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Star Trek Hunter Episode 28: The Covenant
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Alas, I did not save the link and can't find the page I got that list from on Memory Beta. Memory Beta is kind of a wiki format and gets edited all the time.
Thanks!! rbs
Star Trek Hunter
Episode 28: The Covenant
Scene 6: Same As It Ever Was
28.6
Same As It Ever Was
Same As It Ever Was
“So now you’re the director of the conspiracy you wanted me to help you dismantle?”
Federation President Emory Ivonovic was grimly amused. He was alone with his visitor in the T’Plana-Hath Room, the Office of the President of the United Federation of Planets in Building #1 of the administrative park in Caracas, Venezuela. “And it’s actually a section of the Federation Charter?”
“The Federation Charter officially has 30 sections. Section 31 is a secret codicil known only to the founders of the Federation,” said the new Director of Section 31, Johnny Canada. “Even the Federation President is not always kept in the loop. Under the Charter, only the Federation President and the three chief justices of the Federation Tribunal are to be informed about Section 31. Apparently, the former director never informed President Rodriguez.”
“And the Director of Star Fleet Intelligence?” Ivonovic asked.
Canada made an amused noise. “Apparently, no one has ever reached the top of SFI without first becoming a ranking member of Section 31.”
Ivonovic shook his head, not for the first time in this meeting. “You do realize, in addition to this ridiculous task you have been handed by your former director, to make sure we work with the borg to rebuild the hulk and…” Ivonovic rolled his head back, laughed grimly. “I can’t believe I’m saying this… save the future of all life in this part of the galaxy…” He tapped his desk four times. “We’re going to have to come up with a way to deal with the borg.”
“Deal with them?” Canada asked.
“I watched the cartoon, Johnny,” said Ivonovic. “What happened the last time the borg were working on the hulk and protecting the galaxy?” He tapped his desk again to emphasize his point. “They forgot what their purpose was, assimilated everyone they were trying to protect and then started their long, slow war to try to turn everybody and everything into more borg. What’s to stop them from doing that again?”
Johnny Canada took a deep breath. “The borg didn’t have King Prometheus…”
“Prometheus is just a hologram!” Ivonvic pounded his desk. “Artificial intelligence based on human psychology. Who knows what 4,000 years of unprecedented power will do to him? He may suddenly decide he knows how to make all our lives better and start to build some sort of utopia for us! You do know what utopia is, right?”
“Dystopia, mispronounced,” Canada replied.
“So we’re going to have to come up with a way to deal with the borg,” Ivonovic rejoined. “When the borg caught the entire Alpha Quadrant with our collective pants around our knees, what they did looked like a miracle. But the borg are not gods. They accomplished that miracle with technology. Arthur C. Clarke's Law."
"Nanites," said Johnny. "We've already got extensive evidence. Subspace signals instructing our machines to build nanites - not borg nanites - our own nanites - with borg programming. Much harder to detect - fortunately easier to reprogram. Partially assimilated borg sleeper agents. Conscious agents who can blend in with their native populations and operate independently from the collective for long periods. They cannibalized local tech on primitive worlds..."
"Fiendishly clever, these Promethean borg," said Ivonovic. "They never bothered cloaking their ships before. Now they never decloak. They used to rely on brute force for everything. Now..."
"King Prometheus has kicked borg evolution into high gear," Johnny observed. "They barely changed for a million years. Then overnight - supersmart borg. The people who are drafted are notified by the nanites beamed directly into their blood. Assimilated slowly - three months to say their goodbyes and pretend they want to go..."
"We’re going to have to assimilate them before they assimilate us,” Ivonovic said grimly. “Or we’re going to have to shut them off.”
“A borg kill switch with a 4,000-year fuse?” Canada asked. “There is no way to create a technology that would endure that long.”
“We are the kill switch, Johnny,” said Ivonovic. “You, me, and the generations who will follow. We’re just going to have to evolve faster than the borg do. It’s assimilate, or be assimilated.”
Johnny Canada sat back in his chair, took a long, slow drink of a sparkling water from a green bottle. “Same as it ever was?”
Ivonovic made an amused noise and nodded: “Same as it ever was.”
28.6 (of 8)
-Will
Is that Boz from Riptide?
-Will
Thanks for the kind words!
The song that produced the quote used in Scene 28.6.
Close to the end of the series now - just two more scenes... And I'm about to post one of them... Thanks!! rbs
Star Trek Hunter
Episode 28: The Covenant
Scene 7: The Captain of the U.S.S. Hunter
28.7
The Captain of the U.S.S. Hunter
The Captain of the U.S.S. Hunter
The captain of the U.S.S. Hunter settled into the captain’s chair. Like his predecessors, he had quickly learned that he wouldn’t get to spend much time in that chair and would have to leave what he considered the fun part of the job largely to his first and second officers and his extremely furry Director of Flight Operations – Lt. Grorher.
