Nexus
"Are you sure about this, Jim?" McCoy asked finally.
"I'm sure. I can't send someone else to do this."
"A single torpedo and..."
"Bones, Some two hundred million lives will depend on stopping that man."
"We could arrest him the moment he's on the Enterprise," McCoy suggested.
"On what charges? Based on what evidence? At best, he'd get out, more desperate and paranoid than ever. At worst, he exposes and destroys the incalculable value of a major intelligence asset."
"You'll forgive me if I'd rather not be there to see it, Jim."
"If by some chance, I come out of this alive?" Kirk said.
McCoy raised a glass. "Either way... See you on the other side."
"I need help. Now if you were to come back with me..."
"I can't. I'm already there. Remember? But I bet I know someone who can. And from his point of view, he just got here too."
Jean Luc Picard recognized instantly the face of James T. Kirk, Starfleet hero and legend. The surroundings were a little perplexing though. It took Picard a minute to recognize the bridge of the second starship Enterprise... On second thought, it looked to have elements of the other starships Enterprise as well.
And Kirk sat in the center seat.
"Welcome, Captain," Kirk greeted him.
"I'm Captain Jean Luc..."
"...Picard of the starship Enterprise" Kirk finished. "I assume this is the Nexus?"
"That's right. But how...?"
"Come now, I know that you and your command were... Are one of the primary topics of the Sunset files. Now tell me the situation."
"Certainly... although I wonder... How is it that the Nexus doesn't seem to have as strong a hold on you?" Picard wanted to know.
"You think it doesn't?" Kirk countered. "Look around you. The remnants of over thirty years in command and... even now, ...I want it more than anything. But... It's living in a dream." He looked around the bridge with a frown. "Nothing matters... Nothing makes a difference here. That's not what we're all about Captain."
"Then come back with me! Help me stop Soran! Make a difference again!"
"Who am I to argue with the Captain of the Enterprise? What's the name of that planet? Veridian III?"
"Yes," Picard replied. "Now... We need a plan..."
Captain Picard entered Ten Forward, scanning the room. Spotting Soran gazing out the viewport, he paused only a moment to nod to a powerfully built Earth Pony wearing the gold of security before striding over. "Doctor Soran."
"Yes? Ah! yes! thank you for coming!" Soran greeted him eagerly, shaking his hand.
"I understand there's something urgent you wish to discuss with me," Picard noted calmly as Lieutenant Sundance Apple stood patiently by the entrance.
"Yes, I must return to the observatory immediately. I must continue a critical experiment I've been running on the Amargosa star," Soran explained.
"I would like nothing more than to help you, doctor but I'm afraid your time has run out."
A look at Picard's face told Soran that somehow, Picard knew. Soran's eyes widened in panic. He had to get away! If he could get to a transporter, he could beam to the observatory and maybe hide until the Duras sisters arrived to beam him out. Pushing away from Picard, Soran scrambled, only to be met by a left hoof from Lieutenant Apple.
"Eenope!"
Soran looked up to see the massive pony staring down at him as Picard caught up to them and was joined by another man, whom Soran vaguely thought he recognized. Soran's attention was drawn to the old style hand phaser the man leveled at him.
"Impeccable timing, Captain." Picard complimented.
"Call me 'Jim'."
A few minutes later, Commander Riker turned with a start as he saw Captain Picard enter the bridge with James Kirk following.
"Captain, this is Commander William Riker, my first officer. Commander Riker, this is Captain James T. Kirk. I understand you've heard of him?"
"A little sir," Riker answered trying to maintain his poise.
"Good. Now, Commander, You've been informed that Doctor Soran has been taken into custody?"
"Yes, sir." Riker wondered just what was going on.
"That leaves us with one other matter to deal with. Captain?" Picard invited Kirk to continue.
"There is a Klingon D-12 class Bird of Prey out there Commander. And we don't dare let it get away."
"Certainly, between the two of you, Number One, I can think of no one better to handle Lursa and B'etor under these circumstances," Picard stated.
"They're not exactly my type," Kirk quipped. "But I think we can handle a Bird of Prey with a defective plasma coil."
"Well then! Number One, Captain Kirk has the conn." Picard announced
"Understood sir. And where will you be... Captain?"
"In my ready room. My brother's family should be in San Francisco by now and I have a little catching up to do."
"With all due respect, sir. Is this the time for that?" Riker asked.
