This story takes place in mid-season 5 of Voyager, which translates to mid-season 7 of DS9, i own none of the characters & so on & so forth, blah, blah, blah.
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Chapter 1
"The time is 0800 hours." The familiar voice of the computer said, waking Captain Kathryn Janeway from her first good nights sleep in weeks.
"Acknowledged, Computer." Janeway said in a slightly groggy voice. Why was the computer so damn annoying? It had not bothered her getting out of bed before, but this, being her first good nights sleep in so long made her think about not using the program again.
Sleep. It had not come easy for her lately, she would often find herself up at odd hours of the night, sometimes up reading, sometimes lying in bed counting the number of hours she could sleep if she fell asleep at that moment. The Doctor had lectured her many times about drinking to much coffee, & about how it could cause significant disruptions to her sleep patterns, being so high in caffeine & all.
It had been five & a half years since Voyager had been thrown into the far side of the galaxy & five & a half years since the ship had started it's long journey home. The only contact Voyager had been able to establish between itself & the alpha quadrant was through the Doctor, which was transmitted across thousands of light years, via an alien relay station, to the experimental Starfleet vessel, U.S.S. Prometheus. Upon arriving the Doctor found the ship in Romulan hands &, with help from a fellow EMH, was able to re-take the vessel & return it to Starfleet.
Janeway slowly got out of her bed & walked to the replicator.
"Coffee, black, hot." She said, as she had countless times before, & watched as the cup materialized in the replicator.
As she took her first sip her muscles began to relax, Coffee, it was the one constant in her life, she thought. A slightly sad fact. She was due on the bridge in two hours & would attempt to make the best out of her one hour of down time before she had to begin preparing for the duty which she had come to know so well.
****
"Dammit!" B'Elanna Torres shouted as the sparks flew from her console. She had spent hours repairing the antimatter flow capacitor & now it had malfunctioned yet again.
"What the hell do you want from me?" She asked, part to the flow capacitor, part to nobody in particular.
"Well, i was going to suggest dinner, but maybe we should skip right to the extra curricular's if your gonna have that attitude." The voice of Tom Paris said from behind her.
The voice brought a smile to B'Elanna's face despite herself.
She turned & stood from her kneeling position in front of the malfunctioning device & faced him.
"The way I'm feeling right now that wouldn't be a good idea."
"That's never stopped you before." Tom said, with the slightest hint of sarcasm.
"Bad day?" He asked, B'Elanna laughed.
"You could say that, it's been one thing after anoth..........." She started before being interrupted by the sudden rocking of the ship.
"Lieutenant, i think you should take a look at this." Ensign Vorik, the ship's assistant chief engineer said.
B'Elanna sighed. What was wrong this time?
She walked to the main console & was quite surprised by what she saw. It was not another malfunction, but some sort of spatial anomaly, & a large one at that, over 4,000 kilometers in diameter.
B'Elanna tapped her comm badge.
"Torres to Astrometrics, are you getting the same readings as we are?"
In astrometrics, Seven Of Nine walked swiftly from one console to another, taking readings on this spatial anomaly that had seemed to spring from nowhere.
"I am, we have been pulled into a gravity well caused by the anomaly, however, i will need to make several more scans before i can learn more." Seven said, in her usual, crisp, serious voice.
****
"What is it?" Captain Janeway asked herself.
It had been several hours since the anomaly had been detected & Voyager pulled within it's gravity well, it had taken every second of those two hours for Seven Of Nine, along with the engineering & science staff's to discover the nature of the anomaly. As Janeway paced back & forth in the briefing room waiting for Seven to enter with the final results of several hours of scans, & hopefully, a way out.
When Seven entered she got right to the point & pulled up a series of scans on a nearby screen.
"What have you got?" Janeway asked.
"Very little, we have been able to determine that the anomaly is emitting large amounts of tachyon radiation & is producing extremely high neutrino emissions."
"Why didn't we detect it?" Harry Kim asked, from the opposite side of the table.
"Unknown, the anomaly appears to have spontainiously come into existence as we passed through this part of space."
"Any thoughts on how we can escape?" Janeway asked.
"Possibly, we could attempt to disrupt the anomalies hold on us by modifying our warp field to an inverse frequency & modifying the deflector array to emit an anti-tachyon pulse, it should be sufficient to disrupt it's hold on us."
