STAR TREK - TNG - The Five Enterprises

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STAR TREK: THE FIVE ENTERPRISES
Kenneth A. Lowenberg .1995
PROLOGUE
Q was shocked by the surprise he felt. After all, he and his fellow continuum-mates were
all-knowing and all-seeing ... until now.
The force of the energy invading -- yes INVADING -- the Q-Continuum caught all Q by
surprise.
The energy force probed their consciousness leaving other Q helpless in its wake.
Qs ... helpless?!
This Q, the most important in his own mind, found some satisfaction at first in finding his
companions caught off guard. They, after all, had the audacity to once take away his powers, after he
played some minor pranks on Picard and his lackeys.
He had presently returned to the continuum after jostling with Vash, the interesting human
female who had miraculously found her way back from the Gamma Quadrant, where Q tossed her,
thanks to another group of Starfleet minions on the flatly named space station Deep Space Nine.
At his arrival in the continuum, Q was overwhelmed by this energy. No longer amused, he
realized its predatory powers presented a threat to him.
It was probing consciousness looking for weakness, it had locked onto Q's mind, on his
thoughts of moments ago, of humans.
Q struggled, focusing his powers against the invader's. To no avail...except for an image.
An image of intent.
Conquer ...everything.
Then he felt something else, something familiar, something which gave him hope and
confidence.
It was the Q, his brothers and sisters!
The ones who had been subdued found a way to channel their powers to him, the returnee. All
the power of the Q now resided in him.
The invaders hesitated a moment, caught off guard by this new defense.
Then Q grappled with the creatures, probed them back,looking for weakness... and found
none, except...
...It was there and suddenly gone.
The creature fought back, focusing on what it had learned from Q. What it apparently
perceived as a weakness... humans.
Humans and their homeworld, Earth.
This meant something to Q, strike at it and the Q itself would be easy to stop.
'Ridiculous,' Q thought to the attacker. 'Humans mean nothing...'
But it was too late. The attacker had found Earth, Q saw the image of the small blue world,
not just now but in all moments. The planet Earth throughout time.
Suddenly Q knew the creatures' intentions, and in the mili-second the creature was occupied,
Q focused all his new-found power, all the power of the Q on one word, one image, one starship.
"Enterprise."
In the next millisecond, the creature erased the planet Earth from all of time.
CHAPTER ONE
"Checkmate."
Worf looked at the tri-chess board, and then at Counselor Troi, seated across the table from
him. Behind her, the window showed the colorful star streaks of the Enterprise traversing space at warp
speed. He scowled, "I concede the game to you, Deanna."
The Betazoid smiled and reached for the game pieces, beginning to reset the board. "Let's see.
That's three. Shall we try again?"
Worf stood. "Perhaps another time, Counselor. I obviously am not having a good day."
Deanna stood up, too. "Don't fret, Worf. I was the All-District chess champion at my high
school."
"So you've mentioned ... many times."
She raised her eyebrows in mock surprise. "Funny, I don't recall. Let's get a bite to eat, I'm
starved." They walked out of the rec room together. Deanna was glad to have this time to spend with
Worf, ever since their duty schedules matched up so they were off-duty together. Worf had been through
some emotional hardships lately concerning his late father. He had been quite reserved. Geordi and Data
asked her to look after their friend. She didn't need to be asked.
They arrived at Ten Forward to find a small group of officers and civilians huddled near the
bar. At the center of the huddle was Dr. Beverly Crusher helping Guinan to her feet. Worf and Troi
rushed over, pushing their way through the crowd.
"Step back," Worf barked as people automatically stepped away.
"Beverly," Troi said. "My God, what happened?"
"I just got a little... woozy," Guinan said as Crusher helped her onto a bar stool.
"Guinan fainted dead away," Beverly clarified. "One of her assistants called sickbay and she
was still out when I got here. Frankly, Guinan. I'm concerned. We should get you to sickbay."
"Nonsense," the barkeep said. "I'm fine now."
The Doctor waved a medical sensor up and down the length of Guinan's body. "No unusual
readings. Well, I can't force you to come with me. Just take it easy."
"Certainly." Guinan said. "Maybe I'll end my shift a little early."
