The Past Meets The Future-Changing History
Disclaimers: I don't the the shows, the story belongs to everything else belongs to the creators and the movie companies.
Warning: This is going to be the aftermath to the trial as the academy leader sees the truth. While Wesley is cleared of all charges, while the girls are exposed for the liars they are when the truth comes out now. But within the new timeline there's going to several of the key episodes in this, leading up to the season eight and Ra's forced off earth for good.
But the episodes used are going to be the pilot episode, Enemy Within, The Nox, Enigma, the Orbital attack series. When Jolinar makes an appearance, and the episodes that did damage to the team's bonds with him. As the trio get a chance to fix their original mistakes with him in Steven Raynor's case. As they deal with things over the years, as Daniel is now working in the military.
He's around to help them out, but he, Catherine Langfod and Ernest Littlefield, as well as the members that we saw in the movie, are going to be in the expedition. Although Elizabeth Weir is joining the team as well, and they and their team head for Atlantis later on.
But from here, the preparations start coming faster as they deal with the loose ends before the reset now. As each event in the duo's lives together takes place between the accident to the activation of Ra's Stargate. The events will start speeding up as they meet their allies, before the movie.
Chapter 38: Final Decisions and Fast Choices
"Yes alright, push it forward, I want to hear the conversation after you figured it out and gave him that warning Jean Luc." she said and he nodded as they saw him pacing in his room, before they heard a knock on the door and he went to get it. "Alright computer rewind it by 30 seconds so they can see what I was doing prior to Cadet Locarno's arrival in my quarters." he said and they watched as he had a recorder hidden between books.
And his gaze looked up at the the camera as they saw the light was on. "Whoa, you were taping the audio conversation as you made sure that the visual was completely active." Will said as he got it and he nodded as they heard his voice in a gentle voice over then. 'Alright enough is enough, I'm not lying to my crew anymore and I'm having him incriminate himself by his own words now, I'm turning into the plant now."
'I don't give a damn whether this is a betrayal in their eyes or not, I'm a star fleet cadet I will not lie and enough is enough. I've resigned from this team, I'm finishing the job now, for Josh, for my father, for my crew, I'm doing this. Thanks for the nudge Sir, I needed a way, some way to get me out of it and you gave it to me, if you see this tape you know I did your job for you now.'
'Whatever it takes I will get your trust back, no matter what, you and the sextet matter more to me and I'm not losing you now.' they heard him thinking as he waited, before they heard a knock on the door and he went to get it. "Your message said it was urgent." Locarno said and Wesley nodded. "They know Nick, they know what we did." he said quickly and the older boy looked at him at that remark.
"Calm down, calm down, now tell me exactly what happened." he said and Wesley sighed. "Captain Picard called me aboard the enterprise, he told me he knows, the Kolvoord, the cover up, everything. He said if I didn't come forward and tell them, he would." he said and Locarno nodded. "Does he have any evidence?" he asked and Wesley shook his head as he answered him at that.
"No, but he knows exactly how it happened." he told him and he nodded and Brand's eyes narrowed as she saw him smile at that. 'Here it comes, this is the evidence I need to get him to incriminate himself. And he doesn't even realize that the camera is still on in my quarters. You're screwed now, Nick, you just incriminated yourself by your own words, and you don't even realize it.'
'I've already resigned from the squadron, I'm working undercover and you're exposing yourself. Mom, Sirs, I'm doing this for you, if it's a choice between you and the team, I choose you now I will not lie and I have had enough of this. You matter more to me, they're not my friends and they never were, my place is with you, on the enterprise, at home.' They heard as he finished with a sad sigh then.
"But if this is the price I pay for doing the right thing, then so be it, but I never wanted you to find out like this. Lord, if you can hear me, give me a second chance to fix this and they learn my side of the story before it's too late. I'm letting my family down, I'm turning the squadron in to the inquiry and I want another chance to get the truth out, I'm not a member of the squadron."
"Not anymore, I'm not Nova squadron, I'm Gamma, if you have anyway to bring that truth to fore, I'd appreciate it, but do it before whatever is coming in the next few years causes me to leave my family. My girlfriend, my brothers. I want a second chance to get them the truth" They heard softly and she crossed her arms, as the group sighed as they got as he said it gently as he sighed in relief then.
"And in the end my prayers were answered by you making that trip to the past, they had the entire story and the truth comes out finally in what I was really doing. But I never wanted you to find out like that the accident was already being investigated for you. That I was gathering evidence needed to have him expelled from the academy. And for them suffering the very same consequences that you chose for them at the time Sirs."
"Though it's too late now with the fact I knew he was going to make this next decision and he just signed their death warrant. And it's because the camera was still recording the entire conversation. But if we get our memories back and I'm making sure I pull the plug the second you arrive at the academy and come into my room. Because this way I can tell you all at once by doing it up here and we go over this and secondly."
