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

[DragonCobolt]

Spoiler: Fleetwide Buff

The Dragon: Once per episode, at the beginning of combat place an Advantage on the field representing a cunning tactic or strategy devised by Danara Pel.

Spoiler: USS Voyager

NAME​	USS Voyager	PROF.​	MULTIROLE
CLASS​	Sovereign Class Heavy Exploration Vessel	CONST​	2371
SHIELDS​	13/13​	RESISTANCE​	6​	SCALE​	6​
POWER ​	13/13​	CREW SUPPORT​	6​	SMALL CRAFT​	5​

		COMMS​	ENGINES​	STRUCTURE​	COMPUTERS​	SENSORS​	WEAPONS​
BREACHES​		0/6​	0/6​	0/6​	0/6​	0/6​	0/6​
​	​	9​	11​	10​	11​	9​	10​
COMMAND​	3​	12​	14​	13​	14​	12​	13​
CONNING​	2​	12​	14​	13​	14​	12​	13​
ENGINEERING​	2​	11​	13​	12​	13​	11​	12​
SECURITY​	3​	13​	15​	14​	16​	13​	14​
SCIENCE​	2​	11​	13​	12​	13​	11​	12​
MEDICINE​	2​	11​	13​	12​	13​	11​	12​

TALENTS​	Command Ship: Can give advantages using Command within range to Away Missions or to supporting ships. EMH: Has an EMH! Improved Warp Drive: When going to warp, roll 1cd on an effect, regain the power point. Quantum Torpedoes: Can use Quantum Torpedoes! (60 total) Secondary Reactors: +5 to Power High Resolution Sensors: +1 momentum to out of combat sensor checks.
TRAITS​	Federation Starship – A highly sophisticated and advanced vessel, with holodecks, replicators, and similar comforts, primarily designed to handle multiple operations. Highly sensitive and requiring constant maintenance, the vehicle is less rugged than other interstellar craft Maquis Crew - a good chunk of the crew are former Maquis troublemakers. Expect discipline problems and unorthodox plans.
WEAPONS​	Phaser Arrays Power Cost: 1-3 | Range: Medium | Damage: 9cd [+1 per extra power spent] Can Use Spread: Hit +1 time at ½ damage per effect OR Area: hit +1 ship per effect within close range. Versatile 2: Gain 2 bonus momentum with a successful hit Photon Torpedoes Power Cost: 0 | Range: Long | Damage: 6cd High Yield: If it causes 1 breach, it causes +1 breach Quantum Torpedoes Power Cost: 0 | Range: Long | Damage: 7cd (Vicious 1 - +1 damage on effects) High Yield: If it causes 1 breach, it causes +1 breach Calibrations: Requires 1 minor action to calibrate Tractor Beam (Strength 5) Power Cost: 0 | Range: Close | Damage: None Effect: If successfully established, enemies face a diff 5 check to escape.

CREW COMPLIMENT (Base Stat: 9 | Base Skill: 2)
CO: Captain Katheryn Janeway (Skilled: Command, Science | Weakness: Combat)

SPECIAL ABILITY: "We Can Be Better" - if you succeed on any diplomatic check with Janeway, Get +1 momentum​

XO: Commander D-91 (Skilled: Command | Weakness: Socialization)
HELM: Lt. Tom Paris (Skilled: Conn | Weakness: Not Being A Fucking Up)
TACTICAL: Ensign Harry Kimm (Skilled: Gunnery | Weakness: Harry Kim)
SECURITY: Lt. JG Amy Strong (Skilled: Personal Combat | Weakness: Lying)

MAQUIS HEADBREAKER: C'nola (Skilled: Combat, Sneaking and Scheming | Weakness: Emotional Wreck)​

SCIENCE: Tuvok (Skilled: Science | Weakness: Emotionless)
COMMS: Lt. Bian T'are (Skilled: Communications | Weakness: Combat)
MEDICAL: The EMH (Skilled: Doctor | Weakness: Kind of a Dick)
ENGINEER: B'lanna Torres (Skilled: Engineering | Weakness: Also a dick)

SECONDARY CHARACTERS
Ensign Steve (Useless Security Goon)
Ensign Becky (plural fighter jock)
Petty Officer Third Class Jessie (Hard working engineer)
Crewman Billingsly (Dude, Billingsly!)
Crewman Chandra (Concerned Crewman)
Bifurcate (bidimensional robot girlfriend of Harry Kim)
Princess Lyan Positron (runaway daughter of magician most foul and girlfriend of Harry Kim)
Soria Flyte (Pegasus girl and girlfriend of Harry Kim)
Mirror Universe Trevor (he's fine!)

