STAR TREK: VOYAGER Knockin' On Heaven's Door By Miguel A. E. Betita
The year is approximately 2570. The M-Class Starfleet vessel Voyager was commissioned for a six-week mission to capture a single Maquis ship. The Maquis is a rogue militant army that uses extremist and terrorist tactics against the Cardassians, an alien race that is generally considered to be a scourge of the Universe. Unfortunately, the Maquis ship had fallen through some sort of subspace wormhole that took them into the Delta Quadrant, directly on the opposite end of the galaxy. The Voyager had followed in pursuit. Although the Maquis ship had been destroyed, its crew had been rescued and taken aboard. Now, united aboard the Voyager, its crew is desperately seeking any means possible that can aid them in their quest to return home.
CAPTAIN KATHRYN M. JANEWAY is talking to SEVEN OF NINE in her personal ready room, conducting personnel productivity reviews. The CAPTAIN tells the former Borg how well she's been progressing, interacting with the crew, relearning how to socialize and behave normally again. She tells SEVEN OF NINE, "You're becoming more and more like a human again!"
SEVEN OF NINE coolly shrugs, and replies, "Captain, explain. Except for my Borg ocular implant and the components within me, my physiology has always been that of a human's. I feel to see how I can become...more human than I am now."
JANEWAY is about to explain herself when she is interrupted by two beeps from her com badge, and is informed by FIRST OFFICER CHAKOTAY that a vessel had been found on their sensors. No life signs were found aboard, and it is currently being tractor-beamed into one of the cargo bay areas. The CAPTAIN excuses herself, leaving SEVEN OF NINE alone, hands behind her back, awaiting JANEWAY's return to continue with her review.
In the cargo bay, JANEWAY asks for a status report. CHAKOTAY, LT. TUVOK of Security, LT. BE'LANNA TORRES of Engineering, and two ensigns have gathered there. The ensigns appear to be setting up some kind of triangle formation of three half-spherical projectors on the ground, as well as a tray of medical tools. The other three tell her that the ship's propulsion systems were beyond repair, despite it being a remarkably advanced ship. Also, they cannot open it, due to the seams of the ship, including its cockpit, being fused with some sort of biogenetic material. CHAKOTAY had already asked for the DOCTOR's appearance, to help disintegrate the biogenetic material, and moves aside to check up on the ensigns.
Meanwhile, BEL'ANNA shows the CAPTAIN a purple quartz-like crystal embedded in a metallic cylinder engine part. She informs JANEWAY that the crystal is emitting radiation frequencies not unlike Voyager's own warp core, and that it may be the other ship's mode of propulsion. Also, its half-life is 30% longer than Voyager's own core, meaning that it is more efficient, works at higher speeds, and could possibly last longer. BEL'ANNA suggests that if she could study it further, she could possibly integrate it into the ship's engines, thereby upgrading it. JANEWAY tells her to look into it, and joins CHAKOTAY and TUVOK, where the ensigns have completed setting up. She orders them to power up the triangle formation, which acts as a remote holographic projection field for the DOCTOR when he is needed outside of the Medical Room.
The DOCTOR materializes, and, staring straight ahead, says, "Please state the nature of your medical emergency." He looks at the CAPTAIN, and adds, "Sorry. Force of habit. Or programming, as it were." He walks over to the tray, and starts tooling with the instruments, clearly annoyed. "I was in the middle of cataloguing the entire crew's hemo-nitrous indexes when First Officer Chakotay informed me," he says to no one in particular, although loudly enough so all could hear. "I'm glad you called me down here; it's not as if I've got anything important to do." He rolls his eyes.
The CAPTAIN makes an exasperated plea to him, and the DOCTOR continues. "I've picked up an interesting protein sequence on the scanners. This lipase formula should decompose whatever's sealing that hatch almost instantly," he says, and injects it into an exposed area on the ship.
JANEWAY thanks him, and he replies, "No problem, captain. After all, I'm a locksmith, not a doctor!" JANEWAY repeats that exasperated look at him. The ship's veins/seams are quickly withering, and the DOCTOR announces that it should be all right now. The two ensigns step forward and heave at the door, which falls away easily.
"My, my, how interesting," says the DOCTOR. "It's a piece of junk." Inside the tiny vessel is the torn-away upper-half of a female android, strapped into a chair. An arm is missing, and exposed circuitry sparks and smokes. Over her breast on her soot-ridden uniform are the words EVAK-6. Fade out.
