Chapter 1
To boldly go…
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Captains log: Tuesday… I found out that I just died… odd, I seem to be quite alive… Typical Nexus after effect… An odd futuristic captain killed me, and I am not too pleased at that, even though I am quite alive right now… which is quite strange I must tell you. I have a very unusual urge to leave this Nexus and to not get murdered this time, not that I'm cynical or anything… I saw the Enterprise-D get destroyed by a Bird of Prey, and I saw how childish their crew reacted. I could do everything better than that phony crew… All I want to do is command again…
Bones got into Kirk's face and asked "What the heck are you doing?"
Kirk blinked… "What just happened?"
Bones, Kirk, Scotty, Spock, Uhura, Checkov, and Sulu blinked… They found themselves on an odd starship… the Enterprise NCC-1701-A
Scotty spoke first… "Well, I'll be darned… I was exploring the galaxy in a shuttle Picard gave me…"
Kirk interrupted… "Picard! He killed me!!!"
"I thought you died in that energy barrier…"
"Well, you're wrong. I was spit out of the barrier to help out Picard, and he let me die… I wasn't exactly regretting my death, being that I couldn't change anything… but I found out that I wasn't dead… I lived on in the Nexus."
Bones chimed in, "What is that Nexus you are talking about? I'm no expert in strange and unusual things, but I'm not 140 anymore! I am, for some reason, a lot younger…"
Everybody noticed that fact… and they blinked…
The communication council beeped, and Uhura reported "Sir, we seem to have a crew… we seem to be ready for normal starship operations… as odd as it may seem, we await your next order…"
"As odd as it may seem, we have a mission ahead of us. A group of arrogant diplomats and panseys have taken our position on an Enterprise designed to impress others with plush carpeting and to woo even more people with an impressive array of phony weaponry. I say we should retake our rightful positions in the galaxy!"
Bones thought for a moment, then stated "Crusher is not a great doctor… has a strange son that is destined to be the most important man in the entire galaxy…"
Scotty continues the rant, "La Forge is an Engineer to do everything by the book and to never impress anybody. Wesley done more impressive things than that forgery did!"
Checkov continues, "My position has been automated by computers and can be handled by a chipmunk. They even have me doing communications!"
Uhura bursts in, "Communications has been eliminated, an absolute outrage to me!"
Sulu comments, "Picard even refuses to drink anything on the bridge, preferring to run to his 'Ready Room' to do so! He is more proficient at reading a book than commanding…"
Spock contemplates, and makes a comment… "Sir, your actions are not logical… however, I feel that it is about time for the universe to add a manned Science Station to the bridge. So, Jim, I guess I'm with you…"
Kirk gives a small smile… "Ok, then with full vengeance, we will get rid of Picard!"
Spock replied, "There is a problem with your plan. The Enterprise-A is no match for the Enterprise-D or Enterprise-E. In fact, I doubt it would even be a challenge…"
"Alas, there must be a way!"
"The Guardian of Forever may be a key link… while we don't need to travel back in time, it does like to answer questions."
"That is the Key Mr. Spock! Set course… for… um…"
Sulu just smiled, "I know where it is, sir. Engaging at Warp 6!"
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Captains Log, supplemental: Yet another day… We are patrolling Starfleet space, responding to distress calls, waiting for missions, reading books… generally waiting for the story to begin. What else would I be doing?
The tactical council beeped… Worf blinked… then snapped out of his temporary daze and stated "Incoming communication from Starfleet, Priority 1…"
Picard replied, "I'll take it in my ready room"
"Sir, they want all bridge crew to see this…"
"Fine, fine, on screen…"
The UFP logo appeared for an instant, and was replaced with an Admiral's image. "Captain Picard, an unidentified anomaly appeared on the Yorktown's sensors during a routine sensor sweep of sector 47-Gamma. It appears that a starship came out of the anomaly and proceeded to the Guardian of Forever."
This concept confused Picard, "The Guardian of Forever?"
