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: 11051

Summary:

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: 61268

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: 11374

Summary:

There 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: 29630

Summary: In 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: 12376

Summary:

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: 1256

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: 15167

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: 1587

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: 15551

Summary:

There'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: 1621

Summary:

Cadet 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: 1453

Summary:

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.

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: 186807

Summary:

Eighteen-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: 1635