Star Trek Voyager:

Homestead Series

Series 1

Episode 2

Macrocosm

Authors Note: All Star Trek rights belong to Paramount and CBS. This takes place during the Season 3 Episode Macrocosm. This is an Alternate Universe story.

Captains Log Stardate 50425.1

Mr. Neelix, Markus, and I have completed our 3 day trade mission with the Tak Tak. One of the more….unusual species we've encountered in the Delta Quadrant. We are on Route back to Voyager.

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I laid in the back, yawning as I sat up. Neelix handing me a fresh cup of replicated coffee. Captain Janeway was at the helm of the shuttle. I rubbed my neck and stood, stretching, as I heard a few bones crack.

"I've always been taught to be tolerant of other cultures or points of view" Began Janeway "But I have to say, the Tak Tak are the most unforgiving people I ever met."

I agreed. They were off, however they did have a different style of communication. I slid up between the two, sitting down

"They are a little impatient" Neelix said under his breath

"Impatient?" I said, sipping another gulp of fresh coffee "That's an understatement."

"They make the Klingong's look sedate" the captain said.

She always made references to the species back in the Alpha Quadrant, some I never even heard of. They tired to get me up to date on a lot of things, but I mostly spent the past month learning about voyager and its crew. I thought it best to not know a lot of information about the future. The captain agreed.

"I may never put my hands on my hips again" Janeway said as she corrected course.

The only reason I came on this mission was because the captain thought it best to get to know diplomatic opportunities. Learn about human culture in the future. What ever it may be, I didn't exactly enjoy this.

"Captain you had no way of knowing you were making the worst insults possible" Neelix said.

"Well it's a good thing you were there Mr. Neelix" she said, smiling. "I might have been shot at dawn."

"Or Dusk, seeing as how they view things so differently" I said.

We all chuckled a bit

"You know," Captain began "I have studied Chromolinguistics, ASL, the gestural Idioms of the Laron, and I couldn't get the hand of the Tak Tak."

"Trust me" I said " I've seen a lot of things back in my own time, and nothing compared to that display"

"It seemed a lot more than just a language" Neelix Began "A lot of their gestures from what I could tell, were ritualistic. And you might even say superstitious."

"You have a genuine flare for Diplomacy Mr. Neelix" the Captain began. "I may have to promote you from Morale officer to Ambassador. With all the species were going to meet, I could use a man like you at the front door."

"I can see that" I said, laying back, rubbing my eyes as I stared at the ceiling.

"You two Markus" she said "Not only did Mr. Neelix help out but once I offended them, you stood in and helped calm the situation down. With what ever moves you were doing"

She laughed

I gave a small chuckle "To be honest, I was just making up random moves. Trying to imitate them. 21st century instincts I guess.

"Ambassador Neelix, I like the sound of that" He said, as he stroked his beard.

Beep Beep Beep Beep

"Were approaching the rendezvous coordinates." Neelix said.

"Dropping to one quarter impulse" I stated from my station, hovering to the side of the captain.

"Voyagers not there" she stated.

"There not responding to long range hails" I said. For the past month I had been briefed on many different protocols and how to use the technology that they had. This was too easy, at least I found it was, to hail ships.

"Running long range scan" she said "There they are."

"There….." I began to look over the long range sensors "There holding position in Sector 38. Coordinates 121 mark 6.

"That's over a light year away from here" Neelix said under his breath.

"The ships appears to be adrift, they could be in trouble" she said

"Hailing them" I said.

"Engaging Max Warp" she said "Any luck?"

"Voyager respond" I repeated. I turned to her "Nothing ma'am"

"The ships looks absolutely fine." Neelix stated. "No sign of external damage."

"Life signs?" she said

"There appears to be some sort of interference" I said. I allowed her to look as she turned

"Bio-Electric" she stated "We wont be able to get clear readings. What about the escape pods?

I pressed a few more of the buttons on the consol. Analyzing the readings

"All in tact, not one is gone" I said "I checked the transporter activity, none that I can see that's recent"

"Grab a phaser" she said "Were going in"

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[Cue Intro Theme]

Star Trek Voyager

Homestead

Series 1

Captain Katherine Janeway

Commander Chakotay

Lieutenant Tuvock.

Ensign Harry Kim

Lieutenant Tom Paris

Lieutenant Belana Torres

Neelix

Kes

Markus Toren

Episode 2

Macrocosm

{End Intro}

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We left the shuttle bay with a Tricorder in one hand and a Phaser in the other. We looked both ways, no sign of the crew yet.

"Still no sign of the crew" the captain responded, while gazing at her Tricorder "But these sensor readings are erratic. The Bio-Electric field is permeating the ship."

"Where's it coming from?" Neelix said, giving me a worried look.

"I cant localize it" she said, walking to a wall consol. "Lets try accessing the ships internal sensors. See if we can get a better reading"

I walked a bit away, glancing down the corridor. I stayed put. A duty of a security officer was to protect the higher ranked officers. This case, both the Captain and the "Ambassador" were higher than my rank.

She tapped on the consol, hearing a few more consecutive beeps.

"Same Problem" she responded "Main Computer is off line, and so is the comm."

She glanced further, noticing something.

"This is strange" she said "One of the Bio-neural gel packs in the mess hall ruptured. Most of the systems seem to be functioning normally. Lets get to the bridge."

"Captain" I said, walking a bit towards them again "Ill head to the weapons lockers. If something is going on, were going to need bigger weapons"

"Be careful" she said.

"Don't worry" I said "If its anything I haven't seen, I wont be affected"

I smiled and walked off, leading down a few corridors.

