Genre: Tragedy
Stories
Summary: Past Featured Story

Hello everyone. With the discussion forum down and not all of us having our Ad Astra blogs up and going I thought I would try to create a little round robin story where we can all post a little response to my posited ‘How do we cope when technology fails?' prompt.

 

Our heroes would have to tackle Star Trek life without the magic of their technology - say no transporters, no replicators, no grav-plates, no warp power, etc. Maybe they find themselves in a crutch, maybe it ends up with some hilarious or fish out of water moments, or puts their lives in mortal peril. Have at it. Remember to keep it clean given the K rating and that this is just for fun to help us while over the absence of the forum.

Just post your prompt response as a new chapter and sign your name to the ‘chapter' you write. Well that's the plan. Fingers crossed as to whether this works! Remember, just write it, don't edit it to death - for this one time on the archive! ;)


Chapters: 3    Table of Contents
Categories: Enterprise, Original Series, Alternate Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Alternate Universes, Expanded Universes, Meta, Essays and Everything Else
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Friendship, General, Humor, IDIC, Other, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: None
Series: None
Completed: No    Word count: 1568    Read Count: 8480
[Report This] Published: 17 Apr 2012 Updated: 30 Apr 2012
The Black Widow by jespah    Rated: M      Reviews (2
Summary:

What if Phlox succumbed, and Malcolm missed? The events of Bounty unfold far differently. 

The Black Widow


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Enterprise, Alternate Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - ENT
Genre: Horror, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3013    Read Count: 1641
[Report This] Published: 04 Apr 2012 Updated: 04 Apr 2012
ECS HORIZON-2 by TemplarSora    Rated: T      Reviews (14
Summary: Part 2 of 3. Jordan Mayweather and the crew of the cargo vessel Horizon-2 are transporting the most important cargo they've ever seen; Vulcans, refugees from the Romulan attack that destroyed their civilization. After having been raided by Orion pirates, who else could want to stop their mission of mercy?
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Chapters: 6    Table of Contents
Categories: Alternate Original Series, Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Alternate Universe, Mystery, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Series: After Darkness
Completed: Yes    Word count: 8608    Read Count: 14161
[Report This] Published: 15 Mar 2012 Updated: 17 Mar 2012
Summary: Following the end of the Dominion War, Benjamin Sisko sees a possible future that could result if Skrain Dukat was allowed to free the Pah-Wraiths from the Fire Caves. And once he has made his decision, he considers all the possible ramifications of that decision and other decisions by him and his colleagues-- past, present, and future.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Alternate Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine
Characters: Dax, Ezri, Dax, Jadzia, Kira Nerys, Sisko, Benjamin, Spock (Nimoy), Spock (Quinto), Weyoun, Worf
Genre: Action/Adventure, Family, Tragedy
Warnings: None
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1808    Read Count: 2116
[Report This] Published: 26 Feb 2012 Updated: 26 Feb 2012
The Last Full Measure by Lil black dog    Rated: M    Liked  Reviews (12
Summary: Past Featured Story

What if the Organians hadn’t decided to intervene, halting the Klingon/Federation war before it even started? Here’s an AU look at how things might have played out. This is another dark, grim tale on my part (maybe I need to get a nice, warm kitten for my Muse to cuddle with, or a soft, furry Tribble to pet). Warning: Graphic descriptions of torture, both physical and emotional, and character death. Written for the ‘Decisions, Decisions’ challenge.


Winner: Decisions, Decisions Challenge


Chapters: 3    Table of Contents
Categories: Original Series
Characters: Ensemble Cast - TOS, Kirk, James T., Spock
Genre: Alternate Universe, Angst, Friendship, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 9697    Read Count: 7875
[Report This] Published: 25 Feb 2012 Updated: 25 Feb 2012
Fortune by jespah    Rated: M      Reviews (32
Summary:

How do you begin, or begin anew?

What’s going to happen next?

What if you could predict it, or at least have a good handle on forever?

 

What would you do with that information?

And for the people you’ve promised yourself to, forever, what does that really mean? Do you ignore the truth, or do you listen to all of it, even the ugliest parts?


Chapters: 32    Table of Contents
Categories: Enterprise, Mirror Universe, Expanded Universes
Characters: Beckett, Doug Hayes, Daniels, Ensemble Cast - ENT, O'Day, Lili
Genre: Drama, Het, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death, Graphic Het, Violence
Series: In Between Days, Hall of Mirrors
Completed: Yes    Word count: 111984    Read Count: 114707
[Report This] Published: 23 Dec 2011 Updated: 31 Jan 2012
Yesterday In Tomorrow by Chameleon777    Rated: K+      Reviews (5
Summary: Sequel the first movie. What if there was a little more to history? When a near-deadly transport accident occurs, history is made, damaged, and forever rewritten to hide deep secrets. Disclaimer: I only own the original characters and plots.
Chapters: 27    Table of Contents
Categories: Enterprise, Alternate Original Series, Voyager, Crossovers
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, Friendship, Mystery, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death, Violence
Series: None
Completed: No    Word count: 50027    Read Count: 68053
[Report This] Published: 09 Jan 2012 Updated: 21 Jan 2012
The Road Less Traveled by Lil black dog    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (6
Summary:

