Star Trek: Avalon

[Vinkula]

INFORMATION ABOUT STAR TREK: AVALON

Read this first: I am not familiar with all Star Trek tech, so IF I do mistakes, correct me, I am just writing all the basic things I know, so I am not going to the tech specifications. Of course, If I don't know something, I'll check from Memory Alpha, or somewhere else. But, enjoy my fan fic and comment! I am not expert of Starfleet vessel registrations, so I took my ships registration from ACTD - Advanced Starship Design Bureau, The Columbia's registry, changed the last number.

Stardate's I have calculated from here: http://www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm and I leave the seconds off of the stardate.
PS. I want critism!

Ship specifications:
Class: Sovereign (As seen in Star Trek: Nemesis)
Name & Registration: U.S.S. AVALON NCC-84982
Deck count: 24 (Basic Sovvie deck count)
Crew: 882

Senior staff:
Commanding Officer: Captain Erica Bradley (Human)
First Officer: Commander Jonathan Cooper (Human)
Counselor: Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Trill)
Operations: Lieutenant Commander T'Var (Vulcan)
Helm: Lieutenant Junior Grade Eric Johnson (Human)
Tactical: Lieutenant Thomas Eriksson (Human)
Chief Engineer: Talek Shr'on (Andorian, modified name from "Talas")
Chief Medical Officer: Lieutenant Commander Alyssa Ogawa
Science officer isn't a senior officer.
The names are just made up, so they are what they are.

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EPISODE 1
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Deep Space Nine, Bajoran sector
Quark's
Stardate 63066.8 (January 25, 2386, Time: 09:52)

It's early morning. A brunette woman sits in the silent bar, drinking her Raktajino and she's reading a PADD, which contains information about the Borg and next assignment.
"Wan't more?" A Ferengi voice interrupts woman.
"Yes, thanks." She says and continues reading the PADD.
"Cooper to Bradley, the Avalon is ready for departure." Says voice over comm.
"I am on my way" She says and leaves the bar. The promenade starts to be full of different people, Bajoran officers and Starfleet personnel mostly. Further she walks, more nervous she becomes. She has never liked the Borg, never going to like. They assimilated her family, when she were 14 and she was raised by her grandmother, Judith, who decreased 2 years ago.

Soon she arrives to the docking port and enters the ship. She takes good look around the corridor. Last preparations before departure. She smiles to young Ensign and continues her way to turbolift. "Deck 1, main bridge" she says. After short beeb, the turbolift is on it's way to the bridge. Few seconds after, the doors open and she walks out of the turbolift doors closing after her.
"Captain on the bridge!" her helmsman shouts.
"As you were" She smiles and goes to sit the middle chair.
"Everything is ready for departure" Kira Nerys says over the comm.
"Thank you, Colonel."
Soon the ship is clear Deep Space Nine and on it's way to the Neutral Zone, where the last transwarp signatures were detected few days ago.

"Captain, engineering reports ready for warp." Eric says and waits Captain's orders.
"Thank you Lieutenant. Warp 8, engage.", she was replied with "Aye" and the ship is on it's way, to the Neutral Zone.

Captain's Ready Room
20 minutes later.

The doorbell rings. Erica raises her head. "Yes" She says.
"The last long range sensor sweep" Jonathan gives the PADD to her and she looks at it. "How interesting." She says with bored voice and looks out of the window.
"Something wrong, Captain?" Jonathan asks looking out of the window aswell.
"Just nervous." She answers putting the PADD to the desk and tasting her coffee.
"As everyone is." He answers, and continues "I'll keep you informed, if something happens." She nods and sits down to her chair and looks a picture on her desk, her husband and 2 children.

Captains log, stardate 63068.4. We have been scanning the Neutral Zone almost a day now. We haven't detected any Borg activities. Starfleet ordered us to keep our position here for few more days.

