A family called; WEER

[RobertScorpio]

This is a preamble to the story. Kind of like a recap and re-introduction of some of the past stories and main characters. If it seems redundant, I am sorry.

A Family Called; Weer
Episode Preamble pt one

Our story continues one year after the events aboard the Nebula-1. Here is a brief recap of where we are and who are our main characters.

Five years ago Civil War came to the Federation, and more importantly, to Earth. Our saga follows the lives of one particular family caught up in the turmoil. The Weer Family.

As the war came to Earth, the Weer family left their ancestral home of nearly 500 years and headed into space. Jonathan Weer, his wife Mary, and four children, headed for a new home in the Gamma Quadrant. It was a journey that would take nearly three years to complete, and not with out tragedy, and troubles along the way. The bitter truth of that risk would reveal its self early on. Both Jonathan and Mary would not live to see their children to a new home. Both Jonathan and Mary died along the way. With both parents now dead, the children turned to their Uncle Mathew, who had been their guide the moment they left Earth.

Through much strife their Uncle Mathew did indeed lead the children to a new life on the far away world of Droanha, in the Gamma Quadrant. However, Even there, on their new world, the Weer family have faced hardship and pain. But good times too!

Main Characters;


Uncle Mathew Weer (played by Sam Elliot)
Jonathan’s younger brother, Mathew Weer, was a legendary scout for Starfleet. He is no longer in Starfleet, but Mathew has become more than a legend due to his exploits. He is a maverick who lives a very solitary life in the deep of space. With Romulans and Klingons as friends, and enemies, Mathew Weer is known through out Starfleet as a sometime ally of the Federation, and some time enemy. He follows no man’s law, but believes in swift justice; his kind of justice. He is a throw back to another time, wearing only the animal skins he obtains naturally. He can be a mean son-of-a-bitch. His current where-abouts are not known. When last seen he had streaked off into space to find a long- thought-dead love interest; Camine Levoghe. (See FAMILY;WEER-STAR TREK for more details.)

Aunt Beth (played by Stephanie Beacham)
When Mary, the children’s mother, was murdered, her sister, Aunt Beth, arrived to take care of the children as best as she could. Beth’s own husband had died years ago. Because her life was far removed from her sisters, Beth had little contact with her late sister’s family. But that would not stop her from being the ‘mother’ figure the kids needed so badly.

The Weer Children

Mitch Weer (played by Tom Welling)
His life was mapped out. He had planned to join Starfleet, but all that changed when the Civil War started. He was only eighteen at the time. And when the war started, he was conscripted into the war as a soldier. Through several unfortunate events, he found himself on the run as a deserter. Eventually, as the war ended, the President of the Federation eventually pardoned him. Now at the age of twenty-five, Mitch Weer is the local Sheriff of the small town near their home on Droanha. He took the job thinking it would get him ‘the girl’. But, as we shall see, it might get him more than he bargained for.

Ramada Weer (played by Adriana Lima)
Her beauty is of legend. With her olive skin and sultry looks, Ramada is as beautiful as she is naïve. Her memory, though, has been erased. She was once captured by an evil Pah-wraith and subjected to physical, mental and sexual abuse. A last minute request by her Uncle Mathew inspired Q (John De lancy) to grant the request for her memory to be purged (read STAR TREK; THE WEER FAMILY for more details). She is now teaching a school for gifted children on planet Droanha.

Lawrence Weer (casting suggestion please)
Lawrence was fourteen when the Civil War started, and now he is nearly twenty. It is clear to all that he is head strong, just like his Uncle Mathew. The family is well aware this could get him into much trouble. He is aware of that fact too. He is also one to side with those who are the underdog, another trait he shares with his famed uncle.

Ginny Weer (casting suggestion please)
Ginny is Lawrence’s twin sister, and is also nearly twenty years old. Though not the stunning beauty her sister Ramada is, Ginny has an inner charm, and curiosity, that will no doubt put her into interesting times as our story continues. She utterly adore her Uncle Mathew, especially since he helped save her life when she was nearly killed by an insect by. (see STAR TREK; EXODUS for more details)

NEXT TIME..
Supporing character bios…and villains!