"Yes, a critical device to the stability of the universe! No civilized being ever visits the device twice. It has the capability of destroying everything we know. It is quite dangerous. Your orders, stop the starship from reaching the Guardian of Forever. You have full authority to do whatever you want to do in this matter Captain. We trust you fully."
"You should. The Enterprise will succeed sir. I'll contact you back when the mission is complete"
"Coordinates for the Guardian of Forever has been transferred to your ship. Proceed there immediately! Starfleet out."
Wesley Crusher was manning Navigation at this time. Picard ordered "Proceed to those coordinates immediately, Warp 8, Engage!"
Picard started to head to his ready room. "Number One, I would like to see you…". They both entered the captain's ready room.
Picard got some tea, and sat down. "Number One, I have heard of this place before. It has the potential to damage this starship way before we even see it. It can answer any question and do anything. It isn't the nicest device out there, however. Only Captain Kirk has some trust with that machine… but he won't be in the picture…"
Riker was confused. "Kirk died in the Nexus… he has been dead for a while. Why would you…"
"Never mind that Number One. Just get all departments ready for the approach to the Guardian's Planet"
"As you wish…". Number One left and the Captain continued to drink his tea, and he started to read Captain's Dispatch, a digital magazine.
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Captains Log: RED ALERT TIME BABY! Yes sir, we are at Red Alert prior to orbiting the crazy Guardian planet. We are arriving there just about now, so I guess I need to go.
*Crash*
Kirk bounced around in his chair, "REPORT"
Spock replied "We are adjusting our orbit… loading old configuration files…. there, we plotted all displacement waves, we're ok now…"
"How strange, before it took a few orbits to do that."
"The Guardian is not against us being in orbit this time, it seems."
"Well, fine then, let us go visit the Guardian. Spock, Scotty, with me!"
They proceed to the transporter room and beam down. In front of them, the Guardian of Forever.
The Guardian spoke, "Good evening! It has been a while since we talked."
Kirk replied, "We have to reclaim our rightful place in the universe. Our starship is too weak to do so. We need help. Where can we make our ship competitive?"
The Guardian blinked for a bit… then replied, "Why have I been ignored after you visited me? Why does nobody talk to me? I am lonely out here!"
"Starfleet ordered everybody to avoid this world, to avoid talking to you. I had no choice in the matter."
"I know what has happened to you and I know your dilemma. I will not help you but I will tell your starship who will…"
A communicator chirps… Spock responds and then reports "The ship has new coordinates."
Kirk addresses the Guardian, "Thanks for helping us out, Guardian"
"Time and Space have so many paths, so many proofs… you will serve your purpose well… now go…"
"Kirk to Enterprise, 3 to beam up!"
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On the Enterprise D
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Captains Log, supplemental: We are coming near the Guardian's planet and I have a problem. I don't belong here, this is the Enterprise-D! I belong on the E gosh darn it! I read this magazine months ago! I must bring this up with the expert in the field…
Picard comes to the bridge. "Counselor"
"Yes?"
"I am having some strange thoughts, like I belong on another starship, the Enterprise E"
"I am having the same thoughts!"
In fact, everybody spoke up saying the same thing. At this moment, Q appears.
Picard points at Q, "Q! I KNEW IT!!!"
"Tisk Tisk Tisk… I didn't cause this situation. You are correct, you don't belong here. I came to observe your current dilemma. A foe unknown to you as of now has caused your problem. To get out of this situation, you must kill him or he must kill you."
"What sort of silly game is this!? What sort of meaningless double talk is this?!"
"Mon Capitan, this isn't my game, it is his. I'll stop by from time to time to poke fun at you and him…", and thus Q disappeared…
Wesley spoke up, "Captain, we are arriving at the Guardian… a starship is in orbit… the Enterprise-A!"
Picard spoke, "The Enterprise-A?"
Worf replied "Sensors confirm, the Enterprise-A… and she is raising shields…"
"RED ALERT!!!
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Next time on Star Trek Conflicts…
We get to read a longer story! We see a battle of two generations and the wit of insult… What do you mean this isn't the description of the next episode of Jerry Springer? Oh, fine then, tune in and you will see what is next!
