The Bonds Of Friends And Family
Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs tome and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.
Warnings: For this Chapter it's showing the pieces of the episode connecting to his decision to leave in the tv show. Before he makes alterations to the show, like they did in the previous episode force on the squadron. As they fixed the episode then as they work it out, before they get to work on rearranging the episode and the start over from the beginning and play it back now.
As it's showing the added side effects of the mission that Wesley and Robin took on. As they, Kurland and their friend create a new team out of themselves and Lal. As they're going over things, as the truths of the added side effects of the games start coming forward. They see that the further they dig into and the more sinister that the Ktarians plan becomes as they're discussing things.
The true findings of the side effects make themselves clear to the senior staff crew. As things shift course, as they all realize just what causes their added problems were, while the added side effects make themselves known now as his diagnostics reveal the added damage to his body. And they take charge while the group gets a chance to deepen the bonds now.
As Wesley gets a chance to be with some new friends and having everything he wants now as an adult. As the episodes from here stay the same, Unification gets jumped, as they're dealing with the aftermath of this episode. So it jumps the cliffhanger and goes right to the next episode of the season, before it hits the next few episodes in the season, as things start picking up now for them.
Chapter 24: Journey's End Rewrite And First Duty Alterations Part I
After calling it for the night, Wesley got to work on his double's decision as he activated it then. "Alright had I not come forward, or you didn't keep me home that three years like we plan to do. You're going to know something's wrong right now with me, but trying to get me to open up to you. And I start getting more aggravated and insubordinate as it keeps up." he said to Geordi as he was standing behind him as he was sitting down.
"Worf, Captain, mom, you better get in here, we're activiting the next episode focused on the squadron right now. The end of my storyline here at the moment on the tv show, but it's getting ready to start here." he said tapping his communicator and he heard Picard answer him. "Alright we'll be up there in a few minutes here son, just hang on." he said gently and Wesley nodded to the order as he looked at Data and Geordi.
"Start from the second you return to engineering like we normally did when not in class prior kiddo, because I know when something was up. But you're dressed like a civilian again and incredibly moody as well for some reason here right now. But I know you better then you know yourself, you helping me advance what I was working on here. And it beat what came up next, say a plasmadyne relay." he said and Wesley nodded to him.
"Without a slight switch in that with a micro fusion inter-relay, it's not going to work, best double it in this case, buddy. Then again us together can over haul that thing, before it blows a circuit breaker. Though at the rate this is going, the latest paper by Dr. Vassbinder, has rendered some of this stuff obsolete. Though it won't be until I rig a new way to get it working like I did with the repulse generator I employed four years ago."
"But Stargate theory works and we can use that to surpass his theories in all of his theories on warp propulsion inter-relays. And we can render his theories obsolete then again, that attitude doesn't compete with what work. That your grandfather put into the Stargate network right now buddy, but theories of multiple realities. Solar flares and wormholes, who's to say no ones going to put that to that test at the moment now."
"And blast themselves back to the past when our grandparents were getting ready to head for Atlantis exactly." he said and Geordi chuckled and nodded. "Oh god whoever tries that is going to give our grandparents a shock at the moment. But first the team ends up meeting Hammond in 69', the enterprise crew crashlands in 86 and now this. Come on enough already with the time travelers." Sarah said as she started laughing.
"But come on, on a good day, we're like this together, but stressed that's when you get concerned and situations like Colin and Nick. And them screwing around with our bonds that's when you get defensive." he said in response and the rest of the team hid a chuckle at the conversation, seeing things like they normally were between then. "That's what I'm talking about, so start there. Geordi said and he nodded as he activated it then.
"Were you guys always like this together?" Robin asked and they nodded to her. "Trust me, we hear this day in and day out around here, when it was just us. And nobody's screwing with our personality traits, but I hear that all the time between them and..." Jenson started to say as they heard an explosion and they turned as a flash flew down the tube. "Oh no not again, what the hell did they use this time up there exactly."
"It better not be one of Derek's team mates or so help me someone is barred from the chemistry lab, before they kill someone or blow the door across the hall, again." He snapped as he slammed his hand on his communicator then. "Fieldman what happened up there this time exactly. Who's the damn culprit and what was used this time man to cause that, if we saw it?" he asked and he heard a beyond aggravated tone as he said it.
"To answer the first question it's not Hanson or his team mates, but my freshman students were testing out the chemical side effects. And of the compounds, combined three together and put the damn thing on high but the chemical sequence we had this time. It's the one that blew up the beaker when Jake turned off the damn burner, David." he said and they nodded bemused then.