The crowd had backed away and the others had given her breathing room. Guinan got up and
stepped into the sanctuary of her office behind the bar.
Once inside, she fell onto the oversized couch facing the large viewport. Her brow wrinkled as
she tried to decipher the images and feelings which temporarily robbed her of consciousness.
"Q, here! I guess I was stupid to think we would ever escape from that clown's grip," Miles
O'Brien sank his teeth into a mutton shank.
"He's gone now." Keiko sat across from him in the dinning area of their quarters on the
Bajoran space station Deep Space Nine. "Well, how is it?"
Miles took the napkin from his lap and swapped at his face. "It's absolutely delicious. How did
you get those bloody Cardassian replicators to do it?"
"I didn't. I bought the meat from Quark."
"What?!"
"He told me he knew a supplier of Earth delicacies and he would sell it to us at a discount.
Said something about owing you a favor for help at his bar."
Miles shook his head. "Honey, you should know Quark is not to be trusted."
"Not usually, I guess. But when I discovered I had the chance to fix your favorite meal, I
couldn't say no."
"Ahh, that's nice sweetheart." He took another bite of his dinner. "And since Quark needs me
to help keep his computers up, he probably wouldn't poison me."
Miles laughed at the look of shock that crossed his wife's face.
The perimeter alarms rang through Ops. Major Kira Nerys, the officer on duty, called for
sensors. "Is a ship coming through the wormhole?"
"Negative," said the Starfleet man sitting at Dax's usual station. "Neutrino readings are normal."
"Then what?," Kira said frustratingly. The perimeter alert alarms meant something was
approaching the station.
"Unknown," the man said.
"Raise shields! Scan for cloaking device signatures and get me Commander Sisko," Kira took
a step toward the overhead viewer which was normally focused on the wormhole. All appeared quiet,
but the damn alarms were still blaring in her ears.
The familiar hydraulic sounds of the turbolift cut through the alarms and Kira spun to see
Sisko, Dax and
O'Brien disembarking onto the deck.
"Report, Major," Sisko's deep voice demanded. Even though the tone was harsh it had a
surprising calming effect on Kira.
"I can't explain it, Sir. The sensors obviously think something's there but they won't tell us what
it is."
Sisko walked up behind Dax, who had taken her spot at the science station. "What can you
tell me, Lieutenant?"
Dax shook her head slightly, "Kira's right. The sensors are confused. But I can tell you it is
more than one thing approaching us."
"Approaching us from where?," Sisko said.
Then the viewscreen changed and five Federation starships suddenly orbited Deep Space
Nine.
CHAPTER TWO
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise picked himself off the command deck and
surveyed the bridge. Everyone was doing the same, no one having been able to keep their footing during
the severe buffeting.
"Report," William Riker, his Number One, said from next to him.
"All systems are coming back on line," said Ensign Ro Laren from the Ops station.
"Data," Picard said coming up behind his android science officer at the helm station, "What
was that?"
"Unknown, Sir."
The darkened main viewscreen encompassing the entire front wall of the bridge sprung to life,
flickering into a multi-colored test pattern.
"Where are we?" Riker asked.
"Sensors will be operational momentarily," Data said.
The turbolift doors opened slowly behind the command center of the bridge. Troi and Worf
emerged.
"Mr. Worf," Picard said. "As soon as the internal sensors are on-line, I need a status report."
"Yes, Sir."
The viewscreen blinked again and a very blurry image materialized and slowly coalesced into a
familiar image.
"Deep Space Nine," Picard said.
Sisko and his crew stared dumbfounded at the main Ops viewscreen.
"I don't believe this," Sisko said.
"It does seem impossible," Dax concurred from behind him.
On the screen were five starships -- all named Enterprise. All from different time periods.
"Commander," O'Brien called out. "We are getting a hail from the Enterprise, ah, 1701-D,
Sir."
"On the screen."
The screen changed from the historic image to one of familiarity, a Galaxy-Class starship's
main bridge. In the center was Jean-Luc Picard, a man Sisko once despised, for as Locutus of Borg,
Picard destroyed the Starfleet at Wolf 359, in the process killing his wife Jennifer.
Sisko's violent emotions had ebbed since he met Picard -- not Locutus -- when the Enterprise
arrived to assist in the establishment of a Federation presence on DS9 earlier this year.
