Chapter 6:
Captain on Deck!
As the crew prepared for the arrival of Captain Garrett of the Enterprise C, Lt. Yar made her way to transporter room 1. "Energize," said Captain Riker. Rachel Garrett materialized on to the Titan. "Welcome aboard, Captain." "Captain Riker, I presume. How are you?" "I'm good, thank you." I don't know if you know Lt. Yar."
Ten-Forward, USS Titan
"I assumed she beamed aboard from your ship to mine." "Actually that was the Enterprise D from a few years ago." Data came in, "When your ship was attacked by Romulans in your timeline, a ship came through a wormhole, due to a chemical imbalance in the firepower of the Romulan Warbird, which created the a false Enterprise D. What we did is create that same power, using only our deflector, so as to not destroy our own timeline." "So whose timeline are you in?" asked Garrett. "Yours, actually." "So this Tasha is?" Tasha spoke up, "I'm the Tasha Yar that died 14 years ago and somehow was brought back to life. How this happened, I don't know." "What else happened, Data?" In the timeline in which we come from, Tasha had a daughter, through a Romulan officer who had pity on her. Your ship and crew were captured and all the people executed; except Tasha." "Then you must remember Richard Castillo." "Yes, I do," Tasha said. "Mr. Castillo, can you beam aboard the USS Titan." "Aye, Captain." "Castillo has an account of you, Tasha, disappearing into thin air." "That must be how I happened to be alive on Vagra II." "Intriguing." Riker spoke up, finally, "Captain Garrett, this is Anakin Skywalker from the Vortex universe." Ensign Skywalker shook hands with Rachel Garrett. "I hear you were a big help with the Titan crew retrieving Lt. Yar." "Yes, I was." "Of course he was, mon Capitan" Q appeared, "and I also had a little hand, as I'm absolutely fascinated with humans." "Captain Rachel Garrett, Q." "Pleased to meet you, Q." "The pleasure is all mine, Capt. Now, with your dear friend returned, Riker, I believe it's time to see another timeline altered, for the better of course." "Which one?" "The one where you're killed, Ms. Yar, again I might add; only this time by a Romulan who was betrayed by you." "Q, enough." "No offense to your second lieutenant, Riker, but that is exactly what happened, right Data?" "Q is correct, Captain, Yar." "I have a daughter?" "Yes and by now she is the Empress of the Tal Shiar, a highly liberal faction of the Romulan Star Empire, 30 years into the future." "How do you know this?" "Before I returned to Starfleet service, I made a journey to the Gateway which Kirk and Spock encountered 100 years ago. With that portal, I was able to see what happened to the people of 15 different worlds after the Scmitiar exploded and what happened to Romulus and Vulcan through the terrorist actions of Nero."
"We must make a way to get to that time period." Q answered, "Not a problem, but which one?" "The one where Tasha is 'married' and has a daughter." "Ah, yes." Q snapped his fingers together and they were taken instantaneously to Romulus of the Enterprise C's time.