But today was special. His first officer, Commander Gaia Gamor, was seated at the navigation station. His second officer, Lt. Commander Moon Sun Salek, stood behind the tactical/communication station. Flight Ops Director Grorher was at the pilot station. There would never be another moment like this.
Hunter’s captain ran a dark blue hand over his hairless, dark blue scalp, then squeezed the back of his neck. A powerfully built Italian admiral was displayed on the viewscreen.
“U.S.S. Hunter, this is Admiral Urban Yasutake, Director of the Office of Judge Advocate General. I assume you have reviewed and understood your orders?”
“Admiral Yasutake, this is the U.S.S. Hunter, Napoleon Boles commanding. We have and it looks like we have our work cut out for us.”
“The JAG fleet is going to be busier than ever in the wake of the war and now with all the vacancies caused by the lottery. You have a long list of pirates to bring in. Good Hunting, Captain Boles. Yasutake out.”
“Thank you sir. Hunter out,” said Captain Boles. The Admiral’s image vanished from the screen. “Commander Gamor – course laid in?”
“Aye Captain,” came the response from the first officer.
“Lieutenant Commander Moon, are we cleared from Starbase Two?”
“We have the all clear, Captain.”
“Lieutenant Grorher, take us to warp 12… Engage!”
28.7 (of 8)
So, it’s almost the end… Goodbye, Hunter. Sail well among the stars and take no crap from any pirate!
I thought it was Thom Bray for a second.
Well, the time lines aren't the same, but since when did that stop two ships and crew from bumping into each other in a ST crossover? Maybe the Vulcan and crew will run into Hunter some day. After all, both are intelligent ships. They might just hit it off.
-Will
-Will
Maybe Edison will too in a alt. timeline.
Fortitude watches where she goes unlike the Titanic.
I'm going to post the AFTERWORD first, then post the final scene with Q on Saturday.
Star Trek Hunter
Afterword
There are far more stories to tell in the Star Trek Hunter universe. About 3 months elapse between episodes 26 and 27 and Episode 27 takes place over a 2-3 month period.
(Update - I wrote this Afterword on April 4, 2020 - a year and a month after writing the first chapter of this story. Since then, I have added another dozen chapters to fill in some holes and provide some foreshadowing. These have been salted into nearly every Episode, but most of the new material was to fill out the Klingon War in Episode 27. The final scene with Q was the last chapter I wrote, posted to my personal blog on February 22, 2021 - about a month before the ST Picard trailer with Picard and Q started running.)
But I have told the big story I wanted to tell - petty wars in the face of impending environmental disaster. The origin and return of the borg. The development of The Doctor from comic relief to become King of the Borg, the most powerful creature in the galaxy. Kenny Dolphin being reunited and reconciled with his daughters. The fall of Minerva Irons, the magnificent deaths of David Pepper and Krull, and most importantly, the redemption and rise of Emory Ivonovic.
I’m not really certain why I wanted to write fan fiction - Star Trek Hunter is my first. As a lifelong Trek fan, I tried to stay as true to cannon as possible, but there are a number of issues (most significantly breaking the warp 10 barrier) where I really set part of the newer cannon aside.
Star Trek Hunter gets into environmental issues, racism and comes down with a fairly heavy dose of ethics and metaphysical philosophy. All of these things are motivational to me, but none of them explain why I whipped myself into writing a story in excess of 370,000 words over the space of a single year - that’s the length of three rather long novels.
I have a deep love of literature and particularly for a clever turn of phrase, so I put a lot of effort into each sentence, trying to describe each scene in detail, create good and realistic feeling dialogue and worked for a humorous turn of phrase as often as possible.
But I think what really drove me was a series of visual and visceral moments I had in my head that I wanted to earn and paint in detailed prose:
So while there is a big story and big issues, I think I really wrote this story for those iconic moments. A series of tableaus that I wanted to bring to life. Moments painted with words.
Amazing that a series of word paintings is what was driving me - but I really think that was it.
Please let me know if you would like to see more stories from the Star Trek Hunter universe.
And THANK YOU so much for reading!!
Thanks!! rbs
Star Trek Hunter
Afterword
Afterword
There are far more stories to tell in the Star Trek Hunter universe. About 3 months elapse between episodes 26 and 27 and Episode 27 takes place over a 2-3 month period.