But the viewer's image brought back strong emotions of Jennifer, nearly overwhelming Sisko
for a moment.
"Captain Picard," he said with too much emotion.
"Commander Sisko," Picard said. "I am at a lack to understand how we got here, all of us. I
was wondering if you could explain further."
"I'm afraid we are as much in the dark as you." Sisko said. "However, it looks as if we are
about to be a part of
history."
CHAPTER THREE
"Captain, the communications between the starship and the space station are on recognizable,
albeit advanced, Federation hails."
"The code signatures from the vessels and the station fall within Starfleet parameters. There is
a 92 percent probability they are Federation crafts."
The Captain spun in his chair to look at the center viewscreen. "But of a much advanced
design." He got up and walked over to his science officer. The Starship Enterprise was just returning
from the Khitomer Conference en route to decommissioning when the ship began to shake apart.
"So, Spock," Captain James T. Kirk said to his Vulcan First Officer, "Could the buffeting we
just experienced have been a time warp?"
Spock raised an eyebrow. "All evidence supports the conclusion."
"And," Kirk said, rubbing his hands together, "From what we've just heard, it seems Captain
Picard of Enterprise ...D, knows Commander Sisko of DS9."
"It would seem so."
"So perhaps we are in their time period. Uhura," Kirk said to his communications officer. "Get
me Captain Picard ... of the Starship Enterprise."
"Yes, Sir."
"Who?" Picard asked incredulously.
"Captain James T. Kirk," Worf repeated.
"I guess I should have expected this," Picard commented. He stood up, as did Riker and Troi.
Picard glanced toward his Number One.
"Well, Sir. It's not every day you get to address a legend," Riker said.
Picard put his hands up in front of him, as if he were pushing something away. "Now,
everyone. I know how important James Kirk and his crew were to Federation history, but we must
remember they are apparently here from the past. We can not let them know more about their future than
is absolutely necessary. Or else we risk altering our history."
"I'm afraid it's much too late for that, Jean-Luc," said a familiar voice from behind him.
Picard spun on his heel to face... "Q!"
"Of course," Picard fumed as he took two steps toward the entity. "This little affair has your
trademark of chaos all over it."
Q took two steps back. "Normally, I'd agree with you, Picard. But this time its something far
worse than a common prank."
"Q!"
"Picard, this is serious, not only to you but to me."
"Oh come now, Q. What could possibly harm an omnipotent entity?," the Captain said rolling
his eyes. "Now deliver those starships back to..."
"That's just it Picard. Unbelievably, something has affected me and all Q. We're immobilized."
Data stood up, "Immobilized? As I understood it, the Q Continuum was omnipotent and, to
the extent of the known physical universe, all-powerful."
"A nice thought," Q said. "But, alas, no longer true. There's a new bully in the neighborhood."
Picard brow furrowed. "Indeed, and just what is this bully's intentions."
Q plopped down onto the nearest chair. "To conquer ... everything. And they've started by
neutralizing the
continuum and eliminating... something else."
"And what is that?," Worf asked.
"Believe me, Microbrain, you don't want to know."
"Q," Picard yelled. "Stop this evasiveness and..."
"Earth, Picard. They eliminated the Planet Earth. It never existed."
No one said anything. There was no movement on the bridge.
"Speechless," Q said. "I would never had believed it. I guess these new guys are more
powerful."
"Come ...now..., Q." Picard said slowly. "If what you say were true than how could any of us
be here."
"At the last moment before your beloved home was vanquished, I used all the remaining
power of the Q to ... save you."
"Why?" Data asked.
"Because, my dear Data, you and your crew were all that I could think of... off the top of my
head... that could help me banish these bullies."
"Really?" Picard said. "And... the other Enterprises."
"An aftereffect, I suppose, Jean-Luc. I only had a mali-second to act, and my powers were
unfocused due to the
invaders. So when I thought Starship Enterprise, we got more than we bargained for."
"...And DS9?"
"Simply the last place I visited in your universe before the invasion."
"Wonderful." Picard said.
Riker stepped up next to his Captain. "It looks as if we have a problem, Sir."
"Always the master of understatement, Riker," Q said. "Well, at least you've got me along to
help for the duration."
