STAR TREK: A Long Road (Voyager Fix It Quest)

Kar hummed to himself as he focused on the deceleration burns. Keeping them out of Ogla scanner sweeps was the hard part, but he was damn proud of how well he was doing. Now, to be fair, he wasn't exactly in the most highly searched spot. In fact, he was kind of out of the way. But still! He was being careful and that counted for a-

"Hello?"

Kar screamed as the blond alien appeared in his room.

He jerked backwards and swung his chair around, his eyes wide as he saw the alien. She was...

Oh.

Kar froze and tried to cram the scream back down his throat, into his lungs, and hold in there as he spread his arms, leaning back against the chair and arching an eyebrow. "H...Hello," he said, his voice cracking infuriatingly as he tried to sound suave. Suave, damn it! Because the alien, who had appeared in his room, was the prettiest girl that he had ever seen. Blond, bright eyed, pale skinned, with adorable little pointed ears that twitched up in the cutest ways as she watched him - then grinned a bit as he puffed up his chest. "I mean. Hey. I'm Kar." He said. "...this is my ship, Stardancer." He realized his voice might have cracked again and pitched it a bit lower. "...who are you?"

The alien girl put her hand over her mouth.

"Curious."

Kar screamed again. The other alien was not nearly as cute - at least, not to Kar's teenage, heterosexual sensibilities. He was tall and dark, with similarly pointed ears, but he spoke with a calmer affect than the bubbly smile that the blond was giving him.

"It seems your psychic abilities, combined with my telepathic ones, have led to a deeper mind to mind connection than is normally allowed by Vulcan telepathic techniques," he said, then turned to face Kar. "I am Tuvok. This is Kes. We are in some distress and require your assistance."

"W-Wh..." Kar blinked. How was he supposed to say anything to that? He had been planning to steal their ship. Then his eyes settled on Kes, who smiled at him. "My name's Kar..." He said, then realized, he had already said that. "A-And I'm here to rescue you!"

"Aww, thanks," Kes said, cheerfully. "But, uh...what are you doing out here in this ship?"

"Oh, uh, I was...gonna...buzz the Ogla," Kar said, realizing that might actually seem impressive.

"You're not Ogla?" Kes asked, curiously.

Kar blinked at her, about to explode. But then he remembered two important things. The first was that she was an alien. But the second and far more important...

Spirits and ancestors, she's so freaking cute! Kar grinned and slowly leaned on an armrest, trying to look cool and casual - even if the maneuver took a lot of extra muscle and strain in microgravity. Not that the two of them seemed to need gravity. Since they were, uh, psychic projections or something. He figured that wasn't something he had to worry about too much. "The Ogla are, like, the government. But my Sept is, like, a real sept. We keep our traditional ways alive - we live like our Kazon ancestors did, have the old religion, the old faith, ya know." He nodded. "And the Ogla let us, uh, not pay taxes and stuff cause of a treaty. We just...have to stay in the parts of space they don't want. Ya know."

"Curious," Tuvok said, frowning.

"Uh, so, like, I mostly do monopole mining, dilithium prospecting, ya know...no big deal..." Kar said.

"In this?" Kes asked, blinking. "Isn't that dangerous?"

"Nah, it's fine," Kar said. "Only, like, two of my cousins have died, and they were pretty stupid. If you're stupid, you die young out here."

"And how old are you?" Kes asked, arching an eyebrow.

"Like, ya know, I'm an adult!" Kar said, in a way almost exactly designed to convince no one that he was an adult. Then, quickly, he pounced. "And what are you two doing out here? Also, like, I heard the Voyager is a huge battleship, but that looks like a shuttle." He saw Kes' expression. "S-So, where are hiding the main ship, since...you're obviously in a shuttle." He coughed.

Tuvok and Kes exchanged a glance.

Then, muffled, as if a voice was speaking through the wall, Kar just barely heard a voice. "Who is this moron?"

"Oh, wow, we connected well enough even Torres can tap in," Kes said, then bit her lip, slightly. "And uh, our ship is somewhere safe..."

She exchanged a glance with Tuvok. Something wordless passed between them, which went right over Kar's head. Part of this was that they were literally telepathic.

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Do you tell him the truth or not? And what IS the truth?
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What is the truth?
[ ] Sept Ogla has deployed a vast Borg screening minefield through the most easily traversed part of space ahead of them and refused to give any codes to the crew of the Voyager. To slip through, they need a map.
[ ] Sept Ogla is breaking the anti-singularity tenants of the Kazon and working on an advanced weapon system to use on Voyager and the crew is sneaking in to sabotage it
[ ] Sept Ogla has kidnapped Brian Wacoche and several other crewmembers from the Val Jean while they were on a scouting mission and stumbled into a Ogla fleet. Now, they need to be rescued.
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