Disclaimer: I do not own these people. SO DON'T SUE ME! Most of the planets in this are made up, or at least I think that they are.
"Well it all started after I complete Star Fleet Academy. Obviously I was angry about not receiving a position. Not that I could blame the Academy. I had been given an unfair advantage. I was young though, so what I wasn't trying to understand the Academy's point of view. I just understood that I was angry. I was angry with Star Fleet, I was furious at my parents, and I was angry with myself for not being able to hide the fact that I was enhanced. If I had only known that it was a bunch of artificial genes fueling my progress, I would have cooled it. But that was the past, and I've gotten over that.
"Anyway, when I came home from the Academy, not much had changed. I walked into my house and told my parents that I never wanted to see them again and that they had ruined my life. I walked out, and I haven't seen them since. I got an apartment a couple of towns over. It was easy to find work, so that what I did for about three years, I worked. I went to night school and got a doctorate in Astrometrics and a master's degree in history and medical science. It was around a month after I got my degree when I ran into Betty. I had known her since high school. You know, that corny high school sweet heart stuff. We had parted as friends, knowing that our lives were going in different directions, apparently they weren't. She had gone to law school and tried to become a lawyer, but things hadn't gone as she planned and she changed her mind. So we went out a couple of times, and realized, that why we both had changed, it was for the better. We like each other even more. So we started to get serious. In about two years we were living together. That's when we decided that we needed to get out of there. We had saved a lot of money, and we bought a small ship it. About 6 years ago we set off for space. We had been traveling together, Betty, Hercules (our dog), and I. Just moving from planet to planet, doing odd jobs. I made a fortune playing poker and other gambling games. It was a great life.
"Then one day, after I made a killing on some Ferangi scout ship pilots, we pulled out of orbit of Kumatran in the upper portion of the Alpha sector; we decided to explore a Nebula. It was the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. But it turns out that when a type 4 anomaly passes by a ship that is at one half impulse, at the exact moment a Ferangi scout ship fires a phaser at power 10, it can open what is known as a Galetron Emission Wormhole. Now these things have only been theorized, so if they were actually possible had been a mystery up till then.
"Well, after a blinding flash of light we ended up here, in the bloody Delta quadrant. We tried to replicate the anomaly, but it was really impossible, so we just started our merry way home.
"Betsy was confidant that we would return, but I knew that it was impossible. Our ship wasn't that fastest of vessels, and I knew that if I pushed it to the max it would still take us about 85 years to get home. I really didn't mind though. Everything that I needed was right here. I had my wife, my dog, my ship. Life really hadn't changed, even though my location had. But Betsy made me start to miss Earth. She said how she missed the people, and the oceans, and the trees. She was right. We needed to get back. So I knew that the only way was to find some kind of technology that would get us back to Earth faster. So we looked, and that's when we ran into the Borg.
" Well I won't get into gory details, but it ended badly, and I ended up widowed. So then it was just my dog and me. We traveled all around the galaxy. With my wife gone, I really had no urge to get home. So I just explored. I got to know the Delta quadrant. I got to know all its cultures and all its planets. I became especially enthralled with one culture. The Rublatons, well they are closest to the Klingons of any culture I know of. Except there rituals may seem a little stranger. They base their culture on honor and battle. I was examining this planet when I encountered a girl who had fallen into an icy patch of water and since I had no ties to the prime directive I dived in to save her. Her father showed up right when I pulled her out and out of gratitude he invited me into his family. I thought about the offer for a long time and decided to accept it. What did I have to loose. So, after a good while I became a respected member of the Rublaton community. I learned their culture and how to defend myself. I had found a home. This was about 2 years ago.
" Soon I was instructed that I needed to take a wife. This troubled me a great deal, but I decided that I needed to get on with my life. I was interested in one woman who lived in the town I had grown up in. Her name was Pontessa. She was a magnificent woman. We courted for a while, and finally she asked me to marry. I couldn't. It was as if I'd had a crisis of faith, as if I had awoken from a dream. I didn't love this woman the way I had loved Betty. I cared for her, but not a fraction of what I had felt for my real wife. So I departed. I realized that I had to make it home, if not for me for Betty, she would have wanted me to make it back. So I left the planet and started my journey back about a year and a half ago.
"I had been wandering space until I picked up the slightest strange yet familiar signature. I double checked it to make sure, and then I discovered your ship, and I knew I was saved," finished Finnegan. He was sitting at the head of the table telling his tale to the Captain and her head officers. They were speechless.
" That is quite a life you have lead Mr. Finnegan, and all by the age of 31," Janeway said.
"Well Captain I'm sure it pales in comparison to the stories that your crew and you could tell me," he said with a chuckle, " How did you all like the meal?" he asked.
" It was wonderful," said Commander Chakotay. His appraisal was followed by the appraisal of the rest of the crew.
"Well Mr. Finnegan, I have talked it over with the rest of my crew, and we have decided to ask you join our crew. You will not be a passenger and will be expected to work for your place. I'm sure that it won't be a problem," Janeway said.
"Thank you Captain, I don't know what to say, thank you, I promise that I won't disappoint you," he said, tears swelling in his eyes.