As Wesley covered his eyes as he tried to hold it in. "Wes don't lose it, pull yourself together here honey." MacDougal said with a bemused smile on her face at the look on his face as Sarah answered his remark as she, Robin and Wesley tried to keep from laughing as she said it to him at that. "Alright I'll be up there to check it out, just hang tight." Sarah said and they ended the call at that as he started laughing at that remark.
"Four years on this ship and nothing ever changes in the high school program, but come on, enough of the screwing around with the compounds." She said and he nodded to her. "God guys why don't you ever check the chemical sequence safety guidelines, before you try that, before you break anything else in the lab, I mean come on enough already." he said and they nodded with a bemused smile as they got to work then as he activated it.
"What the hell was that Wes?" Will said to him, walking into the room and he chuckled. "Remember the explosion Jake told you about when I showed you my memories of the riot in ten forward last year dad?" he asked and Will nodded. "Yeah why, wait never mind, they did it again, sheesh, one week back and it's gone back to normal. And when you were still in the ship school program, but this is getting ridiculous around here."
"Though they think I'm bad, wait till the captain asks that same question, and before they blow the door into the hallway wall next." he said, bemused and they nodded. "Do you feel like you're dealing with the Potts a second time here though dad. I mean you were just as irritated that Derek wasn't watching them on Ogus II. And then comes the emergency as you let Jake have it, just before we get hijacked right now at the time."
"And then repeated explosions in the lab, followed by his breaking his wrist, these guys got to get it under control." he said and Will nodded with a bemused smile. "Yeah I do and frankly now that you're home, I feel like it's the months from Christmas. And leading into your graduation from the high school program on board the ship. But several outbursts, explosions, fights, Derek breaks his wrist, practical jokes, come on here."
"That's enough of this already right now and it's like it's reverted back 1 year before you left and you're running things in your squadron like you used to. But this is getting ridiculous around here right now, but that's enough already." he said and Wesley nodded. "Now normally on a good day we have things like this between us, when we have trouble, that's when you got to be worried about what the heck goes on inside this ship."
"Case in point unexpected explosions, fights, excetra, but that's us on a normal day, and prior to that you're trying to control things around here, but without back up. You can't be everywhere at once at the time, case in point was last year, during the riot. I call for back up and the sextet get me out of the room just as you arrive in there. And it's gone from bar fight to a total riot, but politics, it's that the occasional outburst is normal."
"Having a few government officials on board isn't and a couple other things, that's when we all get testy with each other, it's the stress." he said and Will nodded with a chuckle. "That's the truth, but again, was it my imagination or are the tempers getting a bit frayed on the ship last year?" he asked and he smiled. "Not just you, I caught it myself, like I spotted it with the chief, before the next one started, if we have a new arrival."
"I think she's going to spot it before we have another ambush right now." he said and they nodded as Data walked in then as well. "Ensign Ro's on the bridge monitoring things with us down here, but the guards are on alert. Just in case that happens again right now or we have another outburst after four more. But it's just light work for the next 2 to 3 days, so take it easy and stay off your ankle." Data said and Wesley nodded to him.
Watching Geordi working on said device, they saw his double walk into the room then. "Sheesh, three years being stuck on earth when I should have just called out emergency and got back up here. I look like hell and the graduation jitters are getting to me, my grades crashed and I'm close to washing right out of the academy." he said as Robin stood behind him then at that as she rested her hands on his shoulders then.
"As we're the ones involved in this situation and we're jumping over the planet we're being asked to deal with. And who's the other grouping we're stuck in the middle of here at the moment Wesley?" Worf said as the trio walked in and up to the terminal the trio were at then as Wesley scanned it and sighed. Just as he was saying it they heard a secondary explosion and looked up and nodded and Robin said it bemused to that.
"Either that was testing the same material, or the gases from the chemicals exploded again and this time it broke the beaker and possibly blew up the burner." she said and they nodded. "It better be the first, because repeated gas explosions is no laughing matter and neither is the beaker exploding." Worf said with a bemused tone. "Whoever did it, it better not Derek's team." Beverly added as Picard smacked the radio at that.
"Lieutenant, whatever's going on in the chemistry lab you better get that under control, and before your students flame broil anyone in the tubes leading into engineering here. Because we just heard the latest explosion." he said into the radio at that. "Great, just short of 10 days home again and it's back to the repeated explosions and injuries. When in the high school science department." Beverly said with a bemused tone to that gently.
