Author's notes
Thanks to everyone who read. I appreciate the kind comments and patience as I hammered it out. A couple of notes on where I got some of my information.
The Event
Some technical babble and a way to start things off. I was deliberately vague about what exactly happened since this was related to the higher powers. It felt like there were a lot of coincidences and it would make more sense if there was a higher hand at least nudging things a bit.
Travel Between The Stars
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a satisfactory explanation of FTL in Battlestar Galactica TOS. TNG certainly at least had an answer There was a throw away line in the "Living Legend" about light speed but it almost made less sense than nothing. For better or worse, this is completely my contrivance.
Phaser wide dispersion
This was from "A Piece of the Action"
The Ship of Lights
From "War of the Gods"
Iblis
From "War of the Gods"
Q
Too may to list from TNG. Starts with the pilot episode.
A quick note. I know I am implying that Q knows what is going to happen with Picard and crew. He is omniscient and his understanding of time would be very different than ours.
Fitting weird Dilithium Crystals
From Elaan of Troyius
Kirk can cause computers to self-destruct (throw away line)
There are several episodes where this is true.
The Return of the Archons
The Changling
The Ultimate Computer
I, Mudd
I am not good at Memes, but I always thought a good one would be.
Frame 1: Kirk with Nomad "Nomad, you are imperfect and must be destroyed"
Frame 2: Kirk with M5 "You have killed and must shut down"
Frame 3: Kirk with Landau "You have failed your people. You must die"
Frame 4: Kirk with Alexa "Alexa…" (off screen) "Jim, no!"
I also played around with the idea of making it difficult for the Kongo and baseships to fight because the Starship was in Warp and the baseship was not but it already seemed complex enough.
Again thanks and hope you enjoyed it.