Star Trek: Ranma's Story34 – By DS Wynne

Disclaimer: "Ranma ½", "Sailor Moon", "Star Trek" and other genres belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is multi-epic story with many elements to it.

Special note: While this is a spin-off story to "Sailor Moon ST", you don't have to read that one to enjoy this one.

Author's note: This chapter tie-ins to the events depicted in "Star Trek: First Contact". Enjoy!

Part 34

"No!" Ranma Saotome screamed, as he was being dragged away from his family by "the mechanical men".

"Daddy!" yelled his twin daughters, Aiko and Hoshiko.

"RANMA!" yelled Usagi, Ranma's wife.

"No! DON'T-!"

"GAH!" Commander Ranma Saotome yelled, as SHE woke up with "the sweats". Quickly, she looked around.

"Oh," Ranma muttered to herself, as she realized that she was aboard the Federation Space Station "Deep Space Nine", specifically, she assigned quarters below decks. She had been reassigned to helm the USS "Defiant", an experimental Federation warship with cloaking capabilities. She was thinking about taking up Captain Jean-Luc Picard's offer of being the chief helm officer of the new USS Enterprise-E, which was leaner and meaner to handle times of trouble. However, there was one thing that she wanted to consider first-

BEEP-BEEP!

Ranma looked at her quarters' doors. Slowly, she got up, wearing only a t-shirt and sweats. As soon as Ranma-chan reached the door, she realized that the cold sweat over her body had activated her "curse". With a grunt, Ranma-chan became Ranma-kun. Then, Ranma leaned on the doorway.

"Come."

The opened door revealed a distraught Counselor Usagi Tsukino, the resident station psychologist.

"Ranma…"

Usagi hugged Ranma tightly, wearing only a night-gown.

"What's wrong, Usako?"

"I…I sense the Borg Collective, Ranma!"

Ranma grimaced. He recalled the day both his and Usagi's full memories on their experience with the Borg returned, when the android Data's renegade brother Lore had sought to use them to take over the entire collective. Thankfully, their daughter Ensign Hoshiko Saotome had intervened on their behalf. Although her covert activities for the Borg were exposed, Hoshiko did so in order to save her parents. It was because of this self-less act that had prevented Starfleet from placing Hoshiko under arrest. And thanks to a deal arranged with Starfleet Command, Hoshiko would be placed on probation under direct command supervision of personnel with the rank of "Commander" or above. She had previously been assigned under Counselor Tsukino's supervision, since she holds the rank of "Captain", and is now under Captain Picard's. So far, the arrangement has been a good one.

In the mean time, since getting their daughter back, Both Ranma and Usagi have been dealing with their feelings about the Borg, particularly since Usagi has an intermittent link with the Borg. This was the result of the splicing of Borg nano-technology with Usagi's other cybernetic implants. What is unfortunate is that her cybernetic technology has long since been transmogrified into "inorganic" technology. "Inorganic" technology is different from "non-organic" technology, in that the inorganic kind is the "living" kind. This is no different from the silicate creatures that have been discovered throughout the galaxy.

At any rate, thanks to the Borg, Usagi possessed the ability to since their presence within the vicinity.

"Usako, sit," Ranma said, as he directed his ex-wife to his bed. "Are you SURE you sense Borg activity?"

"Yes, yes I do," Usagi replies, as she holds Ranma's hand. "We got to let Captain Sisko know about it."

Ranma looks at Usagi, and nods.

"Fine, but we should go see Dr. Bashir first. After all, we wouldn't want our resident 'shrink' to be a basket-case."

"RANMA!"

Wap!

"Ow," Ranma said, as he rubbed his shoulder.

And then, Usagi leaned over to kiss her ex-husband.

"Thanks, Ranchan," Usagi said. "I needed that."

"Hey, I aim to please."

An hour later, Dr. Julian Bashir, an English, Starfleet medical doctor of Arab descent, was examining Usagi down in Sickbay.

"Well, counselor," Bashir says, as he performed his readings, "there is elevated brain activity for sure, but nothing to be concerned about."

"'Elevated brain activity'?" said Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax with a smirk. Dax was a member of the Trill, who uses symbiotic organisms, placed within the abdomen of the host's torso, to extend their life-span. Dax' previous life was Federation Ambassador Curzon Dax, who was a close friend of the former Saotome couple and Benjamin Sisko, the commander of DS9. Still, that didn't stop Usagi from flirting with the Trill, in spite of being a woman now.

"YOU'RE just jealous of all the attention I'm getting," Usagi replied.

"Yeah, right!"

"Is everything okay?" said the ridge-nose, red-headed Bajoran officer Colonial Kira Nyres, as she steps into Sickbay. Like all Bajorans, Kira was a spiritual woman. And like all Bajorans, Kira was a resistance fighter who fought to reclaim Bajor from alien control. The Cardassians, who had a few reptile-like features, but still retained mostly humanoid features, had once controlled both Bajor and DS9. It was only a few years ago that the Cardassians had finally left the Bajoran sector. Thankfully their departure led to Federation's establishment of a protectorate zone, which paved the way for the discovery of a stable wormhole within that zone. It also turned out that the wormhole, which created a short-cut to the Gamma Quadrant, was the home of the temporally powerful "Bajoran Prophets", who inspired an incredible religion and culture. In many ways, whether these "Prophets" intended or not, Bajor was a semi-theocratic state, where the Kai (the head of the state church) and the Prime Minister of the Bajoran Assembly share powers of responsibilities. It's been a difficult arrangement, especially since the arrival of the Federation, but Ben Sisko's role as "the Emissary of the Prophets" has worked to smooth relations between Bajor and the rest of the Alpha Quadrant.