- BRIDGE -

"Anything, Mr. T'Var?" The Captain starts to be very bored.
"Nothing, ma'am." The Captain puts her hands to her forehead.
"Move to next grid." Jonathan gives the order. He looks at the captain. "You should get some rest". She agrees and leaves the bridge to the turbolift. "Deck 2."

- BRIDGE, 40 minutes later -

"Commander, I am detecting something." T'Var says and does few more scanning.
"What is it?" He looks T'Var with tense look.
"Sensor are detecting 2... No, 4 transwarp signatures, directly ahead." T'Var says and continues scanning.
"Distance?"
"4 lightyears, and closing fast.". Everybody goes a little restless and look over the bridge.
"Red Alert, shields up. Captain, report to the bridge."



END OF THE EPISODE 1

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I am sorry about the style I wrote (if it changed) but I haven't wrote in English much, so I hope you understand me and what I wrote.
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[Gul Re'jal]

I'd suggest to switch to past tense. Reading in present is really, really strange to me.

You could also add empty lines between paragraphs, it makes it easier to read from a computer screen.

And finally: from one non-English native speaker to another non-English native speaker A dictionary is your best friend. It's better to unnecessarily check a word you think you're sure about than not check. I'm quite certain that Erica's grandmother didn't decrease. More liked deceased.

Now, the Borg in the Neutral Zone? The Romulan Neutral Zone? I wonder what the Romulans are doing? Any prospects for mutual co-operation or mutual competition? Or mutual hostilities

 

[Vinkula]

You'll see that later
And thanks, I'll take your advice :]

 

[Gul Re'jal]

You'll see that later

I hope so

 

[Vinkula]

EPISODE 2
The Fight in the Neutral Zone
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"Time?" Erica asked, little nervous when looking the Borg armada from the viewscreen. This is her first Borg encounter as a captain, previosly she were only a science officer.

"50 seconds." T'Var said calmly, as all Vulcan's do. He looks up to the viewscreen and back to his console. "40 seconds" he continued counting.

"Status of our shields and weapons systems?" Erica looked to her tactical officer.

"Shields are at maximum settings. Phaser banks are ready and all torpedo bays responding." Eriksson looked his console, which shows the display of the Borg armada and it's status.

"Thank you, Mr. Eriksson. Ezri, inform Starfleet, we are about to engage the Borg and we may need help." Ezri nodded and started to work with her console. Erica looked to the viewscreen. The Borg, were right on top of the Avalon.

"They are hailing us" T'Var informed others. He got a cold "On screen" answer and soon interior of Borg ship is displayed.

"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance. Is futile." A multiple voice said very streight it's sayings and ended the transmission. Jonathan looked to Erica's eyes and Erica pressed a control button of her chair and opened a comm-link all over the ship.

"Battlestations."

The ship shaked a little, and was pulled through the cube.

"They've locked a tractor beam!" Eriksson shout behind his console. Eric tried to get the ship free, but the ship was still moving through the cube.

"Phasers. Disable the tractor beam." Erica looked Eriksson and then continued to her helsman. "Once we are clear. Set coordinates to Federation space.

"Aye, ma'am." He replied to Erica and gave the commands to the helm.

After a beeb from tactical console, a phaser beam, aimed to the Borg tractor beam emitter, shut it down and the ship got free. The Avalon laid course to the Federation territory, but one of the cubes came after them. 3 others continued deeper to the Romulan Neutral Zone. The Borg cube opened fire through the Avalon and fired torpedoes to it's engineering hull.

"Direct hit, shields holding!" Eriksson didn't even finish his sentence, when new torpedoes hit to Avalon.

"Basic maneuvers!" Erica screamed to Eric and the ship changed it's course a little. Few more torpedoes hit the ship.

"Aft shields are at 72 percent!" T'Var said over the all beebing and noise. The Borg cube increased it's speed and it's literally on top of the Avalon. Erica's head was full of options, but she was still searching the right one.

"Return fire. Phasers only." Jonathan gave the order, while Erica was looking ship's status from her chair's screens.

"Starboard shields down at 83 percent!" T'Val said a little louder. The Avalon changed it's course a little so they could go more freely.

