Reaching the end of my little Star Trek story here. I don't own Star Trek: TNG but I wish I did.
Geordi calmly sat next to Base. She didn't understand her situation here, and he had to explain it to her calmly.
However, despite his outward appearance, Geordi was anything but calm.
She had surprised him in the maintenance tunnels. She was the one thing on his mind all the time and was quite distracting from his work, and then she suddenly appeared in front of him.
Even being Data's friend didn't help the situation he found himself in. He was in love with her and telling her she had to go back home was going to be the hardest thing he had ever done.
"I know that it was wrong to leave Sernus 9 and stowaway on the Enterprise," Base said staring at the wall directly across from her, not even glancing at Geordi. "I know this, and yet I did it anyway. I couldn't just remain there any longer, especially with what my grandfather has planned for it."
"What are you talking about Base?" Geordi asked, completely pulled out from his thoughts on what he was going to say to her.
Base closed her eyes and sighed. "Sernus 9 isn't a real planet. It was a creation that my grandfather created for my mother to help her get over my father. He is planning to destroy it."
Geordi nodded. "I knew this already, but why would Q go through the trouble of destroying it when he argued with your mother in the first place about letting the Federation near in the first place."
"His plan failed," Base said. "My mother never got over my father, and she never will. Now my grandfathers is going to try and get them back together and break my mother's heart even more. My father lost his emotions and he will never get them back."
Geordi smiled a small smile. It was obvious that Base didn't know what Q had done to Data.
"You don't know do you?"
Base looked at Geordi for the first time since she saw him in the maintenance tunnels. "What?"
Geordi put his arm around Base and pulled her into a surprising hug. Base started to lift her arms to embrace Geordi, but found that every time she thought about it she remembered that he didn't love her. At least that is what she thought.
"Q gave Data back his emotions," Geordi said, causing a gasp to come from Base. She pulled back and looked into Geordi's visor with her own wide eyes.
"Data and Roxanne are together and quite happy," Geordi said. Base jumped up from her seat and started pacing the room.
"Gramps did that? But why? He had no personal gain from it. It makes no sense."
"Actually I did have something to gain," Q said suddenly appearing in the room. Base sighed and turned to her grandfather while Geordi got over the shock of him suddenly appearing.
"And what could you possibly have to gain?"
"Great-grandchildren. And my daughter's happiness and your happiness and finally ending all the misery you both have gone through."
"Great-grandchildren? What the hell?"
Q smiled. "You didn't think that I was going to destroy that planet just for your mother's happiness did you?"
"How do you know if I can even have children?" Base asked with narrowing eyes. Q smiled and then turned to Geordi.
"Lt. LaForge, do you think that Base could have children in the future?"
Geordi looked from Base to Q and shrugged. "I don't know, only Dr. Crusher would know for sure."
Q nodded and proceeded to tell Base why she could have children.
Dr. Crusher had finally finished analyzing the blood she had taken from both Roxanne and Base. She quickly called Picard to her office to explain her recent discoveries.
"What is it Doctor?" Picard asked taking a seat across from her. Dr. Crusher took a deep breath and began to explain what she had found.
"Base's blood was difficult to analyze, but I finally did it. It appears to be a mixture of human blood and an unknown element that is constantly changing. I believe that this is due to her grandfather's DNA. She is perfectly normal in a human sense, and can do all that we can and all that Data can do as well. If she chose to, she could get married and have children of her own due to this unknown element."
"Unknown element in my blood?" Base asked in confusion. Q nodded.
"That unknown element that our dear Dr. Crusher will discover is known as Wellslinium, a rare and priceless liquid that is found on a distant planet that will not be discovered by humans for another thousand years. It gives ever-lasting life and allows you to live as a normal, well as normal as one can hope in your particular situation, person. You are able to do anything any normal human female could do, including have children."
Picard nodded at this new information. As long as Dr. Crusher could assure him that this unknown element wouldn't cause Base to suddenly explode and destroy the whole ship, or universe, then he was fine with her coming onto the Enterprise.
