Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:20:43 +0000
From: James Leete <leeteey2063@hotmail.com>
Subject: My Maquis Lover Chapter 10

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Ok as well before we start this is based on the series Star Trek Voyager
but with a twist from the original story line and i hope you like it.

Chapter 10: Year In Hell

DAY 1

As I walked down the hall with Tom, Harry and Seven I was scared that the
captain would reject the idea that we had all worked really hard on for the
last few weeks. "Nervous?" I asked Harry. "A little, what if this doesn't
meet their needs." He replied. "Fear is an irrational emotion. I see no
purpose to it" said Seven. I looked at Harry and said "Seven, fear is
needed in people's lives." She said nothing and soon we arrived outside of
the new Astrometrics lab. Everyone from the senior staff was there and as
soon as we turned the corner everyone started to cheer. There was a red
ribbon across the doors. We walked up smiling well all of us except
seven. "Congratulations guys you have done an amazing job here" said the
captain. She handed me the scissors and said "Jack you do the honours." I
looked at Harry and he nodded. I cut the ribbon and everyone clapped. I
then entered the code into the panel and unlocked the doors and we all
walked in. Harry then went to the console and brought the room to life. We
all gathered round the centre console while the captain and Chakotay went
up onto the platform. "Space the great unknown. Only now we're going to
know it a little better. Harry" said the captain. We activated the large
screen and the galaxy suddenly came to life on the screen. "Before there
were maps and globes, let alone radar and subspace sensors mariners
navigated by the stars. We're returning to that tried and true method only
this time with a difference" Chakotay went on to say. "Ensign Kim, Seven of
Nine, Ensign Walker and Lieutenant Carter have merged Starfleet and Borg
ingenuity to create this new technology and I'm sure I speak for the entire
crew when I say thank you. Now how the hell does it work?" announced the
captain. "Astrometric sensors measure the radiate of flux of up to 3
billion stars simultaneously. The computer then calculates our position
relative to the centre of the galaxy." Seven told everyone in the
room. "This mapping technology is 10 times more accurate than what we have
been using. Seven will you do the honours." Harry said looking at her. She
worked the controls and a red line appeared on the screen leading from
where we were back to sector 001. Earth. "We've plotted a new course home"
Harry added. "By my estimates this trajectory will eliminate 5 years from
our journey." I told everyone. They all smiled and Neelix patted me on the
shoulder. "Nice work Jack" he said. I smiled again. "That region of space
we're about to enter it looks like it has a lot of M class planets"
B'Elanna noted looking at the screen. "It does. Spatial grid 005, primary
species the Zol" Tom told her. "What do we know of this species?" asked
Tuvok. "Technologically advanced but none confrontational. Their resistance
quotionant is quiet low" seven told us all putting a downer on the
mood. "Thank you all for coming now we have a lot of work to do so..."
Chakotay said. "I'd like to say a few words if I may." The doctor said
cutting off Chakotay. "I prepared a speech for this occasion." I looked
over at Tom and he rolled his eyes and sighed. "When I was first activated
on Stardate 48315. I found myself mono a mono with the delta quadrant. I
didn't think we would survive a week let alone 3 years. There was strife,
there was discord. You were all at each other's throats. But over time I've
had the pleasure and pride of watching this crew learn to work together as
colleague's, even friends." He said. "Here here" said the captain and Paris
together and we all started to head for the door. "Who'd have thought that
this eclectic group of voyagers would actually become a family? Starfleet,
maquis, klingon, Talaxian, hologram, Borg. Even Mr Paris. Granted we've had
our share of difficulties. One could say we've seen the best of times and
the worst of times. And I'd like to recount some of those times from my
unique prospective. Under the category of best of times, I invite you all
too..." was all he got out thank god. "Bridge to Janeway." Came a man's
voice over the comm. cutting the doctor off. "Janeway here" the captain
almost screamed. "We're being hailed a vessel off the port bow" the person
from the bridge added. I looked at the captain who was practically
sprinting for the door. We all quickly turned and made our out the door to
the turbolift. "On our way" said Chakotay."Well prepares we could all
reconvene later" noted the doctor but no one answered.

I exited the turbolift that had the captain, Paris, Kim, Tuvok and Chakotay
in. I walked down to the engineering console on the bridge as the woman at
tactical said "Their firing on us captain." "It's a small vessel. 15 life
forms aboard. Low warp capacity, limited armaments. They pose no threat."
Reported Tuvok. They were still firing some form of torpedo at us, but even
with our shields down they were not having any effect on us at all. "Open a
channel" said Janeway "Good day sir, have we offended you in some way?" The
man on the screen was alien and kind of human looking apart from some big
green lumps sticking out of his temples. "You will reverse course
immediately. This region is in dispute, you have no business in krenim
space" he said looking very serious and pissed off. So obviously they were
called the Krenim. "I was under the impression we were entering Zol
territory." Janeway told him. "The Zol have no legitimate claim here they
have taken what is ours. Reverse course or be destroyed" he said looking at
the captain. I couldn't help but giggle a little. Destroy us with what? I
thought to myself. "With all due respect unless you've got something a
little bigger in your torpedo tubes, I'm not turning around. But I'd
certainly be willing to discuss this matter with you" Janeway told
him. This did have me giggling. She was really ticking him off I could
see. "No discussion. No compromise." the krenim man said shouting over the
viewscreen."They are in retreat" said Tuvok. "His barks obviously worse
than his bite" Chakotay said trying hard not laugh. "He seems rather
intent. Let's go to yellow alert. Maintain our course. Maybe the Zol can
give us some answers." said Janeway smiling as well.

