Uninspired Voyages

A Star Trek: Voyager fanfiction by Andrew J. Talon

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"Resistance"

The Voyager crew tried to obtain some fruit pulp or something that was supposed to keep the warp core operational. And naturally it was something never brought up again. So instead, here is a more interesting story.

Torres and Tuvok have been arrested on trumped up charges by an authoritarian planet that intends to turn them over to the Kazon as Danegeld. As they sit in a cell, trying to think of a way to escape...

Tuvok: "... Do you hear something?"

B'Elanna: "Yeah... Sounds like phaser fire... Federation phasers!"

The door is kicked down, and an armored Starfleet suit strides in, holding up one of the guards. He tosses the guard aside and switches his visor from gold to transparent.

Shepherd: "Howdy sir! Torres!"

Torres: "Shepherd! ...What the hell are you doing with my powered battle suit?!"

Shepherd: "Shhh! It's just an elaborate carriage for a communication system, remember? And the captain decided now was a good time for a field test!"

Multiple plasma blasts hit him, and he turns to face the barrage with full frontal force fields. He fires his phaser rifle, stunning all the guards.

Shepherd: "Seems to be doing pretty well so far!"

Tuvok: "Indeed. I suggest we escape now."

Shepherd: "Sounds good to me. Let me make an exit."

He charges through the opposite wall, smashing it apart and falling to the prison yard below. He lands hard, but the inertial dampening protects him. He holds his arms out.

Shepherd: "JUMP!"

B'Elanna: "Are you nuts?! We can't survive-!"

Plasma fire erupts from behind. Tuvok grabs B'Elanna and jumps out the window. Shepherd catches the stoic Vulcan and the screaming Maquis.

Shepherd: "See? That wasn't so bad, right?"

Torres swears in very colorful Klingonese at him as he carries them up to the prison wall.

Shepherd: "Yeah yeah, I get it... Uh oh..."

Torres: "What?!"

Shepherd: "The thrusters aren't responding... So I can't jump over the wall... Plan B it is then!"

He scans for lifeforms and, finding an area beyond the wall without any, charges for it.

Torres: "What-AHHHHHH!"

Shepherd fired his phaser rifle at level 16, blowing a massive hole in the prison wall. He ran at high speed as he did this, doing his best to evade multiple plasma blasts that his forcefield struggled to repel with two riders.

He rushed through to the empty street beyond, where multiple civilians were screaming and running and hiding.

Shepherd: "Shepherd to Voyager! Three to beam up!"

They vanish, and then reappear on the transporter pad. Shepherd sets his passengers down.

Shepherd: "Perfect timing! I barely had any power left!"

Torres: "What? How much?"

Shepherd: "I think I'm down to... 1 percent?"

Torres: "One per-WHAT, DID YOU RUN EVERYTHING YOU POSSIBLY COULD?! IT SHOULD BE AT 20 PERCENT!"

Shepherd: "Well I wasn't going to rescue you without air-conditioning and the stereo going!"

Tuvok holds in a sigh. Humans.