Janeway mused for a moment then:
"Get started."
****
Less than an hour later Janeway took her command chair &, after receiving confirmation from engineering that the required modifications had been made, gave the order to Tom Paris to engage the ships engines in an attempt to escape the anomaly.
The results were not as expected. Immediately the ship began to shake violently, sparks shot from every console on the bridge.
"What's happening, Tom?" Janeway asked.
"Something went wrong, our warp field just collapsed."
"Full reverse!" Janeway ordered.
"The helm's not responding!" Paris replied.
"Captain, I'm getting some strange readings here." Harry Kim said.
"What sort of readings?" Asked Janeway.
"Those neutrino emissions we detected; they just jumped off the scale...if i didn't know better I'd say there was a wormhole somewhere close by."
The ship jolted once more.
"We're being pulled towards the center of the anomaly!" Tom said, as the ship continued to shake.
When things began to calm down several moments later Janeway assumed the worst was over.
"Report!" She said, to anyone who would answer.
"We appear to have exited the anomaly." Was her response, from Harry Kim.
"Exited? What do you mean exited?" She asked.
"I'm not sure, but i think there may have really been a wormhole, or something similar, at the center of that disturbance."
"Where are we then?"
"Uncertain, long range sensors are offline, we only have navigational sensors." Harry replied.
"See if you can get them back, i need to know where we are." She replied.
"Engineering reports the warp core is offline, we only have impulse." Came the voice of Paris.
"Bridge to Engineering." Janeway said, tapping her comm badge.
"Torres here." Came the reply.
"B'Elanna, how long before we have warp?"
"At least an hour, if not more, the reactor itself wasn't harmed, but the coolant system took heavy damage; we can't activate warp engines without it."
"Understood, do the best you can." Janeway said.
"Captain, we've got partial long range sensors back.." Harry said.
"What have you got, Mr. Kim?'
When his response did not come at once Janeway turned in his direction.
"Ensign?"
"This can't be right..." He said.
"What can't be right?" Janeway asked.
"Sensors say we're in the Alpha Quadrant."
To be continued..............................
If you read, please review, i always update faster the more reviews i get for a particular story.
Chapter 1
"The time is 0800 hours." The familiar voice of the computer said, waking Captain Kathryn Janeway from her first good nights sleep in weeks.
"Acknowledged, Computer." Janeway said in a slightly groggy voice. Why was the computer so damn annoying? It had not bothered her getting out of bed before, but this, being her first good nights sleep in so long made her think about not using the program again.
Sleep. It had not come easy for her lately, she would often find herself up at odd hours of the night, sometimes up reading, sometimes lying in bed counting the number of hours she could sleep if she fell asleep at that moment. The Doctor had lectured her many times about drinking to much coffee, & about how it could cause significant disruptions to her sleep patterns, being so high in caffeine & all.
It had been five & a half years since Voyager had been thrown into the far side of the galaxy & five & a half years since the ship had started it's long journey home. The only contact Voyager had been able to establish between itself & the alpha quadrant was through the Doctor, which was transmitted across thousands of light years, via an alien relay station, to the experimental Starfleet vessel, U.S.S. Prometheus. Upon arriving the Doctor found the ship in Romulan hands &, with help from a fellow EMH, was able to re-take the vessel & return it to Starfleet.
Janeway slowly got out of her bed & walked to the replicator.
"Coffee, black, hot." She said, as she had countless times before, & watched as the cup materialized in the replicator.
As she took her first sip her muscles began to relax, Coffee, it was the one constant in her life, she thought. A slightly sad fact. She was due on the bridge in two hours & would attempt to make the best out of her one hour of down time before she had to begin preparing for the duty which she had come to know so well.
****
"Dammit!" B'Elanna Torres shouted as the sparks flew from her console. She had spent hours repairing the antimatter flow capacitor & now it had malfunctioned yet again.
"What the hell do you want from me?" She asked, part to the flow capacitor, part to nobody in particular.
"Well, i was going to suggest dinner, but maybe we should skip right to the extra curricular's if your gonna have that attitude." The voice of Tom Paris said from behind her.
The voice brought a smile to B'Elanna's face despite herself.