DAY 4

The last three days seemed to have flown by. Tom and I had decided that it
was now we would move in together. So the last three days after getting
permission from the captain we spent the time we were off duty moving him
into my quarters. I was sat on the bridge while the captain, Chakotay and
Tuvok were in the briefing room with a member of Zol delegation who we had
made contact with. When the krenim ship we had run into 3 days ago came
back, Paris spoke with them and they demanded to speak with the
captain. "Bridge to the captain, sorry to interrupt, but the krenim vessel
is back they are demanding to speak with you." Said Harry. The captain then
emerged from the briefing room and spoke to the man on the
viewscreen. "Hello again" said Janeway. "You've ignored our warnings, and
now you consort with our enemy." Said the krenim man. "Leave this space or
I'll seize your vessel and send you home in a cargo container" the Zol man
announced to the Krenim man. Why did I still not know his name? "Chairman
please." Janeway said to the Zol man "Believe me we're not conspiring
against you." Janeway told the krenim man. Just as she did Harry Kim's
console beeped and Janeway looked at him. "Captain, there's a spatial
distortion heading towards us. Whatever it is its huge 5 light years across
and its expanding." said Harry. "Tracking its origin. A vessel near the Zol
home world" said Tuvok. "What?" shouted the Zol chairman. "It appears to be
a massive build up of temporal energy. Some kind of space time shockwave."
Tuvok reported. "Tom" Janeway said to Paris. "It's destabilising our warp
field. I've lost engines" Paris reported. "Shield to full. Secure primary
systems, all hands brace for impact" Janeway ordered on the bridge
crew. The shockwave hit the ship and everything changed. I was sat on the
bridge looking at my console checking the damage that Krenim vessel and the
others we had encountered in the last 4 days had inflicted on this ship. We
hadn't really had much time to repair the ship completely because they kept
coming. "She's dead" said Chakotay checking a crewman that was lying near
the captain's chair. My god someone was dead because of this. "Shields at
17%, the krenim are firing again. We're being hailed" Tuvok reported. This
was unusual. They usual just fired, the captain then tried to hail them and
they didn't answer so we ended up just firing on them and they were
destroyed easily. "It's about time. On screen." She ordered. Another Krenim
man appeared. "We've done nothing to provoke these attacks." Said
Janeway. She was right. All we had done was enter their space. We would
have explained ourselves if they had given us the chance. But were beyond
that. "Your presence in our space is provocation enough." The krenim man
told the captain. "We've been trying to communicate with your vessels, but
the only answer I get is weapons fire." Janeway told him. "State your
identity" the krenim man asked rather rudely. "Captain Janeway of the
federation star..." was all she managed to say before he cut her off. "And
your reason for violating our borders?" the Krenim man asked. "We're simply
trying to get home, if you'd kindly allow us to pass through..." said
Janeway before he cut her off again. He was so rude cutting the captain off
constantly. "No, you will submit to the krenim imperium. I would prefer to
seize your vessel before it is too badly damaged; surrender now and I will
forego the execution of your crew." the Krenim man told the captain. Okay
that was it, he had crossed the line. "I don't respond well to threats"
Janeway told him gritting her teeth. "Then prepare to be bordered" the
krenim man said before closing the channel. "All hands Battlestations. This
is turning into the week of hell" said Janeway with the look on her face
that I knew as being extremely tired and pissed off. I heard that she
hadn't really left the bridge that much unlike the rest of us. She was too
concerned for her ship just as I would be in her position.

"They are charging weapons three seconds to impact" Tuvok reported. A
torpedo hit the ship and we took more damage. A conduit sparked. "Direct
hit to our secondary hull" said Harry. "Evasive Maneuvours." said
Janeway. Another torpedo was fired and again we were hit causing damage. It
wasn't like the torpedo was hitting the shields first; they were ripping
through the shield array. "I still don't understand why these torpedoes are
ripping right through our shields." Chakotay commented. "Their weapons are
chronotron based, their penetrating our shields because there in a state of
temporal flux" Tuvok reported. It was almost as if he had the answer there
all along and he could have told us this earlier so we could come up with
some sort of defence. "Then lets exercise the better part of valour, get us
out of here warp 6" said Janeway. "Warp 6." The ship went into warp and we
took off. "No sign of pursuit" reported Paris. "Damage report" asked
Janeway. "15 wounded, main power is down, and we've lost environmental
control on decks 7 and 8. The computer is offline." reported Tuvok. I
looked around the bridge so a console on the aft station ruptured and not
working. It had caused some conduit bits to fall on the floor. The lighting
on the bridge was flashing, normally when the ship was on alert the bridge
lights just dimmed but this time they were dimmed and flashing which an EPS
conduit must be malfunctioning somewhere behind the aft work stations. "Mr
Kim do we have any sensors left?" asked Janeway. "Short range only"
reported Harry. "Commander, put the ship on 24 hour tactical alert. Tuvok
analyse what ever data we have on those chronotron torpedoes. See if you
can modify our shielding. When those krenim attack again. I wanna be ready"
Janeway ordered. At that I got to work in checking other systems to see if
they were damaged. The damage we had wasn't so bad; it was more or less
what we usually took when we were under attack.

DAY 32

Not again. This must have been the 50th or 60th attack we had taken in the
last month. I hadn't seen tom that much recently. I hadn't slept for about
two days. Repairs were futile because as soon as we had repaired a system
it was either damaged or destroyed. The ship was under attack again. The
bridge was ruined. There was debris all over the floor. The walls were
scorched from conduits rupturing and exploded. Console displays were
flashing. We had burn marks and minor hull ruptures on the hull. It was
awful. When I was here three days ago there was actually a fire on the
bridge right near my console. At this time however there wasn't
thankfully. But everyone on the bridge hadn't really left their stations
for a while. I looked at the captain who looked like a wreck. Almost as bad
as me. I noticed part of the railing on the bridge had collapsed and there
were chunks of metal on the floor where they had fallen from the ceiling. I
had never seen the ship this bad in the three years we had been on
board. We took another hit. "Return fire." ordered Janeway. Tom was sharing
the console with me. We had to seen as B'Elanna had to evacuate engineering
when there was a hull breach. "Weapons are down, my attempt to modify the
shielding was unsuccessful" reported Tuvok. "Captain during that last
exchange we did some damage. The krenims aft shields are down their
vulnerable" said Chakotay. "We've gotta him them now." I exclaimed. I was
so pissed off. "With what, phaser banks are burned out, torpedo launchers
are offline." Harry barked at me. I threw him a look and then went back to
my console. I knew he didn't mean to lash at me but we were all tired and
on edge. "Doctor to bridge, we've got a power overload in sickbay, I need
an engineer down here right way." Said the doctor over the comm. Not now I
thought to myself. "Standby doctor, Jack can you handle it from here"
Chakotay asked me. "No sir, the overloads spreading. Half that deck is
gunna blow in less than 5 minutes." I reported. "Doctor get your patients
out of there. All hands this is the bridge. Emergency evacuation deck 5"
said Chakotay over the comm. "How many torpedoes do we have left?"asked
Janeway. "11" said Tuvok. That was bad. "Arm 4 of them standby to open the
launch doors. We're going to deploy them like mines. Tom I need your
finesse, let the krenim get within 5000 metres of us" Janeway ordered
getting up from her chair. "No problem" said Paris. I worked the controls
to get the torpedo bay doors to detach without firing the torpedoes at
Tuvok's request. "Torpedoes armed and ready" reported Tuvok. "Their in
range" reported Paris. "Tuvok, do it." ordered Janeway. The torpedoes were
deployed and they hit the ship head on. It completely exploded. "Got em."
Paris shouted slapping his console. I checked my console and saw how far
the overload had come in those few minutes. "The conduits on deck 5 are
overloading 30 seconds till they blow" I shouted. "Warning structural
collapse in 20 seconds" said the computer. "15 seconds" I shouted.
"Warning structural collapse in 10 seconds. Warning structural collapse in
5, 4, 3, 2, 1" the computer shouted twice. That was it. The conduits blew
and the whole ship shook. I was thrown from my chair. Tom picked me and
looked at me. "You okay babes?" he asked. "Yeah thanks" I said smiling or
at least trying to. "Report" shouted Janeway rubbing her wrist. She looked
like she had sprained it. "Sections 10 through 53 on deck 5 are gone." I
reported. "Casualties." asked Janeway. "Reports are coming in. 12 wounded
many of them critically. The doctor is setting up a triage facility in the
mess hall. 2 crewmembers were killed in the breach" reported Tuvok. "Stand
down red alert. Assemble a security team; survey the ship deck by deck I
want a full damage report. I'll be in my ready room. You have the bridge."
She said picking up a slab of metal and throwing it down. "What's left of
it" Janeway said, looking very pissed off leaving and walking down the
steps past me and into her ready room. "Jack, good work. Go get some coffee
and take a break. You haven't left this bridge for the last two days."
Chakotay told me heading into the ready room. I stood up and walked out as
Tom took over for me. My legs were stiff having not walked very far in the
last few days. I got as far as walking down the corridor on deck 2 avoiding
the conduits that had ruptured and hoping over the missing deck plates when
Paris's voice came over the comm. "Red alert, two krenim warships off the
port bow." "Ahhhhhhhh" I screamed running my hands through my very greasy
hair.