"This way we can talk about this about the ship, and I can just get it out of the way finally regarding reporting it to you, Sir. As I said, if it was a choice between you and them and I choose you, but in our timeline the price I had to pay, now, for doing the right thing. Is losing everything that matters most to me, but I get that second chance. Now, because of the Ancient's and the Q, and we can fix this problem, as we do it a second time now."
"But 1) if we have our memories of these situations, I'm acting like the ensign, or whatever rank you promote me to next. And 2) I'm going undercover and the Starfleet officer that I am now. But on earth, I'm a cadet, up here, I'm one of your officers and I'm serving under your command and in around my closest friends up here." Wesley said and she nodded as Picard said it for both of them as he said it firmly at that remark.
"That I understand and with that in mind right now, we get our memories of each of these situations back just weeks after we meet once again. And we can fix each problem we didn't have time to catch at the current moment." he said as he looked at Locarno. "Oh, don't even think about it, the committee is going to listen to me more than you. As they're going to see this as you're trying to get out of this, of the consequences."
"But no cadet or officer has the guts to even call me that to my face and not get away with it. And even if you tried it in this case, Brand would see through that lie immediately and expel you anyway, young man. So it's telling the truth or getting expelled here and you'd have to all come forward together, because you're running out of time. So you either tell her the truth or I'm exposing you for the cheater and liar you are young man."
"And I mean every word of that, with how close you came to destroying my bond with my son." he added as he repeated his original remark after seeing his smirk with a stern growl. "Yes and that's the understatement of the century Sir, and I've known this about you for years, you're the toughest captain in the business. And everyone who doesn't get that is out of their minds after our first year escapades and with that at the moment."
"No idiot who hasn't been serving under you for year would ever pull this, because when you lose you temper. It's like the bull in the china shop, and I knew that lying to you wasn't an option, because listening to your conversation with lieutenant Worf, I remember you telling me things work best when we tell you what's on our minds and I had been intending on doing that ever since, Sir." Wesley said to him with a gentle smile.
And he nodded to him gently as he hid a smile at the comparision as he went further. "In truth, I always looked up to you and Commander Riker, but fixing things between us was my main concern. And I was going to show you and the Admiral this after you caught him in the act. But seeing my evidence was enough and I knew she'd never buy their lie regarding calling you a liar as I then I dropped the act with the trio here.
"And told them the truth that I was working under cover all this time whether they knew it or now and with that. And by they, I mean you three and Commander Alberts now, but I was getting justice for Josh's death, by first telling you the truth and then revealing the added tape. Serving under you, your friendship, trust and respect, you mattered more to me then, aside from Josh, the entire squadron did now at the time here as well."
"You all mattered more to me then the trio did and I was keeping that promise to you, Sir. To get justice for Josh's death we decided on a cross and double cross maneuver, so if didn't survive the mission, I had the evidence needed to expel Nick. And the girls still got the consequences in the way you chose them, Admiral. As for me, I was relinquishing my position on the team to Derek and we got two upper classman in our places."
"But as I've been serving under you for four years, and you taught me some the biggest portions of being a Starfleet officer, I was doing what I was trained to do now. And then tell you I was working under cover and doing what you trained me to do, so there's no getting out of this." he said and they all nodded as she answered him as the duo looked at him in shock at that remark as she said it to him gently at that statement.
"So rather then just confessing to us what really happened up there, you were going to go to a sting operation and then set them up. As you told us the truth, and when he admitted it to us what happened up there, it's we lay the decision down. Before you produced this tape for us and we listened to your conversation. As we then heard the added truth and that did it for your mother, me and the Admiral and the committee?"
"As we heard what really happened in your room, but first you had to show us, from your point of view, the accident. And then you had to reveal these memories, before you passed that tape to us?" Alberts repeated to him then. "Aye Sir, I was being the Starfleet officer my mentors trained me to be and I was doing the right thing. No matter the cost now, it was the right thing to do, and I was doing my duty now in this case."
"But 1) I was a Starfleet born cadet, 2) I knew the rules when it came to cheating in these things and in this case the charges were getting higher by the minute. And 3) it's either they tell the truth or I was exposing them for you. As I revealed my position in this job and told you what I was really doing then. And with that, I was going to tell you when you caught him in the act of lying." he said and he, Brand and the duo nodded gently.
"That's what I wanted to heard from you now Wesley, despite the act of peer pressure, it was doing this and getting us the truth was the right thing to do now. You made me proud, everything I taught you was enough you were using the added training in regarding your stealth training. And survival training and with it was the test of honesty now and this was the portion needed too." Picard said to him and he looked at him softly.
"Yes and that's what I really I meant Sir, I choose not to answer, because I had something I had to tell you then. And said something was I was really working undercover giving him enough rope to hang himself and the girls with him. And when you told me that, I needed to reveal the added truth to you as the added ultimatum right then. Just before the mission took a jog to the left, as I know I told you the partial truth, Admiral, Captain."
"But I was playing both sides in this, him as I'm the one turning them in, in your case, I was working as the undercover agent. As I waited for you to realize it then and when you did and showed me the maneuver on the computer I knew you figured it out. And you revealed the added reason, I was going to tell you the truth then. And told you what I was doing then as you forwarded that message to him." he said and they nodded to him.