In the mean time, Colonial Kira, who tends to be suspicious of outsider aliens in general, is on DS9 as the Bajoran liaison to the Federation, which makes her second in command to all station activities. And so far, Kira's opinion of Federation has improved somewhat…in spite of the antics of one particular Starfleet officer.

"Yes, I'm okay, Colonial," Usagi said.

"Good. I want to make sure that there aren't any additional surprises."

"Huh."

The station's "constable" comes in. Although Odo was an alien shape-shifter, the Bajorans consider him to be fair in the arena of law enforcement.

"Colonial," Odo begins, as he hands Kira a data pad. "The latest security sweeps of the station did not indicate any 'transmitting activity'."

"See?" Kira said. "There isn't any 'Borg' activity in the region."

"I KNOW that," Usagi harrumphed. "I'm telling you that the Borg are in the Alpha Quadrant."

Just then, the Ferengi Quark comes in. All Ferengi were "robber barons" with big ears and jagged teeth. Quark has been on the station since the days of the Cardassian Occupation, and is generally seen as a "shark" in the area of commerce.

"THERE you are," Quark says. "Odo, I hate it when you question MY customers in MY bar."

"Quark's" was a favorite hang-out spot at the station.

"Just a routine inspection," Odo says with a smirk. "Of course, I could request an audit-"

"No, that is NOT necessary. Just be a bit more discreet in the future, okay?"

BEEP-BEEP!

"All command crew members, please come to the bridge," said Lt. Commander Worf. "This is a 'level one' priority. I repeat; this is a 'level one' priority."

Everyone looks at each other.

"Let's go people," Kira says. "We got work to do."

"Doctor?" Ranma asked.

"Counselor Tsukino is fine," Bashir says.

"Thanks, Julian," Usagi says, as she gets off the bio-bed.

A few minutes later…

"We just received a message from Starfleet Command," Captain Benjamin Sisko says, as he meets with his staff. Sisko was a bald, goatee-wearing wearing African-American from Louisiana, Earth. "The Borg has been spotted, and is making a direct course towards Earth."

"Ben, what are our orders?" asked Dax.

"WE are to stay put," Sisko says coolly. "Apparently, they feel that my…history with the Borg is a liability."

Sisko's was one of the survivor's of the "Massacre at Wolf 359", in which forty Starfleet starships went against a Borg ship, which was on its way to Earth. Needless to say, the Borg ship won.

Ben then turns to Worf, Ranma and Usagi.

"You three and Chief O'Brien will command the Defiant for an assembled fleet in the Typhon."

"Wait a minute," Ranma says. "Doesn't Starfleet knows about OUR history, especially where Usagi and I are concerned?"

"Apparently, you four, being former Enterprise-D crewmates, are more familiar with the Borg than any person here…in a technical sense."

"Oh."

Ben sighs.

"Okay. Ranma, you will act as the commanding officer, since you have command experience. Worf, as a strategic operations officer, you will be the XO. Usagi, you will be the operations, science and medical officer, while O'Brien will be, of course, the chief engineer. Understood?"

"Yes," said the group.

"You have a few hours to get ready. Dismiss."

An hour later…

"Pappy, do you have to go?" Molly O'Brien asks, as she sits on Ranma's bed. Ranma was trying to get his special 'bag o' tricks' ready for the up-coming Borg encounter.

"I have to, little one," Ranma says. "Besides, you want me to make sure that no one gets hurt, right?"

"Yes…"

"But, no matter what, I promise to return."

"Honest?"

"Honest."

And with that, the two hug.

"Molly, it's time for bed," O'Brien says, as he peeks into Ranma's room.

"Okay, Daddy…".

As Ranma found himself alone, he stopped to pick up a picture of his life with Usagi and his daughters Aiko and Hoshiko, which was side-by-side with his more recent picture of the O'Brien family. And while he was glad to have Hoshiko back, he hated the Borg for what they had done to him and his kin.

Ranma swore that he would not loose his family again. Ever.

Two hours later, aboard the Defiant…

"Docking bay doors have been sealed," Worf said, as he sat at the helm.

"Engines are at ready," O'Brien replies, over the intercom.

"All hands are at ready," Usagi says, as she turns to face Ranma. "We are ready to go, Ranma."

"Good," Ranma says, as he pressed his combadge. "Captain Sisko, the Defiant is ready for launch."

"Sisko to Commander Saotome," Ben says over the com-line. "DS9 hears you loud and clear. Good luck, Commander."

"Thank you, sir. Saotome out."

Ranma sat back in his seat.

"Mr. Worf, take her out."

"Aye, sir."

The Defiant disengages itself from the docking bay of DS9. It slowly backs up to a safe distance away from the station.

"Head for the Typhon sector, ahead warp factor 5. Engage."

And with that, the Defiant takes off to engage a relentless foe, known as…the Borg.

Tbc.

Author's note: C & C are welcomed.

Next time: Join us as the crew of the Defiant engage the Borg, hooks up with the Enterprise-E, and heads for Earth…of the past! See you then!