"I know you won't Mr. Finnegan. I have decided to assign you to the astrometrics lab, I think that your talents well be best utilized there with Seven," she said.
Seven raised her eyebrow at this assignment, " Captain, don't you think that this is something that we need to discuss," she blurted out.
"Seven, there is nothing to discuss, Mr., or should I say Dr. Finnegan has a doctorate in astrometrics. It is his best subject and the astrometrics lab is where he should be," she said.
"Yes Captain," she replied angrily.
Finnegan was clearly unhappy with this assignment as well, but knew better then to say anything to the Captain, " Dessert!" he blurted out to kill the tension. "I have coffee ice cream, I believe that's your favorite Captain?"
"Why yes it is, thank you," she replied.
"So everyone, tell me about yourselves," asked Dr. Finnegan, " I want to know all about my new family, "and so they told him.
It was around 1 o'clock in the morning when everyone had left except for the Captain. This, Dr. Finnegan thought, was the perfect opportunity for him to express his reservations about working with Seven of Nine.
"Well thank you very much Dr. Finnegan, the meal was excellent. How does 800 hours sound for us to dock your ship tomorrow?" she asked, standing up to leave.
"It sounds wonderful Captain, but if you don't' mind I have a question to ask of you before you go," he said.
"Sure, go ahead and ask away," she responded.
"It's about my assignment. Now I don't want you to think that I'm not grateful to you for accepting me into your crew or giving me a chance to work on Voyager. Being on a Starfleet ship has been a dream of mine for quite a while. The thing is, well I'm not quite sure that Seven and I will be the best two people to work together," he said cringing in fear that he would aggravated his new leader.
The Captain didn't say anything at first; she really didn't know what to say. She had noticed a certain tension between the two of them when they first meet each other earlier in the day. She also noticed it a dinner when the two of them made eye contact; they would glance at each and then turn away when they caught each other looking. They also had a couple disagreements when the conversation turned to quantum physics. She didn't really know Dr. Finnegan well, but this behavior was completely uncharacteristic of Seven of Nine.
"Well Dr. Finnegan, I understand that you and Seven really don't seem to get along with each other, but you have only know each other for a day. Who knows what way the relationship will develop? I'm going to keep you in the lab for now, and we will se how it goes. Is that alright?" she said.
"Yes, of course Captain. You are right," he said.
She him the comm. badge on her chest, " One to beam aboard," she then looked at Dr. Finnegan, " I'm very excited about your arrival Dr. Finnegan, and don't worry, we will get home. Energize!" she vanished.
"I know Captain, I know," he said to himself.
"Well it all started after I complete Star Fleet Academy. Obviously I was angry about not receiving a position. Not that I could blame the Academy. I had been given an unfair advantage. I was young though, so what I wasn't trying to understand the Academy's point of view. I just understood that I was angry. I was angry with Star Fleet, I was furious at my parents, and I was angry with myself for not being able to hide the fact that I was enhanced. If I had only known that it was a bunch of artificial genes fueling my progress, I would have cooled it. But that was the past, and I've gotten over that.
"Anyway, when I came home from the Academy, not much had changed. I walked into my house and told my parents that I never wanted to see them again and that they had ruined my life. I walked out, and I haven't seen them since. I got an apartment a couple of towns over. It was easy to find work, so that what I did for about three years, I worked. I went to night school and got a doctorate in Astrometrics and a master's degree in history and medical science. It was around a month after I got my degree when I ran into Betty. I had known her since high school. You know, that corny high school sweet heart stuff. We had parted as friends, knowing that our lives were going in different directions, apparently they weren't. She had gone to law school and tried to become a lawyer, but things hadn't gone as she planned and she changed her mind. So we went out a couple of times, and realized, that why we both had changed, it was for the better. We like each other even more. So we started to get serious. In about two years we were living together. That's when we decided that we needed to get out of there. We had saved a lot of money, and we bought a small ship it. About 6 years ago we set off for space. We had been traveling together, Betty, Hercules (our dog), and I. Just moving from planet to planet, doing odd jobs. I made a fortune playing poker and other gambling games. It was a great life.
"Then one day, after I made a killing on some Ferangi scout ship pilots, we pulled out of orbit of Kumatran in the upper portion of the Alpha sector; we decided to explore a Nebula. It was the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. But it turns out that when a type 4 anomaly passes by a ship that is at one half impulse, at the exact moment a Ferangi scout ship fires a phaser at power 10, it can open what is known as a Galetron Emission Wormhole. Now these things have only been theorized, so if they were actually possible had been a mystery up till then.
"Well, after a blinding flash of light we ended up here, in the bloody Delta quadrant. We tried to replicate the anomaly, but it was really impossible, so we just started our merry way home.
"Betsy was confidant that we would return, but I knew that it was impossible. Our ship wasn't that fastest of vessels, and I knew that if I pushed it to the max it would still take us about 85 years to get home. I really didn't mind though. Everything that I needed was right here. I had my wife, my dog, my ship. Life really hadn't changed, even though my location had. But Betsy made me start to miss Earth. She said how she missed the people, and the oceans, and the trees. She was right. We needed to get back. So I knew that the only way was to find some kind of technology that would get us back to Earth faster. So we looked, and that's when we ran into the Borg.