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I ended up near one of the security offices, pushing the door wide open. I found a few of the storage lockers were open, some of the bigger rifles were gone. I grabbed the last one that was left and walked out, hearing a loud humming sound. Or was it Buzzing.

I walked towards the sound. It reminded me of a horror movie I once watched. Attack of the killer bees. The humming grew closer and I turned facing a floating creature. It looked like a large bug. It soon turned around and floated near me. I picked up the Phaser rifle and fired, at the same time it released a sticky green goo. At is fell to the ground dead, the good hit the Temporal shield and turned into steam

"What the hell?" I glanced down, kicking the creature a bit. I tapped the badge on my left chest "Captain I…"

I forgot, the communication system is down. I sighed and grabbed the creature. Walking. Maybe the doctor's program is still up. I headed for a nearby Jeffrey's tube. I opened the hatch and began to crawl. I took off my jacket and used it as a rope to carry the creature. I heard a loud scream echoing from the tubes. I quickly made my way to a hatch and found nothing but a large pile of green goo.

This was just turning out to be a bad day. First the Tak Tak, now this. I made my way to Deck 4 easily. I met a few more of these bugs along the way. I managed to open the door to Sick bay before the Doctor tried to hypospray me

"Markus!" he responded "Your back!"

"Yeah, along with Neelix and the Captain." I managed to re close the doors and lay down, back against the door

"What…..what is going on? Where is everyone?" I said

"They all have been infected by the Macro Virus" he responded

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Not too soon, the Captain managed her way back to Sick Bay. After explaining the situation and the back story of the Doctors day of Infamy, we needed to come up with a plan.

"So, we need to get to Deck 12, Environment Control, and distribute this…Vaccine through Gaseous form?" I responded.

"Easier Said than done" the Doctor stated "But we will run into the same problem I faced when I tried to get to the mess hall."

"Not if we can stop it" the Captain stated "Markus, head to the Bridge, Once I get Environment Controls online and the vaccine through the systems, ill need you to bypass the security locks and prevents the systems from analyzing the vaccine as some poison."

"Go it" I stated, setting the phaser rifle to kill. "You sure you don't need back up?"

"Trust me" she said "I've got this. Doctor your with me. We split up, take two ways. If you get there first, ill take your through repairs"

"I'm a doctor, not a commando" he said "Cant Markus help you? And I go to the bridge?"

"sorry Doc" I said "I would be able to input the security codes a lot faster."

With that, I left, taking an earlier lead to the bridge as the Captain and the Doctor prepare the canisters of the gaseous vaccine. I managed to get to the bridge in time, I immediately began repairing the comm. system.

"Captain, can you hear me?" I stated "Doctor, you there?"

"I'm here" Repeated the doctor "My mobile emitter was damaged by a Macro Virus, I took shelter in a shuttle craft in Docking bay 1. "

"Captain respond?" I said

"I'm here, I just….."

The ship shook, the red alert sounds began again. I made my way across the bridge to the tactical station, it appears we have visitors.

"Captain, were under attack, by the…..Tak tak!"

"Your on the bridge, talk to them!" she said

I turned the view screen on , to see the same Tak Tak as earlier.

"Stop firing on Voyager!" I stated "What do you think your doing!"

"Voyager infected" he responded "We are purifying you!"

"Purifying? Your killing us!" I responded, imputing access codes to allow the antigen.

"No cure. No cure for virus." he responded as he did more dance moves

"We have a antigen, we have a cure!" I responded "Give us time. Were trying to release it now!"

"Impossible. Voyager is a threat" he repeated

"Give us a chance!" I stated "We were patient with you, now you can wait, please!"

"Very well, One hour, One chance" he ended the communication.

"Captain we have one hour, before they keep firing" I said

"That's all the time we need" she said "Just…..wait. There localizing on my position."

"Captain, your on the same deck as the hollodeck right?| I said, coming up with a plan.

"Yes why?" she said at first "Wait, I see. Give them something to waste time on."

Soon, I felt a large rumble over the ship.

"Captain, a large scale explosion just occurred in the hollodeck. What happened?"

"I blew them up" she stated

"Captain" the doctor stated "Its working, the antigen is curing the crew.

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After a warm shower, and some time off, I was asked to the Captains ready room. She sat at her desk and the Commander at her side. Ambassador Neelix was sitting in one of the chairs at her desk. I stood and gave a nod

"At ease Crewman" she said standing, something shiny in her hand "That was impressive. You managed to talk the Tak Tak down, and help us save this ship."

"I did nothing. Most of the saving was done by you and the doctor captain" I said. I didn't know where she was going with this. Commander Chakotay had a sour look on his face. Over the past month, he didn't seem to enjoy my company much.

"Nonsense" she said with a smile, pinning a small orb pendant on the collar "You are hereby promoted to the rank of Ensign. Good work Markus" she smiled

I nodded and left, Neelix walking out with me.

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"Captain" Commander Chakotay said

"Yes?" she glanced at him, with a curious look "You don't seem to enthralled."

"I just wanted to know something" he said "I understand the way back for him is a long journey but, shouldn't we try to get him off Voyager? A shuttlecraft perhaps?"

"Commander, we both know he wouldn't last two days in a shuttle craft." she said "Is this about what we talked about last time."

"IT is, both me and Tuvock don't think it's a good idea to have him around the ship, when the three of us know who he will be come"

"I don't care who he becomes Commander" she responded back hastily "He is a fine officer and will join this crew, and I made a promise to him that we will get him back to earth in the 21st century. Dismissed"

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Next time on ST Voyager: Homestead

Episode 3

Counter Balance.

When two xenophobic races wage war, they drag Voyager into their games. Its up to Tom, Markus, and Kes to save the crew. But even at the cost of a fellow officers life?