"The last explosion was a repeater of the one Jake told you about during my memories of the riot in ten forward. I think the gases left over from the chemicals exploded a second time if we heard that, mom." Wesley said and she nodded. "Oh my god, how many times have we told them to watch what they're doing in there. They keep that up and someone's going to get hurt." Will said, looking up at the ceiling with a bemused look.
"Like we said, it doesn't pay to let your guard down right now, but days like this it's back to the occupational hazard for a science teacher. And when the said newbies are athletes and are trying to get a good grade." Jake said with a slight chuckle as he walked in. "Well like you boys said that's a normal day on this ship, but go ahead." Picard said to him. "Tell me about it, and I said this to dad when he walked in, but this is normal here."
"On a normal day, we're like this together when it in training right now, it's completely peaceful and relaxed between us. But moments of crisis, that's when you got to be worried about what goes on inside this ship. And when we have government officials on board, that's when we all get testy with each other. And if said official is suffering a Vulcan version to Alzheimer's, that's when we all get testy with each other here."
"But we got a repeater of that week, with you worn out Sir, on top of six straight flip outs and a teenage temper tantrum and arrest for substance abuse, yet again right now. But at least I'm not the one trying your patience for attention at the moment. Duty to the truth, means no lying and I never lied to you, before." Wesley said and he nodded gently. "Just short of 10 days back and it's we got monitor things in the high school program."
"Before the latest beaker breaks anything else or someone gets hurt, but how many times do I have to say this, but when in the biology or chemistry lab. Pay attention to what you're doing or working with before someone gets hurt here." Beverly said and he nodded. "Tell me about it, but settled back in at home and it's turned into the last six months before I graduated, but explosions, several fights breaking out, practical jokes."
"And ones nearly resulting a fatal punchline, Derek nearly breaks his wrist, again and we get hijacked and for the third time in three years. But come one that's enough of this already right now, we got to get that under control." he said and Picard nodded gently. "That's an understatement, but the last 6 to 7 months, leading into your graduation and you're working over time right now, that's enough to aggravate us at the moment."
"In your case and you drove yourself into the ground after working over time again, but again that's enough of the screwing around and practical jokes, so all of you guys better cool it already." Beverly said looking up at the ceiling as she finished that. And as he said it then. "To answer you Worf, it's the Cardassians again, but the Gul, I'm not too sure of after you got arrested next year on the show Sir." he said and the trio nodded gently.
"You got everyone else covering things with us enroute to 67, right now, just so you can see what needs to get changed and where, Sir?" Wesley asked and Picard nodded. "Yes and once we get Will's squadron on the ship that helps even more. And we need added back up at the current moment with the crisis just starting at the moment. And we've no clue how long we have until that system activates." he said and Beverly nodded to that.
"Leave out the conversations between us four, regarding you and drop the situation with the Indian, Native American, culture living on this planet we were sent to Wes. The crux of the matter is us, Us: you and me, your bonds with Jean Luc, Geordi. And the fight with Worf on the planet, before he, the traveler, forces you to use your powers. So we do it that way, we told him to stay away from you and he chooses a different alias now."
"To get to you as he sabotaged you three years ago, so we go to the repeated arguments and debates between us starting with you and Geordi, honey. Next question is who the hell did he use to get to you, because it's crossed a line, to you now. Your father abandoned you and Jean Luc and Will are your father, duty to the truth there. But your inner longing for your father to see you as your are now, he uses that to get to you."
"Till you just tell me the truth and decide to take a brief sabbatical and return on your own after how long it takes, we just jump the crux of the problem and go right to us. Though he does it like I just read it out and he's screwed here." she said and he nodded as he activated it then. "Now normally on days like this the stress is manageable, but seeing a total stranger in the place of someone I see as a kid brother here."
"That's when I get defensive and the little culprit and the reason for it is that little brat that nearly got you expelled three years prior. But that's enough of this, you're staying home so we can jump this situation altogether before it takes you away from us." Geordi added protectively as he squeezed his shoulder then and he nodded. "Thanks ensign, hey Wes, there you, are, come here a second I got something to show you."
"Come on, come on, you've got to take a look at this, now remember how we always used to talk about improving quantum efficiency. By using a plasmadyne relay, well take a look at this." he said and Wesley watched his double at that as he answered him as he looked at it. "You've only got one micro fusion inter-relay in there, your converter will never hold up." he said and Geordi's double said it firmly.
"Hey I ran these diagnostics myself, this baby, it will withstand over 500 cochranes of warp field stress." he said and Wes watched his double at thst remark. "I don't think so, you better put a secondary phase inverter in there. Look at your processer, matrix, it needs an over haul." he said and Wesley froze it at that. "Under normal circumstances, I remembered what you used to tell me here, Geordi."