DAY 47

The pain was blinding. Since we hadn't been attacked for about 4 hours, I
was trying to do some repair work. B'Elanna asked me to check the warp
relays on Deck 13. While I was in the Jeffries tube the ship was attacked,
and whilst I was trying to get out something fell onto my legs which pinned
me down. I tried to call for help but no one could hear me. The attack
didn't last long I could feel it. When I felt it was over, I tapped my
commbadge and said "Carter to Walker, Tom can you hear me?" I said. "Jack,
where are you?" he asked. "Ahhh, I need your help I'm stuck in Jeffries
tube 37 Gamma on deck 13 with a part of some deck plating pinning my legs
down. Hurry!" I screamed. About 20 minutes after the comm. Call I could
hear someone with a manual release forcing the Jeffries tube hatch
open. "Jack... Jack you in here" shouted Tom. "I'm here" I screamed back in
pain. A heard two people crawl in and tour over my face. "Hey you" said
Tabor smiling at me. "Comfy?" asked Tom. I kissed him and said "Oh yeah I
feel like I'm lying on bed of roses. Could you get that thing off my legs?"
I said shouting out in pain and pointing at the huge chunk of metal. They
crawled over me and at one point tabor stopped and my face was in direct
line with his crotch and I could see the outline of his cock. Now isn't the
time I thought. After they pried the metal off me and I pulled myself back
but couldn't really move my legs. I lay back and breathed when tom said
"Wow, Oh My god." I said "What?" He stopped. "Erm your leg is definitely
broken." He told me. "How can you tell?" I said. "Well considering the bone
is sticking out your leg and if we move you, you will definitely feel the
pain." He told. "Okay, it's not like I can't feel any pain right now" I
said gritting my teeth. "Walker to bridge" he said over the comm. "Janeway
here, go ahead ensign?" came the captain's voice. "Are the transporters
online?" he asked. "No ensign is there a problem?" she asked replying to
his question. "Yeah Jack has got a broken leg, very badly broken." He told
her. "Oh my god. How bad? She asked. "Well it's only got one break but the
bone has come straight through the skin." He told her. "Well you can't move
him without getting the bone back into his leg first or the pain could very
well kill him" she said. She then explained how to get the bone back into
my leg. I freaked at hearing this. He then ripped off part of his uniform
arm and said "Here bite on this and hold onto tabor. Squeeze him wherever
you have to stop the pain." I put the fabric in my mouth grabbed hold of
tabors hands and then he said "Okay on the count of 4. 1, 2, 3..." was all
he said and did it. I yelled and squeezed tabors hands so tight I thought I
broke them. "You bastard." I shouted. "You're welcome Jack" came the
captain's voice over the comm. "Tom, Tabor you should be okay to move him
but take it easy and take him straight to the doctor. Janeway out" she said
and the comm. Clicked off.

As I lay in the mess hall on a medical bed next to B'Elanna I felt
better. Even though I had this hole in my leg I felt loads better than I
did. As the doctor scanned me, then injected me and finally used a few
tools on my legs he looked at me and said "You're good to go Lieutenant." I
looked down at my leg and there wasn't even a scar. I stood up and didn't
even feel any pain. I took a few steps it was fine to walk on. That doctor
is a miracle worker. I saw B'Elanna and said "Hope you feel better soon
babes." I said kissing her on the forehead. As I looked up I saw Seven of
Nine trying to fight her way towards the door with a badly burned Tuvok
over her shoulder. I ran over and took Tuvok's arm and guided him in while
Tom Paris went over to a burned Seven of Nine. "Doctor" I shouted as I lay
Tuvok down on the bed that I just came from. The Doctor came over and he
sent me away. I left the mess hall and headed towards the bridge. I tried
to get into a turbolift and couldn't "Sorry Jack, the turbolifts are down."
Said Neelix from behind me. "Why?" I asked. "During the last attack 19 main
power relays were severed. The entire turbolift system is none
operational." He told me. "Okay thanks. Oh and Neelix, is there any coffee
in the kitchen?" I asked. "Yeah I just put out a pot would you like some?"
he asked. "Do you even have to ask?" I replied. He smiled and led me back
to the mess hall.

