The next day....

Captain Data sat on the Bridge at exactly the position he had taken the previous day.

And the day before that.

And the day before that.In fact he took that position every day with mechanical precision.

Today was a particularly dreary and slow day day on the Enterprise F.

Enterprise F.

What a rotten name, Data thought. He had always knew that the next Enterprise was predestined be named F, but he had always hoped by some miracle Starfleet computers whould have a glitch and name the ship Enterprise G.

The day was further agravaited by the fact it was the anniversary of the Enterprise E's destruction.

Data wished he could forget that and miss the day without ceremony, but, as he had once told Guinan (poor Guinan)his timing was digital.

In exactly twelve hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty-one seconds it will have been one complete year since Enterprise went down.

And Data, the nearly indistructible android could do nothing to stop it, nothing to stop the endless march of time.

Data thought for a long time (1.3456 seconds) about what action whould be appropriate.

Finally he reached a decision.

Captain Data Soong of the Federation Starship Enterprise stood up from his chair and activated the intercom.

'I wish to conduct a moment of silence to remember the brave martyrs of the Starship Esnterprise E who gave thier lives so that we could live.All rise.'

Keith too had been counting down. He had been wondering what the captain whould do.Whould he just ignore it, or whould he have a ceremony?

Now he had his answer.

B4, sitting stupidly on the floor of their quarters contemplating 'The Grinch Who stole Christmas' heared the message and complied.

Exactly 34.54 seconds into the minute of silence, Ensign Cohane spoke up.

'There's something hailing us, sir'.

Data spun around, furious.Who dared to interupt the moment of silence?It just didn't seem right.

'Onscreen'.

'This is Captain Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise'.

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Sorry about the cliffhanger folks!It wont be the last I can promise you!Thanks again to Yukki and the anonymous reviewer who also took the time to send a message. Im already going to work Q into this but i'll try to have Lore come too,ok?

-jprime