"Well that's enough of a warning for him as it is, you seen me when I'm not in that type of mood, and as I said I never doubted you'd be a fine officer. But this time hearing that added truth I definitely believe it now, because this choice in doing it alone. It was becoming harder not to keep silent and not wait till the end of the inquiry to reveal that truth to us now." Picard said to him gently then and Brand nodded in agreement to that.
"No kidding, I would never have bought whatever was going to come out of his mouth regarding you at the time, anyway Jean Luc and with it, just hearing the added evidence. Once you revealed that tape deck and I heard his plan that would have been it for me and all three of them were being expelled. As I appointed you, Wesley, to be the new leader of the team and we reactivated the team, just with a new squadron membership."
"And if you girls thought I'd listen to that type of lie regarding this, I'd have expelled you in a heartbeat at the time. Wesley was in hands on training since he was 15 years old, you three though, all of you are growing up on earth. But you've never been trained in on the job training, his parents are both Starfleet and he knew the risks. As he knew what he had to do in order to get himself out of that hole and as to how and why."
"It was after he decided to train up here I had his crew taking him through the lessons necessary to make it in training. And honesty was one of the things that were part of your training, he knew, like we did, at the time. Your only chance was by coming forward together as one, Wesley also knew this too. Regarding you're trying to coerce him into keeping quiet and peer pressure, that's against the law in the academy at the time."
"Wesley was very correct when he said I'd never accept whatever story you told me at the time regarding this. And lying was enough to get you all kicked out of the academy anyway. Your only chance at keeping up your training and not being thrown out was by coming forward, together, and telling me." Brand said sternly and the duo swallowed at the news at that as he looked at her and smiled and she gave his a gentle smile.
"Yeah born a Starfleet officer, I was doing what had to be done, I just wish you'd given me the chance to tell you, before you realized it. Because I was working through this on how to explain this to you, but if we get these memories back in our first year. So though we play the episode, the outcome is going to result in exactly what you wanted now. As I became the alpha and a member of gamma and set him up to incriminate himself."
"By his own words now, but this timeline right now, I was trying to stay focused on who I was up here and who'd I'd become there at the academy. Before I decided on a sting operation and having him incriminate all of them by his own words. And which was where this came into it, being who I was instead of what they tried to turn me into." he said and she nodded as they heard Locarno's smirk and remark to Wesley then at his news.
"Captain Picard doesn't know anything, he has a theory. So let him tell the inquiry what he thinks happened, they'll ask us, is it true, we'll say no sir. There's no evidence, so there's no case, we'll get off with a reprimand." he said and seeing the shocked look on Wesley's face, he knew that did it, for the adult group as he quickly said said it then to them as he explained that to them as he watch himself.
As they started seeing his memories start shooting through him of them together the previous three years. "Just hearing that remark, I remembered everything you've ever done for me, Sir. But this time the act of being forced into calling you that, that was it for me, I wasn't letting them get away with this and decided. I'd had enough of being told what to do, and the chains of being the youngest wolf in the pack fell off right then."
"And I was taking up the metaphorical birth rite as I came into my own as the rival alpha and told him forget about it. I wasn't going to lie to the committee, or turn on you and I was turning them all in right then. But that explains this, my memories of those weeks after the game, of the trio and me being together. Of the four years we had, before I left for the academy started shooting through me." he said and the sextet all nodded to him.
As they heard his tone shift at the remark as his tone firmed up as they recognized him as the 15 to 17 year old they knew. And knew he made his choice then as they heard their thoughts confirmed as he thought it to himself. 'You have got to be kidding, he's been there for me since I was fifteen, saved my life, rescued me. No, no forget it, I won't do it.' they heard in answer to that remark, as he said it out loud.
"Yeah I meant it when I said that, I can't do it, I won't do it, your trust and respect mattered more to me than he did now. My coach, best friend and surrogate father, everything that Boothby claimed him as, I had it with both of you already. To keep from losing it, I was doing what you always taught me now and it's being honest, now." Wesley said and Picard squeezed his shoulder as he heard his double say it determinedly.
"I can't call Captain Picard a liar." he said to him and the other boy sighed. "Wesley we have to hang on just a little longer, than this will all be over." he said to him gently. "It's wrong Nick." he said to him firmly at that as he tried. "Wesley." Locarno started to say. "I'm going to tell them what happened." he said and Picard smiled at that, before they saw the other boy lean back and cross his arms then at that.
"Yes I was waiting for one of you to go against the whole and come right to me, before the second piece of the tribunal Wesley. And of you, you just proved the point of the lesson now, that to do the right thing. That you have to be willing to go against the group to tell us the truth. At the moment, had we turned this into a sting operation, he'd have them all incriminated by his own words here, as you told me the truth in this."