DAY 65

As I lay down in the bunk in some crew quarters on Deck 4 I thought back to
the events of the last two months. In two months the ship had been attacked
and attacked and attacked and we were still no closer to getting this ship
closer to the way it used to be. Everyone was tired and on edge. We were
hungry but no one dared say anything. What I wouldn't give for a nice stack
of pancakes with maple syrup. "Any room on here?" I heard a voice say. I
looked around and saw Tom. "Sure you can fit." I said. He climbed onto the
bunk next to me. We were against the wall so I backed up against the wall
and he got on looking at me. He kissed me and said "I haven't seen you for
a few days." "I know I'm so sorry, this situation is just so out of hand" I
said. "It's okay, where have you been anyway?" he asked. "Either on the
bridge or working on the weapons. I seem to get either the phasers or
torpedoes back online and then we get attacked and we lose them and I have
to start all over again." I said." I know how you feel. I just finished
sealing the hull breach in main engineering and we were in there for all
off three hours and had to get out again." He told me. I smiled and said
"You sleep, there's something I have to do" I got up and was about to leave
when he grabbed me by the arm and kissed me. I could feel his beard at some
growth brushing against my cheek. "I love you" I said. "I love you to." He
replied. I left the guest quarters and made my way through the Jeffries
tubes to my quarters. I went in and took a look around. I scrabbled through
the debris and found the one thing I wanted. The present I had for
Kathryn. Today is May 20th. It is her birthday. I found it in my drawer and
got it out. It was an original copy of Macbeth. She always said that was
the one Shakespeare play she didn't have in book form. I got it and walked
to the bridge. I arrived on the bridge and passed Chakotay as he walked out
looking pissed off. I walked over to the captain who was sat at the science
station. "Hey" I said. "Jack." She said not even looking up. I knelt down
on the floor at what space I could find. "How are you?" I asked. "Okay" she
said. "Happy Birthday" I told her. "Thanks I forgot it was today until
Chakotay told me" she said finally looking at me. I gave her the box that
had the book in it and she opened it and said "Thanks, but as I said to
Chakotay who gave me the most beautiful watch by the way, a present can
represent a meal, a hypospray or a pair of boots. Recycle it, we can't
waste energy of none-essentials" I felt pain for the first time. She really
hurt me. "Okay." I said. I went over and walked into her ready room and
placed it on her desk. Maybe she would change her mind. I went back out
onto the bridge as Chakotay came back. I went up to him and said "I heard
you got Kathryn a watch." He looked at me and smiled and said "Yeah, it was
a replica of the one that Captain Crave wore in the British navy." I smiled
and said "Yeah I learned of him at school. That watch is famous." He said
"I thought so" I was about to reply when Kim said "Krenim" I immediately
went down to my post as Chakotay said "All hands to Battlestations a krenim
vessel is approaching, repeat all hands to Battlestations.

Tuvok emerged from the turbolift and felt his way to his console. I felt
sorry for him being blind but he did save Sevens Life. "Computer activate
Tactile interface" he said aloud. "Weapons status?" asked Chakotay."Phasers
are online, torpedo launchers are inoperative. Seven's modified temporal
shields should be online in a moment" reported Tuvok. That was my work with
the phasers. "It's a warship" reported Harry. "You know the routine" said
Janeway. "Evasive Maneuvours" commented Paris. I could see that Seven was
working on the deflector. "Their matching course" reported Harry. "Hold
them off as long as you can" ordered Chakotay. "Chakotay to seven of nine,
where are those shields" he asked over the comm. "Standby" Seven told
us. "Their charging weapons" Harry then announced. "Seven we could use a
little of that Borg efficiency right about now." The captain added. "I
can't shake them off" reported Paris "Their targeting the bridge" reported
Harry. If they hit us in our condition we would all be staring at
stars. "Temporal shields are online" Seven reported from deflector
control. "They're firing" shouted Harry. "Full port thrusters" ordered
Chakotay. The ship spun and they hit us but we didn't take any damage which
was unusual. "Temporal shields are holding, no damage" reported
Tuvok. "Hail them" ordered Janeway. "Channel open" confirmed Tuvok.
"Krenim vessels, this is the captain of voyager, you may have noticed we
have a defence against your torpedoes now. I suggest you stand down"
Janeway commanded. "No response" commented Tuvok. "Their mistake, bring the
ship about, we're going through their space whether they like it or not."
Janeway said collapsing back into her chair.

After a few minutes something happened. "The krenim are in pursuit but
their weapons are not powered." reported Tuvok. "Hmm they don't know what
to do with us now that we're protected against their weapons" said Janeway
as she headed for her chair. "Captain, there's some sort of spatial
distortion heading towards us, sensor readings are erratic. I can't
identify the phenomenon." reported Harry. "What's the source?" asked
Chakotay. "Unknown but it originated approximately 20 light years away. It
looks like a shockwave in the fabric of space-time" Harry told us. "Tom get
us out of here" said Janeway. "We'll never outrun it captain." reported
Paris. "Maybe our new shields will help, all hands brace for impact"
Janeway said holding on to some railing. The wave front passed through the
ship which rocked slightly. I watched the wave front continue forward. "You
were correct captain; the temporal shielding has protected us. The wave
front has passed." reported Tuvok.  "Captain." said Harry causing me to
look at the viewscreen. I saw the wave front hit the Krenim Ship and it
reverted into a tiny ship. Almost half the size. "Report" asked
Chakotay. "It's definitely a krenim ship, identical hull markings. Same bio
spectral frequencies, but it's half the size limited fire power" I
reported. "What happened to the warship?" asked Janeway. "I'm not picking
it up on long range sensors." said Paris. "It looks like this entire part
of space has changed somehow. The last time I checked this region was
filled with krenim colonies and vessels. I just ran a scan and sensors show
no colonies and only a handful of krenim ships" Chakotay informed us. This
is huge. This could solve all of our problems. "Mr Kim, transfer all your
sensor data about that shockwave to the astrometrics lab" ordered
Janeway. "Yes ma'am" said Kim.  "Tell Seven of Nine to meet me there. Jack
you're with me" said Janeway. "Captain, astrometrics took heavy damage a
few days ago. It's offline." said Chakotay. "Well let's get it back online,
it appears that the krenim imperium has vanished. Our troubles may be over
and I'd like to find out why." said Janeway as she and I walked off the
bridge and down to Deck 8 to the astrometrics lab.

DAY 70

It took the captain, seven and I 5 days to get into astrometrics, repair
the damage and bring the systems back online. We even slept there on and
off. When we finally got things back online we got the consoles back online
and Seven and I started to access the data files. "Sensors are
online. Power levels are stable" said Seven.  "Is the Astrometric database
still intact?" asked Janeway. "Yes" I replied. "Display the scans we took
off this region before the temporal shockwave hit" said Janeway. Seven
worked the controls and then said "Spatial grid, 005." "The krenim
imperium, over 200 star systems, 900 planets, thousands of warp capable
vessels. And now after the shockwave has hit everything seems to have
changed. Run another scan?" ordered Janeway. I worked the controls and then
said "Spatial grid 005." "Same space different configuration, exactly as
Chakotay said. The imperium has been reduced to a few planets and a
smattering of vessels. It appears that someone or something has altered
history. But why weren't we affected?" asked Janeway. "Perhaps we were
protected from the changes by our temporal shielding" noted Seven. "So the
question remains, what caused that shockwave in the first place. See if you
can track it back to its origin?" said Janeway. "The shockwave originated
approx 20 light years away, the garaner home world." I said.  "The garaner,
we past their planet 3 weeks ago" noted Janeway.  "The planet is no longer
populated" I told them.  "What?" asked Janeway. "Astrometric readings
indicate that the moment the shockwave appeared the garaner species
vanished." I reported.  "Erased from history" said Janeway leaning against
the console. "Captain?" asked Seven. "I'm no authority on time travel in
fact I've made it my goal in life to avoid it, but this sounds to me like a
causality paradox. Think about it, a temporal shockwave eliminates a single
species and all of history is changed." Janeway told us. "An intriguing
theory. Perhaps the krenim are responsible, they do posses temporal
technology" said Seven. "But why would they alter history to undermine
themselves. No we're still missing a big piece of the puzzle. Run another
scan..." was all Janeway got out before she got cut off by the sound of a
huge banging above the ship. "Captain Janeway to the bridge" came Chakotays
voice over the comm. We all turned and left.