Spoiler: MRSS Val Jean

NAME​	MRSS Val Jean	PROF.​	TACOPS
CLASS​	Keldon Class Heavy Cruiser	CONST​	2370
SHIELDS​	12/12​	RESISTANCE​	5​	SCALE​	4​
POWER ​	7/7​	CREW SUPPORT​	4​	SMALL CRAFT​	3​

		COMMS​	ENGINES​	STRUCTURE​	COMPUTERS​	SENSORS​	WEAPONS​
BREACHES​		0/4​	0/4​	0/4​	0/4​	0/4​	0/4​
​	​	9​	9​	9​	8​	7​	10​
COMMAND​	3​	12​	12​	12​	11​	10​	13​
CONNING​	2​	11​	11​	11​	10​	9​	12​
ENGINEERING​	2​	11​	11​	11​	10​	9​	12​
SECURITY​	3​	12​	12​	12​	11​	10​	13​
SCIENCE​	1​	10​	10​	10​	9​	8​	11​
MEDICINE​	2​	11​	11​	11​	10​	9​	12​

TALENTS​	Electronic Warfare Suite: Whenever making a Jamming or Intercept communications check, can spend 2 momentum to select +1 target (repeatable.) Fast Targeting Systems: No +1 diff for called shots Improved Hull Integrity: +1 Resistance Cloaking Device: Spend 3 power, and make a Control+Engineering + Engines + Security check with a diff of 2. If successful, gain the Cloaked Trait (impossible to detect, cannot attack, shields are down.) It takes a minor action to decloak.
TRAITS​	Cardassian Ship – Durable, uncomfortable, close, cramped and cheap. Thinks creature comforts are for other people and technical sophistication is for people who haven't spent decades starving to death. The fact that the starving could have been avoided if the government were less...you know, monstrous doesn't seem to have occurred to that many of them. Okampan Crew – the crew are bright, perky, cheerful, and incredibly psychically powerful. Individually, they're all better than Vulcans, and as a gestalt? Who knows!
WEAPONS​	Phaser Arrays Power Cost: 1-3 | Range: Medium | Damage: 7-9cd (Spread: Hit +1 time at ½ damage per effect OR Area) Versatile 2: Gain X bonus momentum with a successful hit Disruptor Banks Range: Medium | Damage: 8-10cd (Vicious 1: Each effect adds +1 damage) Tractor Beam (Strength 3)

CREW COMPLIMENT (Base Stat: 8 | Base Skill: 1)
CO: Lt. Commander Brian Wacoche (Skilled: Commando Tactics | Weakness: Independent)
TACTICAL: Seska (Skilled: Being Seska | Weakness: Everything Else)
CONN: R'lash skilled: Piloting | Weakness: Romulan Fuckup)
ESPIONAGE: Kes (Skilled: Commando Tactics | Weakness: Naive)

Spoiler: Memorial Wall

Crewman Stadi - Age 23, Betazoid, born Beta Colony-5 to Zani and Talwyn of the House of Riis, survived by her sisters Tari and Batri.
R'mor - age 182, Vulcan, burn on Romulus to R'tan and Leslali, survived by his twelve nieces and nephews across the Empire

 

[Spart117MC]

--[X] Ask for an equivalent probabilistic boon to the outrageous negative probabilistic event caused to the ValJean - either one event with similarly long odds goes our way through Q intervention, or a number of bad but not quite so unlucky events which would cause major negative outcomes are altered to have good outcomes for us and that extra luck is used to 'pay off' the probabilistic debt incurred by the attack on the ValJean. Definition of 'good' to be at the discretion of a neutral omniscient arbiter.

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I don't think we should be making such a provocative demand especially when we have no proof that the Val Jean's accident was caused by the Q. Despite the proximity of that accident to this case there isn't anything to say a Q was responsible and no Q has admitted to being the culprit. The last thing we need is to piss off an omnipotent being with a false accusation.

