Star Trek: The Nara-Maru Files

A Deadly Betrayal

In the year 2561...

Becoming a legend larger then life on the Iolian homeworld, Asami and Teela Hirayama had changed the planet itself into a galactic powerhouse of commerce and advanced technology, a rich history dating back thousands of years beyond the time of what the planet called 'The Burning'. 10'000 years ago, a technologically advanced civilisation had sprung up on Iolia to the point where they had launched themselves into space and explored the neighbouring systems with a technology which resembled Warp-Drive. After launching what had become their equivalent of the Earth's NX-01 starship, the first galactic explorer vessel the small ship had visited many worlds on a five year mission to explore the galaxy within their reach before finally arriving at an insignificant little world at the limit of their reach. Taking two and half years to reach this world, the crew of starship had monitored a small group of early intelligent life springing up on a world they classified as Beta-2-1-0-9, on a plant that would eventually become known as Earth. Monitoring the early civilisation for two weeks, they eventually made the long voyage home.

Taking a short cut through an un-explored region of space, they eventually returned home to a heroic welcome after expanding the knowledge of Iolian culture, but they where not alone. Four days after they arrived home and with their home fleet in dry-dock, an unknown alien race appeared out of warp and begun to systematically bombard the Iolian homeworld with asteroids while some of their fleet attacked the orbital habitats, Starships and defensive satellites. With three-quarters of their civilisation now dead along with many of their brightest scientists, world leaders and military, the Iolian culture had been forced back into the stone age along with decaying cities filled with the stench of corpses as a plague ripped across the planet like the spectre of death itself. Two thousand years later and slowly building from the ashes of what was once one of the earliest space faring races in the known galaxy, the Civilisation had entered into industrial age and rebuilt their society as best as they could, the alien invaders had never returned.

Once again launching themselves into space after a long and difficult struggle and learning from their past mistakes, they stayed closer to the home system for protection detail while they observed the galaxy itself including Earth as it grew from a small warring planet into leaders of the United Federation of Planets, although their technology had in recent years, fallen behind the Iolian's.

Following the instructions given to her by her late Great-Grandmother, Teela Hirayama stood before the large museum belonging to her family as a large queue of visitors from across the Federation and beyond waited in line and took holo-pictures of her. Working up the courage to enter the large family owned building for the first time as a newly appointed adult, under new Iolian Law, she finally entered the building and took a deep breath as she saw the exhibits for the first time since she was a child. Holographic representations of her late family, as if they where in their youth stood hand in hand before the opening. Visitors to the museum looked on in shock at the young woman as their eyes switched between her and the holographic image of her great-grandmother as she stood with a smile looking up at her late great-grandmother whom she was named after. Dominating the large floor space of the museum was a commissioned replica of the Nara-Maru in all of her glory, reproduced down to the odour of the vessel itself for the visitors to experience first hand the experience of their earlier days as transport operators.

Smiling to herself at the look of shock on the visitor's faces, she pushed past the lines and walked towards the private office of the curator of the museum before she activated a console as instructed. Typing in the command codes given to her into a small computer panel, the young Teela instantly leaped backwards as a the wall panel disappeared to reveal a long stairway leading down into almost darkness. As she looked back towards the windows behind her, she noticed that they had changed slightly, probably to hide the presence of the vault beneath he museum itself. As she stepped into the stairway, a brilliant red beam scanned her quickly before a force field deactivated, allowing her access into whatever lay beneath the structure itself.

With each step down the stairwell, three lights before her illuminated as the ones behind her shut down as the holographic wall reappeared behind her, sealing the entrance. Panic almost overcame her until she saw a light from the bottom of the stairs. Finally stepping into the light, shock and awe echoed over her young face as she saw a vast research laboratory before her along with a large computer database which spread out as far a she could see in all directions.

"Welcome Young Teela" A familiar voice said from behind her.

Instantly she spun around as her jaw dropped at who she saw standing behind her leaning against the wall.

"What-what is this place?" She said slowly.

"The… Family legacy. We where expecting you last night Teela. There is much you should know"

"Kaila, what is going on here?" She said quickly toward her own Grandmother.

"You know what happened to my mother over a century ago, her memories are now within you as they are with me…"

"She told you?"

"More then that my dear, she showed me everything she saw. I saw it through her own eyes. Only you and I know the truth Teela, we are the only ones who know what really happened and that is why this place exists. Walk with me while I explain?"

"Of course" She said slowly as she followed her grandmother.

"Since that day, Asami had begun a change which a select few only knew the real truth. As far as the rest of the world knows, her markings where Tattoos as to blend in with the rest of our kind. The last one who knew about this change, died fifty years ago, with exception of my parents of course"

"Of course?"

"As you know, the device implanted in her skull was never removed, Asami led her life inside her own personal prison and it darkened her slightly knowing that she was trapped. Months after her abduction, she purchased an obsolete Starfleet EMH program which continued with the family's medical needs, after it was modified. Starfleet had begun a program of expansion throughout the galaxy and our people became a part of that, I myself was once a Starfleet Officer before I fell pregnant. Your mother, my youngest daughter could not conceive a child of her own as she was sterile… so, we created you"

"I'm a CLONE?" Teela said with shock.

"Nothing so… mundane. A very… advanced duplicate. Your mother's husband at the time could not handle not having a child, so he left her twenty years ago…"

"But I am sixteen… I have a father"

"I know. There is more you need to know and you MUST hear it. Shortly before your mother's marriage dissolved, Teela was diagnosed with the same rare illness which had plagued our family for generations…"

Slowly, the young Teela began to pace almost in a circle before she stopped and looked up into her grandmother's eyes as tears formed in her own.

"Taking genetic samples from your mother and her new husband, you where created in a similar way that I was born… but something was different about you Teela. We found within your genetic structure something which slowed the progress of the illness which was killing my mother. For some reason, we don't know why… you have a natural immunity to the illness and more"

"How much more?" She said with a deep anger.

"As Starfleet expanded and our own people worked along side them, they naturally began friendships with other species and eventually relationships. Humans, Betazoids, Vulcans and Bajorans… We've been monitoring them ever since as the second generation of those off-spring have a natural immunity to several diseases specifically between Iolian women and Bajoran males. Their aging has slowed to a rate similar to our own, some… in the case of the Vulcans, projections state maybe longer then our own and we don't know why…"

"I still don't understand what you mean Kaila, what does this have to do with me?" She said with anger once more.

"Projections of your lifespan have stated a 100% increase in capability. Other then when you where in infant, you have never suffered any ailments. Your… regenerative abilities, to put it mildly… are off of the charts" Kaila said as she held her hands gently. "No one knows why"

"This is insane!" She laughed.

"No my dear, it is the truth. You, are the future of our people"

"So, assuming that I believe you. Why all of this?"

"Using your DNA and those in our Databanks, we have been able to create two… advanced clones…" Kaila said with pride. "It took three failed attempts, but we have been able to recreate two of our most… predominant citizens"

Slowly and with pride and tears in her eyes, she pointed behind the young Teela as two forms appeared in a transporter beam and materialised before them. Shock instantly rippled across Teela's face as she saw two women appear before her, two she instantly recognised as her jaw dropped.

"Hello… Mothers" Kaila said as she wept.

"What, Grandmother what have you done?"

The End.