Down in engineering Lieutenant Commander Barclay was trying to get sensors back online. Whatever hit them disabled short and long range sensors as well as life support being drained down to 25%. First thing he would have done was check to see how Scotty was doing but the captain was relying on these systems and he wanted to get them up and running. From the corner of his eye he could see the chief engineer still laying flat on his back.

"Lieutenant T'Kela, please check on Mr. Scott!"

"Aye, sir!"

The Vulcan female moved away from her console and went over to the engineer laying on the ground. With a tricorder she began to scan the injured crewmember. "This is very odd!"

T'Kela looked from her tricorder to the engineer again then raised an eyebrow. "Commander Barclay I believe you should see this."

"In a minute, Lieutenant. If its important call for medical." Barclay ordered then went back to getting systems up and running again.

T'Kela raised an eyebrow at her superiors instance but did as instructed, "Medical emergency to sickbay!"

Scotty woke up to find himself not in the engine room where he last was but looked like he was in a brig. The security officer standing near the desk wasn't wearing a Starfleet uniform that he was familiar with. Granted part of the uniform was familiar, but with a different twist. The security guard had some type of sash around his waist and looked like, instead of a standard phaser, a dagger.

"Aye, laddie!" hollered Scotty. "What's going on?"

"Aye, I can answer that!" came an echoing voice.

Scotty was shocked to see that the officer coming around the corner was himself. "Y-you!"

"Aye, you remember!"

"You should have been dead with the rest of that Enterprise. Your Kirk is long dead!"

"Oh you mean Emperor Kirk? Oh well after Spock found out that you were not me and let you return to your own time Kirk killed Spock!"

As much as he tried he couldn't quite keep himself from gasping. It was Spock, both versions for that fact, indeed who discovered that the away team were not where they were supposed to be. Now here after 95 years Scotty was relieving this all over again.

"I demand to know what you want of me!"

The mirror Scotty threw his head back and laughed. "That's up to the captain to decide. After all it was my plan to disable your ship. That fool is trying to take all the credit!"

"Then let me talk to your captain!"

The mirror Scotty kept laughing as he walked out towards the doors. The security guard glanced over at Scotty and smiled. Scott knew this wasn't going to be easy. The last time was caused by a transporter accident that they had solved. Now what are they planning and why?

Scotty knew this brig. He helped design it. But would the other version of himself know where the hidden doors to the jefferies tubes were? Before he could try to find it the Mirror Scotty turned and gave an evil grin.

"Oh and don't think of looking for the door inside your cell that leads to the jefferies tube! We've already had them sealed!"

Damn! Scotty thought. "How would you possibly have known that?"

"Two reasons! I helped design our Camelot and two we scanned you first so we know your weaknesses!"

"I want to speak to your captain." barked Scotty.

"Your not in the position to demand anything. But if its all helpful Commodore Downward will speak with you when he's ready! Not until then."

With that the mirror Scotty turned and left the brig leaving the chief engineer to ponder on what happened to the rest of the crew!

Commander Carter was still shaking off the after effects of whatever had knocked them unconscious and started looking over some controls trying to figure out where they were and who was aboard the mirror version of their own ship. It hadn't been easy since most of the controls were offline but thanks to Commander Barclay and his staff in engineering they were able to get life-support back to normal. But the rest of the systems, including the main computer core, seems to have been offline either on purpose or by sabotage.

Carter looked around and especially at the viewscreen. The stars were the same but she served enough time to know that somehow the stars seem different. Although she couldn't prove it she looked over to Commander Tuvok. "Commander are long range sensors back online?"

"Negative, Commander. But we do have partial short range."

This seemed to catch Captain Downward's attention and he looked up from helping a crewmember at the science terminals. "Any planets or other ships in the vicitinty?"

Tuvok looked back down at his console and shooked his head. "Negative, Captain. Their not all that strong yet."

"Keep on it." ordered Carter.

The Vulcan nodded and got back to work. Downward and Carter seemed to be thinking the same thing wondering what else was happening to them. If they had a saboteur aboard then it must be a member of their crew. Carter knew her captain long enough that he was praying that this wasn't the case.

"Engineering to bridge!"

"Go ahead, doctor!"

"Captain, I think you should come down here!" Wright's voice sounded like she had some terrible news to tell but didn't want to do it over the, now fixed, comm systems.

Great! Now what! Thought the Captain who nodded at his first officer who accompanied him in the turbolift.

Doctor Jodi Wright had been summoned shortly after life-support was reinstated. Her job was normally a dull and boring one unless somebody had come to her for a scrap or bruise or a broken arm from a holodeck injury, which seemed to happen quite often. But when she was summoned to engineering she knew that whatever happened to them was not normal.

Upon arriving in main engineering she found everybody hard at work trying to get the ship back to normal, all except for the chief engineer who was still laying unconscious where he had fallen. The looks of his body it had looked like Scotty had fallen from the catwalk.