"And that was don't get cocky, we had to check every single sequence, before we put it to use and my tractor beam was a trial an error we had to use. But there's no reason to start an argument over this device when you asked for my opinions here. Sheesh Billy, calm down and control your temper, before he sends us to our room here, man." he said gently to his double and Geordi nodded in agreement to that remark then.
"I'm 35 and you're 21 in this image and it's clear that the fact he lost his confidence in who he used to be since they sabotaged him is getting to him now. He wants to talk shop with me like he used to now, but instead of going over this gently. It's he's getting confrontational with me now, but there's no reason to lose your temper. Or raise your voice at me, we had that talk before." he said and Picard nodded in agreement gently.
"Keep it going, because if this was the first fight, I'm not going to like what our argument turns into right now at the moment." he said and Wesley nodded as he turned it back on. "Well that maybe your opinion cadet, but I stand by my work." Geordi's double said and they nodded. "Oh no, bad word for it, you've been a ensign ever since Laxwana was on board the ship 4 years prior and I stripped you of that rank after the accident."
"The fact you lost your rank and we still treated you like we did Sito Jaxa, the situation was grating on your nerves. You wanted our trust back and that was making you so moody you were lashing out for days now." Picard said as they saw his eyes narrow in anger at the title then as he answered him. "Read the latest paper by Dr. Vassbinder, he has brilliant new theories on repulser propulsion relays."
"He says all this stuff has become obsolete." he snapped and Geordi nodded. "Well I don't have to see my double's eyes to see that he's shocked at that outburst. Aside from the Bendii syndrome you never raised your voice at me like this at the time now." he said as his double answered his young friend's double. "Look I don't know what's gotten into you, Wes." he started to say and he snapped at him at that remark then.
"Do you want my help or not." he asked and Geordi sighed. "When like this, no I don't, I missed you and things like they were between us. When you left for the academy, but the academy took away the you I know. And Locarno did the rest, I want our bond like it was before." he said as his double finished it with a stern tone. "With this attitude, no absolutely not, you're dismissed." he said and he left the room.
"Us next honey." Beverly said and he nodded as he jumped the scene in the briefing room then as it went to their quarters, before he could activate it they heard a meow. "What the, how the heck did she get down here?!" Goldberg asked in shock and they turned and saw Spot walking into the room and he looked at the turbolift door and started laughing as it closed. "She took the turbolift." Sarah said laughing to him then.
"Girl what the heck are you doing down here exactly?" Wesley asked her and she meowed, before the terminal translated her answer. "Wanted to be with you kitten, I knew with you on light duty, you'd be in here, so I took that door. And sister brought me down here, but I got on the one father's friend uses to get down here." MacDougal read out and they nodded to the answer then, bemused at that.
"Watching us from the lower levels upstairs at times, I see her at times watching me as I get on the turbolift, I think she saw me get on turbolift 10. And she chose that one as she got down here at the moment, but if she came down here she wanted to be with Wes. One night together resulted in her growing so attached, she's not letting anything separate her from him, including several decks." Geordi said and Picard nodded to him.
"We got to get the Turbolifts rewired, before any of her fellow cats tries that, but that's going a little too far for attention right now." Picard said as the rest of the group started laughing at that. "Alright just this once and stay away from that door, it's dangerous, okay." Geordi said pointing at the reactor door and she meowed a second time as she jumped in Wesley's lap as she watched the episode then as the group exchanged looks.
"Well I think that sums it up, I'm her owner, just as much as Data is now at the moment, and she has me for three years, starting today. And to her she's milking it for all its worth at the moment, in case we have another one lose it now." Wesley said running his hand through her fur and his mother nodded smiling slightly at that. "Well I don't need to get us a cat now if she's chosen herself to be that cat." she said and he nodded to her.
"Meow." Spot answered her and she chuckled as the translation appeared. "You don't have to get a cat, I can be shared between you and father. I like you and kitten, so you can share me, Doctor." she read out and the Crushers gave a nod as the group exchanged looks and they nodded gently as the senior staff exchanged smiles at that. "We're cat people and she knows this, and to her why get a cat, she can be shared."
"Okay now we started something, get ready in case the others start acting like this." he said and she started laughing at that. "No kidding, I'm a doctor and I'm a partial vet and at times our furry friends on board this ship get a bit attached to their owners kittens. And that just happened, she just met you and she's grown so attached. To her, we don't need a cat, she can be our cat like she's Data's." she said and Wesley nodded, smiling.