I was sat at the engineering station on the bridge surrounded by
debris. The bridge was in shambles. I looked over at Tom who was sat at the
science station surrounded by more debris. There was a huge part of the
ceiling resting against Harry's console and covering the entrance to the
briefing room. But see as the briefing room a vacuum thanks to a hull
breach there it was no problem. "That entire vessel is in a state of
temporal flux. It's like they exist outside space time" said
Harry. "They're scanning us" reported Paris as he; Chakotay and Tom were
beamed away. "Tom" I shouted.  "Get a lock on them" shouted Janeway. "I'm
trying but I can't isolate their bio-signs" I said.

"We're being hailed" reported Tuvok. "On screen" said Janeway. "State your
identity" said a krenim man different from the one we first met months ago.
"I'm Captain Janeway of the federation starship Voyager. Who are you and
where are my men?" Janeway asked. "I'm Annorax of the krenim imperium;
we've transferred your crewmen to our vessel for further analysis. Your
ship does not come from this quadrant." Annorax told us. "We come from
earth a planet 65,000 light years from here. We're on our way home" said
Janeway.

"I see" Annorax replied. "We've been observing some rather unusual events
in the region. It appears your imperium never existed. Perhaps you could
shed some light on this?" asked Janeway. "That's none of your concern, what
you need to know is that I bear you no hostility but you have deviated me
from my mission" Annorax told us. "You're mission, you're responsible for
the changes in the timeline" confirmed Janeway the realisation hit us
all. "You're a long way from your world in a way so am I. I'm afraid only
one of us can go home again, your sacrifice will restore the lives of
countless millions. I'm sorry" Annorax told us. He was threatening
us. Janeway tapped the crewman at the helm on the shoulder and she moved as
Janeway sat down. "I'm reading a massive energy build up some kind of
weapon" reported Kim. "Shields" said Janeway pissed off. The huge ship
fired some sort of weapon which hit Voyager. "Temporal shields are
weakening." said Seven."Captain, that energy beam, it's pushing voyager
outside the space time continuum." Reported Kim. "He's trying to erase us
from history" confirmed Janeway. "I have scanned their propulsion system,
their vessels mass prevents them for exceeding warp 6, we can escape" said
seven giving us an option. "Captain, may I remind you the structural
integrity field is impaired if we go to warp now the damage to voyager will
be extreme" I told her. "What about Tom, Chakotay and Walker?" asked
Harry. "We will have to come back for them; all hands clear the outer
sections and prepare for wide scale breaches. Tuvok activate the transverse
bulkheads" shouted Janeway over comm. "Temporal shields are failing" said
seven. "Engage warp 7" said Janeway and we went to warp. The ship began to
pull and we could feel the outer hull being pulled off.

"They're not in pursuit" said Harry. "We are losing the outer hull
transverse bulkheads are holding" reported Tuvok. I could feel the hull
being torn off as we were at Warp. I saw the sensor readings and could see
huge piles of the hull coming off. I also saw a small part of the saucer
section completely torn off. It was the shape of a piece of pie. It was
gone. Wow. I thought to myself.



DAY 73

The whole crew was stood in the mess hall as Janeway spoke to us all. "Each
of you has done your best, but determination alone isn't going to hold this
ship together. It's time we faced reality. We've lost 9 decks; more than
half this ship has been destroyed. Life support is nearly gone; Voyager can
no longer sustain its crew. I promised myself that I would never give this
order that I would never break up this family, but asking you to stay would
be asking you to die. You will proceed to the escape pods and evacuate this
vessel, set your course for the alpha quadrant. Along the way try to find
allies. Secure faster ships if you can anything to get home. The senior
staff and I will remain on board as long as possible; we will try somehow
to rescue Tom, Ensign Walker and Chakotay. The escape pods are equipped
with subspace beacons that's how we will keep track of you. When we find
each other again, and we will, we will find each other again; I expect all
of you to be in one piece with some interesting stories to tell. Good
luck!" said Janeway. Everyone went and moved out of the mess hall to head
to the escape pods. "Jack hang on." Said Janeway. "Sir?" I asked. "You're
staying. Without Chakotay I need a first officer. With Tuvok blind I need
someone else I can trust. I spoke with Tuvok and he agrees with
me. Congratulations Commander" she said attaching another pip to my collar
which was very very dirty anyway. She then said "Put this on" handing me a
red uniform Jacket. I took off my ripped Yellow one and put it on. We
launched the pods from the bridge as the senior staff gathered round and
watched them leave. "Okay everyone; we know what we have to do. Some news,
Jack is now our first officer." Janeway told everyone. They all clapped and
patted me on the back. "We've located a class 9 nebula where we will take
refuge and repair the ship so we can get back on our feet to fight
Annorax. B'Elanna take the helm. Harry Take ops, Tuvok take tactical,
Doctor over at Science, Seven take Engineering and Neelix take the
auxiliary engineering station" said the captain pointing to the console
above the captain and first officers chair. I went over with the captain
and we sat down. It felt like we were back with a full crew. I looked at
Janeway and she said "Set a course for the nebula, full impulse." B'Elanna
did so and away we went looking at the escape pods fly away.

