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I love this story--moreso now that it's finished. It actually got me thinking about Voyager--I now wonder why they didn't consider setting a course for the Gamma Quadrant side of the Bajoran wormhole. I mean, I can think of several reasons why you wouldn't want to do that, but that's with the benef...

Let it be known that the 60k character limit is a complete pain in the ass for unmitigated windbags like me. ------ Janeway’s door chimed. She saved the draft of the speech she was working on and closed the file. “Enter,” she said. Tuvok crossed the threshold. “You asked to see me, Captain?” "I...

Part V "Kathryn, this can wait," said Chakotay, hurrying to keep up with Janeway as she strode to the transporter room. "You're the ship's CO, you shouldn't risk yourself until you know it's safe over there." "Lieutenant Carey can be in command until I get back," said ...

Great story so far. Out of curiosity, which bridge are they on at the moment? The auxiliary bridge, or the main bridge? Auxiliary. Main bridge (and the rest of Deck 1) is basically a total loss. "Chakotay and the gang"? That seems a little out of character. It does, but at the same time, ...

Tom Paris was sorting lab samples when the alarm sounded; he reached the alien's bed at the same time the Doctor activated and dissolved into life. "She's crashing!" said Paris. "She is going into anaphylactic shock," said the Doctor, his voice as flat and emotionless as always. ...

Part IV -7 Days The conference room was packed; Tuvok and Carey, Torres and Wildman, Harry Kim, the Doctor via video conference, other officers standing around the edge of the room, and Janeway at the head of the table wishing for a stiff drink and a twelve-hour nap. Everyone was talking at once. S...

I've been re-reading this. Reading this reminds me of what Voyager could have been verses what we got. 1995-2001 when two years after it ended we got Battlestar Galactica remake which first two seasons at least showed how well a darker series about a ship on the run can work. We could have gotten m...

Val Jean The engine room team re-materialized with one engine part and two bodies. "Medical emergency!" shouted Dalby. Seska, who was just arriving in the transporter room, staggered at the sight of all the blood on the transporter pad. "There's no way we can help them here," sh...

"Pre-flight checklist complete. We're ready when you are, Voyager ." " Acknowledged, Drake . Stand by for launch clearance. " Paris leaned back in his seat and danced his fingers across the Okudagram. "Do we have the right parts with us?" said Chakotay. "Yes. I alr...

So as it happened, I accidentally combined parts I and II in the first update, which is why it ran so bleeping long. Part IIIa below. ------- PART III Voyager "Mr. Gombe, can you identify the ship types?" said Janeway. "Fourteen are identical in configuration to Predator . One appears...

I remember fondly my last reread of your old rewrite of Caretaker... I only just saw this now, and haven't had time to read the posts yet. Out of curiosity, what are you trying to do differently this time? How do you envision it being qualitatively different than the last time you undertook this? W...

The replicators were working again. Janeway was taking advantage with her third cup of black coffee in a row. She was sitting in the science department's conference room, waiting for Tom Paris to arrive. "What do you know about this character?" said Janeway. "He is unreliable," s...

Voyager shook with the impact of the Kazon weapon. Alarms started howling around the auxiliary bridge. "Damage report!" said Janeway. "Electromagnetically propelled kinetic impactor," said Lieutenant (j.g.) Obayana Gombe, the former backup tactical officer. "It penetrated th...

As promised, Part I. Because of the length of the update, this will be split across three posts. Hopefully I've sorted out the punctuation issues from last time (for some reason, it posted cleanly to Sufficient Velocity and with weird off-brand letters at SDN). Part II will be posted Tuesday night. ...

Hey again, Red, long time no see. Something seems to have happened to your quotation marks in the last few sentences, might want to see about that before you start posting more and it becomes ten times more hassle to fix retroactively. Good catch, thank you. I had to convert from .doc to HTML to bb...

Hello! I'm RedImperator, former Stardestroyer.net big fish, occasional SV contributor, Facebook shitposter, insurance industry parasite, and Star Trek fan. A long time ago, I started on a little side project: rewrite the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager as a novella length story, keeping the same...

Except that modern Trek doesn't . TOS may have been radical, but even it's radicalism was constrained - Chekov was Russian, but he wasn't a Communist, and his nationalism was portrayed as Atavistic; Uhura was a black woman, but she was in a relatively lowly post. Sisko and Janeway weren't ahead of ...

The Original Series had a few Christian moments; it was TNG+ that was explicitly secularist (there was a mention in "Data's Day" of Diwali, but I don't think we ever saw anyone practicing). I regret that I didn't get to do as much with A'sha as I'd originally wanted to; with the focus most...

PART IVb Tom Paris was sorting lab samples when the alarm sounded; he reached the alien's bed at the same time the Doctor activated and dissolved into life. "She's crashing!" said Paris. "She is going into anaphylactic shock," said the Doctor, his voice as flat and emotionless a...

PART IVa -7 Days The conference room was packed; Tuvok and Carey, Torres and Wildman, Harry Kim, the Doctor via video conference, other officers standing around the edge of the room, with Janeway at the head of the table wishing for a stiff drink and a twelve-hour nap. Everyone was talking at once....

Hey everyone.

Sorry to have to let this week's deadline slip, but yesterday was bananas with holiday stuff and today's not much better (I'm posting this from the New Jersey Turnpike on the way to Boston). I'll try to have the update up by tonight or early tomorrow at the latest.

Nearly all the named characters are canon. Rodriguez, Gombe, and Mohommad aren't, but pretty much all the other Starfleet and Maquis characters are canon, even if their portrayal here is different. The Kazons less so; only Jabin and Razik are canon, but most of the other Kazon names were used on the...

OK, guys, for serious, I don't need people leaping to my defense against mean old Strak. Holy shit I take half a day to cook and play Saints Row and the fucking thread hits an iceberg. For the record, I trust Stark's artistic judgement quite a lot, so I value his input even when I don't agree with a...

One of the things I wanted to do when I set out on this project was to keep close to the original while still putting my own spin on it. Gradually I drifted away from the original plot, but I still wanted to touch the same notes with the characters, even if I get there a different way. Is it intenti...

PART IIIc Val Jean The engine room team re-materialized with one engine part and two bodies. "Medical emergency!" shouted Dalby. Seska, who was just arriving in the transporter room, staggered at the sight of all the blood on the transporter pad. "There's no way we can help them here...