"Ordinarily not, but between the finest First Officer in the fleet and the Greatest Captain in Starfleet history, I think this situation is well in hand, and... Let's just say I need to make up for lost time."
"Of course, sir. Will there be anything else?"
"Yes, Commander. Once you've taken care of the Duras sisters, I need to address the crew. We've received Special Orders from Fleet Admiral Garrett...
Stardate 49827.5
Captain Kirk glanced around the bridge of this new Sovereign class Starship Enterprise, a guest of Captain Picard.
"So, Captain? What do you think of the new Enterprise?"
"She looks to be a fine ship, Jean Luc. She's got a good Captain and a good crew."
"Definitely. Will you be aboard for our inaugural cruise?"
"I'm afraid not Captain. You aren't the only one with a ship to tend. Once Mister Scott finishes looking over your engine room, Lieutenant Stadi, Captain Scott, Commander M'ress and I will need to get back to our own ship. We have a launch date of our own to meet."
"Fair enough, Jim." The two men shook hands once more. "Then until our paths cross again, Bon Voyage Captain."
"And good luck to you and to the crew of the Enterprise."
Eeyup.
Good changes, here. And nice to see the idea of them going back just a bit further used. :p
Something I'm not quite following. When did Kirk go into the Nexus, and is he going to head back to his original time using another method of time travel?
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As per the events of Star Trek Generations, Kirk entered the Nexus when the Excelsior class USS Enterprise encountered it while attempting to rescue two refugee transports. Because of the information provided by Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, Kirk knew this would occur and that his presence might very well be necessary to prevent the loss of over 250 million natives on Veridian IV and the crew of the USS Enterprise.
He and DoctorMcCoy both knew it was a one way trip, which quite possibly would end in Kirk's death. This is why McCoy decided not to come on the Enterprise-B's maiden cruise, having no desire to stand there and watch it unfold.
My brain... Garrett?!? How does that work? The Klingons don't need the C to die to prove the feds are alright because they know that the C would have done it? I mean... gah!
Does this mean no Sela? Because that is friggen huge if STO's storyline was cannon before Sunset.
Bones might still be alive too. We don't know when he passed, granted he would be 144 at this time.
And Poor M'ress is only a Commander after all this time?
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According to the epilogue of "Where No Pony Has Gone Before', Rachel Garrett and the Enterprise-C surprised the Romulans with a full task force. Narrendra III WAS a one-sided victory..., for the Federation. Yes, this means that there is no Sela but chances are that Spock will not fail to save Romulus in this timeline anyway.
Bones indeed might well be alive. He was certainly still walking and not tripping over his great-great grandchildren's toys at the age of 137 probably bodes well for his health.
As for M'ress, some non-canonical material has her being transported through time to the late 24th Century. I simply chose to borrow that notion to give Kirk a bit more support, taking a command into the 2370's.
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You could also make reference to Shatner’s own books, where McCoy underwent treatments that essentially de-aged him back to TMP age. Kirk also had his own private ship and acted as a cargo captain in those.
Given the story line, Spocks temporal equations and the known results between video history and actual transfer, wouldnt Kirk have the equivalent of the Delorean, for a given star, able to shift back and forth accross a range of times, then be limited by how far accross normal warp space while avoiding tangling world lines?
Given the better definition of time travel is that you can travel through time only if time travel occured to get you there?
You Worfed Big Mac?
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I would say that I have not explicitly ruled out the possibility that Kirk, Scotty, M'Ress could use Warp Breakaway or other means to return to the 23rd Century (And I do wonder why the Captain of the USS Bozeman did not consider this). I WILL say that at least in the Mid-2290s, there are enough people in High places at Star Fleet Command (Admiral Blackjack Harriman, overbearing father of Captain John Harriman, for one) who don't WANT Kirk to have a command. During the 2370s; however, Starfleet is desperate for experienced command officers with the Borg Invasion (I don't see any way around Wolf 359 being allowed to happen), And the possible breakdown in the Klingon-Federation Alliance, (Kang may be able to lessen or head off outright conflict but unknown), And then there is the Dominion War:
It is coming and will cost many lives, including a fair number of veteran command officers. Kirk will be needed. Another ten years and maybe it will be time for The Sisko to send Kirk home.
Who knows?
