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Life Lessons by kes7    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (14
Summary:

Written for the TToT 2015 Daily Prompt Challenge.  One-shots featuring characters from Star Trek: Tesseract and Tesseract: The Academy Years, dealing with certain themes.

 

Day One: Wisdom
Day Two: Fairness
Day Three: Grace
Day Four: Melancholy
Day Five: Distance
Day Six: Generosity
Day Seven: Perseverance

 


Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - USS Tesseract, Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Oyugo, Adele, Quigley, John
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship, General, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: No    Word count: 4352    Read Count: 16051
[Report This] Published: 28 Jun 2015 Updated: 05 Jul 2015
Paradox by kes7, jespah    Rated: K      Reviews (12
Summary:

In which humanity's survival depends on Levi Cavendish's social skills.  

Written for the TToT "Steal All The Toys" Challenge, Summer 2013.

Continued for the TToT "Collaboration Station" Challenge, Summer 2015

Winner: Special Edition: Steal All the Toys Challenge


Chapters: 6    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Cavendish, Levi, D'Angelo, Otra, Icheb, O'Connor, Maren
Genre: Friendship, General, Humor
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Times of the HG Wells
Completed: No    Word count: 11946    Read Count: 12900
[Report This] Published: 01 Sep 2013 Updated: 26 Jun 2015
Star Trek: Tesseract -- Part II by kes7    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (100
Summary: Past Featured Story

Part Two of Star Trek: Tesseract

In 2378, the crew of the USS Voyager delivered a devastating blow to the Borg Collective when they destroyed a key transwarp hub to the Alpha Quadrant, and the Borg unicomplex.  They hoped it would be the end of the Borg threat.  They were wrong.

Nearly eight years later, the crew of the USS Tesseract -- the first official Starfleet mission of exploration to the Delta Quadrant – has found a quadrant in ruins, torn apart by the Collective and a new, more terrifying kind of Borg -- the Borg Resistance.  They are free of the Collective, free of established protocols, without cohesion or unity, and operating under cloak.  Their new superweapon could put an end to warp society as the galaxy has known it – but it’s also the only thing standing between the Borg Collective and its ultimate goal of assimilating or destroying the entire United Federation of Planets.

Now, while the Federation and its tenuous allies prepare for a full-scale Borg invasion, the Tesseract crew -- alone in the Delta Quadrant -- must find a way to finish what Voyager started, and one young ex-Borg Starfleet officer must decide whether to embrace his destiny ... or boldly defy it.


Chapters: 21    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - VOY, Ensemble Cast - USS Tesseract
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship, General, Mystery, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract
Completed: No    Word count: 58738    Read Count: 66299
[Report This] Published: 20 Jun 2010 Updated: 26 Jun 2015
Year One by kes7    Rated: T      Reviews (38
Summary:

Before they faced the Delta Quadrant, they had to conquer San Francisco.  The story of Icheb's, Maren O'Connor's and John Quigley's first year together at Starfleet Academy. 


Chapters: 8    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Quigley, John
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship, General, Humor, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: No    Word count: 29318    Read Count: 35873
[Report This] Published: 15 May 2013 Updated: 17 Jun 2015
The Way We Wanted It To Be by kes7    Rated: K+    Liked  Reviews (43
Summary:

What would have happened if everything had gone according to plan after Icheb decided to ask Maren to spend her life with him?

Here's a peek into an alternate universe where things went right.


Written for the TToT 2015 "Ficlet Flashdance" Challenge.


Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Alternate Universes, Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - VOY, Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Quigley, John, Seven of Nine
Genre: Drama, Family, Friendship, General, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Challenges: TToT15 - FICLET FLASHDANCE
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3421    Read Count: 13213
[Report This] Published: 17 May 2015 Updated: 24 May 2015
Winter Break by kes7    Rated: K+    Liked  Reviews (7
Summary:

Maren O'Connor has other commitments. 


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Quigley, John
Genre: Family, Friendship, General, Holidays
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 803    Read Count: 1395
[Report This] Published: 22 Dec 2014 Updated: 22 Dec 2014
Survival Play by kes7    Rated: K    Liked  Reviews (83
Summary:

Academy StoriesThere are three tests every cadet dreads: The Kobayashi Maru, the "face your fears" psych test, and the survival test.  The first one demoralizes you, the second one scares you, and the third one tries to kill you.  Make it through all three, and interstellar exploration seems tame in comparison.

When Maren O'Connor takes her survival test, she's determined to last until the bitter, icy end. Still high on her Daystrom win, she's confident that with a bit of engineering magic, she can survive just about anything -- even the frozen hellscape of Earth's North Pole.  

Little does she know, she's not just working against the elements -- she's working against a Starfleet Command-sanctioned conspiracy ...