(Update - I wrote this Afterword on April 4, 2020 - a year and a month after writing the first chapter of this story. Since then, I have added another dozen chapters to fill in some holes and provide some foreshadowing. These have been salted into nearly every Episode, but most of the new material was to fill out the Klingon War in Episode 27. The final scene with Q was the last chapter I wrote, posted to my personal blog on February 22, 2021 - about a month before the ST Picard trailer with Picard and Q started running.)
But I have told the big story I wanted to tell - petty wars in the face of impending environmental disaster. The origin and return of the borg. The development of The Doctor from comic relief to become King of the Borg, the most powerful creature in the galaxy. Kenny Dolphin being reunited and reconciled with his daughters. The fall of Minerva Irons, the magnificent deaths of David Pepper and Krull, and most importantly, the redemption and rise of Emory Ivonovic.
I’m not really certain why I wanted to write fan fiction - Star Trek Hunter is my first. As a lifelong Trek fan, I tried to stay as true to cannon as possible, but there are a number of issues (most significantly breaking the warp 10 barrier) where I really set part of the newer cannon aside.
Star Trek Hunter gets into environmental issues, racism and comes down with a fairly heavy dose of ethics and metaphysical philosophy. All of these things are motivational to me, but none of them explain why I whipped myself into writing a story in excess of 370,000 words over the space of a single year - that’s the length of three rather long novels.
I have a deep love of literature and particularly for a clever turn of phrase, so I put a lot of effort into each sentence, trying to describe each scene in detail, create good and realistic feeling dialogue and worked for a humorous turn of phrase as often as possible.
But I think what really drove me was a series of visual and visceral moments I had in my head that I wanted to earn and paint in detailed prose:
- Commander David Pepper and Krull facing off, silhouetted in front of an angry red sun like something from a samurai painting…
- Justice Minerva Irons calling court to session with a squawking gavel made of mushroom…
- Kenny Dolphin bluffing an Andorian Imperial Guard cruiser out of the sky of its own homemoon…
- Emory Ivonovic crying as he carries the naked, dead, mutilated body of Joey Chin out of th’Istel…
- Four versions of Wesley Crusher getting in each other’s way in the U.S.S. Hunter’s engine room…
- T’Lon gently seducing Kenny Dolphin at the outset of her Pon Farr and throughout the story…
- Malloriah Uhr getting it on with the U.S.S. Hunter’s holographic interactive avatar - to silly 1970’s porno music…
- Investigator Shran shooting up a seedy bar like something out of an andorian western…
- Tauk giving his body to be consumed by Mlady in an act of self sacrifice…
- Hundreds of dead hybrid children floating in the Hudson River…
- Thousands of trill soldiers being systematically and quietly taken prisoner in the fog…
- People being hunted by shadowhounds and sporthogs…
- A terrified Napoleon on an even more terrified romulan moosebear fleeing from advancing borg army (RUN AWAY!!!)…
- The Doctor taking the form of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and uttering a mighty SQUACK…
- Minerva Irons transforming herself into a god before the eyes of a thousand astonished witnesses...
So while there is a big story and big issues, I think I really wrote this story for those iconic moments. A series of tableaus that I wanted to bring to life. Moments painted with words.
Amazing that a series of word paintings is what was driving me - but I really think that was it.
Please let me know if you would like to see more stories from the Star Trek Hunter universe.
And THANK YOU so much for reading!!
Thanks!! rbs
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ST: Hunter has been a great read.
I would love to read more. And, I have to say, I really liked the original crew with Minerva Irons in the captain's office. There was something of a Judge Dredd vibe to the the whole, 24th century mobile court.
It is very hard to take a step backwards to the beginning, when writing a series. Maybe some sort of Reunion sequel, or an alter-ego twin from a parallel dimension on a mission to correct some fundamental imbalance, so the other, younger, Minerva has to cross realities to assemble the Hunters original crew again. The other Minerva will have to supply her own Tauk.
-Will
I would love to read more. And, I have to say, I really liked the original crew with Minerva Irons in the captain's office. There was something of a Judge Dredd vibe to the the whole, 24th century mobile court.
It is very hard to take a step backwards to the beginning, when writing a series. Maybe some sort of Reunion sequel, or an alter-ego twin from a parallel dimension on a mission to correct some fundamental imbalance, so the other, younger, Minerva has to cross realities to assemble the Hunters original crew again. The other Minerva will have to supply her own Tauk.
-Will
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Thanks for the kind words and for enjoying this series! I'm currently writing the Star Beagle Adventures, which takes place in the Hunter Trekverse, but 15 years earlier and almost exclusively outside of Federation territory. I'm writing Episode 7 at the moment and don't plan to start posting them here until Ep. 10 is written and in the bag. CeJay has been helping me with critiques and a few occasional suggestions and good ideas.