Robert
Scorpio

 

[RobertScorpio]

A Family Called Weer
Preamble#2
This is a brief introduction to some of the supporting characters who might pop up during our story...


Friends and Foes.


N’vraln (played by Sam Neill)
If Mathew Weer has one true friend in the universe he is a Romulan named N’vraln. Several decades earlier, while Mat was scouting deep space for Starfleet, N’vraln was doing the same for the Romulans. This put the both of them in direct competition to find worlds that their respective military forces/governments could find useful. And though they both strived to be one up on the other, they also found themselves forging a unique friendship. Their travels brought them to new areas of the galaxy that had, as of yet, been visited by either the Federation or Romulan Empire. On more than one occasion they had set aside their competition to help save each other from barbaric native populations, or natural galactic obstacles such as black wholes, rogue comets, or even the simplest problem; running out of fuel. N’vraln, who had been scouting for two decades before Mat arrived on the scene, took the young Starfleet officer under his wing, so to speak, and showed him many of the ins and outs of being a scout. Mathew Weer has turned to N’vraln many times to help with various emergencies, including when Mat’s niece, Ginny, was nearly killed by a venomous insect. N’vraln proved very helpful during the “Dark Orb Trilogy” during the crucial showdown between the Pah-wraiths and Mathew Weer.


Minister Odo (played by Rene Auberjonois)
In his youth, Mathew Weer smuggled Romulan ale through Deep Space Nine during Odo’s second tenure as the space stations’s security chief. A sort of cat-and-mouse relationship led to mutual respect, and eventually friendship, over the many years the two have known each other. Odo is now the Prime Minister of the New Dominion. When the Federation Civil-War broke out, Odo and the New Dominion offered one of their worlds, called Droanha, a place where refugees from that war could call home. Many came, and the settlers that did come, mainly from Earth, but other worlds as well, came so knowing that the world would try to uphold simpler times. No spaceports were allowed. All ships would have to remain inside an orbiting space-dock high in Droanha orbit. Odo helped set up the human government that ruled world. Odo, who was once married to the late Kira Nyrce decades earlier, has now become a close friend of the Weer family and most notably; Aunt Beth.

Terence McCord (played by Nick Nolte)
One of the first settlers on Droanha, he once owned most of the land in one of the most sought after areas of the planet. His family had be cattle ranchers as far back as memory could go. He came to Droanha to continue his family business. Even though the eating of Beef was frowned upon by the Federation, Terrence McCord found much business with worlds and people who didn’t adhere to such modern views. After a brief showdown with many of the settlers over the use of the land, Mathew Weer among them, McCord agreed to end his cattle business, and sold the herd to off world interests. He now resides on a planet deep in Romulan territory, using his skills as a herd runner to help feed a starving people on that world. He has a son named Harris. Unknown to Harris, his real father is Mathew Weer. Both Terrence and Mathew have agreed to keep this a secret; for now. Once upon a time, Mathew and Terence fought over a woman. It was a fight that Terrence won. Her name was Camine. She was killed in a freakish space accident. Or so they thought. Only recently, one year ago, Mathew Weer found out that she was still alive. Not sure whether or not Terence knew the truth, Mathew was last seen heading off into to space to find answers.


NEXT TIME….the foes!

 

[RobertScorpio]

(alas..the story continues)

Star Trek
A family Called Weer

Featuring
Mitch Weer
Sharv
Toby Hauss

The two would be criminals gazed through their night vision glasses from atop a roof, down to the front door of the general store. Focusing their scans even further, they could see their target; a medium sized chocolate gumball machine.

