CHAPTER FIVE:
Chakotay opened his eyes and found himself lying on the floor, but as he looked
around he found that he wasn't on Voyager anymore. He stood to his feet, feet and looked
around. He knew that he was still on a Federation Starship, but was unfamiliar with
which ship. As he looked around he noticed that the entire bridge crew was with him. He
walked over a bit towards a station and found Ensign Kim laying there, "Harry?"
Ensign Kim started to open his eyes and looked confused for a moment, "Sir?"
"Come on, we have to get everyone up." One by one they started waking the rest
of the bridge crew. Once everyone was awake, Chakotay looked to Tuvok, "Lt. Tuvok,
where are we?"
Tuvok walked over to the closest station, "I am pulling up the ships registry. This
vessel is registered to be NCC-1701-D USS ENTERPRISE."
"The Enterprise?" Paris asked confused.
"Apparently so," Tuvok said in his always quite logical manner.
Harry Kim looked around, in excitement, but also with a slight panic in his eyes,
"Wait, so does that mean we're in the Alpha Quadrant?"
"Well, if I knew where the helm was I could access our coordinates." Tom Paris
said looking round.
While they all familiarized themselves with the stations a voice came over the
bridge, "Crusher to Bridge." Everyone just stood there for a moment, looking at
Chakotay waiting for him to respond… but he seemed not sure of what to do either.
"Crusher to Bridge, respond please."
Chakotay lifted his head slightly, "This is Commander Chakotay."
"Commander, I'm looking for Captain Picard, or Commander Riker."
Chakotay looked around, at the rest of the bridge crew, "I don't know where they are."
"What do you mean you don't know where they are?" Crusher's voice started to
become ridged.
"It's hard to explain."
"Then maybe you can explain this, I have a female human that just appeared in
sickbay. She appears have the rank of Captain, but I don't recognize her. Are we on a
rescue missi…"
"Get her on life support! Now!" Chakotay demanded. "I'll be on my way down to
explain."
"Acknowledged, Crusher out."
Chakotay looked over at Tuvok, "What about the rest of the crew?"
"I am detecting 153 life signs on board. They appear to be scattered throughout
the ship."
Chakotay stood there for a moment, and tapped his com badge, "Chakotay to
Seven of Nine." He waited for a moment, but there was no response. "Seven, come in."
He waited again for a moment, and again turned to Tuvok, "Tuvok, can you locate her?"
Tuvok began to run the panel near him, "I am attempting to access the ships
internal sensors. I have gained access, I am no scanning for her cybernetic implants." As
Tuvok, and Chakotay waited for the scan to finish, the rest of the bridge crew kept
familiarizing themselves with the bridge consoles. "Commander, I'm unable to locate
Seven on any deck of this ship."
Chakotay placed his hands on his hips, and looked at Tuvok with curiosity, "Is it
possible that she's still on Voyager?"
"Without further information about the rift we encountered, I am unable to give an
answer."
"Scan for the rift."
"I'm not finding it on sensors."
"What about in the sensor logs, maybe they got something on it."
"I have it. The rift seems to have been composed of temporal, and subspace
distortions."
Chakotay looked at the logs, "These look just like what Seven detected in our
sensor gap."
"Its logical to assume that it's the same phenomena." Tuvok said.
"Keep looking them over, and see if you can come up with anything."
"Understood. Commander, I believe I should point out the star date on these
records."
Chakotay looked at the dates, but it only took him a moment to notice what Tuvok
had been talking about. He quickly looked up at him, "Are these accurate?"
"I believe so."
"I found the helm!" Tom Paris said from the front of the bridge. Tom sat in the
chair that was directly behind the helm console, and started looking over the readings,
"Commander, according to this…" He turned to face Chakotay, "We thirty five light
years from Earth, I'm setting a course."
"No, don't. Hold position." Chakotay said, with slight annoyance in his voice.
"Commander?" Paris asked.
"According to these sensor logs, we've not only been put back into the alpha
quadrant, but we've also traveled 15 yrs the past."
As Tom and Harry looked at each other with disappointment in each others faces,
the turbolift opened, and a woman with semi-long hair, and a blue uniform stepped on to
the bridge, "Who are you?"
Chakotay turned and looked at the woman, and sighed. "I'm Commander
Chakotay, and you are?"
"Chief medical officer Beverly Crusher. What's going on?."