Yeah - when I started Hunter, I never imagined it would go beyond a 24th Century flying courtroom presided over by Justice Minerva Dredd... But the story just kind of took off and went its own way and I had no choice but to desperately try to keep up with it. I feel far more like its chronicler than its creator...
And that's kind of how Star Beagle Adventures is starting to feel.
Thanks again to everyone who read, enjoyed and especially those who commented on STH!
One last scene coming up...
Thanks!! rbs
Star Trek Hunter
Episode 28: The Covenant
Scene 8: Shall I Brush Your Teeth For You?
28.8
Shall I Brush Your Teeth For You?
Shall I Brush Your Teeth For You?
Retirement was the best decision Jon-Luc Picard had ever made. He was now far too old to be called on by the borg to repair the hulk. Not that he would ever consider becoming borg again - not even for as noble a cause as preserving humanity.
Opening one of his vintage bottles of wine was enough of a challenge, and his old fingers were having trouble with the task this morning. There were machines that could do this, perfectly, every time. But Picard was stubborn about his human pleasures and if he couldn’t prevent every 5th child of humanity having to go through what he had gone through… Being Locutus…
Of course, with the captain’s fingers still a little fumbly and his mind distracted, the wine bottle took the first opportunity to slip from his grasp and head toward the baked clay tiles of his kitchen floor - where it stopped just seconds before shattering - frozen in mid-air.
“You have grown so clumsy in your dotage.”
It was the most annoying voice the aging retired captain had ever heard. Fingernails on a chalkboard could not even begin to compare. A voice he had not heard for decades. A voice he had less than no desire to ever hear again. Picard turned coldly - like a freezer door opening:
“Q!”
“Yes, Mon Capitan, it is Moi…”
“Was this travesty of your making, Q?” Picard asked. “You were the one who first introduced humanity to the borg. Did you also send this gamma radiation our way? Is this one of your horrible pranks?”
“Alas,” responded the apparently omnipotent prankster, “If only I were so creative. No, the onslaught of gamma radiation into your home that has been on its way for more than a billion years is not my brilliant plan. It is the product of mindless natural forces. Much the same way that you are. But it has been far more amusing than any of my pranks could ever have been.”
“Yes,” Picard responded. “I have no doubt you found all of this mayhem amazingly entertaining. Millions dead - and billions to be enslaved by the borg. Did it never cross your mind to help, Q?”
“Shall I brush your teeth for you every morning?” Q asked. “Would you have humanity bow and scrape before me as their god? And the romulans, the klingons and all the others? Could you even begin to imagine how to sufficiently express your gratitude? Would you trade the slender hope of eventual emancipation from the borg for eternal hopeless slavery to a god?”
Picard walked from the kitchen sink over to his dining room table, pulled out a chair and sat down wearily, put his head in his hands. Took a deep, shuddering breath. “No. No, Q,” he replied without looking up. “No, I would not want humanity enslaved to you.”
“There. You see?” Q walked around the table and pulled up a chair next to Picard. Sat down. Put his hand on the ancient captain’s shoulder. “To tell the truth, Jon-Luc, I did consider intervening. But I am a gracious and kind Q. A magnanimous Q. I chose to be merciful. Your destiny belongs not to the Q Continuum, but to yourselves. And to those mindless natural forces that will destroy you if you fail to adapt to them.”
“Why do I have such a hard time believing you, Q?” Picard asked. He turned to look into the eyes his long-time nemesis.
A sly, familiar smile slowly crept across Q’s face. He squeezed Picard’s shoulder, stood up and walked around the table, then turned back to look at the elderly human. “You always could tell when I was lying to you, Jon-Luc…”
A familiar feeling of horror crept up Picard’s spine. “What did you do, Q?”
“Well, you know the story of how all of this started with Admiral Scumuk learning about the Dead Zone, the Hulk and the ancient Library of the Progenitors?”
“I was briefed. Star Fleet Intelligence sought my advice,” Picard answered.
“Did it ever cross that puny, limited mind of yours to wonder how Admiral Scumuk ended up at that ancient library in the middle of the Dead Zone on the other side of the Romulan Star Empire?”
Picard’s eyes widened.
Q slowly and deliberately smiled, winked and vanished.
For a very long moment, Picard sat at his dining room table, pondering what he had just learned. Had Q actually helped to save humanity? Had Q even been in his kitchen this morning - or was a tired old man just imagining this encounter?
A sudden crashing noise from the kitchen behind him startled the elderly, retired captain from his reverie, causing him to nearly jump out of his skin.
It was the wine bottle shattering on his kitchen floor.
28 – The Covenant
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