Title: "Gateway" 30/45
Author: Quills
Contact:the_quill_pen@yahoo.com
Series: ENT
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Paramount owns Star trek and I derive no financial gain from this story.
Codes: A, T/Tu, Ma, S, R, P angst, drama, romance, humor, action/adventure
Summary: Captain Archer is relieved of command for a secret mission into the 24th Century .
To find and stop the Suliban renegade Silik.While he is gone, a Vulcan Starfleet Captain from the
future is given temporary command of the Enterprise NX-01 with his own orders to investigate the
'Temporal Cold War'.
Chapter 30
Archer stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise C. He had ordered the ship to return to
'Gateway'. His fear was that this whole affair had been an elaborate game staged by Silik
in a effort to gain favor with his former masters and revenge on Archer. It had occurred to Archer
in an to late he mused and he berated himself for not seeing it sooner. Why would the cabal
Silik served wish to attract attention to itself? If it was the cabal that had orchestrated the dual
timeline attack they were taking a big risk alerting the Starfleet Commands of both eras to their
existence...which was in fact already known...but was unclear if the cabal were aware that Starfleet
was aware. In any case, it didn't make sense. This cabal worked seruptitiously...behind the lines.
This didn't seem like something they would orchestrate. It was brilliant, getting the Starfleet's of
both eras to chase a phantom threat that could destroy the birth of the Federation. But he should
have seen it. There were two many clues pointing to it being the machinations of just one man.
Far to many loose ends that depended on the secrecy or actions of others. The
cabal wouldn't rely on such uncertain methods. Maybe that's why they kicked Silik out. No matter
how hard he tried he just couldn't . Except perhaps this time...this time he might be just enough steps
ahead in the game to get exactly what he wanted.
Rachel Garrett sat in the command chair. She looked pensively at the view screen as the starship
entered the 'Gateway' system. Like Archer, she wanted to have an answer, but feared what that
answer might be.
"Slow to sub light Mr. Paris." she ordered.
Jonathan Archer walked down the steps and took up a position next to Garrett. She began to stand
but he motioned her to remain. "We're almost there, John." she said "Still no response to our hails,
but the Kirk is under orders not to respond to
any vessels without prior orders from Starfleet Command."
"The Kirk's own security protocols are going to make contact that much harder." replied Archer
The two officers conversation was interrupted by Mr. Paris "We're approaching the planet, sirs."
Garrett stood and gave the order to come to a full stop. The ship glided several hundred kilometers
until it assumed a fixed position two thousand kilometers from the planet.
"Open a channel" said Archer
"Channel open Captain." replied the comm officer
"This is Captain Archer of the starship Enterprise." said the Captain "Captain Piper, it is imperative
that you break communication silence. We have reason to believe a hostile faction intends to take
control of your ship."
Archer waited a moment and then looked at the comm officer. The young dark faced man looked at his
instruments and then turned towards Archer shaking his head in the negative.
Rachel Garrett looked at the view screen and then at Archer "What now?"
"I don't know." said Archer shaking his head "We can keeping knocking, but there might not be
anyone home."
"And no way for us to tell." added Garrett "If she's here, then she's cloaked and we have no way of
detecting her."
The two officers continued to stare at the viewer as if willing the Kirk to appear in front of them.
Just then a voice from behind interrupted. "There might be a way Commander."
A short blue faced Bolian was seated at the secondary science station at the back of the bridge. He turned to
face the two senior officers. Archer and Garrett scrutinized the man for a moment and a flush of deep
blue came to his cheeks. For a moment he feared he had spoken out of place and gotten himself into
hot water.
"Mr...Tol...isn't it?" said Archer as he recalled the man's name. He had studied the crews
records, but with over six hundred crewmembers it was hard to remember names. It was
only the fact that the man was from a species he had never seen before and the Bolian's
striking blue features that he remembered his name.
"Yes, sir" the junior Lt. replied in a clipped voice.
"What do you know about this Mr. Tol?" asked the Captain
Garrett interrupted "I'm afraid it's my fault Captain." said Garrett "I ordered Mr. Tol to work
on the time travel computation. He's our chief astrophysics officer."
"I see." replied Archer looking from Garrett to Tol "Alright Mr. Tol, what do you have."
"Well Captain" the nervous Bolian began "I've been working on the computation for tangent velocity
acceleration around Earth's star. That's the only verified method for temporal mechanics theory of
time travel
for objects at high warp velocity."
