STAR WARS-to-STAR TREK
By: Dan Bivens
"THE IMPOSSIBLE POWER"
PROLOGUE
A mere moment ago, two humanoids, one troubled Terran and one re-realized Deltan, merged in order to rapidly reach a new plane of elevated existence.
A mere moment ago, a celebrated bridge crew in a refitted Constitution-class starship bore wordless witness to such a cosmic "birth".
A mere moment ago, the tremendous expenditure of energy reached far into the intergalactic void…dark and destitute with no assemblage of stars to light its incredibly broad expanse.
An expanse of Nothingness that held sway between the Milky Way galaxy and one that was far, far away…
Where, much more than a mere moment ago, a Sith Lord had been, evidently, destroyed along with his vessel. One named Darth Nihilus. The other basically called the RAVAGER.
In a distant time and place so unbelievably vast, via many millions of light-years, currently referenced, as far as Galactic Time was cosmically concerned, as 3,951 BBY…
Whereupon, trapped in a perfect pyramid-shaped holocron, designed to withstand the stress of Space as well as the overwhelmingly long stretch of Time, would inevitably "leave". But by a means none could comprehend or properly explicate, into the dark depths of starless space separating one spiral galaxy from another Lo, those many millions of light-years distant.
Until, eventually, it came close enough, by a factor of Time billions of years later, to somehow sense the incomparably powerful expenditure of energies that had signaled the aforementioned cosmic "birth" of a New Entity. Where, previously, had physically existed two.
One a Human named Commander Willard "Will" Decker, briefly referenced as the commanding officer, Captain Decker, of the recently refitted USS ENTERPRISE.
One the perfectly produced probe, via V'Ger, the Living Machine menacing all of Earth, containing everything, especially emotionality and memory, once constituting a Lieutenant called Ilia.
Two transformed into One. Creating a ripple effect in The Force felt far, far away by what remained of a Sith Lord's essence, in the high-tech heart of his pyramid-shaped holocron, secretly seeking such in order to restore himself into something especially physical once again.
Into the self-same humanoid dressed so darkly with red-and-white mask ostensibly hiding a humanoid countenance, according to Kreia eons earlier in that far, far away swirl of several hundred billions of stars and untold trillions of populated planets. Yet whose soul was as dark and dismal as the starless space through which his holocron had drifted for billions of slowly passing years.
Billions of years that saw not only the rise of sentience upon a planet located in the arms of a spiral galaxy…but the birth and growth of the United Federation of Planets. And, most especially, a collection of Starfleet officers of heroic proportions all serving on the starship ENTERPRISE.
And, now, having reveled in the brief-but-robust burst of Force-rippling power, the Sith suffused holocron brought to very real physicality a vessel and an individual: the RAVAGER, with but a singularly super-powerful personage. One whose Self was ten-times stronger than any he had been billions of years prior to his supposed demise at the Battle of Telos IV…
Darth Nihilus lived!
END OF PROLOGUE