Why did Leonard McCoy become a doctor?  He came from a long line of physicians, but it wasn’t always his first career choice, or was it?  Written for the ‘Pathways’ challenge.
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Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Original Series
Characters: McCoy, Leonard (Bones)
Genre: Drama, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3040    Read Count: 1494
[Report This] Published: 19 Jan 2012 Updated: 19 Jan 2012
Original sin by GulCaprice    Rated: M      Reviews (1
Summary: What made Weyoun want to defect to the enemy ? Read it here.

He had read many casualty reports before, but this was the first time that they made him feel anything, though he couldn’t name the new emotion he felt, a mixture of sadness and pain concerning those who had died. A drop of water hit his hand, followed by a second one...
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine
Characters: Ensemble Cast - Multiple
Genre: Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Graphic Het
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 5802    Read Count: 1376
[Report This] Published: 31 Dec 2011 Updated: 31 Dec 2011
Private Emotions by MrPicard    Rated: MA      Reviews (1
Summary: This story is set in one of the alternate universes that we saw in the episode "Parallels". It tells the story of how this particular universe at which we only got a glimpse unfolded - why Riker appears to be somewhat hostile to Worf, why Alyssa Ogawa is the Chief Medical Officer, how Worf and Troi ended up together, why Data has blue eyes and how the Federation ended up being at war with the Cardassians.
Chapters: 15    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Alternate Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - TNG, Q
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, Friendship, Het, Romance, Slash, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Graphic Het, Graphic Slash
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 30496    Read Count: 3591
[Report This] Published: 06 Nov 2011 Updated: 27 Dec 2011
Temper by jespah    Rated: M      Reviews (3
Summary:

Temper

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?


Chapters: 28    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes, Enterprise, Mirror Universe, Alternate Universes
Characters: Beckett, Doug Hayes, O'Day, Lili, Reed, Malcolm, Sato, Hoshi
Genre: Drama, Het, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Graphic Het, Violence
Series: In Between Days, Times of the HG Wells, Hall of Mirrors
Completed: Yes    Word count: 76117    Read Count: 72573
[Report This] Published: 01 Nov 2011 Updated: 30 Nov 2011
Interlude - Silence by TemplarSora    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (7
Summary: The attack on Vega Colony is the turning point in many an officer's career in the game Star Trek Online. This is the battle as reflected on by Lieutenant Obruz Dossu, a Bajoran security officer on the medical ship Merveille.
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Submitted for the Nov/Dec 2011 challenge "Silence."
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Friendship, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Series: Rafale - Star Trek Online
Completed: Yes    Word count: 4497    Read Count: 1754
[Report This] Published: 29 Nov 2011 Updated: 29 Nov 2011
The Shadow of the Order by Gul Rejal    Rated: T      Reviews (51
Summary:

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A Federation starship finds a mysterious Cardassian space craft. What is it? Why can't their sensors scan it properly? Is it dangerous?


Chapters: 25    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Drama, Friendship, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Series: Shaping a Cardassian
Completed: Yes    Word count: 80608    Read Count: 56166
[Report This] Published: 10 Oct 2011 Updated: 16 Nov 2011
Broken by QueensJenn    Rated: K      Reviews (5
Summary: There's a name for the surviving half of a severed marriage bond.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Expanded Universes
Characters: Tomalak
Genre: Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death
Series: Romulans for Romulus - Alternate Ending.
Completed: No    Word count: 421    Read Count: 1440
[Report This] Published: 10 Nov 2011 Updated: 10 Nov 2011
USS WHISTON by TemplarSora    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (23
Summary: Part 1 of 3. When the USS Whiston stumbles upon a stranded freighter, chief of security Brian Mayfield feels firsthand the legacy of Nero’s genocidal rampage three months earlier.
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Chapters: 6    Table of Contents
Categories: Alternate Original Series, Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Violence
Series: After Darkness
Completed: Yes    Word count: 13587    Read Count: 15614
[Report This] Published: 20 Oct 2011 Updated: 20 Oct 2011
Where Stars Sank by Gul Rejal    Rated: K    Liked  Reviews (3
Summary:

Was Cardassia Prime always a desert, poor-in-resources planet? What was it like in the Hebitian times? What had happened that it changed? Do Cardassians tell legends about the tragedy that fell upon them?


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Drama, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death
Series: Shaping a Cardassian
Completed: Yes    Word count: 4519    Read Count: 1379
[Report This] Published: 01 Oct 2011 Updated: 01 Oct 2011
Summary:

A run of the mill bounty turns lethal for bounty hunter Beatrix Eliza Knight, known as Beks. Beks and her crew face off against a lethal assassin and the cost will be high and change lives forever.