 

[Swedish15]

[X] Plan: This is a Courtroom Dammit.

It always delights me to see Continuum used to describe time travel!

 

[Scrivener]

[X] Plan: Why Didn't You Get To The Point In The First Place?

 

[Jack Stargazer]

I don't think we should be making such a provocative demand especially when we have no proof that the Val Jean's accident was caused by the Q. Despite the proximity of that accident to this case there isn't anything to say a Q was responsible and no Q has admitted to being the culprit. The last thing we need is to piss off an omnipotent being with a false accusation.

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If not the Q, then the Orabanians or the Prophets caused it. It's clear it's some higher level being tomfoolery, and our Q (JDL) would know the cause or at least enough to know whether it's a good or bad idea to request that.

 

[Spart117MC]

That's not a very convincing argument and I don't think anyone else in the court will consider it one either, least of all when those parties you're casting suspicion on have opted for mediation by the Q.

Also, taking a look at the default options available I don't think that statement will only be made after consulting Q about it, at least not without the write-in specifically stating so.

 

[Bernkastel]

About any concerns that the Q might react badly to requests for suitable compensation, wouldn't carefully voicing our ideas to John de Lancie Q to see how he reacts first deal with that? Admittedly, that might be meaningless with omnipotents, but there's a good chance they'd know the character's feelings and any thoughts that we're owed something by them. So whether we voice that out or not probably doesn't matter, beyond whether our presentation of that opinion is done in a way that appeals to them. Q could help with that, or at least be sufficiently impressed/amused to make a case for us.

 

[Jack Stargazer]

About any concerns that the Q might react badly to requests for suitable compensation, wouldn't carefully voicing our ideas to John de Lancie Q to see how he reacts first deal with that? Admittedly, that might be meaningless with omnipotents, but there's a good chance they'd know the character's feelings and any thoughts that we're owed something by them. So whether we voice that out or not probably doesn't matter, beyond whether our presentation of that opinion is done in a way that appeals to them. Q could help with that, or at least be sufficiently impressed/amused to make a case for us.

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We are dealing with beings who view 12 more dimensions than we do. For all we know merely thinking it would be insulting. There were objections about questions linking to a concept of morality in Daniel's questioning, we certainly aren't making any statements without them going through Q first, but the chapter ended quite literally with us in private discussions with our lawyer.

If they are keeping to the courtroom fiction, then that discussion should remain private. Q (JDL) can then tell us whether that request is too much of an ask.

But they literally compared the entire Dominion War to a bacterial infection, doing this would not be any more effort to the Q than swatting a fly, and they were pretty clear they don't actually care about our level of reality.

 

[KarmaA]

[X] Plan: 8-million-track
-[X] Ask Q to explain what the hell is going on... (pick as many as you want, but know your time is limited)
--[X] What is Phoebe being charged with? She isn't even in the Delta Quadrant.
-[X] Counter the prosecution's claim that only Voyager's destruction will be able to prevent interference with the Prophet's goals by pointing out that Voyager can simply avoid the Great Barrier.
--[X] Request here-be-dragons only map of places we shouldn't go to avoid this in the future. Map only shows places not to go.
--[X] If we're going to take 70 years to get home then we need some tunes for the road. Request an alien music and art database so we can expand our currently limited mindset.

63 extra years is ~ 33 million minutes, call it 4 mins/track on average.

 

[Bernkastel]

We are dealing with beings who view 12 more dimensions than we do. For all we know merely thinking it would be insulting. There were objections about questions linking to a concept of morality in Daniel's questioning, we certainly aren't making any statements without them going through Q first, but the chapter ended quite literally with us in private discussions with our lawyer.

If they are keeping to the courtroom fiction, then that discussion should remain private. Q (JDL) can then tell us whether that request is too much of an ask.

But they literally compared the entire Dominion War to a bacterial infection, doing this would not be any more effort to the Q than swatting a fly, and they were pretty clear they don't actually care about our level of reality.

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My line of thinking is that they have enough power that they likely know how our characters will feel maybe before they even have those feelings. So we're probably either screwed already simply because I doubt our characters are going to all have mindsets like "These higher beings are totally in the right and I have no anger or questioning of their validity at all" or they don't care that much about that. The later seems more likely. But they surely have reasons for playing around with us and our Q at least can find us amusing to maybe entertain more than "We're going to say no. Whatever you want, the answer's no". At a minimum, I doubt we have much ability to influence any divine wrath situations short of being stupid or outright dicks.