Archer looked at Tol as the scientific gibberish completely eluded him, but he wasn't about to show
his ignorance
and replied with his best poker face. "Go on Mr. Tol."
Rachel gave Archer a brief smile.
"Well sir, I couldn't help wondering why Commander Garrett would order me to run the time travel
computations." said Tol "When we arrived at the planet , you and the Commander were discussing a
ship possibly being out, but not being able to find it...well, I thought that maybe...."
"You thought this was the reason Commander Garrett ordered you to work on the time travel formula?"
finished Archer
"Yes, sir." replied the Bolian
"So what's this possibility you have for determining if our ship is out there?" asked Archer cutting to the
chase
"Well sir, I can't tell you if it's out there." said the Bolian "but I can tell you if it's left our time."
Garrett and Archer looked at one another and then turned back to Tol.
Garrett spoke first "How?"
Tol turned back to his station " I've been working on a second computation that should work other
G2 stars." said Tol "It would enable starships to use stars similar to Earth's sun as a method for
slingshot time travel. It occurred to me that maybe the crew of this other ship might have somehow
come up with the same derivation on the slingshot theory."
"And there just happens to be a G2 star in this system." said Garrett
"Yes, Mam" said Tol "We could use Enterprise's sensors to detect any chronometric particles in or around
this system's star. Of course, if they didn't attempt a "slingshot effect" or didn't attempt it in this system
we would have no way of knowing if they were even here. It's a long shot."
"It's the only shot we've got." said Archer "Let's do it. Mr. Tol, man the science station and scan for
chronometric particles around the star in this system."
"Aye, sir" said Tol enthusiastically as he moved over to the main science station. The Bolian configured
the ship's sensors to scan for any trace of chronometric particles. He targeted the scanners to begin
a sweep at the outer edge of the star leading in from the side of Gateway the Enterprise was on ...jackpot!
"Captain, sensors are picking up chronometric particles." reported the Bolian "The area around the G2
star is flooded with them."
"Then she's used the "slingshot effect"." said Archer
"Without a doubt sir," confirmed the Bolian "The ship your looking for has left our time period."
TBC....
Author: Quills
Contact:the_quill_pen@yahoo.com
Series: ENT
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Paramount owns Star trek and I derive no financial gain from this story.
Codes: A, T/Tu, Ma, S, R, P angst, drama, romance, humor, action/adventure
Summary: Captain Archer is relieved of command for a secret mission into the 24th Century .
To find and stop the Suliban renegade Silik.While he is gone, a Vulcan Starfleet Captain from the
future is given temporary command of the Enterprise NX-01 with his own orders to investigate the
'Temporal Cold War'.
Chapter 30
Archer stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise C. He had ordered the ship to return to
'Gateway'. His fear was that this whole affair had been an elaborate game staged by Silik
in a effort to gain favor with his former masters and revenge on Archer. It had occurred to Archer
in an to late he mused and he berated himself for not seeing it sooner. Why would the cabal
Silik served wish to attract attention to itself? If it was the cabal that had orchestrated the dual
timeline attack they were taking a big risk alerting the Starfleet Commands of both eras to their
existence...which was in fact already known...but was unclear if the cabal were aware that Starfleet
was aware. In any case, it didn't make sense. This cabal worked seruptitiously...behind the lines.
This didn't seem like something they would orchestrate. It was brilliant, getting the Starfleet's of
both eras to chase a phantom threat that could destroy the birth of the Federation. But he should
have seen it. There were two many clues pointing to it being the machinations of just one man.
Far to many loose ends that depended on the secrecy or actions of others. The
cabal wouldn't rely on such uncertain methods. Maybe that's why they kicked Silik out. No matter
how hard he tried he just couldn't . Except perhaps this time...this time he might be just enough steps
ahead in the game to get exactly what he wanted.
Rachel Garrett sat in the command chair. She looked pensively at the view screen as the starship
entered the 'Gateway' system. Like Archer, she wanted to have an answer, but feared what that
answer might be.
"Slow to sub light Mr. Paris." she ordered.
Jonathan Archer walked down the steps and took up a position next to Garrett. She began to stand
but he motioned her to remain. "We're almost there, John." she said "Still no response to our hails,
but the Kirk is under orders not to respond to
any vessels without prior orders from Starfleet Command."
