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Any way, enjoy the story. This is one of my firsts, so you may find a few errors that I missed when editing. :P
"Captains log supplemental stardate 555973.8"
"B'Ellana has reported several minor problems in the warp manifolds but if they are not repaired soon they may cause some major problems. Other than that it has been a, how to put it, dull day. No aliens no sudden attacks and no M-class planets."
Captain Kathryn M. Janeway slumped in her chair on the bridge this is very un-captain like, I should probably stop, but I'm bored she thought. She was bored out of her wits, something very unusual in the Delta Quadrant.
She abruptly said "Commander, you have the bridge. I'll be in my ready room." And she walked to the right of the bridge were her ready room was. There were no reports to look at, a miracle on this ship. Therefore, she was looking for a quick nap, coffee and praying that someone would bring her a report or that they could actually do something other than stare at stars. She almost laughed at herself, wanting to do reports?! She was going insane. However, once inside her ready room and seated on the couch with a cup of hot coffee in her hand,
"Q! What the hell are you doing here!"
"My dear, dear Kathy! Don't you see? I came to see you."
"Last time you came here you dragged my entire ship into your civil war, and you tried to have a child with me!" By this time Captain Janeway was standing up and giving Q her well-known 'Death Glare'. The one she used on unwanted aliens, the Borg and constantly with Tom Paris when he started making dumb jokes or comments on the bridge when she was in a bad mood. And most often she used it on Q. Well at least when he showed up. He was famous for his little visits on the Enterprise and Jean-Luke Picard, its historic captain and intrepid crew. Q had first shown up on Voyager was when Q2 wanted to become mortal and took the entire crew to the beginning of the galaxy. Then Q showed up to take Q2 back to the continuum, she had eventually granted Q2 asylum and Q had to make Q2 mortal. Then he showed up a while later and wanted Janeway to mate with him. He wound up taking her to the continuum were a civil war was taking place. And her crew managed to get into the continuum and rescued the captain and Q. They were bound to posts and about to be shot with Q-weapons, if these could make Q bleed just think what they would do to human flesh. Therefore, she was not to thrilled to see Q in her ready room on her ship. She was sick of his little games
"Janeway to security" no response.
"Kathy, Kathy, Kathy. I told you once I'll tell you again there is no reason for room service"
"Q I am tired of you just popping in and turning our lives upside-down, so just get off my ship and stay off."
"Oh, I see you want me to leave a little note to say when I am going to stop by and see how my favorite captain is doing! Okay!" and in a flash of light, he was gone. Just then her door chimed
"Come!" she said in her standard response to a chime. She had turned her head to the view port "Hello Chakotay"
"How did you know it was me?" she turned her head toward him slightly, he immediately saw that something was wrong. She was not usually that quiet and she just seemed out of it.
"Kathryn, what is wrong?" he asked gently as he walked toward the couch and sat next to her.
"Today hasn't been a boring as I thought" was her quiet answer
"Kathryn?" he inquired
"Q" was all she said and that was all he needed. Suddenly her console beeped at an incoming message, the only problem was that no one on voyager ever used the consoles to communicate. They all talked in person or over the Comm system.
"Who the hell could that be?" said Kathryn as she moved to the console to answer the message. The person had just left what seemed like just a note but it did not say whom from. She opened the message and when she saw the image she just groaned and cursed under her breath but Chakotay still heard her. He did not care though because he was staring at the screen wondering how the hell Q had managed to tap into the systems to send a message to the captain. It was a full minute before she worked up the courage to hit the button to play the message, it said:
"Kathy, I thought I might bring along some friends for you to see, around oh say 1200 hours tomorrow they are some good friends of mine. I believe you know several of them. Good-bye for now my dear Kathy"
"Oh no"
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After a few moments they looked at each other and then she said, "what do you think he means?"
"I think you mean 'who' "
"I mean both."