"And once he revealed the truth to me he lied to me in the tribunal that would be it and if he started a fight and you ended up with worse than the injuries you already took. He was screwed for landing you back in the emergency room after two concussions and a broken arm. If we're resetting the time line, I'm looking at doing it for real and you're a plant, as you bust them yourself." Brand said and he nodded with a sigh to that.
"Aye Sir, I understand, regarding Robin and Bill though, if you could have them on board the enterprise at the same time I return home when we have that foothold. That would help too, Bill's my best friend, but he's medical born, I'm medical born. With his father being the one thing I needed, the one thing that's necessary to heal, in addition to nearly breaking my ankle during that foothold at the time here back then on top of it."
"I didn't have to hear what Commander La Forge said to know that after two to three months of alnighters, and the same regarding the natural stimulate take in. I was in the condition Colonel Jackson is when Data reported back. But they're planning on extending my stay home to two to three times the limit that caused the sleep deprivation at the moment, so six to eight months back up here and possibly up to a year."
"And just one year makes the difference in year one, I was happy under their care, but adding the trio, of Commander Jackson's former students and him, himself. I have friends just like me till I get back the rest of my quartet and I can recover under their supervision and I have my own squadron up here." he said and she nodded in understanding as she watched as Locarno crossed his arms then at his decision as she crossed hers at that.
"You're going to tell them what happened, alone, you, you're going to decide what happens to me, to Sito, to Jean, you're going to tell them?!" he said slowly and Will sighed. "Uh oh, in his eyes, this is a severe betrayal now." Geordi said to him and he nodded in agreement to that remark. "I'm not going to lie to them again Nick, I can't live with it." Wesley said and that did it for the other boy as he said it.
"You can't lie to them, you can't live with this, you have to be the one to decide, who the hell are you?!" he snapped at him. "Nick." he said and he over rode him. "You're going to turn us in." He snapped at him as he tried to stop him at that. "Wait a minute." he started to say and Locarno snapped back at him. "No you wait a minute." he said as he turned around and and ran his hand through his hair.
As he turned around as as he said it to him. "You better get ready for this one Admiral, because he crossed the lines in Comparisions now at the moment." Wesley said and the quintet and Brand nodded. "He got to you didn't he?, Picard, he told you some big story about duty and honor. Well it must have been good enough speech to make you turn your back on your friends." he said and Wesley stood up at that.
"We are Starfleet cadets, we have a duty to the truth, I was born a Starfleet cadet, I have a duty to the truth, Nick. I'm not lying to them: him, the quintet, my mother, they mean more to me than you think. I have a duty to the truth, to them, to Josh, now and with it, it's the only way. But if I lie, there's no going back right now, I have a duty to the truth, to them." he said to him sternly then.
And he emphasized the next remark. "Oh yeah, and what about your duty to your friends. I got you on this team, I gave you a chance when there were upper-classman just waiting in line. I said he wouldn't let us down, he was on the enterprise, he knows what it's like to trust someone with your life, I guess I was wrong." he said and Wesley said it sternly at that as he said it to the image then.
"Yeah you were Nick, and it's because the reason is because I barely know you, and I knew them for four years, so it's that simple now. But 1) I was born a Starfleet cadet, 2) I've spent close to five years in training by the men. The man, who you're trying to turn me against and after everything he's done for me, no, I won't do it. And 3) yes I know what it's like to trust others with your life, but the difference is the amount of time."
"They were my friends, my crew, my adoptive family and I know the differences and it's because of the length of time spent together. So yeah you were wrong about me and it's because I'm not Nova squadron at all, I'm Gamma squadron." he said with a firm growl and Geordi finished that remark as he said it. "Yes, the difference is because we helped raise him, we took care of him, he took care of us, that's what being a team really is."
"Being a crew is being a team, being a team is being a family, and though we already have family, once deployed. And up there where it's more dangerous, we become each other's family. And your only shot at surviving this and coming out of it is coming forward together Locarno, that's the only chance you're going to have at staying in the academy." he said as they heard his young friend repeat that remark and he hid a smile.
"Duty to your friends, there is no duty when they're trying to get you to be dishonest with a superior officer. Such as it is, I was born a Starfleet cadet, I knew the rules and I never wanted to be on the team anyway. I was happy with being a lone wolf, until I met Robin and Bill, I had Jake. So I was creating my own pack and turning the other alpha and his pack in, for breaking the law here and with that in mind right now."
"Yeah and I don't care if this is about his thoughts regarding that remark, my true friends were on board this ship. And six of ten of those friends were the people who helped raise me, you mattered more to me at the time. As I said, I never wanted to lie to you, you're my best friends, my family, I'm not giving that up, and definitely not for them. You're my team, win as a team, lose as a team, we're family, but regarding this stuff."
"And I'm giving an example here regarding scenarios where I had to trust you, but the one that comes to mind, regarding training scenarios, happens to be the Hathaway." Wesley said and he smiled at that as Will looked at him. "When I chose you for that, when we had Kolrami here?" he asked and he nodded. "Aye Sir, the Hathaway test was fun, but that's when I first learned the added skills of working as a team with you."