"We are clear the Borg ship!" Eric shouted and kept the current course steady. The Borg ship fired spread of torpedoes, 3 of them hit the ship, one hit the port warp nacelle.

"Direct hit to port warp nacelle! We are leaking plasma!" Erica nodded to Eriksson. She opened a channel to engineering.

"Bridge to Engineering. Try to seal the plasma leak! Bridge out." Erica ended the transmission. She raised from her chair and runned next to T'Var, to look the ship's status more easily.

"Fire photon torpedoes." Erica watched the photon torpedo spread to hit the Borg cube, but it didn't help much.

"Status of the Cube?" She looked back to Eriksson.

"Their shields are bubbling and weapons systems damaged." Eriksson shouted back to his Captain and continued phaser fire. The Avalon changed it's course once again, because of the Cube's attent to go get to them. Only few seconds after the course change, the Cube fired torpedoes, aimed directly to saucer section. The ship got direct hit to deck 3, the Bridge crew fell to the floor and several people through out the ship got injuries. Erica fell near her chair.

"Report!" She shouted and raised up, looking to her crew.

"Shields down at 34 percent, warp drive is offline, hull breech on deck 3, force fields are holding. Engineering reports heavy casualties, Sickbay is in full alert. Doctor asks permission to change Cargo Bays to Medical facilities." Erica felt like the list is never going to end.

"Permission granded." She said. She went to help Eric, but he was unconscious and had bad injuries on his face.

"Ezri, take the helm!" Jonathan said and looked at the Mission OPS station.

"There are 3 starships on their way, but they are still 2 hours away."

- SICKBAY -

"Cortical stimulator!" Alyssa shouted to her nurse. She treated a man, at his early thirties, with bad plasma burns on his face and other bad injuries through his body.

"His not responding! Increase the ---" Alyssa was interrupted by the door. More injured people came in. Alyssa started be a little frustrated. "Mrs. Armstrong, take him." Alyssa left the Lieutenant and went to scann the arrived people. Their injuries weren't so bad, so she only hypo-sprayed them with a medicine which makes their condition little easier.

"Mrs. Armstrong, you have the Sickbay, I'll be in the Cargo bay 3." Alyssa said, took a med-kit and started to run through turbolift.

- ENGINEERING -

"Seal the plasma leak!" Talek, the Andorian engineer shouted to his crew. "I'll try to get the warp drive back online" He continued talking to himself and headed to the pool table. "Hmm..." he pressed buttons rapidly. "Just the nacelle... Nothing more serious it seems. Few conduits only." He left the pool table to help the repair crew with the nacelle.

Back on the BRIDGE, Erica sits on her chair and trying to focus in middle of the blowing consoles and other noise.

"Fire their shield matrix." She shouted to Eriksson and looked at Ezri. "Change course, the Borg are too close!" Ezri nodded a little and started typing the new course to helm control.

"Captain, there's a ship coming out of warp! It's direct course here!" Eriksson shouted and Jonathan nodded. "Confirmed." Erica looked them and back to viewscreen, then T'Var. "Federation?" Her eyes became lighter.

"No, the fleet is still too far..." T'Var said and Erica looked Eriksson. Eriksson started long range scans and rise his head from his console. "Romulan.". Erica's thoughts filled with desperate thoughts. That was it. They can't fight the Borg and the Romulans with ship in this condition. It's impossible. She put her hand to her forehead and thought. This is it? Die in a battle, against Borg and Romulans. She wishes she never took this assignment. But she took it and they're in this situation and she have to get her crew back to Federation. Erica rose her head. She looked to Jonathan, then back to viewscreen. The Borg ship cease fire. Erica gives the command to turn the ship around and head directly to the Borg cube, going only 10 meters of it's hull.

"Fire on my command." She says with focused voice and looks the viewscreen. Ezri informs, that they are soon in position. 3, 2 1. Erica rose from her chair and gives the order to fire. Quantums and Phasers. Looks like the ship's went mad. The Borg get's heavy damage to their hull.