"We just got adopted by my best friend's cat instead of the other way around, mom, but this is getting ridiculous right now at the moment." Wesley said and she nodded as Spot leaned her furry head against his chest and started purring and Robin hid a smile at that. "Get ready in case we have her kitten sitting when my mother and the senior staff are playing poker when the four of us are together honey." he added and she nodded to him.
"Home life got redirected I'm engaged to my college sweetheart, I'm home training, so the next three years just shifted slightly. But in another way nothing's changed between us, but only grown deeper." he said and they nodded to him. "Well let's keep it that way right now at the moment here, shall we right now." Picard said with a slight smile. "Yep and at the moment that traveler is cheating, so let's find out what he pulled now."
"Alright let's get on with this, first Geordi and now your mother." Will said and he nodded as they saw her double walk into the room as he was pacing in their quarters. "Ever since you got back you've been moody sullen and rude, what's going on?" she asked him sternly and they nodded. "You think I did something else that was against the rules if I'm acting like this right now." he said and she nodded as his double said it then.
"Nothing I just want to be left alone." he said and she said it firmly to that. "That incident in engineering was inexcusable." she said and he stood up. "That is my business, I don't need you to tell me how to behave." he said and she said it sternly. "I shouldn't have to you're a fourth year Starfleet cadet, you should have a level of maturity." she said and he snapped at her at that remark then.
"Maybe I'm sick of rules and regulations, maybe I'm sick of living up to everyone's expectations, did you ever think about that?!" he snapped at her and left the room and she watched him leave. 'Baby, what's happened to you?' they heard as she watched him, he said it then. "Something's happening to me, I'm not the officer I should be, I want more, and I know I shouldn't." he said in answer to that softly.
"The stress, you can't trust me anymore, I'm undergoing my trials whether I know it or not and now you go and tell the captain what's going on." he said and they nodded as he closed his eyes. "I'm close to the edge here, it's getting worse, either I stay or I leave and whatever happening we have to see what he did to pull this, and now. Alright who the hell did you impersonate to get me to drop out." he said as he drove it forward.
As he stopped on the argument between his fight with Picard and leading into the riot then as he activated it then. "Whoever this Indian is, he's leading me in circles instead of answers, he's answers me in questions like..., that's it." he said, slamming his hand on the console. "The Indian guide is the traveler, so you think I'm falling for it don't think so, you know the good thing about learning from the past is you don't make mistakes."
"You don't make the same mistakes twice, I'm being who I'm meant to be now, I have someone just like me appearing on the ship, within a month, I'm engaged. I have friends and a family and you expect me to leave all that behind and for absolute power. Uh huh, don't think so, you failed buster, I'm a Starfleet officer, I'm staying with my family. On my ship, you failed in your plan." he said and the sextet nodded to the news gently.
"Alright let's see who he decided to use to as a way to get to you in a vision now." Picard said and he nodded as he reactivated it. "Lakanta is the alias he's using." he said and thry nodded as they watched his double then. "That's a habak, it's a focal viewing point, it's like smoke hole that people used to see truths and have an epiphany." Picard said to him and he nodded to him and he watched himself drop into the hole then.
"This is the habak, it's a focal point for our lives, strangers are not welcome here." he said and Wesley crossed his arms. "If strangers are not welcome, then why'd you bring me in there, I asked you to come here you said it would be...?" he said trailing off as his double repeated the second part. "When I asked to come here, you said it would be..." he started to say and the man answered her gently at that remark.
"Never mind the added conversation, cut to the chase." Worf said with a growl then. "So what do I do?" Wesley's double asked and the traveler answered him. "Make a fire then sit and wait." he said and his double quickly said it to that. "What am I waiting for?" he asked and the man said it gently. "This is your journey Wesley, I can open the door, but only you can walk through it." he said and they nodded firmly to that.
"Keep it going and jump over us." Picard said and he nodded to him as he jumped over the next set of commentary then as he went to the rest of his episode. Watching as he sat in front of the fire a figure walked out then. "That, that looks like..." Picard said leaning forward over his shoulder as he got a better look. "Wesley." the figure said and his double said it. "Dad." he said and the trio straightened up at that as she said it.
"Jack, you son of a, no we're not falling for that." she snapped and Picard snapped feeling his anger growing by the minute at that as he said it with a growl. "No how could you do that, I'm not having him self destruct. And by a relapse, because you dragged a memory I don't need out of the woodworks. Stay away from him, you sick bastard, son don't fall for it, don't quit on me, don't." he said feeling his heart break then at that.