DAY 133

It had been two months since we entered the nebula to make repairs and we
had barely made any headway. I had up to this point managed to repair the
impulse reactors to get them back to full power and bring the replicators
online. I had tried to B'Elanna with the warp engines which she had been on
with for over a month. I had also got the torpedo launchers online but at
the expense of the phasers for the time being. The nebula wasn't helping
with repairs though. It was turning into a permanent residence. Some many
times I had to go and vent the gas but it wasn't helping. On this day it
was happening again. The nebula gas was pouring into the ship. The captain
and Mr. Kim had gone to try and vent it. One thing I had noticed with the
captain was that she and I were arguing a lot lately. She wasn't sleeping
much and she was so irritable. She had been on the deck for 9 minutes and
the doctor had told them to be there for 8 minutes. "They should be back."
I said. "I'm going in there" said the doctor. "You can't it will degrade
your holomatrix." I told him. Another 3 minutes later Harry emerged for a
Jeffries tube carrying the captain's body coughing very loudly. I took the
captain from his arms as the doctor scanned Harry. I checked the captain's
pulse and couldn't feel one. "Doctor" I screamed. "What?" he said
rudely. "She has no fucking pulse, that's what?" He came over and scanned
her and then his face fell. He closed his tricorder and looked down. "Oh my
god" I said holding her body. I began to cry. She was gone. "I'm so sorry
Jack" said the doctor. She was like the best friend I ever had. The doctor
treated Harry as I placed the captain's body on the ground and knelt over
it crying. "Jack I need to take her body up to the mess hall to run some
scans can you help?" he asked. I nodded and dried my eyes. "All crew report
to the mess hall" I said aloud. We arrived in the mess hall to see all the
crew as I carried the captain's body. Everyone gasped and began to cry. We
gathered round her body and said our fair wells. When we calmed down after
a while B'Elanna stood up and said "What do we do now?" I looked around and
didn't answer. "Commander, by Starfleet protocol it is up to you to take
over as the commander of this vessel." Said Tuvok. "I can't" I said. "Jack
you have to." Said Kim. "But why?" I replied. "She made you her first
officer because she knew you would be a suitable replacement if this
happened." Neelix told me. The doctor took one of the pips of the captain's
collar and pinned it to mine. "Congratulations Captain." Said
B'Elanna. They all clapped and patted me on the back. "Alright, I accept
this with the responsibility it comes with. I promise you I will get you
all back home, but first we have to get our crew back, and take out
Annorax." I told them. Everyone left after a few hours. I turned to the
captain and said "Goodbye captain" I kissed her on the forehead as the
doctor covered her body.

A few days later I was back on the bridge checking through systems when
Neelix came up and said, "We have drinks in the mess hall." I followed him
out and we went up to the mess hall. We sat round the table and B'Elanna
held up her cup and said "To distant friends and to the people we have
lost." I thought about Kathryn and said "Here, Here." I drunk the stuff in
the cup thinking it was coffee and had no idea what I was tasting. It was
bloody awful. "Well what do you think?" asked Neelix. I didn't say
anything. "Not bad not bad at all" said Kim. "Interesting" replied
Tuvok. "What is it exactly?" asked B'Elanna. "I call it the elixir of
endurance. It's loaded amino acids, carbohydrates, all the nutrients
required to allow the crew to withstand these stressful conditions" Neelix
told us.  "Ration cubes" responded B'Elanna. "Well yes but this pureed and
mixed with water and enhanced with Talaxian spices." Neelix carried on to
say. "It is offensive. Fortunately taste is irrelevant." said Seven. Kim
laughed and I just got up and looked out the window. I saw the nebula and
how much it had already cost us. I hadn't slept since the incident with the
captain. I couldn't this ship was mine now. "Well it's been a few days
since we all gathered in one place. How are the repairs proceeding?" I
asked."I'm happy to report that I've repaired the obtronic error in my
program." reported Doctor. "And the power grid?" I asked. "It's operating
at 32% efficiency. I think I can bring it up to 50, but I'll need a few
more days." Kim told me. "Warp drive?" I asked. "I'm still having trouble
with the starboard nacelle." B'Elanna told me. "How long?" I asked
breathing out and scratching my hair. It was so greasy and curly. I hadn't
showered in so long. "3 weeks, minimum." said B'Elanna. I put my head in my
hands and said "I thought this nebula would be a safe haven until we made
repairs, but it's turning into a permanent residence. We've got to get back
into open space, find allies, put together a fighting force to take on
annorax. We're leaving this damn cloud, first think tomorrow morning."
"Captain, you are in error." Seven said to me. "How so?" I asked. Everyone
turned and looked at us. "At the moment this vessel is defenceless. We
should wait until we are operating at our peak efficiency." Seven informed
us. Everyone stopped and stared at me awaiting my reply. That was it now. I
was so stressed, upset and tired that I just let it all go. "I appreciate
your opinion Seven but I disagree. This nebula has already cost us the one
woman who held us together. Do you even care that Captain Janeway is dead?
The women who turned you into an individual. The one who encouraged you to
think and act like a human. I'm sorry Seven but I will not risk anymore
lives just because this ship isn't up to standard. We leave tomorrow 08:00
hours." I shouted and stormed out of the mess hall. As I did B'Elanna
caught up with me and said "Jack, I know you're hurting but that was
rude. As your friend I would say apologise to her and get some sleep. You
need to. No amount of shouting will bring her back" she said and I just
broke down again. I cried and she hugged me. "How can I replace her?" I
blubbered. "You don't you just try to fill in for her" she told me. I
eventually calmed down, dried my eyes and said "Thanks". I walked off to
apologise to seven.

DAY 180

I sat on the bridge in the captain's chair watching micro meteoroid shower
approaching. We had been out of the nebula for over a month, and thankfully
the nebula gas had completely vented but as for me well that was
different. In the last month I had slept for a total of 12 hours, over 47
days. I was a wreck. I had been taking so many risks with my life trying
keep the ship together and I could sense the crew was worried about
me. "Engines." I asked B'Elanna. "I'm doing my best." B'Elanna told me with
stress in her voice. "Captain with the deflector down, those micro
meteoroids are starting to erode the hull" reported Kim. Hearing him call
me captain still sounded strange but he was right I am the captain now and
I had to start to act like it. "Emergency power to the deflector" I
ordered.  "None available" said Tuvok. I had to get this to work, and the
only way to do that was to get the deflector back online. "I'll be in
deflector control" I said getting up from the command chair. "Captain that
entire section has been designated hazard level 4" said Tuvok. Harry held
up his hand to try to stop me but I just kept on walking. "I know" I said
as left the bridge. I crawled through the Jeffries tubes and before I left
the last one I grabbed a manual release and ran down the corridor of Deck
11. I eventually arrived outside deflector control and forced the door open
with the manual release only to through myself back against the wall behind
me after I almost fell into the flames that consumed Deflector control. "Oh
why do I get the feeling your testing me voyager?" I said to myself. I
tapped my commbadge, "Bridge there's a fire in deflector control any luck
with the engines" I asked. "The warp core is still offline" reported
B'Elanna. "Micro meteoroid density is increasing, the nacelle pylon is
buckling" shouted Kim. I had to do something. I looked around and saw a
large piece of bulkhead that could at least protect my face. I picked it up
and tapped by badge again, "Bridge I'm going in, standby to engage the
deflector. Tell the doctor I'll be coming back with severe burns" I told
them.  "Captain?" said Tuvok trying to argue with me. "Do it." I
shouted. "Be kind" I said to myself before taking a deep breath and running
in. I worked the controls feeling the hot flames against my body. The pain
was unbearable but I worked through it. I kept coughing and spluttering as
I breathed in the fumes from the smoke

"The captain has accessed manual control, he's stabilising the particle
emitters. He's got it. Deflectors online." I heard Kim say. "Activating
deflector field. Bridge to Carter. Captain please respond" I heard Tuvok
say before I collapsed to the floor and lost consciousness.

