Chapter 2: Illusion or Reality?
The fleet was cruising through warp on its way to Starbase 1515 to retrieve the borg transwarp engine, it's COMDESTRON and the fleet admiral, Admiral Aaron Ang were having their dinner on the fleet's flagship the USS Nova in the stateroom. "So what did you think of the maneuver, Aaron?" Jon enquired using the Admiral's first name since they were old comrades at the Academy. Aaron who was busy slicing into his Tourin Corn beef looked up, "why, it was a work of genius."
He replied vaguely intent on cutting the tough Cornbeef. Jonathon sighed and glanced at his half-finished turkey on rye and bread, the door- chime chimed twice, "enter" Aaron said, an ensign, in engineering judging by his uniform entered the stateroom, "Sirs, we have detected a paranormal thermo-wormhole two-hundred light-years from here, Sensors have determined it leads somewhere in the Delta Quadrant and they're detecting a continuous sensor signature and trilifite signature which suggests the possibility that it might be artificially created."
He informed both of them. That got both their attention, as both of them looked at him he took out a 3d viewer screen, I believe we have intercepted a message.tagged with the official callcodes for the USS Voyager, believed lost in the Delta Quadrant four months ago. Now he really had both of their attentions, as Aaron took the viewer from the ensign he instructed the ensign "see if you can contact the USS Voyager assuming they're still near the wormhole."
As the ensign nodded and left the stateroom he plugged the fiber-optics wire into a port on the table and watched as a large virtual viewscreen shimmered into view on the display bulkhead. The viewscreen shimmered twice revealing the face of the Voyager's captain, the tag on the right indicated that it was a recorded message, "I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation starship Voyager, we were swept into the Delta Quadrant, along with this file is a detailed ship's and Captain's log, please use your.Starfleet command codes to open more confidential sections of the datafile." Janeway smiled and disappeared in a flash of static.
Aaron used his fingertips to click the audiovisual device on the viewer on the aimed it at his face, "This the Admiral Aaron Ang, Starfleet Command, Zero Fleet, authorization command code zeta-one-two- alpha-beta, confirm voice signature." He said, the blank screen hesitated and flickered displaying Janeway's face, they both glanced towards the virtual viewscreen "Starfleet, this is Captain Kathryn Janeway, Commanding Officer of the USS Voyager, the ship got swept into the Delta Quadrant, enclosed with this file are the schematic and log entries for the ship, new technology that we have acquired-" Janeway hesitated "-and the private messages to the crew's families and friends, please see that those messages get sent." Captain Janeway's face turned sad, "please don't forget us Starfleet." Were her last words as her face was replaced with the revolving Voyager's emblem, "this is serious," Jon said still looking at the viewscreen as if he could still see the lost Captain's face.
Aaron nodded agreement snapping the cover back over the audiovisual pickup. Aaron's comnbadge chirped quickly three times, a priority call, "Admiral we have Captain Janeway online sir." Came the voice of James Vansen his Tactical/Operations officer on the bridge.
Aaron shared a look with Jon and swept out of the stateroom, heading down the corridor and walked onto the bridge Commodore Jon following behind. "Captain on Bridge." His first officer Lieutenant Commander Sarah Chong said. "On screen." Aaron ordered sitting down in his command chair. The viewscreen on the left shimmered and the logo of the Nova disappeared to be replaced by a real-time image of Captain Kathryn Janeway. "This is Captain Kathryn-" She stopped short seeing the familiar bridge of another Starfleet ship.
"May I ask who you are?" She asked, "I'm Admiral Aaron Ang, Commanding Officer of the USS Nova, that is Commodore Jonathon David, Commanding Officer of the USS Yamato, we're part of Starfleet." Aaron replied indicating Jon to his left standing next to his first officer. Janeway's face relaxed and she smiled, "it's good to meet another Starfleet ship at last." She said nodding at a person off screen. The view of her panned back revealing the bridge crew of the USS Voyager, Aaron became confused, some of the bridge crew looked familiar.
He tapped at a small console and watched as profiles came up on known Maquis member Commander Chakotay, and former Maquis Tom Paris on the viescreen on the right. Deciding she had a good reason for it he tried to relax, "it appears that we can beam through the thermo-wormhole." Janeway continued hesitantly, immediately Aaron understood, "hang on Captain," he replied, "Helm, drop us out of warp but keep the rest of the fleet except the Katana and Constellation."
He ordered. There was a cease of humming as the warp core shut down and the neural energy core started up powering the ships systems more efficiently then the warp core. Almost immediately the bridge lights brightened and the quality of the viewscreen increased as more power was transferred through the neural energy core. "Permission to come aboard?" She asked following the extremely old navy tradition. Aaron smiled, "permission granted, prepare to be beamed out," she said "could my First Officer come aboard to?" Aaron blanched then relented; after all he would have full security teams onboard. "Of course, energizing."
He said tapping the control to security to send a full, and armed honor guard to the transporter bay. He nodded at the bridge crew, "full dress uniforms people, transporter bay in five minutes." He said amongst the chorus of groans.
=/\=Transporter Bay 1=/\=
The full bridge crew of 12 people in full dress uniforms along with a team of three security/honor guards stood at attention facing the main transporter platform. Aaron could see Jonathon fiddling with the buttons on his uniform trying to loosen something but stopped as two silver columns of light appeared on the platform resolving into the Captain Janeway, and Commander Chakotay, also in full dress uniform.
This was an important event Aaron mused watching as their guests stepped down from the platform. Aaron extended a hand to Janeway, "Pleasure to meet you Captain Janeway, I'm Admiral Aaron-" he gestured to the various bridge officers behind him trying to smile under the constraint of the dress uniforms, "Commodore Jonathon David, Captain of the USS Yamato, Lieutenant Commander Sarah Chong, my first officer, Colonel James Vansen, my Tac/Ops officer, Lieutenant Joanna Moss, the science officer, Ensign Stuart Chan, my morale officer, Lieutenant Junior Grade Marill Vansen, my fleet coordinator, Commander Chong Zhe Ren also known as Chong, my Chief Medical Officer, Ensign Kevin Liew Backup tactical, Lieutenant Darien Gavinson, Chief Security, Lieutenant Junior Grade Price Wong, Security Officer, and Ensign Jake Barson Security."
Aaron finished. I pressed open the glass sliding doors with the Nova's seal imprinted and gestured, "Would you like a tour of this vessel?" Aaron asked, "I'd love to." Janeway replied with a twinkle in her eyes. Near the end of the tour they stopped at the stateroom with the group at a dwindled down four people, Aaron, Jonathon, Chakotay, and Janeway. Admiral Ang sat down at the marble polished bar and noticed that the rest of the team did the same.
To continued soon.