"Up until then I was in flight training, leadership training and being in training as an engineer. But combining it together in the middle of a tactical exercise after the Borg, it was enough as a crew that I learned about being a team. And the simulation was the training exercise needed to train me in that. Kolrami basically taught me, the importance of being a team and trusting each other with your lives, whether he knew it or not."
"And we as the Hathaway team worked as one and it tightened up the bonds between us. But that was a test for what came up the following year when Shelby was here at the time, I mean the Enterprise was the Borg ship. The Hathaway was the Enterprise, it was a test of what you had and what you needed. A test of skill and most of all, a test of working as a team, simulation maybe at the time, but still at the time back then."
"This was a test I passed, because I had you, all of you watching my back, you watch my back, I watch yours, as a team we take care of each other. There is no I in team, we work as one, that was the point of this training scenario, whether he knew it or not. You were really training me in improvising these things, teamwork and trust at the time." he said as he looked at the duo and they smiled at him and nodded as he went further.
"And to answer his remark, and your added attitude problem girls, so sure, yes I worked on the enterprise. And I know what it's like to trust others with my life, but the difference is those others are my closest friends, of four years together. They helped my mother raise me, and we were together for close to four years, but you. I barely know you, and to repeat my remark, girls, what friends exactly huh, you're my friends."
"Yeah sure, come on, you bailed on me during the accident, I told you that trying it that close together was too dangerous. And it kills one member of our team and its now turned into peer pressure when the only Starfleet born is trying to come forward. And doing the right thing, if you wanted to stay at the academy. We all had to come forward and tell Admiral Brand the truth." Wesley said and Picard nodded as he answered him.
"If we all come forward together and tell Admiral Brand." Wesley said and the other boy scoffed. "If I wasn't sure before I am now, he's acting like Maxwell when you had to chase him down at the time, Jean Luc. It's not the same words, but the very same argument, and he thinks that Wesley is beauracrat. Because he's the only one out of the quartet who's willing to come forward." Uhura said as they heard Sam echo that.
"Oh this kid doesn't doesn't deserve to be wearing that uniform right now, if this was us, we'd be doing it together, one of us takes the fall, we all take the fall. We will not be tried separately." Sam added and her trio nodded in agreement to that as Will hid a smile as he looked at them as he listened to Daniels remark gently. "That's an understatement, win together, lose together, we're a team."
"And as a team, we will not be tried separately, the team is family, there is no 'I' in team, we're there for each other." Daniel said as he wrapped his arms around her and Teal'C's shoulders and Teal'C smiled softly at that as he smiled. "Better get ready for the reaction then, because once Tasha and I take their places. Than it's back to the beginning and things are going to get out of hand later." Will said smiling at that gently.
As he quoted his last remark with the image of himself and he nodded in agreement to that. "You guys start going at it when in the gym and you're both going to get it Will, because I'm not having this ship be turned into a circus when the boys are here. So get it together and I mean it." Picard said to him with a bemused look on his face at that. Looking at them at that, the quartet exchanged bemused looks at his remark then.
Looking at the quartet, Jenson hid a chuckle as he answered his remark at that. "Uh oh, I don't think you should have said that Sir, you just got their attention. If whatever the commander and Commander Jackson were like I think it went into the boys if they're like this together." he said and Will covered his eyes at that remark then. "So I take it we were like you at the academy, Commander?" Robin asked and he nodded to her.
"Yes, in truth Billy was like me, Wes was like Dan, you were Anna and Jake was Peter, but our connection was just as close as yours is. To the point that when I see you together I see us in the prime of our years at the academy. But what Wes did regarding this is what I see in Daniel, cross and double cross. Which is why O'neill is in such serious trouble right now." he said as they heard Daniel add on to that remark as they listened to him.
"Yeah and with it, that was the point of what happened five years ago at the time here Sam, I had a duty to the truth, and a duty to my friends. To save everyone all at once, I had to wait till he was on his last legs at the time. To be who I was to become, I had a duty to the truth and in payback, he stabbed me in the back." he said and they nodded to him firmly as he went further then.
"That's my situation as well right now, I have a duty to the truth and a duty to my friends, but my true friends are my ship bound version of Gamm squadron. Sir, if we did this over again, what would your orders be in this case?" Wesley asked and she crossed her arms as she answered him. "I'd say that you had to wait it out till he decided on his choice, and it doesn't matter what he thinks right now regarding this."
"The truth had to come out, whether he likes it or not, you had to wait until we figured it out, and told us and then tell him. What you just told him, so it doesn't matter, but you have a duty to the truth and a duty to your friends. But the difference is that there is no duty to you friends when they're trying to get you to be dishonest with a superior, so you made the right choice regardless of his opinions of you." she said and he nodded to her.
"Yes Sir and would you consider that he's acting like a 19 to 21 year old version of Maxwell, or O'neill, and simply because we had a bigger duty and loyalty. Our job as it was was protecting the greater good, from dangerous technology and. And or otherwise making sure that this maneuver was to be suspended from further use after that. And so his pride doesn't kill anyone else simply because he's suffering a psychosis in this.
