What Legacies You Leave Behind (Epilogue)
- A Voyager bedtime story
by Lt 17 of 26 aka fROzen TaTTooGaL™ (MERSTS)
Epilogue
Seven of Nine's Log, Supplemental, Stardate 54403.5: Personally, I find it surprising that Captain Chakotay allowed me to continue with my current course of action as it involves violation of the temporal prime directive. I can only hope that I will succeed. I cannot afford to let everyone down a second time.
Seven of Nine's Log, Supplemental, Stardate 54523.7: I must also mention that I am experiencing some difficulties in attempting to communicate with Captain Janeway. I face not only face the task of trying to educate her on a sensible course of action in the future, but also of minimizing the breaking of the Prime Directive. To be honest with myself, I do not have any idea as to how this mission will end. I can only pray that it will end in success. But I must hurry- Chakotay telles me the temporal instability cuased by immersing the ship in the flux field is causing fractures in the fabric of space- time, relasing an undue amount of subspace neutrinos and chronotons. I do not know what adverse effects it will have on our ship. Tuvok is postulating that it may cause temporal fractures in the space surrounding our ship. I must attempt to work faster.
Seven of Nine's Log, Supplemental, Stardate 54403.5: It has been three days since our final showdown with the Jem'Hadar, yet the incident still disturbs me. I find the sentiment incomprehensible. It is true that the battle plan we chose was fraught with unknowns, but I feel that I have been unduly… traumatized by the event.
I have spoken to Captain Janeway about this, and it seems that she too has been disturbed by the incident, although not in the same manner as I am. She tells me that I am right when I say that tricobalt devices are not usually part of a ship's weapons arsenal. She had them put there for reasons unknown, citing a fascination with the devices since she "was a child". I suppose it was fortunate for us that the tricobalt devices were there. I do not like to think about what we might have had to do if we had no other alternative. What bothers the captain is that she seems to remember this incident from the memory of a legend she was told when she was a child. She had already forgotten the details, but she remembered that there was an alternative plan which saved the heroes.
Then she asked me if I believed in angels. I did not see the point of her query then and I still do not comprehend it. The captain remembers that once in her life what she thought was an apparition appeared to her in the night and retold her a story. She is fairly sure that it is the same one which mirrored our situation several days ago. It may be pure coincidence, but she remembers the apparition told her that the information may one day save her life, which it did. This unnerves and intrigues her, and to a certain extent, it intrigues me as well.
If angels truly exist, I do not know how I should respond appropriately to this phenomenon. Humans believe that each person has a guardian angel who watches over that person and keeps him or her from harm. Perhaps it is merely a myth, the embodiment of all that is positive about human behaviors and morals in a triumph over evil and the forces of darkness. Or perhaps angels are real people who go out of their way to express their concern for another person, taking care of his or her welfare. It makes me wonder. Could such kind of passion and dedication ever come from me? Could I ever care about someone as much as the unknown person did for the captain? I am hoping that the answer is yes…
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