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She had told the crew to expect Q at noon and that he would be bringing some 'friends' now all they had to do was wait. One of the things she hated most. Everyone was tense and worried about their captain, they knew how she felt about all this and they knew she wanted nothing to do with his little games. Suddenly in a flash of light a wormhole opened right in front of them and they could do nothing about it, another thing the captain hated, being helpless. Then they came to an intersection in the wormhole and another ship came out of one of the paths, they were very close to crashing, too close for Janeway. Voyager was on the left and the other ship was on the right so the captain's ready room window faced the other, larger ship.
"Captain," Harry Kim said, "we can only use communication inside the ship, and the scanners are offline, but transporters and the view screen are still operational"
"We can't transport them onto the ship without knowing their physiology and what type of environment they need" the captain stated "so let's see it on the screen"
After a few moments a large ship appeared on the screen, they could not see the name of the ship but they could make a guess at what the shape of the ship was.
"That looks like a Star Fleet ship, Sovereign class," said the captain thoughtfully "That means the captains ready room would be on the left side of the ship, and we're opposite of them so maybe the captain will note the same thing. Commander, you have the bridge, I'll be in my ready room" Everyone gave her a strange look except Tuvok.
"I believe I see what you mean captain"
With that the captain went to her ready room.
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THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE-E
Jean-Luc Picard was in his ready room with his first officer, Commander William Thomas Riker.
"How do you explain this Number One? This ship next to us, who is the captain? What species are they? Are they a part of the federation? Are they enemies? Where did the wormhole come from? Where will it end? If you can answer any of these questions please enlighten me." The captain was very tense, they had been on an important diplomatic mission when the wormhole had opened right in front of them and they had no choice but to go in. if they didn't the structural integrity field would of collapsed and they would have been crushed.
"Well captain, we know that the ship is federation and it looks like an intrepid class ship, there are only four of those in the fleet and one of them was lost in the Badlands and no one has heard of them in, I think seven or eight years. So they are most likely dead."
"I know that Will. Kathryn Janeway was the captain of that ship, we were friends for I think about five or six years, she was the perfect captain."
"I think I went to the academy with her, infamous for cramming all nigh. But still one of the top cadets in the class."
"I know, she and Beverly were good friends. Will do you see that, over there?" he pointed to the other ship "There is someone in the other ship!"
Both men got up so fast that Will hit his knee on the desk but he didn't care. As soon as they reached the view port the captain's eyes got as round as possible and his mouth was slightly open. Will Riker's mouth was all the way open and he was holding his sore knee with both of his hands and the captain whispered under his breath, "oh my God…"
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VOYAGER, THE READY ROOM
Captain Janeway did not know weather to laugh or to look shocked at the sight in front of her. Her old academy friend, Will Riker, was holding his knee with both hands and his mouth was hanging open farther than she had ever seen, and in the academy he had a big mouth. Then Jean-Luc, an old friend of hers and one of the finest captains in the fleet, with his eyes wider open than anyone's she'd ever seen and his mouth was open just slightly. But she was so shocked to see them in the Delta Quadrant, in a wormhole next to her. Then it hit her, Q. He had made the wormhole in front of both of them and had them go in at the right times so they would be right next do each other:
"Damn…Janeway to Chakotay"
"Chakotay here captain, what do you need?"
"Could you come to my ready room right now"
"On my way, Chakotay out"
The door chimed and she said "come" as soon as he come in he saw her standing in front of the view port with her hands at her side and her shoulders were shaking slightly, he couldn't tell if she was laughing or crying. Even if she were there would be absolutely no reason for her to do either. As he moved closer he saw that she was laughing, then he saw the reason. First, he had the same reaction as Picard then he began to laugh with his captain. It was the oddest sight in the universe, two of the greatest captains in Starfleet, in an emergency standing in the view ports of their respective ready rooms looking at each other with their first officers, the male and the female on the smaller ship laughing. And the two males on the larger ship standing there gaping and one of them holding his sore knee. And both crews wondering what was going on.