 

[Spart117MC]

[X] Plan: Why Didn't You Get To The Point In The First Place?

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Would you consider adding asking about Phoebe's involvement in your plan?

--[X] Now let's talk about reparations for the completely unnecessary attempted murder of my crew and destruction of our secondary ship.

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By this are you talking about the Q proposing there's no other solution to the current dilemma besides destroying Voyager or are you accusing the Q of being behind the incident behind the Val Jean? If it's the latter I would like to repeat my earlier objection to such an accusation citing once again the lack of evidence.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Scheduled vote count started by DragonCobolt on May 17, 2022 at 1:30 PM, finished with 38 posts and 10 votes.

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  4 people have voted

  [X] Plan: Why Didn't You Get To The Point In The First Place?

  • Punchweasel
  • SweetJackal
  • Scrivener
  • Model DC.14F

  2 people have voted

  [X] Plan: This is a Courtroom Dammit.
  -[X] Ask Q to explain what the hell is going on... (pick as many as you want, but know your time is limited)
  --[X] What is Phoebe being charged with? She isn't even in the Delta Quadrant.
  -[X] Counter the prosecution's claim that only Voyager's destruction will be able to prevent interference with the Prophet's goals by pointing out that Voyager can simply avoid the Great Barrier.
  --[X] Voice your intent to lodge a complaint with the relevant authorities that such a hazard was not communicated to the Federation.

  • Spart117MC
  • Swedish15

  2 people have voted

  [X] Plan: Perfectly Balanced, as all things should be.
  -[X] Since the alternative seemed to be destruction, go for it. Accept the plea bargain.
  --[X] Ask for an equivalent probabilistic boon to the outrageous negative probabilistic event caused to the ValJean - either one event with similarly long odds goes our way through Q intervention, or a number of bad but not quite so unlucky events which would cause major negative outcomes are altered to have good outcomes for us and that extra luck is used to 'pay off' the probabilistic debt incurred by the attack on the ValJean. Definition of 'good' to be at the discretion of a neutral omniscient arbiter.
  -[X] Ask Q to explain what the hell is going on... (pick as many as you want, but know your time is limited)
  --[X] Did he say Borg?
  --[X] Wait a second, if he was from the future, and he discussed things that we did in the Delta Quadrant, we must have made it home. Given that, it would be the height of folly to take a different option which would not guarantee that outcome.

  • Jack Stargazer
  • Revan4221X

  1 people have voted

  [X] Ask Q to explain what the hell is going on... (pick as many as you want, but know your time is limited)
  -[X] Ask about Daniels
  -[X] Did he say Borg?

  • Model DC.14F

  1 people have voted

  [X] Doormamu! I've come to bargain!
  -[X] This is a gross over reach on the prosecutor's part and it's in their interests to settle out of court.
  -[X] Plea deals mean there's something in it for us. We want something useful, something that we can adapt to deal with different situations that may come up. Something to help us get home.
  --[X] A short while later: "Q!!!!!!!! WHY IS MY SHIP COVERED IN BORG NANOPROBES AND WHO THE HELL IS SEVEN OF NINE!!!"

  • CyberFemme

  1 people have voted

  [X] Plan: 8-million-track
  -[X] Ask Q to explain what the hell is going on... (pick as many as you want, but know your time is limited)
  --[X] What is Phoebe being charged with? She isn't even in the Delta Quadrant.
  -[X] Counter the prosecution's claim that only Voyager's destruction will be able to prevent interference with the Prophet's goals by pointing out that Voyager can simply avoid the Great Barrier.
  --[X] Request here-be-dragons only map of places we shouldn't go to avoid this in the future. Map only shows places not to go.
  --[X] If we're going to take 70 years to get home then we need some tunes for the road. Request an alien music and art database so we can expand our currently limited mindset.

  • KarmaA

 

[Breadnaugt]

Would you consider adding asking about Phoebe's involvement in your plan?

