Another exciting episode of Star Trek Voyager: "Linear Illusions"! Also dedicated to Wild_Goose_01 or whatever name he's using now and the rest of my friends at SSSI! Yo! On with the story!

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Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager frowned at the tricorder readings and abruptly stiffened as she felt a hard edge stab into her back, "Don't move one inch, or you're fried." A harsh voice said behind her.

"I mean no harm to you at all" Janeway began the stopped as her unknown assailant poked her roughly with the weapon again, "I said shut up!" The voice growled.

Janeway had enough of this treatment, she hurtled herself to the floor twisting away from her attacker, grasped her phase emitter; a smaller compact version of a phaser, and aimed at the dark shape and squeezed the trigger.

A gold energy pulse shot from the emitter node and hit the attacker in the stomach. Her assailant doubled over and fell onto the carpeted floor shivering slightly. His weapon fell from his hands onto the floor with a clatter. Janeway leaned down and scooped it up and exhaled in surprise.

The slim silver item she held in her hand was a device resembling a federation phaser, finely etched words down the side read 'Type V', Starfleet's latest phaser model.

Troubled, Janeway pressed the power stud on the side where the holder's thumb would be and the miniature plasma screen near the emitter node lit up with data showing the current wavelength of the phaser beam, density, power level among other useful data.

Janeway used her thumb to click a control and the window on the display maximized showing a screen view of where the phaser was aimed with a targeting crosshair, distance to target data, and basic scans.

Wondering what to do with her unconscious attacker, Janeway decided to just leave him there for the museum security to find after removing whatever he had in his pockets. Janeway flipped through the man's wallet and pulled out a blank silver card. Suspicious, Janeway scanned the curious object with her tricorder and the scans detected advance circuitry usually associated with devices such as PADDs or reader devices.

Janeway sighed and tapped the tricorder to send a power surge to the device, just as she had thought a visual display appeared on the flat surface of the index-card sized object and displayed a person's face and additional information scrolled besides it like a ID card:

Agent Brian Temple,

Starfleet Temporal Divisions Unit,

Codex 1339 Starfleet Charter 1-A

What was Starfleet agents doing threatening her like that? Janeway puzzled over the ID card. The person in the picture was without doubt the same one lying on the floor a few feet from her.

Suddenly the fallen man stirred then inclined his head to look up at her, "Captain Janeway, of the Starship Voyager, Registry number NCC-74656. You are hereby under orders from Starfleet Command, Temporal Directives 4102, as per the directive, your memory will be wipe after your mission is complete." The man said flatly as if reading from a padd.

"Not so fast there, Agent. What is this about wiping my memories? And there is no Temporal Directive 4102!" Janeway snapped back keeping the futuristic phaser pointed at the agent.

"There have been…changes to the Starfleet Charter regarding the use of the Temporal Directive, this is one such time." The Temporal agent said quietly "Earth is in grave danger."

"From who, the Borg?" Janeway asked, the time traveling agent replied grimly "From within Starfleet itself…"

To be continued…

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