I woke up and saw the doctor looking over me. "What's my condition?" I
asked looking down and seeing myself dressed in my standard issue tank
top. "You suffered 3rd degree burns to approximately 60% of your body. I've
healed most them but without a dermal regenerator, I wasn't able to repair
all the damage to your skin. You've been left with scars on your face and
arms." Said the Doctor. "I'll consider them mementos" I told him. "Not so
fast. You're spending the next few days here with me." The Doctor
announced.  "Is there something else wrong with me?" I asked. "Not
physically" said the doctor. "What are you suggesting?" I asked. "Traumatic
stress syndrome. Symptoms, your irritability, sleeplessness, obsessive
thoughts, reckless behaviour all of which you have demonstrated over the
last few weeks." The Doctor said reeling off a list of things that I knew
myself was wrong with me. "My only obsession is with saving my ship, my
people. If I've been taking some reckless chances to do that it's hardly a
medical condition." I told him. "I'm not going to stand here while you
rationalise yet another brush with death" said the doctor folding his
arms. "You don't have to" I said turning to walk away. "As chief medical
officer I have the authority to relieve you of your command." The Doctor
told me.  "You're not going to do that" I said.  "If in medical opinion,
your judgement has been impaired I can and I will" the doctor came out
with. The next words that left my mouth were unbelievable but I didn't even
think. "Try it and I'll shut down your program." I told him. The doctor
went quiet and looked at me. "That threat in itself is evidence of your
unstable condition." He said. Unstable that's harsh. I breathed loudly and
put my head in my hands and said "I am sorry doctor I have been operating
on instinct so long, I did not think before I spoke. I have no intention of
deactivating you, but I won't stay in this mess hall." I told the
doctor. "Is that final?" asked the Doctor. "Final" I said making my way to
the door.  "Then you leave me no choice, Captain Jack Carter, under
Starfleet medical regulation 121 section A I the chief medical officer do
hereby relieve you of your active command, effective immediately. Have a
seat" he told me quoting a regulation. "How do you plan to implement this
protocol doctor, Mr. Tuvok doesn't have a security team, both the brigs
have been destroyed and with the internal forcefields offline you'll have a
hell of a time trying to keep me confined. You gunna grab a phaser, because
before I give up command you'll have to shoot me." I told him. "You realise
this incident will be noted in my official logs. By refusing my orders, you
risk a general court martial." the Doctor told me. "Compared to what I've
been through the last few months, a court martial would be a small price to
pay" I said smiling. "If we make it home, I'll be happy to face the music."
I said turning and leaving.

DAY 207

As Neelix and I walked down a corridor checking damage to see what he could
start to work on. It had been something that I came up with as a way of
seeing how bad the ship was and also to spend some time with the senior
staff. Since the fire we had all talked at length about how silly I had
been and the risks I had been taking. "Another ruptured EPS conduit" I said
looking down at my tricorder. "32 so far" said Neelix with his padd. "33,
34, 35. And that fluidic convertor needs to be purged." I said pointing at
the ruptured conduits and the convertor in the ceiling. "Right" said
Neelix. "The gravitational plating in this room has buckled." I said
looking at my tricorder outside a set of quarters. "Chakotays quarters"
said Neelix looking in the door that was totally destroyed. We went in and
looked around. I scanned the room and the tricorder was picking up the
damage in the room and as I moved around there was another signature. It
was metallic. I bent down and moved some of the metal off the floor to find
the watch that he had given Captain Janeway for her birthday. "You
disobeyed orders" I said. "Captain" Neelix asked looking at me. "Chakotay
gave this to Kathryn 5 months ago, a birthday gift. She told him to..." I
said holding it close and thinking about her. Even though it had been over
two months since she had died the pain was still fresh. I took the watch
and attached it to my belt. "What do you think?" I asked. "Handsome. She
would want you to have it." said Neelix. "Come on" I told him leaving. I
looked at the watch again and thought of the story of the watch. Worn by
Captain Grave in the British Navy. Ironic seen as I'm British.

DAY 226

The last week we made some real headway. B'Elanna and I had finally got the
warp core online, and Harry, Seven and Neelix had worked just as hard to
get the structural integrity field to work. On top of that I had forged an
alliance with Alien Species that knew of the weapon ship and wanted it
taken down just as much as me. I prepared to record my log. It was still
strange to making out the captain's log. "Captain's log, Stardate 51682.2,
I've forged a coalition with the Nihdron and the Mwazi. Together we're
preparing to attack the weapon ship" I said ending the log. Some more news
had come as well. Chakotay and Paris and Tom had sent us a message that
would help to track the weapon ship and destroy it. "I've analysed every
carrier frequency of their transmission. It contains a classified Starfleet
id code. Which could only have come from Tom Paris. It's real. The
co-ordinates they sent should lead us directly to the weapon ship" I told
the crew as we all stood on the bridge. "Location" asked
Tuvok. "Approximately 50 light years from here. Our new allies are
assembling re-enforcements. Once we're in range, Tom says he will try to
take the weapon ship temporal core offline. When that happens they'll be
vulnerable to conventional weapons. Tom will then transmit the exact
location of the core. Our job will be to disable the ship and get our
people out. Are we clear?" I explained to them. "Aye captain" they all
confirmed. "Harry B'Elanna I want you to beam over to the Nihdron vessel,
work with their engineers. The entire fleet needs to be equipped with
temporal shields." I ordered them.  "Aye captain." said B'Elanna. "Tuvok,
Seven, Neelix, I want you on the Mwazi ship." They nodded and confirmed. I
looked at the Doctor and said "Doctor, once the attack begins your skills
will no doubt be required. Join Tuvok's team." "What about yourself?" he
asked me. I looked at him curiously. I would be here. "I'll be piloting
voyager, co-ordinating the attack" I explained. Everyone gasped and looked
shocked. "Jack there is barely enough of this ship left to get there, let
alone wage a war" B'Elanna told me. "There's fight in voyager yet. She's
still got temporal shields, six photon torpedoes. It'll hold
together. Besides you know the adage captain goes down with the
ship. Right. You have your orders. Dismissed" I told them. I turned and
looked at them all. One by one they all left. B'Elanna hugged me and then
left. The only people that didn't leave were Tuvok and Seven.  "Tuvok I can
hear your objections already. I am not leaving." I told him. Over the past
few months since Janeway died he had consoled me and helped me to see the
good part of it. We had become very close friends. "Given voyagers damaged
state, the probability of you surviving in armed conflict is marginal" he
told me. I smiled and went to him. "Oh I know the odds but I have to stay,
Voyager has done too much for us" I explained. "Curious, I have never
understood the human compulsion to emotionally bond with inanimate
objects. This vessel has done nothing. It is an assemblage of bulkheads,
conduits, tritanium. Nothing more." explained Tuvok. He was so clueless but
he was such as good friend and advisor.  "Oh you're wrong; it's much more
than that. This ship has been our home, it's kept us together, it's been
part of our family. As illogical as this may sound I feel as close to
voyager as I do to any member of my family. It's carried us Tuvok, even
nurtured us and right now it needs one of us." I told him. I had another
reason too. It made me feel closer to Kathryn. I know this is what she
would want and somehow it gave me comfort to stay close to her.  "I respect
your decision, live long and prosper captain" Tuvok said making the gesture
with his hands. "Same to you, my friend." I said shaking his hand. I looked
at Seven and she took his arm and led him away. I walked down the steps and
looked at my console. I then looked around the bridge and tried to imagine
everyone at their positions and the bridge looking tidy again. I then
looked at the captain's chair and looked at it imagining the captain sat
there and then finally sat in the chair.