"Marvelous," Worf said.
"No response, Sir," Uhura said.
"Hmmm. Are our hailing frequencies compatible with theirs?"
Uhura shrugged, "Assuming they are from our future they should be able to read us. After all, I
can read old-style radio waves."
"Good point," Kirk said. "Well..."
He was interrupted by a beeping from Uhura's station.
"Is it Picard?" Kirk asked.
"No, Sir. It's from the previous Enterprise. NCC-1701."
Kirk looked at Spock then turned slowly to the viewscreen. "Visual."
The screen wavered and a familiar visage filled it, a ruggedly handsome man, who Kirk noted
with sadness, was
doomed to spend his older years crippled by Delta Ray exposure. "This is Captain Christopher Pike of
the Starship Enterprise. Come in, please."
Kirk swallowed. "This is Captain James T. Kirk ... of a future Starship Enterprise."
Pike nodded, "Our sensors confirm all the starships orbiting the station are future versions of
my ship."
"Yes," Kirk said. "We have come to the same conclusion."
"Mr. Spock, my science officer," Pike said, "has suggested we have as little exposure as
possible so as not to further disrupt the course of future events. I just needed to confirm our findings."
"I ... understand," Kirk replied. "For now, we should limit communications to emergencies."
"Agreed, Pike out."
The viewscreen wavered and resumed the image of the Enterprises orbiting Deep Space Nine.
Kirk turned to Spock, "Do you remember ever giving that suggestion to Captain Pike."
"Negative, Captain. I have no recollection of these events ever occurring on the other
Enterprise. I will scan the library computer records."
"Curiouser and curiouser," Kirk said as he sat in his chair.
"You saved us?," Riker shook his head in bewilderment.
Q shrugged, "I admit to a touch of temporary insanity."
Picard walked to the main viewscreen. Four Starship Enterprises -- a legacy spanning the
history of the United Federation of Planets. From Captain April to Captain Garrett, NCC-1701 has
defined the eras of their service. Now, if Q could be believed -- and Picard admitted he had no reason
not to believe -- Earth had been eliminated, had never existed.
And through a fluke of undefinable cosmic powers, these historic ships and crews have come
together to face their greatest challenge: To restore humanity.
And to defeat a force more powerful than the most powerful entity Picard had ever
encountered.
"Mind-boggling, eh, Mon Capitan," Q said, coming up behind him.
Picard turned and marched past him up the ramp to Worf's security station. He turned and
faced the entity, who still stood front and center. "Let's say you’re right, Q, and Earth is gone."
"I AM right, Picard. I checked. It's not just gone, it was never there. Eight planets, not nine.
Mercury, Venus, Mars. Earth is an asteroid belt."
"Which leaves me two immediate questions." Picard said gripping the security station. "One:
why did these
aggressors spare you? And two: what has this done to galactic history?"
Q shook his head and walked toward the command chair. "Good questions. One: to taunt me,
I suppose. The great taunter of the Universe, being taunted himself. They probably are having a laugh riot
-- biding their time before they play out their game.
"And two: I said before humans were not important. However, you have had a large impact on
this sector of space -- in another reality. Now it's open season."
"Who controls this space?," Worf asked.
"I'm not sure really," Q responded. "But, I'll bet we find out soon enough."
Data turned in his chair, "If I may, one can extrapolate, using known history as a referent, that
this sector of space is probably controlled by the Cardassian Alliance. Assuming there was no Federation
to help excise them from Bajoran Space."
"Assuming the Klingon Empire has not staked claim to this space long ago," Worf said with a
bit of pride.
Picard looked at him with surprise. "Mr. Worf?"
"The Klingons had a strong military presence in this sector long before the Cardassians were a
power. If there was no Federation..."
"You would have all died after Praxis or been conquered by the Romulans at Khitomer.
Power, indeed." Q said.
Worf growled.
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STARTREK:THEFIVEENTERPRISES                               KennethA.Lowenberg .1995 PROLOGUE                 Qwasshockedbythesurprisehefelt.Afterall,heandhisfellowcontinuum-mateswereall-knowingandall-seeing...untilnow.               Theforceoftheenergyinvading--yesINVADING--theQ-ContinuumcaughtallQby...

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