On the other side of a proverbial pond, everyone travels a particular road.
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Pathways Challenge
A collection of short stories involving Gibraltar series characters.
Season 2, Episode 9:
In 2387, a major cataclysm of galactic proportion was averted when Ambassador Spock of Vulcan caused the Hobus supernova to be absorbed into an artificially created black hole. As a result of the supernova, however, the planet Romulus was destroyed and Nero sought to avenge the loss of his world. Both he and Spock were thrown back in time to the 23rd century. Nero then spent the next twenty-five years planning his revenge when Spock arrived in the past. Spock was then forced to bear witness to the destruction of the planet Vulcan in the year 2258. With ten thousand of his brethren left, Spock sought to preserve what was left his people while advising his past self in an alternate timeline to remain in Starfleet.
In 2375, while on a mission to destroy station Sentok Nor in orbit of the Dominion-occupied Betazed, Limis Vircona has a brief encounter with the Orb of Souls. The orb is accidentally opened during a scuffle with Cardassian and Jem’Hadar troops. The orb box is closed before it is able can induce any surreal visions. Things seem perfectly normal from her perspective upon returning to the USS Lambda Paz until she speaks the name of the Vulcan captain of a ship in the Seventh Fleet.
In this timeline, Lieutenant Commander Selek of the USS Epimetheus was never born as a result of Vulcan’s destruction a century earlier. In this timeline, the Federation is on the verge of defeat in the Dominion War. In this timeline, Starfleet is prepared to take extraordinary actions to assure victory over the Dominion, actions that compromise the Federation's own principles.
I now consider this an aborted attempt to tell a story set during the Dominion War. I prefer thinking of it as an excercise, and some scenes from this story will turn up in a more complete work.
Three years after the Dominion War, a Federation exchange officer is sent to a Cardassian warship to share knowledge and experience. She finds there much more than she had ever expected.
Season 1, Episode 5:
By the Earth calendar, Christmas Day is just around the corner. But as 2374 draws to a close, three of the USS Lambda Paz crewmembers are down in the dumps about the problems in their own lives and are reminded of the true meaning of the holiday.
Kira makes an emotional appeal to the Federation for help against the Ascendants.
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Decidedly a bit silly, with some angsty moments thrown in just to catch you off guard :P
Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Expanded Universes
Characters: La Forge, Geordi, Picard, Jean-Luc, Tomalak
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship, Humor, Romance, Slash
Warnings: None
Series: Romulans for Romulus - Alternate Ending.
Completed: No Word count: 2871 Read Count: 6513
Amrita Kapoor-Karama haven't seen her parents for over twenty years. Their last conversation was a disaster. What would their re-union look like?
Lieutenant Jeto reflects on the unforeseeable atrocities and sacrifices of the last few days, only to discover some disquieting shifts in perspectives in herself and others.
The crew is forced to confront Taran'atar's recent problems.
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Season 1, Episode 2:
As the Dominion War is becoming a losing effort, Captain Limis Vircona contemplates whether her use of extreme interrogation methods was justified and will ultimately result in helping Starfleet achieve even a minor victory.
He really didn’t want to go back there.
It was the last thing he wanted to do.
But it was his family that was at stake, so he put everything aside, and went anyway.
Could he put back what had gone haywire?
Suddenly he was no longer alone in the void and it was two against the darkness...
The events of "The Spear in the Other's Heart" and "Being Before Seeming," from another point of view.
Ro has an accident which results in her losing her memory.
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Like episode 6, this one borrows elements from officially published stories. In this case, those are:
Enjoy!
A plan born of desperate compassion succeeds--but not everyone can see what is heard deep within.
The continuation to "The Spear in the Other's Heart."
The spear in the other's heart was the spear in her own--and she could not turn back.
Contains major spoilers for Gul Re'jal's The Shadow of the Order. Please read Shadow first!
A Federation starship finds a mysterious Cardassian space craft. What is it? Why can't their sensors scan it properly? Is it dangerous?
Malic of the Orion Syndicate returns to reclaim Treir from Quark's bar.
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Season 2, Episode 5:
The crew of the USS Lambda Paz is in a race against time to prevent a group of Human Augments from unleashing a deadly biological weapon on an historically significant planet within the Cardassian Union. While Captain Limis Vircona embarks on a daring rescue of Doctor Aurellan Markalis, she remembers how she had to overcome her hatred of Cardassians to avert a major catastrophe.
The O'Brien family's return to DS9 brings up new complications among the crew.
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