pondered a few minutes and gave up as usual. So as I settled down from the day and relax I click over to something to watch on the computer that will take my mind off the day and that nagging story banging around in my skull.

What did I watch? Grayson, the greatest non movie trailer ever made, I closed my eyes and listened to the little movie play. My TV in the office is usually always on and on SciFi Channel (now called SyFy). The teaser for the new Galatica series came on and it must have sounded like the iceberg scraping the Titanic in my head when the gears started stripping and reversing. THERE WAS HOW IT COULD BE DONE! Yet it in my storyline it's not a few weeks, a few months, or even a few years. For the Star Trek TNG line it is twenty five to thirty years into the future, for the Galatica line it is almost fifty years into the future. Of course there would have to be a new ship, and I did like the Voyager theme.

Second, This is my first attempt at writing anything longer than an quick email, a ten minute instant message session with some old friend from high school, or even a posting on a message board. So please be gentle, just sit back enjoy the story and escape.

Now for some closing thoughts and a thank you or two. This story is for everyone like me who wonders as they walk out a theater what ever happened to the hero now that the world has been saved. Does he walk up to people on the streets and introduce himself as the guy who saved the world? You know two weeks after the interviews stop he is gotta be bored out of his gourd.

I would like to thank Gene Roddenberry for allowing us to boldly go where no man has gone before. To Glen Larson for the many years of great television. To Ron Moore for a wonderful re-visioning of the franchise. To William Shatner for ending the story on your terms not theirs. To John Fiorella for Grayson and the "making of" film to compliment it. It gave me the missing link to make this story happen. And last but not least Jeff Stringer for that one impulse purchase that started driving this idea to the point of it actually happening.

Joe McKeel - Author (What a cool title to have after your name)