Chapter Eleven
More Legends
The light from the other ships glisten on the burned and battered hull of the ship that emerged from the sleeper ship. As the crews are in shock at which ship it is they realize that Spock's suspicions where correct.
"Open a channel." Chakotay orders.
"Yes, sir. Channel open." The communication officer says. "There is no response."
"Keep trying. They have to be alive. They just have to be." The captain worries.
On the burned bridge of NX-01, the crew is unconscious. The one in the middle of the room slowly regains consciousness. He gets up and looks at the view screen and sees three ships with similar marking as his own.
Captain Jonathan Archer moves over to the communications post, the one where Hoshi should be. He couldn't find her when he was finding the rest of his crew. He could not find he helm officer either. He was in the room where she was at when he found a transporter signal he never seen before.
"Identify yourself." Archer angrily responds.
"The is General Kira Nereys of the Federation starship Defiant. Who are you?"
"This is Captain Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise. I've never seen ships like yours General. Are you some sort of MACO ship."
"No. We are part Starfleet, Captain. We have a lot to explain."
"That we do, but we better get out of here, first."
"Follow us into the wormhole Captain."
"The what-" as Archer sees on of the ships pulling the other small ship into a swirling mass.
Archer takes the helm as his security chief and other officers wake up.
"What is that!" exclaims Malcolm Reid as the NX-01 enters the wormhole.
"I don't know. But it looks safer than where we were." The captain responds.
The Defiant, Appalachia, Valiant, and Enterprise exit the wormhole and Archer sees a large space station of a design he's never seen before. He also sees more Starfleet ships there. He begins to wonder if he has traveled into the future. The battered Enterprise docks with the station and his crew exit through rolling round doors and are met with a large crowd of people. They almost seem like historical figure to the crowd.
Archer is joined by Chakotay, Kira, and Worf. "Captain, welcome to Deep Space Nine. I'm General Kira. This is Captain Chakotay and Commander Worf."
"A Klingon in Starfleet. What will come next?"
"Captain we have to tell you that-"
"We're in the future. Is it the 26th century or the 31st?"
"It's the 24th century. How did you know?"
"We've had some experience with time travel."
"So you have. That is why the temporal prime directive was made."
"I'm sure. So we have a lot to discuss."
A voice comes from the distance, "We do indeed." As Spock walks up and looks at Archer.
As the crews inform Archer of the goings on of the last two hundred years he is shocked that their disappearance is one of the most intriguing incidents from the early Federation. He is soon reunited with Hoshi and Travis. The captain also meets up with Trip who is dismayed that they couldn't find T'Pol. He learns of the predecessors to his ship. The next Enterprise was NCC-1701. It's sixth predecessor is docked there. Archer find Phlox has found the medical database and is learning as much as he can about the last two hundred years of medicine. All in all the NX-01 crew is happy to be in the future.