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We probably shouldn't poke at the future, it never ends well.

are you accusing the Q of being behind the incident behind the Val Jean? If it's the latter I would like to repeat my earlier objection to such an accusation citing once again the lack of evidence.

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We have admission from Q herself that she did something and tried to settle this 'leniently'. Then she popped up and served court papers right after we fixed the phase-cloak problem.

It's blatantly obvious what she was referring to.

"Now, if I did try and do this leniently, but since you've clearly decided to be bull headed about this, I've served the legal papers.

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[KarmaA]

No selling chunks of our cultural database to universities and art collectors for local knowledge then

 

[Rivenscryr]

A boon...how about a mobile emitter for the EMH ahead of time? Yeah, I know, we're going to piss off DTI, and maybe draw the attention of the Borg with 29th century technology, but hey, Emergency Command Hologram time - Robert Picardo is great. Let's get the Doctor some more development!

 

[CallmeIshma3l]

[X] Plan: Why Didn't You Get To The Point In The First Place?

 

[RvengefuLobster]

I hope we still get early Seven out of this. I think Cyberenby was onto something there.

 

[Glorer]

The more important question, are the Q's aware of us?

 

[RvengefuLobster]

The more important question, are the Q's aware of us?

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They should be. Pretty sure we're in courtroom banging on the fourth wall and trying to bully Q.

 

[Bolo]

We can ask for some of the crew that "disappeared". Since we never confirmed that they died then they could be alive due to "tech tech" reasons.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Janeway scowled. "Apparently, our plan to visit The Great Barrier interferes with the plans of a-temporal politics, who weild enough influence that the Q act on their behalf," she said. "If Q had just said that, Q, then we wouldn't be in this mess with Q, Q and Q, now would we?"

Q looked offended, shaking his head. "The Continuum doesn't act on anyone's behalf but its own. Do you think we want a corrupted lower fork branchiating through the grayzone and the lower far red?"

"Are you just making words up, or do you expect me to understand that, Q?" Janeway asked, exasperation clear in her voice.

"I'm using the simple words that we use on children," Q said, dryly.

"That doesn't change the fact that if you had just been upfront with us rather than trying subtlety, then we could have changed course without threatening future timelines," Janeway explained, pointing at the witness stand. "You brought someone from my future to the stand."

"Oh please," Q said, quietly. He turned to look right at her, his arm resting on the table was not a table, which served as their seat that wasn't their seat in the courtroom that wasn't a courtroom. His eyes didn't change their color. There was no flash or special effect. There was nothing at all but the slipping of a mask - and Janeway wondered if it was a mask of seriousness pulled over a clown...or quite the opposite. "You humans, you lovely, finite little humans, with your stories that start at the beginning and end at the end and, sometimes, even come to the middle in the middle." He shook his head. "If you had been paying attention, Katheryn, you would notice that a great deal of this whole drama is based in concepts and their...overlap."

"Objection, conceptualization," Janeway said, quietly, quoting the Q that served as the judge.

"Precisely," Q said. "Now, this may be hard for you to believe, but we find it just as hard to speak to you as you find it speaking to us."

"So..." Janeway frowned and thought. "What? You think we should be grateful for this?" She shook her head. "I don't believe it. You're more advanced than us by orders of magnitude. Humans may be bad at understanding how non-human minds work...but we're not that bad, Q. We know that clever people can accomplish a lot when they try. And you lot are quite a lot more clever than us - which means that you can try a hell of a lot harder than this." She shifted and turned to look right at him, ignoring the increasingly loud hissed conversation between the shimmering orb and the other Q. "What's the real reason for all of this? Why didn't you just tell us?"

Q smiled, slightly. "Reflect, Katheryn, on smallpox."

He turned back to the judge as Q slammed his gavel down and Q stopped hissing to the orb. "Against my objections," Q said, standing up, her hand gesturing to the orb. "I call to the stand...Gul Dukat, circa Duet."

"Hold up!" Janeway said, standing. "We will change our course without any more need for a trial. We have alternative courses to heading through either the Gamma Quadrant or the galactic core."

The entire audience - well, save for those who were her crew - burst into murmurs. Except the murmurs...sounded a hell of a lot like people whispering 'rhubarb' to one another.

Q slammed his gavel down and silenced them all. "Very well, do you accept this?" he asked, glancing at Q. She nodded. "And you?"