"Regarding his rival and he's acting like a male version of Commander Shelby?" he asked and they nodded. "In this case, yes I would, but considering I already had that conversation with Daniel and in both cases, it doesn't what they think. You made the right choice regardless of what they think." Picard said as they heard Daniel echo the question as they watched him turn to Hammond and say it then.
"Sirs, if this was us, what would be the response if I decided to come forward and tell you the truth and my team mates think I betrayed them here. Because I was telling you the truth regarding the accident in that. And the sarcophagus was a different version of the accident. Different situation, but still the same areas, here but the one leader is pissed I left him down there."
"And simply because you gave me orders to protect the civilians and miners at the time here, and with it at the moment here, is. Different circumstances, but the same results in the tv show, I mean a duty to the truth and a duty to my friends?" he asked and Hammond answered that question as he crossed his arms as he looked at Jack firmly as he said it to him as he said it firmly to both of them at that.
"I'd see this as it doesn't matter what he thinks, you had to think about the fact that you had to protect others before your team. But if you were 19 years old and this happened I'd want the reason for why you chose to do undercover in this. And I'd want to hear the exact truth to why, because I was denied that truth for five years and it's too little, too late right now, but yes, I would."
"You had a duty to the truth, be it scientific, ethical or responsible, you never lied to me before during that year at the time, and why start now. If he thinks you betrayed him, that's his problem, but you made me proud regarding this situation. The safety of others, must come before the safety of the team, you did the right thing back then, it doesn't matter what he or the NID thinks of you."
"All that matters is that you did the right thing, so I see Jack as Locarno, you as Wesley and though you didn't need my opinion. But without even needing to hear my opinion, you did as I asked you to do back then, and you did the right thing, so with that. So if he doesn't want to come forward, than he doesn't deserve to be in the military, or in Starfleet, as we're changing the past."
"As to that, though we never leave our people behind, we have to think about the safety of others, before the team and ourselves. You passed the test of leadership and loyalty back then by choosing to wait and as I said here regarding this as this is the same as Teal'C facing his war crimes. There are a lot of things we do, that we wish we could change, and sure as hell can't forget."
"But the whole concept of chain of command undermines the idea of free will, so as soldiers. You have to make some very hard decisions, or do some very awful stuff and follow orders, like you were trained to. It doesn't make it any easier, and it certainly doesn't make it right, but it does put some blame on the person. Or people, giving the orders, but you made the right decision back then."
"To wait it out at the time, until he died at the time, before you got them freed from the mines. It doesn't matter what he thinks son, you made the right choice, just like he did in turning them in. So if they think he let them down, like Jack thinks you left him down that's their problem, but to us older officers in the military and with it, to the black ops you're a traitor, because of our code."
"But to us officers in the highest portions of the chain of command, no you're not, you're a hero for what you've done all these years to protect earth. It's you didn't let us down, you made us proud by coming forward and telling us the truth. Or waiting till you were sure he wasn't going to make it to get them out, to protect everyone else at the time, you both passed the test of leadership."
"If they don't want to come forward, or in Jack's case, accept that you made the right choice they don't deserve to wear that uniform or be in the military. The safety of the civilians, must come before the safety of the team." he said and and Daniel nodded as Picard nodded in agreement as he quoted his remark with his holodeck image. "He's right, if they choose not to come forward, than they don't deserve to wear that uniform." he said softly, as the duo heard his answering remark as he finished that.
"Yes and that reprimand I gave should have been his, at the time, you I knew were going to grow into a very fine officer and I never doubted that. But hearing the added truth, now, I believe that even more, I just wish you told us the truth here. That you were doing our undercover work for us at the time, instead of waiting six months to find out." Picard said as he looked at him gently and Wesley nodded as he answered him smiling.
"Don't worry, I intend to, but in order to do so is by knocking out their memories of this conversation, and us having ours. And by us, I mean us members of the enterprise crew, both first and second generation, and the admirals. So you arrive and check on me, and you're telling me you're bringing me home until the inquiry is done. I can spend that entire trial period up here, show you the accident, and everything else, Captain."
"Admirals, you don't have to ask, we took the initiative and we did what had to be done for breaking orders at the time. But in order for me to pull this off, it's by the second you guys arrive at the academy and report in to see me at the time. Pull the medical/command/parental card, and say you're bringing me home. And with that, I can tell you exactly what happened and pretend, to them, that I didn't at the time."
"So I'm acting as your plant on the team, and I'm getting all the evidence needed, but my first scare tactic, is by telling Captain Deladier that I'm taking over Nova squadron now." Wesley said and they nodded in agreement. "Indeed that maybe our only chance here regarding this, we get our memories back at a certain time here. And we can follow the sequence of the episodes, but the outcomes for you, son, are going to be different."