Lieutenant T'Kela, who was the first one to have scanned the engineer and had summoned the doctor, noticed the doctor and moved over to her. "Doctor! I have scanned the engineer but something, either with our own tricorders or maybe my own senses, don't seem right."

"I'll take a look at him!"

Wright opened up her medical kit and pulled out a medical tricorder and began to scan her friend and chief engineer. Her expression on her face didn't seem to get any better as she scanned the engineer. It didn't take her very long to get to her conclussion on why Scotty had not gotten up. She simply put her hand right through the engineer. T'Kela who had been nearby raised an eyebrow.

"A holoprojection of the chief engineer? Who would do that?"

"Well hopefully we'll find out soon!"

When Downward and Carter arrived in engineering they found Dr. Wright, Lieutenant T'Kela and Lieutenant Commander Barclay all standing near the holographic chief engineer. Downward looked down at his friend to see why he hadn't gotten up. With no idea that his friend was a holoprojection.

"Report, doctor! Why hasn't Scotty gotten up yet?"

Wright held up a finger then addressed, not the captain, but the computer. "Computer deactivate the chief engineer."

The individual laying on the deck vanished. Where the once chief engineer was there was nothing but carpet now. "What the - ?"

"Somehow while we were unconscious the crew somehow got transported from our ship to this one." Barclay answered!

"But isn't this our ship?" asked Carter.

"No, ma'am!" answered Barclay. "Although it appears to be our ship its not. The reason for this is because I found this clue."

Barclay turned and tapped a button on the engineering console and an image popped up. It was a logo that nobody in engineering recognized, except for the captain and first officer.

"The Terran Empire!"

"What?"

Tapping his comm badge Captain Downward gave an order that he'd given plenty of times. "Senior Staff meeting, ten minutes, observation lounge!"

Downward then turned to his acting chief engineer, "Is Mister Scott, the real Mister Scott, anywhere aboard?"

"No sir!"

"Get all the information you can in the next ten minutes then I want you to join the senior staff."

"Aye captain."

"Doctor, if you don't mind!"

Downward turned on his heels and headed for the exit. He had a suspesion about this ship but he was hoping that he might be wrong. Doctor Wright followed but didn't say a word. She knew better to interrupt the captain when he was deep in thought. She had never heard of the Terran Empire before but by the looks of concern on the captain's face she knew that he must have.

They walked in silence until the reached a turbolift. "Doctor you've viewed everybodies records when you first came on board correct?"

"Of course. Its the first thing a chief medical officer is supposed to do aboard a new starship."

"Very good! Was there anything in my service record about what happened eighteen years ago?"

"Just about your depression problem when Captain O'Fritz was killed on stardate 62599.15 that it took you a few months to get over it before assuming command of the Olympus on stardate 62752.61."

"Nothing about the incident that occurred when the Enterprise-D was suddenly transported to another universe?"

"No sir!"

Downward nodded and then remained silent for a brief moment. Starfleet must have covered that up then, thought Downward. It was clearly a dangerous mission trying to get back to their own universe and Captain Picard nearly lost his life over it.

The turbolift doors parted on deck 10 and they walked out and down the corridor with the captain leading the way. Doctor Wright had no clue where the captain was leading her but this deck did seem to look unfamiliar to her compared to their ship. The more and more she noticed she walked the more she noticed the differences. There were shields and swords hanging from the wall. Triumphs from battles here and there. It wasn't until they turned into cabin 10-336 that she was finally getting her answer.

Inside, instead of a normal quarters, looked like booths. Captain Downward stopped in the middle of the room and looked around. Without waiting the captain answered the doctor's unasked question.

"Their agony booths, doctor. You see I was in one. When the Enterprise-D got pulled into this universe we encountered a mirror version of our own vessel, such as we had just done earlier. When Captain Picard refused to give the mirror Picard the codes for Starfleet's defenses the mirror Picard had the crew tortured. Myself included."

Downward then turned to look at the startled look on his chief medical officer's face. "That's why I know something about this universe. Clearly it has changed in the last eighteen years, but the same format."

Downward turned and looked at each booth. This time taking it all in and noticing that there was an individual in booth number 3. Walking over to the control panel the captain punched in a few buttons and the door to booth 3 opened and the individual inside fell out.

Doctor Wright went over to examine the crewmember and then looked up. "He's a bit dazed but he'll live."

"Crewman, who are you!"

"My name is Q!" the crewman refused to look up. "Please don't hurt me again I'll do anything you say."

"Q?" Downward asked.

Q looked up finally and looked. "You are not Commodore Downward!"

Downward and Wright both looked at each other! Commodore? Clearly in this universe he wasn't a captain. Maybe in command of a starship yes but no longer captain.