" Well I won't get into gory details, but it ended badly, and I ended up widowed. So then it was just my dog and me. We traveled all around the galaxy. With my wife gone, I really had no urge to get home. So I just explored. I got to know the Delta quadrant. I got to know all its cultures and all its planets. I became especially enthralled with one culture. The Rublatons, well they are closest to the Klingons of any culture I know of. Except there rituals may seem a little stranger. They base their culture on honor and battle. I was examining this planet when I encountered a girl who had fallen into an icy patch of water and since I had no ties to the prime directive I dived in to save her. Her father showed up right when I pulled her out and out of gratitude he invited me into his family. I thought about the offer for a long time and decided to accept it. What did I have to loose. So, after a good while I became a respected member of the Rublaton community. I learned their culture and how to defend myself. I had found a home. This was about 2 years ago.
" Soon I was instructed that I needed to take a wife. This troubled me a great deal, but I decided that I needed to get on with my life. I was interested in one woman who lived in the town I had grown up in. Her name was Pontessa. She was a magnificent woman. We courted for a while, and finally she asked me to marry. I couldn't. It was as if I'd had a crisis of faith, as if I had awoken from a dream. I didn't love this woman the way I had loved Betty. I cared for her, but not a fraction of what I had felt for my real wife. So I departed. I realized that I had to make it home, if not for me for Betty, she would have wanted me to make it back. So I left the planet and started my journey back about a year and a half ago.
"I had been wandering space until I picked up the slightest strange yet familiar signature. I double checked it to make sure, and then I discovered your ship, and I knew I was saved," finished Finnegan. He was sitting at the head of the table telling his tale to the Captain and her head officers. They were speechless.
" That is quite a life you have lead Mr. Finnegan, and all by the age of 31," Janeway said.
"Well Captain I'm sure it pales in comparison to the stories that your crew and you could tell me," he said with a chuckle, " How did you all like the meal?" he asked.
" It was wonderful," said Commander Chakotay. His appraisal was followed by the appraisal of the rest of the crew.
"Well Mr. Finnegan, I have talked it over with the rest of my crew, and we have decided to ask you join our crew. You will not be a passenger and will be expected to work for your place. I'm sure that it won't be a problem," Janeway said.
"Thank you Captain, I don't know what to say, thank you, I promise that I won't disappoint you," he said, tears swelling in his eyes.
"I know you won't Mr. Finnegan. I have decided to assign you to the astrometrics lab, I think that your talents well be best utilized there with Seven," she said.
Seven raised her eyebrow at this assignment, " Captain, don't you think that this is something that we need to discuss," she blurted out.
"Seven, there is nothing to discuss, Mr., or should I say Dr. Finnegan has a doctorate in astrometrics. It is his best subject and the astrometrics lab is where he should be," she said.
"Yes Captain," she replied angrily.
Finnegan was clearly unhappy with this assignment as well, but knew better then to say anything to the Captain, " Dessert!" he blurted out to kill the tension. "I have coffee ice cream, I believe that's your favorite Captain?"
"Why yes it is, thank you," she replied.
"So everyone, tell me about yourselves," asked Dr. Finnegan, " I want to know all about my new family, "and so they told him.
It was around 1 o'clock in the morning when everyone had left except for the Captain. This, Dr. Finnegan thought, was the perfect opportunity for him to express his reservations about working with Seven of Nine.
"Well thank you very much Dr. Finnegan, the meal was excellent. How does 800 hours sound for us to dock your ship tomorrow?" she asked, standing up to leave.
"It sounds wonderful Captain, but if you don't' mind I have a question to ask of you before you go," he said.
"Sure, go ahead and ask away," she responded.
"It's about my assignment. Now I don't want you to think that I'm not grateful to you for accepting me into your crew or giving me a chance to work on Voyager. Being on a Starfleet ship has been a dream of mine for quite a while. The thing is, well I'm not quite sure that Seven and I will be the best two people to work together," he said cringing in fear that he would aggravated his new leader.
The Captain didn't say anything at first; she really didn't know what to say. She had noticed a certain tension between the two of them when they first meet each other earlier in the day. She also noticed it a dinner when the two of them made eye contact; they would glance at each and then turn away when they caught each other looking. They also had a couple disagreements when the conversation turned to quantum physics. She didn't really know Dr. Finnegan well, but this behavior was completely uncharacteristic of Seven of Nine.
"Well Dr. Finnegan, I understand that you and Seven really don't seem to get along with each other, but you have only know each other for a day. Who knows what way the relationship will develop? I'm going to keep you in the lab for now, and we will se how it goes. Is that alright?" she said.
"Yes, of course Captain. You are right," he said.
She him the comm. badge on her chest, " One to beam aboard," she then looked at Dr. Finnegan, " I'm very excited about your arrival Dr. Finnegan, and don't worry, we will get home. Energize!" she vanished.
"I know Captain, I know," he said to himself.