As Wesley put it on pause and turned to them. "Sir, mom, calm down, this was just the tv show, I'm not leaving you, I promise, it's okay, it's okay." he said and Picard closed his eyes as he answered him. "7 years together, you're like my own now, you're like my son, I'm not losing you because of a situation like this." he said and Wesley nodded. " I love you too, Sir, I love you too." he said and Picard gave him a hug and he hugged him back.
"Alright, alright, give me a minute and stand by." he said while he looking and closed his eyes as he started glowing and they nodded in shocked amazement. "Yeah ancient descent, your grandfather had the gene." MacDougal said and smiling and he nodded as the group crossed their arms then. "That's a real low blow, use his father against him, but to him, he abandoned him, we're his father now, we raised him as a teenager."
"He wants a war over him, and he's going to get one right now." Will said with a low growl at that as they watched it further. "You reached the end, Wesley." he said and his double asked it gently. "The end of what?" he said to him and he explained that to him gently then at the question. "Your journey, the one you started when I left you and your mother." he said and Wesley crossed his arms to that remark firmly.
"You mean when he abandoned us, my father, I'm 19 years old and the men who replaced him are his own superiors in ranks right now. But in total truth now, my fathers, they're the captain and the commander now. They raised me, they're the ones that took his place, I'm not leaving my parents my family, my friends, nice try. I know this is going to sound cruel, but after 10 years to 12 seeing the truth, it's that I see it clearly now."
"But Jack Crusher, I never knew him, he died when I was five. That was 14 years ago and in 14 years I've spent 5 in learning and growing used to things with the counseling of the entire sextet connected to my parents and the captain. And you know what I come to realize, it's that Jack Crusher abandoned me, he abandoned me. Instead of thinking about what his loss would do to my mother and me, he went on a suicide mission."
"And it kills him, and sure at one point I wanted him, I wanted him to see me as I am now, but that wish, it's done with, its over. And I've already got a father, and if he chooses it, like mom does, the captain becomes my stepfather. And I've got a godfather as well, I'm happy, so try all you want it's not going to work. I've got a tutor arriving in just weeks teaching me everything you would have taught me at the time."
"But to me, why should I disappoint my parents right now, I have a duty to the truth, my family, my friends, myself, they need me. But you may say they need to follow their own destinies, but our journeys are one and the same to me. If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago. Translation to that, if you been thinking long and hard about something, then the decision was made."
"And before you even made it, the stress of my keeping up to this little secret of them treating me normal. The stress is done with, I have everything I ever wanted. And I'm just a junior version of Commander Jackson, so give it your best shot. This was another test, well than fine, it's a test, but a test of revealing how far I've come. In 3 years of training, but have a mentor in that now finally, a 35 year old version of me, have a life."
"And a family, not going to leave." he said sternly and they smiled at the remark as Will said it for him then. "Love you too son." Will said and and Picard smiled as he answered him then, "You too son and I appreciate that remark, I didn't realize that this mission would reveal that portion. But now that we just got the real truth your mother and I appreciate that thought right now." Picard said squeezing his shoulder gently he smiled.
" I meant it sir, I meant that piece of it, he abandoned me, you were there, both of you and I got just as many surrogate parents on board the ship. It doesn't matter what he says, I'm not straying from my path, I'm staying with you, for good right now." he said and he gave a gentle nod as the group hid a smile to the declaration as he turned it back on. "You mean when you died." He quoted along with his double then to that remark.
"You set out on a journey that wasn't your own, now it's time to find a path that is truly yours. Don't follow me any further." The traveler said in his father's voice. "I don't understand." He said and he said it gently "Yes you do, it's just hard to accept, goodbye Wesley and good luck." he said and his double quickly said it then. "Dad wait." he shouted and they sighed to that as he answered that firmly then.
"Dont want me to follow you, fine I won't, I have found a journey that is my own, I have my family, my friends, this is where I belong. But don't follow my father into that, uh huh, okay, I won't. But that's exactly your problem, pal because I'm smarter then he was, I think before I act. But in this case, I'm not having my crew torn apart, we stay together, I have a life, I'm engaged to my girlfriend now, I have a best friend, or three."
"But why should I let that go, if Jackson had stayed together with Carter, then the results would've changed the future. I can save my crew, my ship, and my friends with these powers, all I have to do is practice." he said with a growl at that remark. "Best keep that going now, because if Guinan heard a conversation like this. Then she's going to know that your catch is the same as Nick's right now, but you're talking to your double here."
"And as if this was you right now kiddo, take it down several notches buddy, I get you here." Goldberg said and the rest of the engineering team chuckled and nodded in agreement. "Issues of dealing with your past and present, we can't know too much about our future, but the loophole in that is by these movies. And these tv shows that way we can learn and change what sequences are needed." Wesley said gently as Will said it.
