I’ve got some regrets about the way things were handled... we could have been much more prepared. But that’s beside the point now: the shadow is about to be lifted. We’re about to meet with destiny... in more ways than one.
Back-up a minute. The script that is linked below is the first half of the premiere episode of a new fan fic/fan script series entitled The Crossing. Crossing is a continuation of the Voyager crew, with the inclusion of the Yuuzhan Vong (gruesome invaders from another galaxy; introduced in Star Wars' New Jedi Order book series) and a handful of Jedi. Before reading, some important back-story must be presented.
(I'm working on writing some of this right now, but it's not done yet... for right now though, a summary will have to suffice)
One year prior to the events of Strange New Worlds, Part 1 - and in replacement to Voyager's as aired finale of Endgame - is a new finale "Running from Time / Walking Through Fire." Voyager receives their latest data stream from earth only to find it empty. Before further investigation can be undertaken, Seven identifies a region of space ahead that seems to be representative of a wormhole. With the crew tied up in finishing repairs after a much needed set down, and much of the senior staff caught up in B'Elanna's labor, Janeway and Chakotay depart in a shuttle to investigate.
Hours go by. Days. No sign of the shuttle, no word. Voyager heads after them to investigate. They find, drifting in space, their shuttle. Inside is a very faint Kathryn Janeway. She is returned to Voyager, and is able to confirm a heavy Borg presence in the space ahead - the shuttle was attacked by them; Janeway was able to force them off the shuttle, but not before they'd taken Chakotay.
To the dismay of the crew, the Doctor finds that he can do nothing to stabilize Janeway's condition and she dies (boy that sounds quite dull as I've described it). As the Doctor records her death in the computer, a figure materializes in Sickbay who identifies himself as Ry, Voyager's new Captain.
Ry, who looks to be a human about 15 years old to the Voyager crew, announces that he was sent by Starfleet Command as a test of a means to transport biological material over great distances, and that he - similar to Kes - ages much differently than humans; his species lives to be quite old. This hardly answers the questions the Voyager crew has - what happened to Chakotay? How did Starfleet know they'd need a new Captain? Why do they need a new Captain at all when adequate crew members are present on Voyager? Why didn't Starfleet let them know about it?
Ry doesn't give them a chance; he immediately swings into action and leads Voyager toward the Borg. Arrival to their installation reveals a massive constructed wormhole. Readings indicate that it leads to the Alpha Quadrant but is destabilizing. Faced with trying to find and rescue Chakotay and a possible way home, Ry leads a reluctant Voyager through the wormhole as it falls apart behind them.
Rocked by the ride, Voyager's crew awakes to find themselves slowly drifting into the Sol system. Engine power is coaxed as they head in and arrive in Earth orbit, but not the Earth they were expecting: no sign of Starfleet or advanced technology of any kind. Investigation leads them to find out that they've been delivered, through time, to the 21st Century.
Utilizing the same technique that Captain Picard used to return to the 24th Century after experiencing First Contact, Voyager opens a quantum singularity only to pass right through it. The Doctor learns that Voyager and her crew have been infected with a temporal particle (further explanation coming when this gets actually written), a side effect of the Borg's malfunctioning wormhole, and it causes temporal singularities and other means of returning home to pass through or by Voyager as if it didn't exist. However, they can communicate with their present and inform Starfleet of their situation. It is through this that they learn they're in an alternate universe (Starfleet has recorded no temporal distortions and Tom Paris reports earth as being nothing like it should be) - it isn't their past, not anything like the past they know - it is some strange other universe. With no other option, Ry and the crew come to the realization that they're stuck in the 21st century. They got home... it's just not the one they were expecting; but their adventure has barely begun...
That concludes the Voyager finale - which would lead into the equivalent of a "TV Movie" story to act as a bridge from one series to the other.
It has been a few months since Voyager was stranded in the 21st Century. Many of the crew have begun scientific exploration of Earth of this time frame, including Ry himself who has utilized his young appearance to infiltrate a small high school and study the population. In an effort to help understand this time period more, and to fill a few caps in the crew roster, Ry decides to recruit three promising students from this school: Mark Collins, Aaron Hall, and Rachel Tyrese.
Although framed around two attacks from the Borg (who clearly used their own wormhole prior to it's destruction), the TV movie primarily serves to introduce us to these new characters, and introduce them to Voyager. After the second attack a few months later, Ry officially welcomes them into the crew; Rachel moves to study medicine with the Doctor and Aaron works in Engineering under B'Elanna Torres. Both of them are granted a field commission of Ensign. Mark elects to follow the Operations track and at the promotion ceremony is quite surprised to find Ry giving him a rank of Lieutenant and places him in charge of Operations.
