I hope everyong enjoys this story. Please don't cheat yourself by reading the end first. Let me know what you think. This is my first star trek story ever, even though I have been a fan for over 15 years.
“A New Start”
By Joel B aka. theqman
Processors whirring, quintillions of terraquads of storage churning. The planet and its people in a state of transformation. In the blink of an eye billions of white blinding flashes sprang into existence and just as quickly vanished.
--100 Years Earlier--
Dullness and monotony had consumed the daily lives of the inhabitants of the planet known as Kuedron. 100,000 years ago diseases, poverty and hunger were rampant. The lives of the inhabitants were far from the dullness now felt, every day was a struggle for survival. Over the coming years, the advent of the computer changed everything. These problems that are usually common to post-industrial, pre-computer societies were now beginning to vanish. Advancements were being made faster than people knew what to do with them. In time, the people became obsessed, even integrated, with their technology. Complacence and laziness quickly set in. As the list of technologies grew, space travel was added to that list. But, a problem had developed, no one wanted to leave the planet. This was not due to fear of the unknown, but actually due to the inhabitants lack of interest in anything other than being comfortable and gaining knowledge. So, computers were called on to fill the role of the people. The culmination of this role change was computer driven spaceships that explored the universe and sent back information to the knowledge hungry inhabitants on Kuedron. More and more tasks were being performed by the computer. Eventually, tasks that used to have meaning and give the inhabitants fulfillment in life became mundane. Everyone had become lazy hoarders of knowledge. But, even the gaining of this 'almighty' knowledge had become boringly simplistic. Computers would receive the information and upload it through an interface directly into the brain, thus taking all joy out of it.
As the years went on computers continued to integrate themselves into the biological systems of the inhabitants. When new technology emerged it would immediately be adapted to work in unison with their bio-physical systems. Some of these adapted technologies included: upgraded senses (adapted from information sensing equipment), space-time altering devices, system regulators (adapted to regulate body functions), matter-energy transportation technologies, cloaking, and matter-energy replication. All of this now available to them at a mere thought. They had become almost invincible, omnipotent. But, there was one catch, they couldn't leave the planet. All of their systems were connected wirelessly to a central computer core.
All the power in the universe and no where to go. All of the knowledge in the universe and no one to share it with. This was truly the darkest page in the history of the planet Kuedron. They had everything and yet nothing. No meaning or purpose to their lives. All knowledge had, all power seized, yet still no use or purpose. The species found itself on the verge of mass suicide due to the depressing state which they were in.
At what seemed to be the end of this great species, a redeemer arose. A group of scientists had not given up, they had continued searching for that last piece of knowledge not 'owned' by the species. This 'holy grail' of knowledge was to be their species wide savior and anti-depressant. This group had discovered a way to allow them to leave the planet. This was to be accomplished by integrating computers into the bodies of the inhabitants, without any main computer or energy source.
As soon as possible, the inhabitants made plans to leave. But, they needed somewhere to go and a way to keep themselves organized. So they located a suitable spot deep in subspace to congregate, and created a governmental hierarchy.
So with internal processors whirring and quintillions of terraquads of storage churning, the inhabitants departed the planet. At the ceremony for arrival at their new home in subspace, the leader of the new society addressed the people and this is what he said:
“We have come a long way from our mundane existence on Kuedron.
Now, finally, we will be able to assist other species and become bearers of eternal knowledge.
After all we have been through, may we never again become bored and may we never impose our power on other species.
May every person....in every galaxy...look up to the....
Q Continuum.
“A New Start”
By Joel B aka. theqman
Processors whirring, quintillions of terraquads of storage churning. The planet and its people in a state of transformation. In the blink of an eye billions of white blinding flashes sprang into existence and just as quickly vanished.
--100 Years Earlier--
Dullness and monotony had consumed the daily lives of the inhabitants of the planet known as Kuedron. 100,000 years ago diseases, poverty and hunger were rampant. The lives of the inhabitants were far from the dullness now felt, every day was a struggle for survival. Over the coming years, the advent of the computer changed everything. These problems that are usually common to post-industrial, pre-computer societies were now beginning to vanish. Advancements were being made faster than people knew what to do with them. In time, the people became obsessed, even integrated, with their technology. Complacence and laziness quickly set in. As the list of technologies grew, space travel was added to that list. But, a problem had developed, no one wanted to leave the planet. This was not due to fear of the unknown, but actually due to the inhabitants lack of interest in anything other than being comfortable and gaining knowledge. So, computers were called on to fill the role of the people. The culmination of this role change was computer driven spaceships that explored the universe and sent back information to the knowledge hungry inhabitants on Kuedron. More and more tasks were being performed by the computer. Eventually, tasks that used to have meaning and give the inhabitants fulfillment in life became mundane. Everyone had become lazy hoarders of knowledge. But, even the gaining of this 'almighty' knowledge had become boringly simplistic. Computers would receive the information and upload it through an interface directly into the brain, thus taking all joy out of it.
As the years went on computers continued to integrate themselves into the biological systems of the inhabitants. When new technology emerged it would immediately be adapted to work in unison with their bio-physical systems. Some of these adapted technologies included: upgraded senses (adapted from information sensing equipment), space-time altering devices, system regulators (adapted to regulate body functions), matter-energy transportation technologies, cloaking, and matter-energy replication. All of this now available to them at a mere thought. They had become almost invincible, omnipotent. But, there was one catch, they couldn't leave the planet. All of their systems were connected wirelessly to a central computer core.
All the power in the universe and no where to go. All of the knowledge in the universe and no one to share it with. This was truly the darkest page in the history of the planet Kuedron. They had everything and yet nothing. No meaning or purpose to their lives. All knowledge had, all power seized, yet still no use or purpose. The species found itself on the verge of mass suicide due to the depressing state which they were in.
At what seemed to be the end of this great species, a redeemer arose. A group of scientists had not given up, they had continued searching for that last piece of knowledge not 'owned' by the species. This 'holy grail' of knowledge was to be their species wide savior and anti-depressant. This group had discovered a way to allow them to leave the planet. This was to be accomplished by integrating computers into the bodies of the inhabitants, without any main computer or energy source.
As soon as possible, the inhabitants made plans to leave. But, they needed somewhere to go and a way to keep themselves organized. So they located a suitable spot deep in subspace to congregate, and created a governmental hierarchy.
So with internal processors whirring and quintillions of terraquads of storage churning, the inhabitants departed the planet. At the ceremony for arrival at their new home in subspace, the leader of the new society addressed the people and this is what he said:
“We have come a long way from our mundane existence on Kuedron.
Now, finally, we will be able to assist other species and become bearers of eternal knowledge.
After all we have been through, may we never again become bored and may we never impose our power on other species.
May every person....in every galaxy...look up to the....
Q Continuum.
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