Captain Janeway held up a single finger to signal for them to wait a minute and Picard nodded his head slightly then tapped Wills shoulder and they left the room to try and explain Will dislocated patella to Beverly Crusher.
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"Captain? Commander?" Tom Paris was looking at them in an odd way, his two commanding officers had just walked out of the captains ready room grinning and the commander was laughing very quietly.
"I'm sorry Tom. It was just an …interesting site."
"I don't quite follow you captain," The chief engineer, B'Ellana Torres, said.
"Let's see, Starfleets most important captain and most well known first officer standing in the ready room window staring at me like idiots and the first officer was clutching his knee, it looked like his patella was dislocated"
"Do you mind translating that?" Tom Paris asked
"Sorry, the captain is a good friend of mine, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the first officer is another friend of mine and an academy acquaintance, Commander William Tomas Riker."
Harry Kim was the first to speak "so that ship out there is the U.S.S. Enterprise-E"
"Yes"
"Not the U.S.S. Enterprise-A"
"Correct, now B'Ellana I know that normal communications are down, so can you figure out how to send a text only message?"
"I'll get right on it captain"
Now everyone on the bridge had a smile on their face, just the prospect of a friendly face from the Alpha Quadrant was happy enough a thought to keep them happy for weeks, maybe months.
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ON THE ENTERPRISE, IN SICKBAY
"Now Jean-Luc, Will. Tell me again how you managed to dislocate our first officers patella."
"Well…"
"Jean-Luc, are you all right? You look a bit nervous."
"Beverly, you are not going to believe a word of this but I swear it is all true. That ship next to us. Has been lost in the Delta Quadrant for seven years and I saw the captain, Kathryn, I told you about her. She was laughing at me!"
"Captain, Kathryn Janeway is the only woman in all four quadrants who would laugh at anything like that." His tone was obviously sarcastic.
"Good point, Number One" The captain was nearly rolling his eyes.
"Data to Picard"
"Picard here, what is it Data?"
"There is an incoming message for you captain"
"What? I thought that we could not transmit or receive any messages."
"I do not know how sir, all I know is that you have a message"
"All right, patch it through to Sick Bay"
"Aye, aye sir, Data out"
"It is a text only message"
" Nice posture Jean-Luc, it was quite a show. Have you had any visits from Q? He has decided to play a few pranks on me, I will tell you later. Our transporters are still functional so I am planning to transport you and anyone you want to bring along from Transporter Room 1 on the
Enterprise in exactly one hour. I will see you then.Captain Kathryn Janeway"
"Well I'll be damned," said Will Riker "that is the most resourceful woman I have ever met"
"I know Number One, what other person would have thought to send a text only message, let alone find a way to send it without destroying both ships. Will, Beverly you will come with me to voyager, Picard to Data"
"Data here captain"
"Data, meet me in transporter room one in 45 minutes"
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ONE HOUR LATTER IN TRANSPORTER ROOM ONE, VOYAGER
"There are four life signs in there transporter room, captain," Harry Kim reported to Captain Janeway.
"Beam them aboard Harry, Jean-Luc! It is good to see you"
"It's good to see you to, Kathryn." He smiled.
"Will, is your knee all right? It looked a bit sore, and for you it would have to hurt quite a bit for you to be holding it like you were."
Everyone was grinning; the captain was almost laughing. Her entire senior staff was in the room and it was a bit cramped.
"Actually he managed to dislocate his patella, he never did tell me the whole story…" Beverly Crusher said.
"He hit it on the desk he was in such a hurry to get to the window, Jean-Luc was a few centimeters from doing the same thing" She paused for a few moments, "Judging from your expression you don't quite believe me." She speculated "Trust me Beverly, I have a clear view from my ready room." Just then Neelix piped up,
"Are we going to stand here the rest of the day or do you want a tour of the ship?" and grinning the voyager senior staff showed them the ship.
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