Q smiled and nodded. "We got what we came here for," he said. He turned to Janeway, who was about to bring up that they had endangered her ship and put her and her crew at immense danger, all for something that could have been clearly communicated with words. "Now, Katheryn, remember to tell them that they shouldn't expect so much from us. We're not really a fan of being used to engineer ships."

"...what?" Janeway asked.

"Seven slash Phoebe is going to be very popular," Q said, beaming at her.

Janeway frowned. "You know, for a second back there, I actually thought...maybe you were being serious for once in whatever we might call your...life. But this has all just been some kind of farce, hasn't it?"

Q cocked his head, looking down at her. He seemed taller. "Consider smallpox, remember?" he asked. "Consider, maybe...finitude is as inexplicable and unimaginable to us as it is to you. Consider that consequences, as much as we hate to admit it, exist in the grayzone and echo upwards - that, in fact, is why we all tread so lightly there. Consider..." His hand went to her shoulder, and he grinned a cold grin. A sepulcher grin. A death's head grin. "Consider that sometimes, a courtroom is a battlefield. And a death sentence is a death sentence."

The judge slammed down his gavel.

"Case dismissed!"

There was a brilliant flash of light and Janeway and her crew were once more in the ready room.

"Did anyone follow any of that?" Harry asked, his palms hovering over the desk, as if he was afraid to touch it. "Anyone at all?"

"I got that we're not taking the fast way home," Brian Wacoche said, sighing. He stood up. "I'll tell my crew."

As he started towards the door, Torres following after him, Janeway frowned to herself. "Consider smallpox," she said, quietly.

"Captain?" Harry asked.

"It's...something that Q said..." Janeway said. "Smallpox was a disease. It was eradicated in the 20th century, but they kept it around in storage units until the Second American Civil War broke out in the 21st century. It was used again - we didn't get rid of it until the 22nd Century." She frowned. "During the war, the Constitutionalist Party...would deliberately infect diplomats being sent into the Freezones to try and put stressors on their health system that the besieged cities couldn't...deal...with." She trailed off, frowning.

Harry frowned.

"...were...we the smallpox?" he asked. "And the court...a vector?"

Janeway considered that. She considered...if she imagined a band of electromangetic light, far red was where things were beginning to move into the band beyond human sight. She imagined...if she was a radio wave...what would the layers of other forms of electromagnetic radiation look like? Stacked one up on the other, growing higher and less perceptible. But...what if it was worse than that. What if not only did they get harder to understand but also got increasingly complex. The complexity growing and growing, to the point where communication became nearly impossible.

Concepts as weapons.

Mortality as a tool.

Janeway frowned. "Mr. Paris," she said. "Work with astrometrics. We're taking the long road home."

Paris sighed, softly. He stood up, then stretched. "It could be worse, captain. Seventy years is only a quarter of our lifespans. It could be the 23rd century." He grinned. "We'd be screwed then."

Janeway did not smile.

Instead, she watched through the glass, glaring out into the stars.

Considering about smallpox.

Thinking about the parallax effect - the way you can see judge the world by changing your perspective.

The stars streaked and the rippling distortion of the warp bubble shrouded the window as the Voyager and the Val Jean left the Okampan system.

ROLL CREDITS​

 

[samdamandias]

"Seven slash Phoebe is going to be very popular,"

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Well that's not ominous at all.

YOU DID THIS

 

[Rivenscryr]

...so when Q said Phoebe would not be able to arrive until 3 weeks from now, did that mean she's arriving at Voyager's location then, since she's just been assimilated?

 

[Zampano]

I love this.

Q (DeLancy) often seemed to be the wildcard from the Continuum. They didn't like him, threatened him, and later went to war about his shenanigans (I think). But this makes his interest in Humanity sound less like a quirky hobby and more like a very dangerous obsession.

I'm really enjoying this story so far!

 

[Forgothrax]

Like this so far. It's capturing Trek nicely. Reminds me of TBG.

 

[buli-buli]

Okay. I do like how Janeway has been given a sort of mission or vision statement for the journey. It will make it easier to decide on consistent, in-character decisions.

That said, I still don't understand what Janeway's sister's role in all of this is going to be.
And Seven Slash Phoebe? Is Seven of Nine going to fuse with her somehow?