"No not the end, just the beginning right now, my best friend can teach him, but he doesn't have to leave Starfleet just to learn this stuff. Wes, just relax, see if you can move anything." he said and Wesley nodded to him as he closed his eyes and he heard a surprised shout. " Uh whatever I did, it won't happen twice, so put me down please." They heard from Joseph Ronson and he heard a sigh of relief at that and hid a chuckle.
" Sorry Joe, didn't mean to do that, just flexing my mental muscles right now." he said and the man nodded bemused as he answered him. "I get that, but next time do that when alone in the room and not surrounded by us, would you please." he said and Wesley nodded. "At least it wasn't the fork getting launched across the room by accident." Sarah said and Ronson nodded in agreement to that thought gently bemused.
"But science and training expeditions, we can still do it, as, if the tribe is the first people we start with, as Commander Jackson's my tutor. I'm on a training mission, to become a human traveler, but the higher planes don't get involved in the lower. But the loophole there is they can if they're both from the same planes. And they never ascended, that's what this is, he's training me to ascend." Wesley said and they nodded gently to him.
"So my grandfather Jack Robert Crusher, to my namesake, and it went down the generations from my namesake to me in the male bloodline. I'm descended from a bloodline that carries the ancient Gene and Commander Jackson is too. I need him, he's me, as an adult, he can train me, alright freeze it, Lal show us the movie series focused on something similar to this." he said and a movie title card with six movies appeared.
"Uh let's see, the boy's origins, when his mentor found him, he found his future wife, the Jedi masters that trained him and then appeared the alter ego to their group's religion. Lal drag it down to the end of the movie when this parasite realized the amount of power the boy had, what did he say to him?" Picard asked and the lines flickered until it stopped on it and he read it out for himself and the group gently as they nodded then.
"And you, we will watch your career with great interest.'. Translation is as close to what the traveler told us as possible." he said and Will nodded as he counteracted that remark sternly as he said it then to that firmly. "'Yes we know that, we all know he's gifted, that's very apparent to all of us, but what he doesn't need now. Now that he just pulled off, on what some think is the impossible, is having his abilities and title thrown at him."
"And every time he turns around, and his education in the case on the ship is up to his mother, me, the captain, the committee. Or the rest of the crew here, and you're not family so stay out of our business. As his mother left me in charge of him, and this is family business and you're not family so as of this moment. Just stay the hell away from him your excellency, you're off limits." he said and Sarah nodded as she answered him.
"Best jump over my debate with you when I told you our given orders and go right to your fight with the captain over this. If it was meant to prevent a fight breaking out between the Cardassians and the tribe that helps. So my team and I don't end up in the middle of it here." Worf said and Picard shook his head. "No do both of us, Wesley, because what Nechayev pulled could also have damaged our bonds as well now."
"If this is the same argument that Jackson had with Hammond, before they got the truth thrown in their faces regarding the Eurondans. It's enough this just barely tore apart our bonds, but you still felt like you had to keep proving yourself to us. But the sarcophagus and Euronda was him, they framed him for a mental breakdown. And his morals, and the Novas did the very same thing to you." he said and Wesley nodded as he did it then.
"Add the final argument and you're reasoning to quit the academy training and that's everything, plus the realization that you reached the level they wanted." Beverly added and he nodded as he activated it then. As they saw him walking out Worf walked over to him. "Are you alright Mr. Crusher?" he skied and Wesley's double nodded to him. "I'm fine Worf." he said and he nodded as he looked at a woman on his team.
"Lay out a confinement beam trace around the southeastern side of the village, be discreet, we do not wish to alarm these people." he said and Picard sighed. "Here it comes, there's the fact I'd normally never do this, but that's it, I'm not putting up with Nechayev's decisions any longer. Haden's my direct superior, my order come directly from him, and I'm getting them right now." he said at that response gently.
"Yes Sir." Ensign Harris said with a sigh as she quoted her double then. "I don't blame you for that annoyed tone, none of us wanted to do this, but it's trying to prevent a fight now in this. But if it doesn't switch from the fight between the Cardassians, and to us and someone's going to get shot." Greyson said in response to that and they nodded. "That's why I possibly did that, so we don't have them killing each other at the moment."
"Once I heard the direct orders, but this crossed a line, we're taking sides in a situation that's none of our business. They got to work this out on their own and before that gets us caught in the middle. Because we're doing more harm then good, at the moment here right now. Jackson realized the exact same thing, but their planet is in flames and we're offering gasoline, so how does that help." he asked and Picard crossed his arms then.