"Starting with the Polywater virus, Daniel catches it just in time and tells me and that's the first, but the traveler and Lore. If we're too focused on something else, then tell the duo, but the traveler, he brings it up to me and I'm telling him stay out of our business. Your education as a junior crew member, or members are up to me, Will and your parents, and only us." Picard said and he nodded as he looked at him then at that.
"Is the image from our trip to the past or just your memories right now?" Will asked and he sighed. "It's both Sir, and with that, this is his opinion to coming forward now, and he's speaking for all of them as he's saying this right now." Wesley said as they heard another inner monologue. "Alright just go ahead and say it, you're speaking for all of you, so just tell them the truth.' they heard then in a firm tone at that remark.
"We don't want to come forward, Sito, Jean and me, we do not have a problem with this. But if you do, than resign your appointment to the academy and walk away, but don't make us pay for your guilty conscious." Lorcarno said and Wesley looked at him in shock at that. "You'd let me throw away my career, just to save your neck." he said in shocked disbelief and he emphasized the remark at that.
"To save the team, that's more important than you, and it's more important than me, and if I was in your place, I would do so, without he's hesitation, but that's just me." he said and left the room as they watched as Daniel crossed his arms as he exchanged looks with Sam, Teal'C, Geordi and Will as Wesley said it. "Yeah well the concept of telling the truth is the only way to save the team, and like you said, Nick."
"To save the team that's more important than you, and it's more important then me, and if I was in your place. I would tell them the truth, and on the very first day, but that's just me." Wesley said as they heard Daniel's recorded image echo that. "Well if I was in your place, I would confess on the very first day young man, but that's just me." he said and the quartet nodded firmly as Beverly sighed as she said it to him.
"Looks like my adult version agrees with me on that, but that's everything you need now Sirs. And I'm sorry for not telling you what I was up to in this like this right now." he said and they nodded. "It's alright Cadet Crusher, you did the right thing and with that in mind." Sulu said to him as Spock and McCoy exchanged a silent conversation before looking at him as Brand looked at him gently as she answered him then.
"I realize that in your case now that the facts were mislead and with that, with the fact you showed me the exact dedication of a Starfleet officer. And were willing to be the unspoken undercover agent for us, that releases the penalty we chose in your case now. Our decision in your case is rescinded and if we're getting the timeline in the past reset, if we all have our memories of this conversation, we'd appreciate if when you did this."
"To let us know beforehand, so though the consequences are the same for the trio, you're the new leader of Nova, if whoever replaces Joshua, ends up being the victim. So once your ship and crew arrive and Jean Luc and your mother come to see you. Call a security clearance meeting and we're going to a debrief so we can fix this undercover sting without you having to play double agent a second time at the current moment."
"But now it's the added act of instead of what decision came regarding you, it's being put on probation and you're being sent home. To make up that damage, instead whatever this resulted in, if our counterparts had our present and future set up now. And with that in mind. Though on a squadron, they think you turned on them and you can return to the enterprise for this." she said and he nodded to her as he answered her gently.
"Aye Sir and I appreciate that, but I'm not Nova, I'm Gamma squadron, always have been and always will be now. If we were the trio and Captain Dixon our fourth that us altogether. Two generation with the same need to do the right thing, no matter the cost, but the four is us are the true heroes in regarding training ensign's here. And with it, I'm resigning my commission to Nova and I'm already leading a team, my crew up here."
"But I recommend that the decision regarding the duo stays the same, he was a masochistic lunatic and the girls were sheep. They do every stupid thing he asks them to do, but there's Boothby's remark regarding Nick in this case, and to quote it now. 'He watches out for them, he keeps them together, Nick is what makes the team special. He's their father, coach and best friend all rolled into the one, he's a natural leader.'
'They love him and they would do anything he asked them to do, even following him right over a cliff.'. To point that a different way, under a counselor's point of view, he's determined to be the best no matter who's in his way. If means the safety of the team and they get to stay on campus and finish the year, then he's letting the member that decides to come forward take the fall, or telling them if they can't hack it, then leave."
"But don't make him and the girls pay for their guilty conscious, as such, it's the result of he never learned from one mistake, makes another and it gets a member of the team killed. So in my eyes, he doesn't have what it takes to be in Starfleet, and if this is what you saw in Commander O'neill as well, he's a younger version of him now. And though I get the same punishment the girls do, it doesn't matter now in this case here."
"Because the damage this did, it can be undone, I'm in training once again, and the sextet or my mother never lose me in that way. I'm not Nova and I never was, Derek and Eric Farley can take our places on the team. But I never wanted to be on Nova anyway, he gave me that chance out of dozens of upper classman. But either way, the trio and Dixon, that's the four of us together and with it now, in the new timeline."
"My unit and I are finishing what we set out to do, as we do the job, but Nick and Bill have hated each other since the fight at the tavern. Because he just barely broke her arm and with it, I'm not letting him get away with that, every time he starts drinking. He loses total control over his faculties, and you kept telling us you caught with the real thing thing, leading into flight training at the moment and they were grounded."