A story set in the Watchtower Universe.


Chapters: 4    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Violence
Series: The Watchtower Universe
Completed: Yes    Word count: 12747    Read Count: 11369
[Report This] Published: 16 Aug 2011 Updated: 16 Aug 2011
D'Storlin by jespah    Rated: K+      Reviews (4
Summary:

The Archer Academy at Oberon was founded in 2318 to serve the needs of troubled hybrid children in a nurturing yet disciplined atmosphere.D'Storlin

D'Storlin arrives in 2413.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Angst, Tragedy
Warnings: None
Series: Mixing it Up
Completed: Yes    Word count: 634    Read Count: 1696
[Report This] Published: 31 Jul 2011 Updated: 31 Jul 2011
A Dark Creation Tale by Nerys Ghemor    Rated: K      Reviews (5
Summary:

This is the tale of how darkness fell over the Mirror Universe, as remembered by one who is of the Prophets, in the presence of a very different Dukat who is of neither his universe nor the Mirror.

(Story begins with an excerpt from The Lightless Ends of the World, co-authored by myself and Gul Re'jal--section written by NG, though there is one mention of Gul Jarol, who is Re'jal's character.  Originally submitted as a writing prompt response on the forum.)


Chapters: 2    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Mirror Universe, Alternate Universes
Characters: Dukat, Skrain (SigCat), Sisko, Benjamin
Genre: Alternate Universe, Tragedy
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek: Sigils and Unions, Star Trek: Sigils and Unions--Catacombs of Oralius
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1761    Read Count: 5014
[Report This] Published: 29 Jun 2011 Updated: 29 Jun 2011
Severance by kes7    Rated: K      Reviews (4
Summary:

Academy StoriesCadet John Quigley is weeks away from achieving his hard-won dream: escaping the reach of his troubled, abusive mother by becoming a Starfleet officer.  

Breaking free is all he's ever wanted.  So why does it hurt so much?

(My entry for the "Under the Weather" Weekly Prompt.)


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Quigley, John
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, General, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 922    Read Count: 1494
[Report This] Published: 26 May 2011 Updated: 26 May 2011
Extermination by Jean-Luc Picard    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (2
Summary: Five years ago, Cerrein had the task of halting the exodus of millions of Skrreea refugees. Now, in the opening days of the Dominion War, he finds himself above their new homeworld.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine
Characters: None
Genre: Tragedy
Warnings: Violence
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 750    Read Count: 1434
[Report This] Published: 14 Apr 2011 Updated: 14 Apr 2011
Summary:

Season 1, Episode 4

The Coridan Massacre was one of the numerous humiliating defeats for the Federation during the Dominion War. One officer recounts his failed attempt to save the fifteen hundred trapped miners.

Initially submitted as part of March 2011 Phobias Challenge on Ad Astra.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Morrison, Mandel, Vircona, Limis
Genre: Drama, Horror, Tragedy
Warnings: Violence
Series: Star Trek: Lambda Paz
Completed: Yes    Word count: 2201    Read Count: 2392

[Report This] Published: 22 Mar 2011 Updated: 22 Mar 2011
Summary:

On an alternate-version of the Klingon homeworld of Q’ono’s before the development of warp technology, an extinction level asteroid impact is hours away.

Praxis Destroyed


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Alternate Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - Multiple
Genre: Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death
Series: The Q'ono'S Saga
Completed: No    Word count: 3915    Read Count: 1387
[Report This] Published: 16 Mar 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011
Ripples by Lil black dog    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (5
Summary:

What if McCoy had been called away at the last minute, and Kirk and Spock had beamed down without him for Spock’s wedding?� Here’s an AU look at how things may have played out. �McCoy’s POV.� Warning:� multiple character deaths.� Written for the 'It's A Wonderful Life' challenge.

Winner: It's a Wonderful Life Challenge
Chapters: 2    Table of Contents
Categories: Original Series
Characters: Ensemble Cast - TOS, Kirk, James T., McCoy, Leonard (Bones), Spock
Genre: Alternate Universe, Angst, Friendship, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 8392    Read Count: 4287
[Report This] Published: 08 Jan 2011 Updated: 08 Jan 2011
The Children of Valerii by KobayashiMaru13    Rated: K+      Reviews (2
Summary:

Valerii is a planet whose civilization is ruled by children, the adults becoming no more than mindless drones. Because of this, the children must be even more intelligent than their Terran adult counterparts - most especially when it comes to battling a disease native only to their planet. Spock, assigned to watch over a child of this planet, is soon drawn into a crisis planetwide on Valerii. And when his own life my lie in the hands of the children of Valerii, Spock may learn that children are more than capable of courage.

A three part story, each with a different child, a different tale, and all changing Spock.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes, Original Series
Characters: Ensemble Cast - TOS, Spock
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Friendship, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Series: None
Completed: No    Word count: 4902    Read Count: 2391
[Report This] Published: 08 Jan 2011 Updated: 08 Jan 2011