To boldly go…
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Captains log: Tuesday… I found out that I just died… odd, I seem to be quite alive… Typical Nexus after effect… An odd futuristic captain killed me, and I am not too pleased at that, even though I am quite alive right now… which is quite strange I must tell you. I have a very unusual urge to leave this Nexus and to not get murdered this time, not that I'm cynical or anything… I saw the Enterprise-D get destroyed by a Bird of Prey, and I saw how childish their crew reacted. I could do everything better than that phony crew… All I want to do is command again…
Bones got into Kirk's face and asked "What the heck are you doing?"
Kirk blinked… "What just happened?"
Bones, Kirk, Scotty, Spock, Uhura, Checkov, and Sulu blinked… They found themselves on an odd starship… the Enterprise NCC-1701-A
Scotty spoke first… "Well, I'll be darned… I was exploring the galaxy in a shuttle Picard gave me…"
Kirk interrupted… "Picard! He killed me!!!"
"I thought you died in that energy barrier…"
"Well, you're wrong. I was spit out of the barrier to help out Picard, and he let me die… I wasn't exactly regretting my death, being that I couldn't change anything… but I found out that I wasn't dead… I lived on in the Nexus."
Bones chimed in, "What is that Nexus you are talking about? I'm no expert in strange and unusual things, but I'm not 140 anymore! I am, for some reason, a lot younger…"
Everybody noticed that fact… and they blinked…
The communication council beeped, and Uhura reported "Sir, we seem to have a crew… we seem to be ready for normal starship operations… as odd as it may seem, we await your next order…"
"As odd as it may seem, we have a mission ahead of us. A group of arrogant diplomats and panseys have taken our position on an Enterprise designed to impress others with plush carpeting and to woo even more people with an impressive array of phony weaponry. I say we should retake our rightful positions in the galaxy!"
Bones thought for a moment, then stated "Crusher is not a great doctor… has a strange son that is destined to be the most important man in the entire galaxy…"
Scotty continues the rant, "La Forge is an Engineer to do everything by the book and to never impress anybody. Wesley done more impressive things than that forgery did!"
Checkov continues, "My position has been automated by computers and can be handled by a chipmunk. They even have me doing communications!"
Uhura bursts in, "Communications has been eliminated, an absolute outrage to me!"
Sulu comments, "Picard even refuses to drink anything on the bridge, preferring to run to his 'Ready Room' to do so! He is more proficient at reading a book than commanding…"
Spock contemplates, and makes a comment… "Sir, your actions are not logical… however, I feel that it is about time for the universe to add a manned Science Station to the bridge. So, Jim, I guess I'm with you…"
Kirk gives a small smile… "Ok, then with full vengeance, we will get rid of Picard!"
Spock replied, "There is a problem with your plan. The Enterprise-A is no match for the Enterprise-D or Enterprise-E. In fact, I doubt it would even be a challenge…"
"Alas, there must be a way!"
"The Guardian of Forever may be a key link… while we don't need to travel back in time, it does like to answer questions."
"That is the Key Mr. Spock! Set course… for… um…"
Sulu just smiled, "I know where it is, sir. Engaging at Warp 6!"
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Captains Log, supplemental: Yet another day… We are patrolling Starfleet space, responding to distress calls, waiting for missions, reading books… generally waiting for the story to begin. What else would I be doing?
The tactical council beeped… Worf blinked… then snapped out of his temporary daze and stated "Incoming communication from Starfleet, Priority 1…"
Picard replied, "I'll take it in my ready room"
"Sir, they want all bridge crew to see this…"
"Fine, fine, on screen…"
The UFP logo appeared for an instant, and was replaced with an Admiral's image. "Captain Picard, an unidentified anomaly appeared on the Yorktown's sensors during a routine sensor sweep of sector 47-Gamma. It appears that a starship came out of the anomaly and proceeded to the Guardian of Forever."
This concept confused Picard, "The Guardian of Forever?"
