Title: To Conquer A Galaxy
Rating: PG-13
Chapter 4: Trip to the Future
Disclaimer: I own neither Stargate SG-1 nor Star Trek of any series. I am doing this for fun only.
A/N:
Matt Mathay – Thanks, but Anubis isn't going after them due to biology.
YVH11B- Thanks for pointing out everything that it changed, because I really hadn't thought of all that. Luckily Enterprise has introduced a way to get around these embarrassing mistakes by blaming everything on the Sphere Builders and the Temporal Cold War.
Raven01uk- You're the winner of why Anubis is attacking the Romulans and wiping them out. He has to display his power, being the megalomaniac all Goa'uld are.
SpaceMan546- Thanks.
Thietje- Thanks.
Now on to the story…
Smith straightened his uniform with a grimace, wondering if he would be able to breathe much longer in this dress uniform. The environmental controls on the turbolift were also not working properly, and it had become hot enough that he was openly sweating.
Today was the day he had been dreading since his appointment to be the Captain of the Daemonicus, the day that he would meet the crew and set course for Romulan space. The turbolift chimed and the doors opened. Closing his eyes, he stepped forward onto the bridge.
When he opened his eyes, he wasn't on the bridge of his ship. He was standing in the middle of some ruins that appeared to be Enchwa, and they seemed to have been that way for a long time.
"Welcome to the future," remarked a voice behind him.
Smith spun, reaching for his phaser, but to his distress he found that it was gone. He narrowed his eyes at the lean man in a black uniform facing him," Who are you? Where are we?"
"Walter Kroenig," said the man in black," and we are on the Enchwa world of Tresailles in the year twenty-six thirty-nine."
"What happened," asked Smith, having a sinking suspicion of what had happened to him? He had had nightmares about this at the Academy in Temporal Paradoxes One-oh-One.
"To you or to this world," asked Kroenig, almost sounding amused.
"Both," snapped Smith, cold edge to his voice.
"To this world…a large battle between the Enchwa, Anubis, and the Covenant," remarked Kroenig," to you…you've just become involved in the Temporal Cold War."
Smith's stomach sunk, this was his Academy nightmare come to life," I know the Enchwa, but who are the others?"
"Anubis and his forces will be someone you meet shortly," said Kroenig," The Covenant could appear whenever the Sphere Builders decide to bring them in…in the original timeline that was fifty years into the extermination or enslaving of all life in the galaxy."
Smith stayed silent, and Kroenig continued," Tell me Thomas Smith, how did the Federation and Klingon Empire become allies?"
"It was the Cardassian Wars," said Smith," We were at war with the Klingons and the Enterprise-C sacrificed itself at Narenda Three defending the Klingons from a Cardassian Fleet."
"That's not how it happened originally," remarked Kroenig," Originally…Kirk went on to become a legend. He was responsible for peace with the Klingons, allowing the Federation to explore the Alpha Quadrant and make first contact with the Cardassians, instead of the Cardassians making first contact with the Federation in the battle at Narenda Three.
"And it was originally the Romulans attacking the Klingons at Narenda Three, although the Enterprise-C seems to have been lost there in both timelines. That was when the Klingons and Federation truly became allies. So tell me about the Cardassian Wars, the treaty ended it with the signing over of Federation colonies?"
"No," said Smith quietly, somewhat in shock at everything as it processed through his mind," It ended with the destruction of the Federation Colonies…and a treaty creating a Neutral Zone. It also spawned a rebel group named the Maquis."
"In the original timeline the colonies survived and the Maquis were formed by unhappy colonists," said Kroenig," There was a Demilitarized Zone, not a Neutral Zone. Janeway being sent after them and ending up in the Delta Quadrant happened in both timelines though."
"The other timeline sounds a lot better," said Smith with a longing tone underlying in his voice.
"It was," said Kroenig," but even in Temporal Wars there is no dwelling on the past, or What Ifs. Other than the fact the Dominion War was bloodier."
"You mean the Cardassians didn't join the Dominion and after two border skirmishes the war was over?"
"The Cardassians joined the Dominion," said Kroenig slowly," but the war lasted a long time, millions died. The Maquis were wiped out, and as Cardassia fell the Dominion killed tens of millions of its inhabitants. So there are some good things about your timeline."
"So why did you bring me here," Smith asked now that things had been explained.
"To give advice," said Kroenig," When the Daemonicus encounters the first cruiser, you can't let it escape. If it does the Federation, and eventually the whole galaxy is doomed."
"What," began Smith, suddenly finding his crew looking at him as he walked out of the turbolift?