Captain Trip Tucker stood behind the navigator on the bridge of the Enterprise. The ship was taking a beating from the Xindi. The Intrepid had just lost its port nacelle and was backing off. It was now just the Enterprise and the Neptune class ship. He wasn't sure if they were going to get out of this one. A beeping came from tactical.
"Our forward shields are collapsing." Reed said.
Tucker really didn't want to hear that. Then a beeping came from his left at Hoshi's station.
"Hull breaches on B deck. C deck." Hoshi called not looking away from her station.
Then, another set of beeping filled the havoc filled bridge.
"They're targeting the bridge." Reed said with urgency.
Hoshi looked over to Reed then to Trip with a very concerned look on her face hoping that the readings were wrong. Trip had to think fast to try and avoid the bridge being destroyed.
"Hard to port." Trip ordered.
Once again, another set of beeps sounded.
"Sir, there's another ship coming in." Reed said. "It's…it's…I don't know. It says the ship is called Alexandria."
The bridge crew of the NX-01 watched as the giant Sovereign class Alexandria swooped into the scene.
"Lock phasers on the Xindi ships and fire." Allensworth ordered.
The two ends of the phaser array glowed and moved towards each other and fired once they met. The Insectoid Xindi ship had no chance to survive. After three seconds of being hit with the Type 12 phaser beam the ship exploded. The Reptilian Xindi ship came in and fired across its bow, the Xindi's weapons did little to no damage against the starship's shields.
"Fire photon torpedoes."
The Alexandria fired three photon torpedoes from its aft launcher on its saucer section. Two of the torpedoes struck the ship sending it spiraling out of control.
"The Reptilian Xindi ship is disabled, sir." Fulks said. "The other Xindi ships are moving off."
"Hail the Enterprise, Mr. Merriell."
Merriell pressed a few buttons and to Allensworth's surprise, he saw Trip Tucker instead of Jonathan Archer. He had no idea what was going on why the Enterprise was fighting the Xindi and why Tucker was in charge of the Enterprise. History never recorded a battle in this area. Guess there was time for questions later.
"This is Captain Jermaine Allensworth of the Federation Starship Alexandria. Can we be of assistance?"
Captain's Log: Supplemental. Due to an anomalyin the Mirai sector, we've ended up in the past and in a time that never happened according to history. A time where Earth was destroyed, six thousand humans remain of the species, the Enterprise NX-01 was in a battle with the Xindi and Charles Trip Tucker was in command instead of Jonathan Archer. We've invited the command crew to beam over and talk with us about what has changed. It would appear that both sides will have to explain how they've ended up here.
Allensworth stood up from his seat at the head of the filled for once conference table. The guests from the Enterprise had taken up six of the seats leaving the other six to be filled by Allensworth, Sparhawk, Merriell, Nycz, Plumley and Zofchak. Fulks was left standing.
"So, you're telling me that the Xindi destroyed Earth and all that is left of humanity is in this system?"
Trip nodded his head. "That's correct, Captain."
"So what happened that caused Captain Archer to be relieved of command?" Allensworth asked.
"Twelve years ago," T'Pol began. "Captain Archer suffered an injury from a spatial anomaly that affected his hippocampus and was unable to form long term memories. I was then put in command of the Enterprise. I stepped down from my commission and Captain Tucker took over."
Allensworth thought about the information he was just given for a moment as Zofchak spoke up.
"History records different events from your voyages. It was mentioned that a spatial anomaly did slide through Enterprise but Captain Archer only suffered a concussion."
"Captain Archer," Allensworth said. "I'd like you to see Dr. Plumley to undergo some brain scans."
"Actually, Captain." Phlox said. "We've figured out how to get rid of these parasites. These parasites reside outside time and space and we've already performed part of the procedure and according to our scans, the parasites we eliminated only hours ago disappeared from the scans that I took twelve years ago. I'd like to finish the procedure."
"Certainly. Do whatever it takes. If there is any thing you need on this ship, our facilities are open to you."
Phlox nodded in thanks with his non Denobulan smile.
"That answers the question in why the change in the timeline but we still don't have an answer for why we were sent here instead of into the past."
"I have a theory, sir." Zofchak said. "It could be similar to when Captain Kirk and his crew entered the parallel universe."
"Can you explain more on that?"
"I think maybe due to the destruction of multiple varied warp drives in combination with the Omega molecule. We don't know the full capacity of the Omega molecule other than if it explodes in an area, starships cannot maintain a stable warp field. It had an effect on that region of space and sent us into a parallel universe where Captain Archer was relieved of command."
"But why here and now?" Sparhawk asked.
"That's the tricky part of these types of things," Zofchak said. "Kirk and his crew beamed up through an ion storm and ended up in a parallel universe. Us being sent to this time could just be by chance similar to the time Captain Sisko and two members of his crew were sent back to the early twenty-first century during the Bell Riots."
"Yes but the location was the same," Merriell said. "They were beaming to San Francisco and they arrived there but not in the right time. The time may have been random but their location was still the same. We were in the Gamma Quadrant and now we're back in the Alpha Quadrant and in the twenty-second century and not to mention in another universe where humanity is damn near extinct."
"Voyager ended up in the twenty-first century due to a temporal rift. They went from the Delta Quadrant to Earth. I think we were just at the whim of the anomaly and thrown here at random.
"Yeah I remember that event," Allensworth said. "Captain Braxton was sent to the middle of the 20th century while we were thrown to the end of the century. No real explanation why we were sent to those particular times." The captain sat back in his chair; not having a definite answer really bugged him. "Captain Tucker, what is the status of your ship? Judging by the look of the outer hull, it looks like you could use some help repairing the ship."
Trip nodded. "We appreciate any help you can muster."
Allensworth turned to his officers. "Commander, I want you to send some engineering teams over to the NX-01 and assist them with repairs. Doctor Plumley, I want you to help their medical staff with their wounded. They took quite a beating so I'm sure they have a lot."
"It may be better to beam their wounded to the Alexandria. Our sickbay can hold more patients and we have a bigger medical staff than that of the standard NX class complement."
"Very well," Allensworth said. "Dismissed."
