Disclaimer: I only wish Voyager was mine, but Paramount owns them and it is our duty to speculate what they don't see fit to reveal in the series, and are too lazy to make a movie. If only they would see it our way...

Banned From Coffee Chapter 13 - Surprise!

"Pregnant?"

A flash of light made the room glow again, returning Q to the place he had just been banished from, like a dog with his tail between his legs.

"You weren't supposed to get pregnant again this quick!"

The attention quickly moved from B'Elanna's announcement to Q's outburst.

"What!" Everyone asked again.

"You had something to do with this, Q?" Tom Paris asked the omnipotent being. After all, he had interfered with him and his wife and their personal life, and that was not something you should do to a Paris, anywhere in the galaxy.

"Well, of course I had something to do with it," Q started in a familiar, hurried tone, one he used when he knew he had some explaining to do. "You see, the two of you weren't really that compatible fron the start, so Miral was almost a miracle baby for you. So, one thing led to another, one night when you were both off shift. Something went pop, bang and lots of things burst. You all get my drift..." he trailed off, almost cowering in the Captain's glare.

Before she could answer, the ship lurched sideways, throwing the occupants of the briefing room to the floors, the pregnant women hitting the floor first.

A groan of pain was the last thing anyone heard as they all fell into an unconscious slumber, the pregnant form of Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres squirming on the floor in pain.

The red alert klaxons and ear-piercing alarms had already flooded the ship by the time the senior staff had awoken on the floor of the conference room. Logically, Tuvok and Seven of Nine had not attended the meeting and had already taken command of the ship while the other five were previously occupied.

Wondering where the officers had dissapeared to, Seven and a member of the security team, Lieutenant Ayala, investigated their initial dissapearance in the deserted observation lounge, leaving Tuvok to command the ship.

"Bridge to Sickbay," the ex-Borg said into her comm badge when she saw the women lying on the floor moaning and the men just lying there. "Medical Emergency in the brieing room, seven to beam directly to sickbay."

"Aye, Commander," the Doctor said, mentally wishing Kes was there to help him and that someone had told him what was actually happening.

The entire senior staff, minus Seven plus Ayala, materialised in the centre of Sickbay moments later. Immediately, he gave Paris, Kim and Chakotay stimulants to awaken them from their slumber, before rushing to attend to the pregnant women on the floor, still unconscious.

At that moment, the ship kurched a second time, instantly knocking out the holoemmitors in Sickbay, making the Doctor dissapear from the room just as the males rose to their feet, looking at their pregnant Captain and Chief Engineer with worried looks on their faces.

It was going to ba another damn bad day in the Delta Quadrant, and now the whole crew had been banned from coffee, as to not tempt their Captain, and the Doctor's orders.

(By the way, the briefing room, conference room and observation lounge are all the same place)