She turned & stood from her kneeling position in front of the malfunctioning device & faced him.
"The way I'm feeling right now that wouldn't be a good idea."
"That's never stopped you before." Tom said, with the slightest hint of sarcasm.
"Bad day?" He asked, B'Elanna laughed.
"You could say that, it's been one thing after anoth..........." She started before being interrupted by the sudden rocking of the ship.
"Lieutenant, i think you should take a look at this." Ensign Vorik, the ship's assistant chief engineer said.
B'Elanna sighed. What was wrong this time?
She walked to the main console & was quite surprised by what she saw. It was not another malfunction, but some sort of spatial anomaly, & a large one at that, over 4,000 kilometers in diameter.
B'Elanna tapped her comm badge.
"Torres to Astrometrics, are you getting the same readings as we are?"
In astrometrics, Seven Of Nine walked swiftly from one console to another, taking readings on this spatial anomaly that had seemed to spring from nowhere.
"I am, we have been pulled into a gravity well caused by the anomaly, however, i will need to make several more scans before i can learn more." Seven said, in her usual, crisp, serious voice.
****
"What is it?" Captain Janeway asked herself.
It had been several hours since the anomaly had been detected & Voyager pulled within it's gravity well, it had taken every second of those two hours for Seven Of Nine, along with the engineering & science staff's to discover the nature of the anomaly. As Janeway paced back & forth in the briefing room waiting for Seven to enter with the final results of several hours of scans, & hopefully, a way out.
When Seven entered she got right to the point & pulled up a series of scans on a nearby screen.
"What have you got?" Janeway asked.
"Very little, we have been able to determine that the anomaly is emitting large amounts of tachyon radiation & is producing extremely high neutrino emissions."
"Why didn't we detect it?" Harry Kim asked, from the opposite side of the table.
"Unknown, the anomaly appears to have spontainiously come into existence as we passed through this part of space."
"Any thoughts on how we can escape?" Janeway asked.
"Possibly, we could attempt to disrupt the anomalies hold on us by modifying our warp field to an inverse frequency & modifying the deflector array to emit an anti-tachyon pulse, it should be sufficient to disrupt it's hold on us."
Janeway mused for a moment then:
"Get started."
****
Less than an hour later Janeway took her command chair &, after receiving confirmation from engineering that the required modifications had been made, gave the order to Tom Paris to engage the ships engines in an attempt to escape the anomaly.
The results were not as expected. Immediately the ship began to shake violently, sparks shot from every console on the bridge.
"What's happening, Tom?" Janeway asked.
"Something went wrong, our warp field just collapsed."
"Full reverse!" Janeway ordered.
"The helm's not responding!" Paris replied.
"Captain, I'm getting some strange readings here." Harry Kim said.
"What sort of readings?" Asked Janeway.
"Those neutrino emissions we detected; they just jumped off the scale...if i didn't know better I'd say there was a wormhole somewhere close by."
The ship jolted once more.
"We're being pulled towards the center of the anomaly!" Tom said, as the ship continued to shake.
When things began to calm down several moments later Janeway assumed the worst was over.
"Report!" She said, to anyone who would answer.
"We appear to have exited the anomaly." Was her response, from Harry Kim.
"Exited? What do you mean exited?" She asked.
"I'm not sure, but i think there may have really been a wormhole, or something similar, at the center of that disturbance."
"Where are we then?"
"Uncertain, long range sensors are offline, we only have navigational sensors." Harry replied.
"See if you can get them back, i need to know where we are." She replied.
"Engineering reports the warp core is offline, we only have impulse." Came the voice of Paris.
"Bridge to Engineering." Janeway said, tapping her comm badge.
"Torres here." Came the reply.
"B'Elanna, how long before we have warp?"
"At least an hour, if not more, the reactor itself wasn't harmed, but the coolant system took heavy damage; we can't activate warp engines without it."
"Understood, do the best you can." Janeway said.
"Captain, we've got partial long range sensors back.." Harry said.
"What have you got, Mr. Kim?'
When his response did not come at once Janeway turned in his direction.
"Ensign?"
"This can't be right..." He said.
"What can't be right?" Janeway asked.
"Sensors say we're in the Alpha Quadrant."
To be continued..............................