Legends of the Phoenix
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Appreciate it! The Phoenix-X has a bad habit of getting into what some Vulcans would call......... hijinks.
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Author's notes: This was written as part of the Trek BBS May/June 2025 Challenge and takes place in 2393. The Kazon-Rokka later, in 2410, hijack the IKS B'Cnah from Captain Menchez in "Life or Death".
May/June 2025 Challenge: Mistake(s). Any Star Trek series, era, canon, non-canon, ships, crews or characters welcome.
Trek BBS: May/June 2025 Challenge
"Mistake(s): Delta Runners"
The Prometheus-class U.S.S. Phoenix-X plodded, effortlessly through the vacuous serenity of interstellar space until a giant displacement wave knocked it 70,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant.
"Ahhh! What the hell?" Captain Seifer snapped awake from his command chair upon the Bridge.
The screen staticked on to a view of a Nacene array next to a rogue asteroid before switching to a hail-view from its giant purple blobbed occupant. "Apologies. I am known as the Keeper. I'm another exiled Nacene just trying to live its life when, unfortunately, I pressed something on my control panel I shouldn't have."
"This exact same situation happened to Voyager twenty-two years ago," Seifer recalled. "Do you need a blanket or anything?"
The entity jiggled. "I would love a blanket! But, you should know, there is a fleet of Kazon trying to steal Ocampans from my Ocampan asteroid colony. A lot of us Nacenes like to grow them, you see."
"Oh, well that seems on-brand. Well, we're transporting one now and if, in the meantime, you could return us to the Alpha Quadrant, we'd be way more grateful than a Janeway hopped up on bun ties."
The Keeper jiggled once again. But, this time, more jiggly. "Apologies a second time. For, you see, my vision is getting terribly bad in my old age, so I was going to transport myself to the asteroid to protect my colony while setting this array to self-destruct. Thanks again for the blanket."
"Wait!" Seifer called out to a transporting blanketed-Nacene as several Kazon-Rokka raiders and a cruiser dropped warp.
Its head Kazon, Gronn, suddenly hailed the Phoenix-X. "Looks like the Keeper set the array to self-destruct but, since we Kazon-Rokka have learned much from our attacks in recent months, we are able to remotely disengage it. Our consolation prize will be Nacene technology."
"Damn! Janeway was forced to destroy her array to save the Ocampans but it stranded her ship seventy-five life years from home?" Seifer realized. "Well, I won't make the same mistake she did. We'll use the array and send us back."
Gronn did a double-take. "Really? You're so callous that you'd give the Ocampans and the array up to us? I did not expect that. Wow."
"Oh, hell no am I doing a seven-year Voyager thing! That ship struggled in cringe, any semblance of relevance and did this whole offensive Chakotay thing," Seifer shuddered. "Besides, slaving the Ocampans is the dumbest thing you can do, considering a free-one crashed out on Voyager once."
He then turned to his crew. Gewdeque nodded from the Engineering station. "Captain, we've now engaged the displacement drive for a return trip to our resource-filled and quality story abundant, uniform-accurate Alpha Quadrant."
"Whoa, whoa, now wait a minute. This Alpha Quadrant sounds sooo much better than this Delta Quadrant of complete absurdity. Every week we encounter nebulous lifeforms attempting to haunt our Deck 12s as well as angry Warp 10 salamander babies!"
As the array was powering up for its displacement wave, all the Kazon-Rokka ships moved, quickly, to knock the Phoenix-X out of its return path, causing all the enemy ships to instead be transported away and not the Phoenix-X.
"Captain! The large mass supplication of all those vessels caused the array to overload its displacement technology! Now we're stuck in the Delta Quadrant with no way home!" Veker warned in utter and horrible shock.
Standing in front of everyone, Seifer put his hands behind his back. "Dammit. We're alone in uncharted territory, have made some friends and some enemies. But we're going to have to work together if we're to survive all the potential Fantome infiltrations and holographic Doctor sing-alongs. Somewhere along this journey, we'll find a way back. Even if it means Tuvixing a lot of you to get there. Mister Paris, set a course for home."
"What? My name is Hachi," the helmsmen turned. "Also, the Phoenix-X has transwarp capability. We can just use that in allocated power bursts and be back in a week?"
Blinking, Seifer snapped out of his new series set-up speech. "Oh, yeah. I almost forgot about our own ship concept. Yeah, do that thing. The thing you just said. Phew! Dodged about ten possible Prime Directive violations. And I was this close to selling out Species 8472."
With that, the Phoenix-X turned in space and jumped to transwarp.
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And the flute... don't forget the flute... Beltran really wanted that flute...
Thanks!! rbs