... little does Starfleet Command know, they're not the only ones good at conspiring.


Chapters: 16    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Quigley, John
Genre: Action/Adventure, Friendship, General, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 28549    Read Count: 30821
[Report This] Published: 18 Jun 2014 Updated: 22 Oct 2014
Graduation Day by kes7, trekfan    Rated: K      Reviews (7
Summary:

Today is the first day of the rest of Ensign Bethany Reeves' life.  The question is, what is she going to do with it?

On her last day at Starfleet Academy, Bethany thinks about the past, fears the future, and misses an old friend.

Written for the TToT '14 Steal All the Toys Challenge, in trekfan's Star Trek: Chronicles universe.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Angst, Friendship, General
Warnings: None
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1075    Read Count: 1021
[Report This] Published: 07 Jun 2014 Updated: 07 Jun 2014
Mirror Cubed by CaptainSarine, kes7    Rated: K      Reviews (42
Summary: Past Featured StoryIn the aftermath of the fall of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, the Galactic Commonwealth had hoped to enjoy the hard-won peace. But when a strange cube appeared on the outskirts of Commonwealth space, that peace was shattered.

Now, a small group of former rebels have banded together to try and stop the Borg Hive. Aboard the Tesseract, a freed Borg ship, they have begun to fight back. But when their plan fails, a young woman from another universe may be their only hope...
Chapters: 6    Table of Contents
Categories: Mirror Universe, Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - USS Tesseract
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, General, Horror
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 8871    Read Count: 12429
[Report This] Published: 02 Jun 2014 Updated: 07 Jun 2014
The Story of Icheb by kes7    Rated: K+      Reviews (86
Summary:

Child, weapon, drone, free, murderer, negotiator, refugee, friend, savior, student, lover, beloved.

Icheb has been all of these things and more in just 23 short years.  Here are seven vignettes that tell the story.

Written for the 2014 TToT Ficlet Flashdance Challenge

 


Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship, General, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 2720    Read Count: 13310
[Report This] Published: 18 May 2014 Updated: 24 May 2014
Broken by kes7    Rated: T      Reviews (6
Summary: Past Featured Story

John Quigley's life so far, measured by the noses he's smashed in anger -- and those he managed to refrain from breaking.

Written for the April 2014 "Innocence" Challenge

Trigger warnings:  Substance abuse, domestic violence, child neglect.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Quigley, John
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship, General, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3089    Read Count: 1298
[Report This] Published: 25 Apr 2014 Updated: 25 Apr 2014
Signal Loss by kes7    Rated: K+      Reviews (3
Summary:

Written for the "Left Behind" Weekly Free Write:

"Risk is our business." Starfleet officers risk not only their own destruction, but the hearts of those they leave behind.

When the people who love you most fear for your survival, sometimes no news is the worst news of all.

Halfway across the galaxy, the USS Tesseract has gone silent.  

Back on Earth, chief engineer Maren O'Connor's family waits ... and worries.    

(Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Tesseract.)


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: O'Connor, Maren
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, General
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1869    Read Count: 1245
[Report This] Published: 28 Jan 2014 Updated: 28 Jan 2014
Summary: A series of short ficlet's with characters burrowed from various Ad Astras Authors verses.
Written as part of Stuff the stocking 2013 Gifts.
Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Original Series, Alternate Original Series, Next Generation, Expanded Universes
Characters: Borodin, Branch (Colony Alien), Crusher, Beverly, Icheb, Lady Q, Number One, O'Connor, Maren, Q, Scott, Montgomery (Scotty)
Genre: Friendship, Holidays, Humor
Warnings: None
Series: None
Completed: No    Word count: 7904    Read Count: 15229
[Report This] Published: 21 Dec 2013 Updated: 05 Jan 2014
Stocking Stuffers 2013 -- kes7 by kes7    Rated: K      Reviews (3
Summary:

Little ficlets set in other universes, as gifts for Christmas 2013.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: General, Romance
Warnings: None
Series: Times of the HG Wells
Completed: Yes    Word count: 447    Read Count: 1172
[Report This] Published: 11 Dec 2013 Updated: 11 Dec 2013
Orbital Disruption by kes7    Rated: K+      Reviews (7
Summary:

Companion piece to Separation Anxiety from Maren O'Connor's point-of-view.  Inspired by a request from Lil black dog.   


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren
Genre: Angst, Drama, General, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1166    Read Count: 1591
[Report This] Published: 10 Dec 2013 Updated: 10 Dec 2013
Do the Math by kes7    Rated: K    Liked  Reviews (7
Summary:

Jerix minus everything equals destruction.