"Until they were clean, but unfortunately he was, he was determined to get passed Bill's image, started obsessing over this, over Bill over Robin. Ignoring his own health, and crossed the line in health requirements at the time Sirs." he said and they nodded as they crossed their arms. "Regarding what we saw and the added evidence regarding the accident, Ensign, we've decided to adjust this decision and you're to be on probation."
"We hereby remove you from all charges as of now, and your flight status is reactivated and you're getting your credits returned to you. And you're allowed to move forward with the rest of your class as of now. We realize this was a tough decision and you passed this training lesson nicely." McCoy said to him and he nodded. "Sirs if you don't mind I'd rather stay up here till the reset now, and be with my friends and family."
"I can go back to work in on the job training, but I really this need this time to be with my true squadron, Gamma squadron." he said and they nodded. "If that's what you wish to do, we can abide by that decision." he said and he nodded as he moved to the trio as they watched Robin wrap her arm around him as the trio smiled at him. "Regarding what you just showed us now, the decision is made here now, Lieutenant Crusher."
"Once we hit this point in time now, we're playing back the entire episode, but you're being given probation. And though down at the academy you're a cadet, up here you're an officer, we do not debate that, so therefore as your superior officers. Captain Picard and Commander Riker are hereby reactivating your hands on training and you're doing the training from up here once again." Brand said and he nodded to her gently then.
"Admirals, it's my flight status of the fighters that should be revoked, I've been flying a galaxy class ship for close to four years. I'm not a cadet, I'm a starfleet officer, and when at the hands of the flight console, close to 1,500 lives are in my hands. That's the difference here right now, they got too cocky, committed a daredevil stunt. And it kills another cadet, so my flight status of the fighters, Sir." he said and the group nodded.
"Agreed, until you completed your probation, your flight status of the fighters is hereby revoked, however your flight status and uniform on the ship is not. As a cadet, you're not dressed in full uniform, because you're in training, well that's not the case up here. Here you're dressed in uniform with the full lieutenant insignia on your uniform, as to that. The decision is made, you're dressed in uniform, and your flight status, here."
"Is the same as it always was, but your probation in smaller class transports, the fighters, the shuttles as you have 20 to 25 on board the enterprise. Is to be made up in the time it took to gain them, I'm giving you a year's probation and that's how long you have to make it up." Brand said and he nodded to her decision. "Thank you Sir, I won't let you down again, I swear it." he said and they nodded as Beverly said it for them.
"Thanks for telling me baby, like I said you never disappointed me, we have a chance to fix this and I never lose you now." Beverly said to him and he nodded as he looked into her eyes and he gave her a hug then as he answered her at that. "Don't worry mom, once we hit this point again, I'm telling you what I'm doing automatically. Though the guilt of the last six months was hitting me hard, I'm not cut off from you now."
"You remember what we were like together up here, well we will be again, if they could construe this to anything now in the 20th century at the current moment. It's by doing these online courses and earning my diploma, my wings over the computer and I'm working from home in order to do it. So though everyone thinks I'm suffering from the same thing the duo are, in truth I hadn't lost anything, because I'm back home again."
"And though the rest of the season and the year leading into this is the same root, I can rest easy in knowing our bonds are never damaged that severely now. Nothing's changed between us and nothing ever will, I get the consequences for not telling you immediately what I was up to. And in the end what changed between us leading into my 21st birthday will change back, because that's the other catch." he said, looking at them gently then.
"Though we can't know our own futures, the trio, or whoever wishes to make several alterations in the reset in our case. We can do that now, because I don't doubt that if I'm just a teenage version of Colonel Jackson, then my thoughts took the same direction. Over a border dispute, seeing what whatever admiral in the committee told you to do this, my thoughts were one of disgust and that's what caused me to give it up."
"Though if the general trio decide to take charge in our century by getting themselves transplanted in their own grandchildren. Whoever was the full admiral is lobbying with 3/4's of the committee to send us somewhere else or we're declining in dealing with the Cardassians over whoever their border dispute is with. But if that's what caused me to go traveler, I don't doubt the General trio are preventing that by any means necessary."
"But when that time comes and my added abilities come to the fore, if it's a case of choosing between staying there and completing my training. And whatever the traveler has in mind for me and my leaving the ship and you behind. It's a no choice needed now, especially if Robin becomes pregnant with my child, I'm reactivating my on the job training and I'm staying here." he said and they nodded as Picard sighed at that.
"Well that definitely makes sense now, after meeting Daniel face to face, I realized I was seeing you at this age. Hearing you put it like that, I see this as whoever was trying to cause you to leave had intentions. In getting you out if whatever happened in our first movie resulted in why Daniel said our version of the enterprise was saved and someone took the new one being made." he said and she nodded as she said it a second time.
"Daniel if there's anything you can do to help him, I'd appreciate any help you have to offer, he's all I have left of my Jack. And this is a setback we don't need, I can't lose my son, he's all I have of my family, in my family." she said then as she saw him sigh as he answered her. As she watched him, she knew he was trying to reassure her as he answered her remark as he said it to her gently, knowing she was going to understand.