"The Kirk's own security protocols are going to make contact that much harder." replied Archer
The two officers conversation was interrupted by Mr. Paris "We're approaching the planet, sirs."
Garrett stood and gave the order to come to a full stop. The ship glided several hundred kilometers
until it assumed a fixed position two thousand kilometers from the planet.
"Open a channel" said Archer
"Channel open Captain." replied the comm officer
"This is Captain Archer of the starship Enterprise." said the Captain "Captain Piper, it is imperative
that you break communication silence. We have reason to believe a hostile faction intends to take
control of your ship."
Archer waited a moment and then looked at the comm officer. The young dark faced man looked at his
instruments and then turned towards Archer shaking his head in the negative.
Rachel Garrett looked at the view screen and then at Archer "What now?"
"I don't know." said Archer shaking his head "We can keeping knocking, but there might not be
anyone home."
"And no way for us to tell." added Garrett "If she's here, then she's cloaked and we have no way of
detecting her."
The two officers continued to stare at the viewer as if willing the Kirk to appear in front of them.
Just then a voice from behind interrupted. "There might be a way Commander."
A short blue faced Bolian was seated at the secondary science station at the back of the bridge. He turned to
face the two senior officers. Archer and Garrett scrutinized the man for a moment and a flush of deep
blue came to his cheeks. For a moment he feared he had spoken out of place and gotten himself into
hot water.
"Mr...Tol...isn't it?" said Archer as he recalled the man's name. He had studied the crews
records, but with over six hundred crewmembers it was hard to remember names. It was
only the fact that the man was from a species he had never seen before and the Bolian's
striking blue features that he remembered his name.
"Yes, sir" the junior Lt. replied in a clipped voice.
"What do you know about this Mr. Tol?" asked the Captain
Garrett interrupted "I'm afraid it's my fault Captain." said Garrett "I ordered Mr. Tol to work
on the time travel computation. He's our chief astrophysics officer."
"I see." replied Archer looking from Garrett to Tol "Alright Mr. Tol, what do you have."
"Well Captain" the nervous Bolian began "I've been working on the computation for tangent velocity
acceleration around Earth's star. That's the only verified method for temporal mechanics theory of
time travel
for objects at high warp velocity."
Archer looked at Tol as the scientific gibberish completely eluded him, but he wasn't about to show
his ignorance
and replied with his best poker face. "Go on Mr. Tol."
Rachel gave Archer a brief smile.
"Well sir, I couldn't help wondering why Commander Garrett would order me to run the time travel
computations." said Tol "When we arrived at the planet , you and the Commander were discussing a
ship possibly being out, but not being able to find it...well, I thought that maybe...."
"You thought this was the reason Commander Garrett ordered you to work on the time travel formula?"
finished Archer
"Yes, sir." replied the Bolian
"So what's this possibility you have for determining if our ship is out there?" asked Archer cutting to the
chase
"Well sir, I can't tell you if it's out there." said the Bolian "but I can tell you if it's left our time."
Garrett and Archer looked at one another and then turned back to Tol.
Garrett spoke first "How?"
Tol turned back to his station " I've been working on a second computation that should work other
G2 stars." said Tol "It would enable starships to use stars similar to Earth's sun as a method for
slingshot time travel. It occurred to me that maybe the crew of this other ship might have somehow
come up with the same derivation on the slingshot theory."
"And there just happens to be a G2 star in this system." said Garrett
"Yes, Mam" said Tol "We could use Enterprise's sensors to detect any chronometric particles in or around
this system's star. Of course, if they didn't attempt a "slingshot effect" or didn't attempt it in this system
we would have no way of knowing if they were even here. It's a long shot."
"It's the only shot we've got." said Archer "Let's do it. Mr. Tol, man the science station and scan for
chronometric particles around the star in this system."
"Aye, sir" said Tol enthusiastically as he moved over to the main science station. The Bolian configured
the ship's sensors to scan for any trace of chronometric particles. He targeted the scanners to begin
a sweep at the outer edge of the star leading in from the side of Gateway the Enterprise was on ...jackpot!
"Captain, sensors are picking up chronometric particles." reported the Bolian "The area around the G2
star is flooded with them."
"Then she's used the "slingshot effect"." said Archer
"Without a doubt sir," confirmed the Bolian "The ship your looking for has left our time period."
TBC....