DAY 257

Travelling at low warp was such a pain and trying to conceal our approach
was even worse. But after about month of low warp we had come up on the
weapon ship. Sat in the command chair I touched the arm console and opened
a channel. "Voyager to Mwazi vessel" I said. "Go ahead captain" said
Tuvok. "I'm picking up the weapon ship dead ahead. Temporal shield status"
I asked. "All vessels are bringing them online" reported Tuvok as I stood
up and went down to the helm. I looked at the watch and checked the
time. 21:25. I sat at the Helm and touched the controls. "This is Captain
Carter to the fleet, plot an intercept course for the weapon ship." I
ordered. The next few minutes went by quickly and sat at the helm I guided
Voyager along in formation. "All vessels report ready" reported
Tuvok. "Let's see if Tom has done his part." I said to myself. "Carter to
the fleet, attack pattern omega. Engage" I ordered. Two Nihdron ships broke
away and attacked the ship. The weapon ship then fired its weapon at them
destroyed them both. "Captain, two nihdron vessels have been destroyed."
reported Tuvok over the comm.

"Carter to the fleet, evasive pattern delta we're going to have to
wait. Come on Tom, come on" I said. I watched the console and suddenly saw
the temporal ship lose a lot of power. It worked. "Captain, Chakotay, Paris
and Ensign Walker were beamed aboard our vessel." Tuvok told
me. "Everything's going as planned. Tom sent me the co-ordinates of their
temporal core, before he left. I'm transmitting them to you now" I
reported. I then locked torpedoes on the weapon ship and fired. Then things
got bad. One the Mwazi ships got hit and collided with Voyager. I could see
the hull burn and I was thrown from chair. When I found my footing I could
see the ship exploding around me and a lot of the bridge was burning. I
crawled my way up to the command chair. The ship was hit again and I was
thrown to the floor. I finally reached the command chair heaved myself
up. I sat in the chair and breathed and we were hit again. I almost fell
out but grabbed onto the arms. "All our ships have been disabled captain,
do you have weapons" asked Tuvok over the comm. "Negative, torpedo
launchers are down" I told him. "Maybe I can help" I turned around and saw
Tom. I couldn't believe it. He looked so good. "It's too late; I'm setting
a collision course." I told him. Tom came down and sat in the first
officer's chair next to me. I worked the controls and said "Carter to the
fleet, take your temporal shields offline.""Captain we won't be protected."
Said Tuvok.  "Exactly, if that ship is destroyed. All of history might be
restored. And this is one year I'd like to forget." I told him. Tom looked
at me and took my hand. "I don't want you here." I told him. "If you're
going to do this, then I'm doing it with you." He told me looking into my
eyes. "I'm sorry to hear about Kathryn, but congratulation Captain." He
added. "Yeah well if this works she could be back. I love you" I said to
him. "I love you too" he replied. We were hit again and part of the bridge
was hit taking out the viewscreen. An emergency forcefield was barely
holding. Tom came in and kissed. I looked forward and said "Time's up" as
we crashed straight into Weapon Ship.

The temporal ship was destroyed and a time shockwave went right through
Space

DAY 1: NORMAL TIMELINE

Ensign Walkers, Personal Log Stardate 51685.5, the last couple of weeks
have been uneventful, but Jack and I have finally moved in together and we
have made excellent progress on the new astrometrics lab" said tom ending
his log. We both went to the bridge as stood by Harry and Seven at Ops as
we worked the controls. We were finally bringing the new lab online.  "When
can you bring it online?" asked Janeway. "We just did." I said beaming. "In
fact we're in the process of charting a new course home" Tom told
her. "Well I'd say this is cause for a celebration" said Janeway
smiling. "A vessel is approaching off the port bow" reported Tuvok. "On
screen" ordered Janeway. I looked at the screen and saw a small
warship. The configuration seemed somewhat familiar. Probably just my
imagination. "They're hailing us" Reported Harry. "Open a channel" ordered
Janeway. He worked the controls and the viewscreen came alive. "You've
entered krenim space, state your identity." Announced the alien man. He
seemed somewhat familiar to. Like I'd seen him before. A bit like Déjà
Vu. It can't be though. I've never even heard of the Krenim. "Captain
Janeway of the starship Voyager, we're just passing through trying to get
home." Janeway told him. "This region is in dispute, I suggest you avoid
our territory." the Krenim man advised. "Thanks for the warning." Said
Janeway smiling. "Good journey" the krenim man said before ending
communications. "Tom plot a course around krenim space" ordered
Chakotay. "So what do you think how about a ground breaking ceremony for
our new lab?" he asked. "Sounds great" said Kim smiling. "I think I'll
replicate a bottle of champagne for the occasion, 2370. I hear that was
good year" said Janeway smiling. We all got up and left the bridge to head
for our new lab, Tom and I walking hand in hand. I was so glad we were
going to be living together, I couldn't help but smile.