Intro Credits.
Fade in.
The year is approximately 2570. The M-Class Starfleet vessel Voyager was commissioned for a six-week mission to capture a single Maquis ship. The Maquis is a rogue militant army that uses extremist and terrorist tactics against the Cardassians, an alien race that is generally considered to be a scourge of the Universe. Unfortunately, the Maquis ship had fallen through some sort of subspace wormhole that took them into the Delta Quadrant, directly on the opposite end of the galaxy. The Voyager had followed in pursuit. Although the Maquis ship had been destroyed, its crew had been rescued and taken aboard. Now, united aboard the Voyager, its crew is desperately seeking any means possible that can aid them in their quest to return home.
CAPTAIN KATHRYN M. JANEWAY is talking to SEVEN OF NINE in her personal ready room, conducting personnel productivity reviews. The CAPTAIN tells the former Borg how well she's been progressing, interacting with the crew, relearning how to socialize and behave normally again. She tells SEVEN OF NINE, "You're becoming more and more like a human again!"
SEVEN OF NINE coolly shrugs, and replies, "Captain, explain. Except for my Borg ocular implant and the components within me, my physiology has always been that of a human's. I feel to see how I can become...more human than I am now."
JANEWAY is about to explain herself when she is interrupted by two beeps from her com badge, and is informed by FIRST OFFICER CHAKOTAY that a vessel had been found on their sensors. No life signs were found aboard, and it is currently being tractor-beamed into one of the cargo bay areas. The CAPTAIN excuses herself, leaving SEVEN OF NINE alone, hands behind her back, awaiting JANEWAY's return to continue with her review.
In the cargo bay, JANEWAY asks for a status report. CHAKOTAY, LT. TUVOK of Security, LT. BE'LANNA TORRES of Engineering, and two ensigns have gathered there. The ensigns appear to be setting up some kind of triangle formation of three half-spherical projectors on the ground, as well as a tray of medical tools. The other three tell her that the ship's propulsion systems were beyond repair, despite it being a remarkably advanced ship. Also, they cannot open it, due to the seams of the ship, including its cockpit, being fused with some sort of biogenetic material. CHAKOTAY had already asked for the DOCTOR's appearance, to help disintegrate the biogenetic material, and moves aside to check up on the ensigns.
Meanwhile, BEL'ANNA shows the CAPTAIN a purple quartz-like crystal embedded in a metallic cylinder engine part. She informs JANEWAY that the crystal is emitting radiation frequencies not unlike Voyager's own warp core, and that it may be the other ship's mode of propulsion. Also, its half-life is 30% longer than Voyager's own core, meaning that it is more efficient, works at higher speeds, and could possibly last longer. BEL'ANNA suggests that if she could study it further, she could possibly integrate it into the ship's engines, thereby upgrading it. JANEWAY tells her to look into it, and joins CHAKOTAY and TUVOK, where the ensigns have completed setting up. She orders them to power up the triangle formation, which acts as a remote holographic projection field for the DOCTOR when he is needed outside of the Medical Room.
The DOCTOR materializes, and, staring straight ahead, says, "Please state the nature of your medical emergency." He looks at the CAPTAIN, and adds, "Sorry. Force of habit. Or programming, as it were." He walks over to the tray, and starts tooling with the instruments, clearly annoyed. "I was in the middle of cataloguing the entire crew's hemo-nitrous indexes when First Officer Chakotay informed me," he says to no one in particular, although loudly enough so all could hear. "I'm glad you called me down here; it's not as if I've got anything important to do." He rolls his eyes.
The CAPTAIN makes an exasperated plea to him, and the DOCTOR continues. "I've picked up an interesting protein sequence on the scanners. This lipase formula should decompose whatever's sealing that hatch almost instantly," he says, and injects it into an exposed area on the ship.
JANEWAY thanks him, and he replies, "No problem, captain. After all, I'm a locksmith, not a doctor!" JANEWAY repeats that exasperated look at him. The ship's veins/seams are quickly withering, and the DOCTOR announces that it should be all right now. The two ensigns step forward and heave at the door, which falls away easily.
"My, my, how interesting," says the DOCTOR. "It's a piece of junk." Inside the tiny vessel is the torn-away upper-half of a female android, strapped into a chair. An arm is missing, and exposed circuitry sparks and smokes. Over her breast on her soot-ridden uniform are the words EVAK-6. Fade out.
Intro Credits.
Fade in.