"Yes, a critical device to the stability of the universe! No civilized being ever visits the device twice. It has the capability of destroying everything we know. It is quite dangerous. Your orders, stop the starship from reaching the Guardian of Forever. You have full authority to do whatever you want to do in this matter Captain. We trust you fully."
"You should. The Enterprise will succeed sir. I'll contact you back when the mission is complete"
"Coordinates for the Guardian of Forever has been transferred to your ship. Proceed there immediately! Starfleet out."
Wesley Crusher was manning Navigation at this time. Picard ordered "Proceed to those coordinates immediately, Warp 8, Engage!"
Picard started to head to his ready room. "Number One, I would like to see you…". They both entered the captain's ready room.
Picard got some tea, and sat down. "Number One, I have heard of this place before. It has the potential to damage this starship way before we even see it. It can answer any question and do anything. It isn't the nicest device out there, however. Only Captain Kirk has some trust with that machine… but he won't be in the picture…"
Riker was confused. "Kirk died in the Nexus… he has been dead for a while. Why would you…"
"Never mind that Number One. Just get all departments ready for the approach to the Guardian's Planet"
"As you wish…". Number One left and the Captain continued to drink his tea, and he started to read Captain's Dispatch, a digital magazine.
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Captains Log: RED ALERT TIME BABY! Yes sir, we are at Red Alert prior to orbiting the crazy Guardian planet. We are arriving there just about now, so I guess I need to go.
*Crash*
Kirk bounced around in his chair, "REPORT"
Spock replied "We are adjusting our orbit… loading old configuration files…. there, we plotted all displacement waves, we're ok now…"
"How strange, before it took a few orbits to do that."
"The Guardian is not against us being in orbit this time, it seems."
"Well, fine then, let us go visit the Guardian. Spock, Scotty, with me!"
They proceed to the transporter room and beam down. In front of them, the Guardian of Forever.
The Guardian spoke, "Good evening! It has been a while since we talked."
Kirk replied, "We have to reclaim our rightful place in the universe. Our starship is too weak to do so. We need help. Where can we make our ship competitive?"
The Guardian blinked for a bit… then replied, "Why have I been ignored after you visited me? Why does nobody talk to me? I am lonely out here!"
"Starfleet ordered everybody to avoid this world, to avoid talking to you. I had no choice in the matter."
"I know what has happened to you and I know your dilemma. I will not help you but I will tell your starship who will…"
A communicator chirps… Spock responds and then reports "The ship has new coordinates."
Kirk addresses the Guardian, "Thanks for helping us out, Guardian"
"Time and Space have so many paths, so many proofs… you will serve your purpose well… now go…"
"Kirk to Enterprise, 3 to beam up!"
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On the Enterprise D
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Captains Log, supplemental: We are coming near the Guardian's planet and I have a problem. I don't belong here, this is the Enterprise-D! I belong on the E gosh darn it! I read this magazine months ago! I must bring this up with the expert in the field…
Picard comes to the bridge. "Counselor"
"Yes?"
"I am having some strange thoughts, like I belong on another starship, the Enterprise E"
"I am having the same thoughts!"
In fact, everybody spoke up saying the same thing. At this moment, Q appears.
Picard points at Q, "Q! I KNEW IT!!!"
"Tisk Tisk Tisk… I didn't cause this situation. You are correct, you don't belong here. I came to observe your current dilemma. A foe unknown to you as of now has caused your problem. To get out of this situation, you must kill him or he must kill you."
"What sort of silly game is this!? What sort of meaningless double talk is this?!"
"Mon Capitan, this isn't my game, it is his. I'll stop by from time to time to poke fun at you and him…", and thus Q disappeared…
Wesley spoke up, "Captain, we are arriving at the Guardian… a starship is in orbit… the Enterprise-A!"
Picard spoke, "The Enterprise-A?"
Worf replied "Sensors confirm, the Enterprise-A… and she is raising shields…"
"RED ALERT!!!
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Next time on Star Trek Conflicts…
We get to read a longer story! We see a battle of two generations and the wit of insult… What do you mean this isn't the description of the next episode of Jerry Springer? Oh, fine then, tune in and you will see what is next!