Set in the universe of Mistral's "Tales of the USS Seleya," with permission for the Steal All the Toys challenge.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death
Series: Tales of the U.S.S. Seleya
Completed: Yes    Word count: 190    Read Count: 1050
[Report This] Published: 01 Sep 2013 Updated: 01 Sep 2013
Summary:

Seven scenes between 100 and 500 words.  Some connect, some don't.  Just seven random moments in the life of Maren O'Connor, eventual chief engineer of the USS Tesseract.   

Written for the Twelve Trials of Triskelion Ficlet Flashdance 2013.


Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Seven of Nine
Genre: Drama, Family, General, Romance
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3164    Read Count: 16456
[Report This] Published: 19 May 2013 Updated: 25 May 2013
Pre-Launch by kes7    Rated: K+    Liked  Reviews (17
Summary:

Pre-LaunchA series of short vignettes featuring characters from Star Trek: Tesseract before their mission to the Delta Quadrant.


Chapters: 5    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - USS Tesseract, Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Oyugo, Adele
Genre: General
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract
Completed: No    Word count: 6072    Read Count: 13188
[Report This] Published: 02 Feb 2010 Updated: 06 May 2013
Launch and Separation by kes7    Rated: K+      Reviews (9
Summary:

academy storiesThere's the family you're born with.  And the family you choose.  

Transitions can be awkward.


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren
Genre: Drama, Family, General, Romance
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1512    Read Count: 1629
[Report This] Published: 29 Dec 2012 Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Separation Anxiety by kes7    Rated: K    Liked  Reviews (7
Summary:

Academy StoriesMarch 2381 -- For two and a half years, Maren O’Connor has been the primary source of acceptance and encouragement in Icheb’s life at Starfleet Academy.  They’re so close people call them “The Collective” – but what happens when they’re forced to be apart?

(My entry for the "Outside the Comfort Zone" Weekly Prompt)


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren
Genre: Drama, Friendship, General, Romance
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 737    Read Count: 1541
[Report This] Published: 26 May 2011 Updated: 26 May 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: 1460
[Report This] Published: 26 May 2011 Updated: 26 May 2011
Intervention by kes7    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (7
Summary:

Academy StoriesIt's 2379, and Cadet 3rd-Class John Quigley's Starfleet career is about to end before it begins ... until help arrives from an unexpected source. �Sometimes it's good to have friends -- or friends-of-friends -- in high places.

(Rated T for language.)

Winner: Friendship Challenge
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, Janeway, Kathryn, Quigley, John
Genre: Drama, Friendship, General
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 2002    Read Count: 1766
[Report This] Published: 18 Oct 2010 Updated: 18 Oct 2010
Star Trek: Tesseract by kes7    Rated: T    Liked  Reviews (262
Summary: Past Featured Story

As the Federation returns to the Delta Quadrant eight years after the the USS Voyager destroyed the Borg unicomplex and a key transwarp hub, the crew of the USS Tesseract -- the fleet's largest and most advanced ship -- has no idea what they'll find there.

Just as they launch their seven-year mission, they stumble across a mystery that will soon unfold into an opportunity -- or a nightmare of epic proportions. Loyalties are tested, political intrigue abounds, and the Tesseract's ex-Borg first officer will finally seize control of his own destiny ... and perhaps that of the entire quadrant.

Book Cover


Chapters: 54    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Ensemble Cast - VOY, Ensemble Cast - Multiple, Ensemble Cast - USS Tesseract, Icheb
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Friendship, Mystery, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract
Completed: Yes    Word count: 130185    Read Count: 463375
[Report This] Published: 10 Aug 2009 Updated: 21 Apr 2010
Triangle Theory by kes7    Rated: K+    Liked  Reviews (10
Summary:

Triangle TheoryIt's Valentine's Day, and no one is happy.  Three young Starfleet officers scattered across half the galaxy ruminate on love, loss and longing in the 24th century.

(Contains minor spoilers for Star Trek: Tesseract.)


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Icheb, O'Connor, Maren, Quigley, John
Genre: Angst, Drama, Friendship, Holidays, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3738    Read Count: 2085
[Report This] Published: 14 Feb 2010 Updated: 14 Feb 2010
Better Luck Next Time by kes7    Rated: K+    Liked  Reviews (13
Summary:

Academy StoriesEighteen-year-old John Quigley has waited a lifetime for an opportunity to get away from his self-destructive mother's cycle of abuse. Starfleet Academy is his dream escape, but when he fails to make the cut, he must decide whether to endure another year of hell in exchange for one more chance.


Winner: No One Wins All the Time Challenge


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes
Characters: Quigley, John
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek: Tesseract, Tesseract: The Academy Years
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1005    Read Count: 1671
[Report This] Published: 11 Sep 2009 Updated: 11 Sep 2009