One of the criminals was named Toby Hauss. He was just a month from turning fourteen years old. From the time he was a little kid he loved to steal things, especially gumballs. And now, as he was at the ripe old age of fourteen, he was starting to see this activity, stealing, as a sure bet way of life. Steal the gumball machine, break into it, sell the gumballs for a credit or two to the local kids, and then; WHAM! One could earn up enough credits to buy more important things like Holo-pods and the programs that came with them. He had his heart set on the classic Vulcan-Sex Slave; Wrath of Valaris. But none of that was going to happen unless he, and his younger brother Simon, broke into the general store and stole that damn gumball machine!

Planning such a heist had taken quite some time. The hardest part was borrowing his dad’s laser cutter from the tool shed, and then outfitting it on the old rifle his dad also kept stored in the basement. Testing the sight on the rifle took a day or two as well. On top of that, he had to lift his dad’s night-goggles from his tool shed as well. In fact, Toby thought to him self, with out his dad being a local handyman on Droanha none of this would have happened at all.

“Are you sure about this Toby?” Young Seth asked, nervous as all hell.

Toby patted his younger brother on the back. “Sure, it will be as easy as stealing some of mom’s apple pie.”

Seth gave his older brother a bewildered glance. “Mom doesn’t even make apple pie.”

“Shhhh,” Toby said to him. “Keep your eyes open. Let me know if anyone is walking down the main road. I’m going to see if I can sight the laser-bolt on the door.”

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Two blocks away, at the local sheriff’s office, Mitch Weer sat behind his desk looking at the clock on the wall. Mr. Gordon, the elderly man who owned the general store, was sitting across from him, and very impatiently at that.

“Well?” Gordon asked, “when you going to go over there and bust them?”

Mitch looked up at him. “I’ve told you dozen times Mr. Gordon. If I go over there and they haven’t done nothin’ yet, then how could I arrest them? We’re going to let them break into your store, and then we’ll nail them.”

“I expect you and the judge to throw the book at them!” Gordon added.

Mitch shook his head. “Weren’t you ever young Mr. Gordon? Heck, I did far worse at their age than stealing gumball machines.”

Gordon shook his head. “No, Mr. Weer, I have never stolen a thing in my life, even when I was a kid.”

“Well that may be true,” Mitch said, “but for some boys it is kind of like a right of passage.”

“So when does it end?” Gordon asked. “One day their swiping gumballs, and then the next day they’re hotwiring shuttles.”

Mitch chuckled. He remembered the last time he had hotwired a shuttle for a joyride back on Earth. His dad, Jonathan Weer, thumped on him for a whole week afterward. “Now mister Gordon,” Mitch said, “swiping gumballs is a long way from…”

Mitch’s words were cut short by a signal from his Andorian deputy; Sharv.

“Mitch, the two boys have cut the laser bolt from across the street. I think they’re heading for the store right now.” Sharv said.

Sharv was couched below across the street from the store, inside one of the other general stores which was actually located in the building the boys were on the roof of. Sharv had brought a pair of his own night goggles and had watched the tiny white beam slice the both of the door.

Mitch stood up from his desk. As he and Mr. Gordon prepared to go catch the two young Hauss boys. Mitch had wished Ramada had not over heard the conversation in the first place that put them in this situation. Ramada was helping at a new school that catered to special kids. And, as it turned out, Toby Hauss’s nine year old sister could read minds, even though she wasn’t a Betazed, nor from another empathic species, she was just a plane simple human who could read minds.

Well, sure enough, she read her brothers mind and told Ramada of her older brother’s plan who then told Mitch. Mitch promised his sister to keep secret how she found out, not wanting to get the young girl in trouble.

“Okay Mr. Gordon,” Mitch said, “let’s go on out and bust these high profiled criminals.” Mitch said sarcastically.

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THE WEER FAMILY saga was my first story on BBS I think. My attempt to do a Louis L’Amour kind of sprawling story. You can access the earlier stories in the ROBERT SCORPIO COLLECTION. I've had a few emails since I ended it some time back, in may or so I think, to pick it back up. So, why not. I'd like to know if Mathew Weer was able to find his long lost love at all or not.

Rob
Scorpio