"We're hailed by the Romulans." T'Var interrupts the fight.
"On screen." Erica says and rises from her chair to stand behind Helm and Ops.
"This is Commander Zelar. What are you doing here, alone?" A female Romulan, who was about to continue, but Erica was faster.
"This is Captain Erica Bradley of the Federation starship, USS Avalon. We were sent here to investigate transwarp signatures. Seems, our investigation turned out right." Erica walks behind Ezri and looks the ship's current position from the panel. The Romulan commander seems to talk with her first officer.
"You need any assistance with the Borg ship?" Zelar asks tensioned. Erica nods and so does the Romulan commander. The Romulans ends the transmission and starts to fire the Borg. Erica goes back to sit to her chair.
"Something's up here. She was little tense." Jonathan says and Erica nods. "But no time for chat, let's go to business, open fire Mr. Eriksson, phasers and quantum torpedoes." The Avalon takes long U-turn behind the Borg ship and opens fire when clear the turn. Romulan warbird fires only the little holes on the Borg ships hull. It seems to work, the ship is losing it's power.

"Mr. Eriksson, fire to these coordinates." Erica types the coordinates to her chair's console and then sends them to Eriksson. "Aye". Spread of quantum torpedos are on their way to Borg cube's hull. Soon they hit and the ship starts to explode. The crew smiles reliefed smiles watching the Borg ship to explode to pieces.

"Stand down red alert. Repair teams to damaged areas." She says and Jonathan hails the repair teams.

"Nice work everyone." Erica says and takes more comfrontable position on her chair. Soon the hailing beeb starts to beeb. The Romulans are hailing.

"The Romulans, Captain." T'Var says and opens channel."
"Now, Captain, the Borg ship is destroyed. Lay course to your Federation and don't come back, just for your own safety. Zelar out." The Romulan warship turns away and goes to warp, heading to Romulan space.
"Our own safety?" Jonathan asks from Erica.
"I wonder the same. Something is up, that's for sure." She says and rises up. "I'll be in my ready room, you have the bridge. I want full damage report in one hour. Inform Starfleet that the Borg ship is destroyed and there's no need for back-up. Lay course to starbase 123 and engage warp 6, when warp drive is online." Erica leaves the bridge to her ready room which is a mess. "I'll clean later." She says and sits behind her desk.

Door bell rings. Again. And again.

"Come in." Erica says half asleep.
"Here's the damage report you wanted. Talek says warp is online in 10 minutes." Jonathan says and sits opposite seat.

"What you think? About the thing the Romulan commander said?" Jonathan asks and reads a PADD.
"I don't know... Something is going on... But first we go to starbase 123 for repairs. Then we'll see what Starfleet decides." Erica lean back to her chair and stretches her arms.
"Aye, Captain. See you around." Jonathan smiles and enters the bridge. Erica starts to read the PADD which contains the damage report.

- ROMULAN WARBIRD, COMMANDED BY ZELAR -

"I hope they doesn't come back." Her first officer says.
"I hope so too. The whole experiement could fail if the Federation knows about it." Zelar says angrily as she always does and watches the viewscreen. "Lay course to nearest Borg ship. Ready disruptors."

END OF THE EPISODE 2

By the way, for this fan fic, I use this starchart as the territory borders etc. You can spot the Romulan Neutral Zone and Starbase 123 in the right side of the map.
http://www.sttff.net/images/AST030.jpg​

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Your style is rather difficult to read, and you're missing words here and there. Not that we can't figure what you mean but...

Either way keep working it!

 

[Vinkula]

Well writing English isn't very easy to me, but speaking is... Well I hope I learn from my mistakes, but I can't ever see them.

How difficult? I tried to write as clear as I could, or I thought so. ;o

E// And I try my best when writing this, so my mistakes are simply accidents. In next Episode I try to write more clear than now, but I'd like to get some advice from other writers. Re'jal, any tips you have?

 

[Gul Re'jal]

You shall expect my PM, sir