Discontinuity
By Chaoseternus

Heres a joke for you, two ships, the Enterprise NCC 1701-E and the Dauntless class Indefatigable both investigate an unusual gate, which one ends up in the wrong universe?

Discontinuity: Ravenbright Station, Alpha Centauri

O'Neill grimaced as he dropped another piece of paper into his outbox, well that was another one done, only an unending supply to go. Sighing, he reached across the desk and flipped the radio repeater on, maybe something interesting would happen, and he would have an excuse to do something, so long as it meant leaving his desk and this paperwork behind.

"Indefatigable, could you please repeat that?"

"RSS Indefatigable on approach requesting priority one docking, protocol Quantum 4-4-9 this is not a drill"

"Copy that Indefatigable, All Ships All ships this is Ravenbright, clear all approach vectors and await further instructions, this is not a drill"

Ahh, perfect timing.

O'Neill practically leapt away from the offending paperwork on his desk, already out the door by the time the call came for him to come to Command.

O'Neill blinked, glanced again at Commander Ewing. Blinked and finally got his voice working again, "The what?" he asked, and amused, you must be joking tone is his voice.

" Enterprise November-Charlie-Charlie-1701-Echo came through what appears to have been a interdimensional gate, last we saw she was in the Edonia nebula"

"Right, and which ship did you say it was again?"

Ewing sighed, burying his head in his hands, he had been expecting this to a certain extent of course but come off it! Exactly how many times did he have to say it? Exactly how many times did he have to show O'Neill the sensor logs, the camera images?

"You know exactly what I said" Ewing snapped, finally losing patience, "this is serious! There is an ancient interdimensional gate out there and it is very close to territory controlled by Anubis which makes it a very potential problem, and a very dangerous one!"

O'Neill blinked "your serious?"

"YES!"

O'Neill rubbed his ear thoughtfully, "Ouch, okay we'll have to scratch up another ship from somewhere, send you back plus one for a recon in relative force. At least they fixed the Persephone drive issue, turned out to be basic vibration in the wrong place"

It was Ewing 's turn to blink, "You're kidding?"

"Nope"

"Half our fleet was shut down by vibrations?"

" Persephone has been fixed, Merchant and Independence are having a hasty fix installed and Prometheus is having a full refit, bring her up to the standards of the other Prometheus class ships" O'Neill added, rapidly running through the list of available warships in his head, "You just missed an attack by both Maktenos and Anubis on Sol too, luckily for us they hate each other so their first response was MAD, got a number of hulls out of it"

"Any usable?"

"Yep"

"Good, we need all the ships we can get"

O'Neill nodded, "I should be able to get you Interrogator, she's green unfortunately but there isn't much else available"

"Right, well I'll need to speak…"

"General O'Neill to Command, unidentified warship on sensors"

Ewing caught O'Neill's eye, "What's the betting?"

O'Neill smiled grimly, "No bet"

Discontinuity: USS Enterprise NCC1701-E

It was a silent, still crew that dragged the Enterprises complaining hull into the Alpha Centauri system, her shields fried by the Goa'uld weaponry, her engines complaining of her long, painful flight and a crew wearied and exhausted by days of repairs and reconstruction.

And now this.

Picard wearily sighed at the image on his viewer as a steady stream of ships flicked into orbit around the second habitable world, dropping a massive amount of supplies, personnel and equipment down to the surface.

He could recognise a relief effort when he saw one, they weren't in mkuch shape to help though.

"Captain, we're being hailed" the young nervous ensign assigned to take over Tactical said.

"Open a channel Ensign… Lewis?"

"Yes sir"

"This is General O'Neill, Commander Alpha Centauri Defences, please identify yourself and state your business"

Picard frowned, "Under the circumstances, I am not entirely sure we should be answering that on an open channel, has Indefatigable reported yet?"

"Yes, but that still doesn't tell us why you are here when you were adamant you were going to stay, take a look over the ancients technology"

Picard sighed, "Had a little spot of bother, two ha'tak's decided to pay us a visit"

"Status?"

"We lost them but were damaged in the process and our ship is in need of repairs we cannot carry out ourselves"

"Understood. Indefatigable will meet you shortly, please maintain position"

Discontinuity: Ravenbright Station, Alpha Centauri

Ewing raised a swift eyebrow, "If they can't repair it on their own, then how will we? We have an entirely different techbase and no replicators, well" Ewing corrected himself, "not their type of replicators anyway"

Ewing paused, then grimaced "I find the line about a visit from a pair of ha'taks most interesting, they should not have been spotted by the Goa'uld where they were, I think we need to consider the possibility that the Goa'uld now control the intergate"

O'Neill stopped, and shuddered, "Crap" he said, flatly.

"Yep" was Ewings only comment.