Star Trek: Voyager
Starship Starfalcon: Lost in the Delta Quadrant
by Sakura Slalonga
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Voyager nor any of its characters. Starfalcon and its characters, however, are mine. Thank you.
Chapter 1: They Thought they were Alone
"This
is Captain Leila Featherflame of Starfalcon. Is anyone out there?
Over." No response was heard through the communication device.
Starfalcon's young captain repeated her call twice more, but still no
response.
"Captain," her lieutenant said, "there's nobody out there. We're the only ones in this quadrant!"
"Shut
up, will you, Lieutenant Demetra?" Leila replied. "There must be a
starship somewhere out here, I just know it! I don't care if we're
discovered by a Klingon or even a Borg ship, for Starfleet's sake! It
would at least be some consultation!" Lieutenant Demetra sighed.
"Whatever you say," she said.
Leila Featherflame was captain of
the U.S.S. Starfalcon, and she and her crew had somehow gotten stuck in
the Delta Quadrant. She was a mature captain, and when she was speaking
over the communication device, she sounded like a full-grown. Most
people were very surprised when they found out her age, which was a
mere fourteen. Leila's full name was Leilani Sapphire Featherflame, but
she loathed the name Leilani. Although she was full human, it was said
she had the attitude of a Klingon. This made her wonder if she had a
distant Klingon relative.
Leila had fine brown hair that
reached just past her shoulders. She always kept it down because she
never had time to do anything with it. Her eyes were a pretty
sapphire blue, and most of the time they were covered with
purple-lensed glasses. Right now, though, her vision was blurry because
her glasses had been broken. Starfalcon's doctor, an EMH, had told her
she would have to have blurry vision for one to two weeks while he
fixed her glasses.
Her clothing didn't exactly comply with Starfleet protocol. She always
wore normal, everyday Earth clothes no matter who she was meeting.
Starfleet had made an exception for Leila until she got older, for she
was too small to fit even the smallest captain's uniform.
Everyone on her crew was ten to twenty years older than she was; she
was easily the youngest person on Starfalcon. The closest member to her
age was Lieutenant Demetra, a twenty-year-old female Vulcan and Leila's
best friend. Nobody knew what Demetra's last name was, so they just
called her by her first name. Demetra was the only alien on the ship;
everyone else was human.
Leila repeated her call once more, but received nothing but static. She
sat back in her chair and sighed. Maybe Demetra was right. Maybe
Starfalcon was the only ship out here...
Suddenly, to Leila's surprise and amazement, a faint voice floated over through the device.
"Starfalcon, this is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the starship Voyager. We have heard your call. What can we do for you?"