As for Worfing Big Mac... The definition I know for Worfing is brutally kicking the ass of the regarded as strongest Hero by the villain in order to emphasize how dangerous the villain is. Not sure how that applies here.
But if you mean Grandson showing up in familiar place? Then yes and Colonel Worf and Big Mac will talk of their Grandsons and their heroic deeds over much cider!
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Recipie for Granny Smiths Warp Scumble. Zap Apple and Prune juice fermented over Dilithium crystals, then a Dash of Orange, Lemon, Lime, and Pear Juice, a smigin of Pumpkin Spice, then slowly rendered down over winter by freeze thaw cycles and removal of water. The new batch however can have the ingredient that only existed once before in legend, that of being shocked by a Rainboom? First time Pegasi magic could be directly infused in the resulting mix?
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That sounds like a drink you need to work up to. maybe a couple of Romulan Ales followed by a phaser on heavy stun!
sorry E-D would NOT be decomissoned she is only 7 years old. Refited to All Good things form sure but NOT decommed.
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Decommissioning is not the same as disposing of. It merely refers to withdrawing from active service. The USS New Jersey was decommissioned four times and RECOMMISSIONED thrice. What happens to the Enterprise-D? We'll just have to see, won't we?
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New Jersey is a BB and they lost a lot of relevance after ww2. A Galaxy on the other hand still has many uses and again only 7 years old. She would not decommed so soon. Refitted sure but not Decommed.
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I believe you still miss the point in understanding that decommissioning is not scrapping or disposing of. I will not argue the merits of battleships, even though on multiple occasions they proved still quite valuable, valuable enough to be recommissioned. Instead, I call your attention to USS Essex CV-9, initially decommissioned at barely over four years of service, not having been seriously damaged and having fully modern systems for the time until her reactivation in 1951.
Now... WHY would Enterprise-D be taken out of service AND a new Enterprise commissioned if there were plans for -D?
That would be telling. Of course, officially they could have claimed that there were unforeseen structural flaws in the early Galaxy design or invent some other reasoning. But would Starfleet LIE to protect or gain a useful asset?
YES! Especially if we look at the US Navy for example: In the 1850's, the Navy wanted a new sloop. Congress would not give them the money so they claimed that the quite obsolete USS Constellation needed extensive repairs. So they took the repair funds and darn it if somehow Constellation didn't look a lot like a new sloop rather than an old frigate when she came back out.
They did the same trick in the 1870s to get new coastal defense monitors: Suddenly four obsolete ships got wonderous repairs! "Don't believe us that this is still the USS Montauk? Well just look! Her old ship's wheel is right here!"
So WHY would Starfleet LIE about not planning to discard the Enterprise D? Why don't they want EVERYONE to know the D might be coming back...?
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I know what Decom is but again the Galaxy design is not even ten years old at this point and they don't need to decomm hyer to have her be refited. The galaxy's ere designed for very long term exploration. so again the D would not be decommed jsut to make an E
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*Sigh*
A ship being rebuilt is not in commission. Hence it has been Decommissioned until the work is complete and it is RE-commissioned. Again, see USS Essex.
Beyond that, I might have a reason for what I say that I just have not written into a chapter I'm ready to release yet.
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though given the Sunset files have been aroudn since TOS why would the Galaxy even need a refit they have files on the known flaws shown and can take them out. Hell Worf wouldn't even be needed at DS9 because the klingons have changed.
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"Flaws" would be a public explanation for withdrawing the ship... But if there were design flaws, the shows don't give enough technical detail on what they might be. Yes, I did have Engineer Kellet accept a model of the future Vor'cha class ship as if the details are accurate enough, he can start reverse engineering the fundamentals of the design. This may result in the Vor'cha class entering service sooner than in canon.
As for Worf, Whenever possible, Starfleet has tried to put people and things in their 'correct' place to reduce the unintended variances caused by using this special information.
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But the reason Worf was sent was becauwse of the Klingons ghearing for war aginst Cardassians. This likely is not happenign in this timelime consider that they likely continued a war with the Cardassians to end central command thus not need for Klingon fear to cause the friction between themn and the feds.
While Worf might not need to be given a particular posting if the circumstances in the original timeline have been changed, he still is likely to still be posted there in the new timeline by Starfleet simply to minimise the changing variables which might make the Sunset files less useful as the little changes and consequences thereof caused by using that information proliferate through history.
Sundance Apple? I give you....ONE PUNCH PONE!u