"Sir wake up! Wake up sir!!" I was shaken awake. I saw Commander
Barclay standing over me. "What is it?" I said in a weary, groggy voice.
"Sir, there are new ships!" I stood up and supported my self against the
wall since I was still sleepy. "Of course there are going to be new ships,
it is a base." I thought to my self that Commander Barclay may have been a
bit over hyper. I heard that he could be that way at times by Councilor
Dianna Troi. "But sir, these are Cardasian!!" Damn, what the heck it going
on?! What does this all mean!! Grrrr. I need some coffee!! I thought to my
self. "Ok, lets check it out. But first I am getting some coffee." Barclay
and I walked out of the bunk bed compartment and to the replicator in the
entertainment compartment. "Computer, I'll have some coffee. No milk. No
sugar." I said in still a groggy voice. A moment's pause and then a glass
mug full of some regular coffee appeared on the small replicator pad built
into the wall. I took the mug and walked into the bridge compartment with
Barclay, climbed down the small three step latter, and sat my self down
into the Helm's chair. I sipped on my coffee, set it down on a flat part of
the controls (the computer only reacts to finger touch, so I thought it
wouldn't hurt). I am still half asleep. MMmmm. what have we here. I touched
the view screen controls to zoom in on the new screens. A moment went by
and then the view screen zoomed in on the new Cardasian ships so close that
I could see every window. Hum.Keldon class war ships. "Barclay, scan those
ships for anything unusual." I said to Commander Barclay who was sitting in
the tactical chair above me. "Aye sir." He worked his controls. Another
minuet and the results were beeping back. "Nothing unusual here. No unusual
energy patterns, warp trails, nothing." I thought a minute. I wasn't at all
expecting to find anything. I just wanted to do something since there is
nothing else to do. "How about quantum signature?" Another minuet went by.
"Sir, what is our quantum signature supposed to be?" I leaned back, "Uh.
4.78 I believe. Why?" I looked forward again as Barclay adjusted his
controls. "Sir, I've adjusted my controls, and rechecked them, but their
quantum signature is. is. 3.67!" I was sipping on my coffee when he said
that. I accidentally spit out my coffee. "What!!! That can't be!!!!!! You
mean they are from the Mirror Universe!!!???" Barclay checked his controls
just to be sure. "Yes! I don't believe this!!!" I looked back seeing the
coffee all over the self. "Computer, initiate auto-cleanup." The coffee
began to disappear. "Barclay, were is Data? I believe he is still
'sleeping.'" I got up, climbed up the latter, and into the bunk
compartment. I opened Data's bunk curtain. "Data?" His eyes flickered open
immediately. "Yes sir? Data, those Borg and the other ships are from the
Mirror Universe!!" He stood up. "May I see." I indicated to the door. He
went through, and once on the bridge, he took a look at Commander Barclay's
sensor reading. "I see. Interesting. You say this is the Mirror Universe
that was founded by the legendary Captain Kirk?" I nodded. He adjusted the
controls a bit to make sure they were right. "Hum. very interesting. These
quantum signatures are not that of what Captain Kirk discovered. In fact,
the two signatures are way off. This signature is 3.67. The universe that
Captain Kirk found was the quantum signature of 2.89. I believe you have
found another parallel universe. I would suggest departing and a course for
Star Base One."