"It doesn't and you saw this in the same way, Jackson was right all along, during Euronda and in the end you quit and at the academy. After the truth got thrown in our faces, this was damn set up, the traveler, Nechayev and the Cardassians. They were in this together, keep it going right now, we're finishing this situation so we can rearrange it now between us." he said and Wesley nodded as he reactivated it at his double's remark.
"Worf, what are you doing." his double asked him and he explained that. "We are laying transporter coordinates for a security permeated. It may be necessary to remove these people by force." he said and they saw his double look at him in shock. "Worf, we can't do this, these people deserve better then to be taken from their homes." Wesley said and Worf shook his head at that as he answered him then gently.
"I understand, but now is not the time or place to talk about this." he said completing the remark that was at the cut off. "Yeah and when is, you want this turning into a shoot out right now, it's like the alter reality stories in the Stargate novels. Before the show was created, Lal book 1 after the movie." he said and a minute later they saw a similar argument break out between them, before Jackson's double lead them in a strike.
"Yeah and now I get the point, I'm a medical doctor and this is a case of peace keeper and to prevent a riot. Or someone on our side from getting shot once they realize the group's are caught in the middle at the moment. But we're the soldiers connected to the tribe and the general in charge just started something. The Cardassians, they're the mining company and the tribe is the Abydonians." Beverly said in response to that firmly.
"Do you know what they're trying to do, they're preparing to beam you away and take you to their ship. You're not going to let them are you?" Wesley's double called out and they heard the automatic response from one of the members of the tribe. "No we won't, leave now!" the man snapped at the security detail. "Alright that's enough of this, I see the same situation right now beginning to develop right now."
"The final argument now, with my being, back then a colonel and you're just a cadet, and this is enough to annoy me right now at the moment after I got you back up here. So hit that portion, but leave out the next portion with me and the Gul on board that ship." he said and Wesley activated it then. "Inexcusable, you defied the orders of a ranking officer on the scene, you put the lives of the entire team in jeopardy."
"And you made an already tense situation worse, your actions reflect badly on this ship and this crew. Now I want an explanation, Mister Crusher, and I want it now!" Picard's double snapped at him as Wesley stood at parade rest then. "Well this reminds of me when you busted us." Wesley said and he nodded to him. "Indeed, and it's clear that 3 years separation only made it worse now, you wanted my trust back."
"Had my double calmed down at looked at the real reason you chose sides he's going to see you did this just to protect the team. But whoever did this episode really screwed up now, because, no matter a good deed, it's just shredding the bonds further between us. And till you quit on me and drop out of the academy, it's clear that whoever wrote up this episode doesn't realize the emotional side effects now of being the only teenager."
"To young adult that's this gifted or the only teenager on the senior staff or the cast now, fortunately they were useful for something at least. And just to prevent the same mistakes twice, we discussed this repeatedly sand you're home for three years so problem solved." he said and Wesley nodded to him. "What you're doing down there is wrong, these people are not some random group of colonists."
"They're a unique culture that predates the federation and Starfleet." he said Picard's double said it sternly. "That does alter the fact that my orders are to." he started to say and Wesley stepped in then. "I know admiral Nechayev gave you and order, and as did the council, but it's still wrong." he said and they sighed at that. "Captain listen to me a second, please, but you recall our learning strategy."
"Learn from the past to create a better future, you taught me that, it's happening again. And we're simulating what nearly caused Jackson to quit the Stargate program. Direct orders without looking at the consequences, we do this and it's like we're throwing gas on an inferno already out of control. Our direct orders are we don't go getting involved without knowing the who, what."
"Where, why and when, but Starfleet policy dictated non interference, and don't fight others battles for them. And that's what Nechayev wants you to do, we can't do this, otherwise we're doing more harm then good right now. We're breaking our own policies by this order." Wesley said as he added that to the tape deck then firmly and Picard nodded in agreement to his thoughts gently at that remark.
"And that just goes to show how much you truly learned from us, Starfleet policies, we go against policies and we're no better then the NID. Thank you for telling us that right now at the moment, but when you describe this like that. It just demonstrates that when a cadet teaches the mentor the partnership in bonds was directly in target. And I never been more proud of you son, nicely done son." he said, squeezing his shoulder then.
"Yeah and for years you made the correct decisions, but now they're asking you to go against your own morality and I'm trying to head that off. Because to the tribe leader, it's a matter of old blood and at the moment matters of the situation. It's the civil war all over again, but you're from France, and their tribe was with the English." Wesley said and he nodded as he got the point gently at the remark as he looked at him gently then.