A/N: Hello! I'm back. Ok, first things first: Thank you so much to RiverSong11 and cocoblue181 for being my first ever reviewers! Also, I apologize for the last chapter's shortness- this one will be longer. I WILL post tonight!

Also: Today is ten years after 9/11/01. Honor our heroes, remember the victims. Please take a moment to pray for the families of the victims. And never, ever forget.

So without further ado, to the story!

Captain Picard regarded the intruder with interest. He'd come out of a big blue box, though, so his interest was understandable. Rayne spun around, but didn't point her phaser at him. Her security personnel, however, kept theirs up. Picard stepped forward. "Hello. I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise-D. Who are you and how did you get aboard my ship?"

The man looked at him. "'Ello! I'm the Doctor!" He bounded forward, startling some security officers-though none of them actually fired their weapons- and held out his hand to Picard for him to shake. After Picard had done so, the Doctor turned to look at the TARDIS, where Rose had just exited. "And that's Rose Tyler."

The captain frowned. "The Doctor? Doctor who?" But the strange man just beamed at Picard and said, "Exactly!" The man was obviously no threat, though, so Picard motioned to Rayne for her to stand down. She nodded and put her phaser away, which she had finally drawn when the Doctor had ran towards the captain. The other officers followed her lead.

"Wait! Did you say the Enterprise-D?" The Doctor asked, Picard's introduction finally catching up to him.

"Yes." Picard answered.

"Oh, yay! USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, Galaxy-class Federation Starship- and a very lovely one at that. But that makes you the Captain Jean-Luc Picard!" He turned back to Rose. "Rose Tyler, welcome to the 24th century!" Then his smile faded and he began muttering to himself, "But why did the TARDIS bring us here? Hmm…so there's probably a problem here…but I don't see any Daleks or Cybermen, or anything timey-wimey…." He stopped suddenly, finally noticing the looks that the Starfleet officers were giving him. "Doctor," Picard said firmly, "Who and what are you? I need more than vague answers and mutterings, and I need your real name."

He looked up. "Right. So. I'm a Time Lord, not human, time traveler, my spaceship is that blue box there, my name is the Doctor, don't argue with me about it, and Rose here is just a human from 21st century Earth who travels with me, but she's from an alternate timeline." Picard looked at the girl who had been identified as Rose Tyler. She shrugged and told him, "Just let him keep talking. He'll shut up eventually when he figures out that no one's listening."

"I resent that! People are listening to me!" The Doctor told her indignantly.

Picard looked over a Riker. His first officer shrugged. "Well, there have been instances of time travel in Starfleet. I've never heard of a Time Lord, and there's no way that box is a spaceship." He basically echoed what Picard was thinking.

Picard could tell this was going to be a long day.

A/N: Ok, so it didn't turn out as long as I had hoped it would...well, I'll try to get them longer as I go on.

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