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?"