Disclaimer: CBS/Paramount own all Star Trek characters, the original characters and story are mine.
Author's note: I haven't really abandoned this story, I promise. Real life insists on intruding. As a way to get back into the writing groove, this is a combination fluffy mini chapter and recap. I promise a real and proper chapter within a week.
Naomi wondered if she was going to spend all of her off time on the Lindbergh telling stories about her childhood. After this thought flitted across her mind, she sighed and began to tell the story of the day of her birth. "You see, the day I was born, Voyager hit some anomaly and was duplicated in its entirety, well except for the anti-matter. One of the Voyagers was in good shape and the other was heavily damaged. The heavily damaged one was from this universe, the ship on which I was born. Like I said, we were heavily damaged and Harry Kim had already been killed trying to repair some of that damage. As a result of the ship's distressed condition, the doctor was very busy, and since there were complications during my birth, I just didn't survive."
Mary, Naomi's roommate, let out a protracted whistle. "Naomi, I had no idea I was bunking with a dead person."
Naomi turned to her roommate, "Well, you are. Anyway, after the two Voyagers did everything they could to merge the two ships, the ship in better condition, the Voyager from a different universe, was attacked by the Viidians."
Maria, Naomi's coworker in Stellar Cartography asked, "Who the heck are they?"
"They're a race in the Delta Quadrant who were ravaged by a disease they called The Phage. Since their entire population had been suffering from this debilitating condition for centuries, and their medical prowess could not cure the disease, they went about harvesting organs from species they encountered."
As Naomi paused to take a sip of her beverage, she heard someone softly say, "How ghoulish."
She shook her head in agreement. "The Viidians locked onto the other Voyager with their grappling things, and boarded the ship. The crew of the other Voyager was overwhelmed quickly. Before she set the ship's auto destruct feature, the other Captain Janeway sent Harry Kim over to our ship and he was to bring me along."
Shras, an Andorian engineer who had come in while the discussion was in full flow, pulled up a chair from another table and sat down next to Mary. He asked for clarification, "So, let me get this straight, as a result of you being from a different reality this means you are slightly phase shifted, right?" Naomi nodded, indicating that he was on the right track. "And, due to this phase differential, you were able to see aliens over on Cold Station 12, aliens nobody else could see?" Again, Naomi nodded. "But you weren't aware you were the only one who could see them?"
"Correct, at least until I asked who the lady with Dr. Bashir was, then it became clear that nobody on the bridge had any idea who I meant."