This, obviously, provokes quite a protest from the Voyager Senior Staff - most of whom haven't been promoted very often over the last 7 years, certainly not skipping that many rungs on the ladder of command at once. Harry Kim especially is confused since Ry essentially just gave away his job. Ry feigns absent-mindedness and notes that due to continued lack of a first officer, he has decided to fill that spot with Harry.
How can a man who, by his own admission, doesn't know the Voyager crew nearly as well as he should, come in and so violently shake things up and throw out Starfleet policy in terms of promotion out the window? Not to mention the number of answers he still has refused to provide to the Voyager crew.
All that backstory aside, it'll eventually get written in what I hope will be a quite much more dramatic means and equally hope iron out some of the plot holes/stretches. So if you're still with me after, please enjoy:
1.01 - Strange New Worlds, Part 1
I'll assume that you stopped at the link to read the PDF (or, alternatively, stopped long before the link and certainly haven't come back to read this part of the post) and have just finished. Well, I hope you enjoyed - I'd love any feedback you might have... there's a lot of things going on that aren't clear yet, by any means.
I should note that the above is still a draft - I just caught another typo tonight, and until I write the two stories that precede it (the Voyager finale and TV Movie), I can't call it final draft -- after I write those I can come back and revise this episode to make sure all the details still mesh. So it has a few issues. Although likely less than I expect in my ever pessimistic view of the world.
Should your interest be peaked to keep reading, hooray for me and hooray for you - 1.02 (SNW, Part 2) is completely, 03 is in progress from my other writer, and I recently finished 04 (Balance). Personally I'm in mid-draft of the Voyager finale and have a rough sketch for episode 5.
If your interest be really peaked, I'm always after new writers - I'd love to invite more and more people on board to help write episodes faster and also further improve my vision of this world and the characters - I have a pretty extensive bible written that outlines the overall arc of the story, but this is quite organic and fluid and is already adapting with some create ideas that the other writer on board has brought to the table.
Thanks for reading!
Back-up a minute. The script that is linked below is the first half of the premiere episode of a new fan fic/fan script series entitled The Crossing. Crossing is a continuation of the Voyager crew, with the inclusion of the Yuuzhan Vong (gruesome invaders from another galaxy; introduced in Star Wars' New Jedi Order book series) and a handful of Jedi. Before reading, some important back-story must be presented.
(I'm working on writing some of this right now, but it's not done yet... for right now though, a summary will have to suffice)
One year prior to the events of Strange New Worlds, Part 1 - and in replacement to Voyager's as aired finale of Endgame - is a new finale "Running from Time / Walking Through Fire." Voyager receives their latest data stream from earth only to find it empty. Before further investigation can be undertaken, Seven identifies a region of space ahead that seems to be representative of a wormhole. With the crew tied up in finishing repairs after a much needed set down, and much of the senior staff caught up in B'Elanna's labor, Janeway and Chakotay depart in a shuttle to investigate.
Hours go by. Days. No sign of the shuttle, no word. Voyager heads after them to investigate. They find, drifting in space, their shuttle. Inside is a very faint Kathryn Janeway. She is returned to Voyager, and is able to confirm a heavy Borg presence in the space ahead - the shuttle was attacked by them; Janeway was able to force them off the shuttle, but not before they'd taken Chakotay.
To the dismay of the crew, the Doctor finds that he can do nothing to stabilize Janeway's condition and she dies (boy that sounds quite dull as I've described it). As the Doctor records her death in the computer, a figure materializes in Sickbay who identifies himself as Ry, Voyager's new Captain.
Ry, who looks to be a human about 15 years old to the Voyager crew, announces that he was sent by Starfleet Command as a test of a means to transport biological material over great distances, and that he - similar to Kes - ages much differently than humans; his species lives to be quite old. This hardly answers the questions the Voyager crew has - what happened to Chakotay? How did Starfleet know they'd need a new Captain? Why do they need a new Captain at all when adequate crew members are present on Voyager? Why didn't Starfleet let them know about it?
Ry doesn't give them a chance; he immediately swings into action and leads Voyager toward the Borg. Arrival to their installation reveals a massive constructed wormhole. Readings indicate that it leads to the Alpha Quadrant but is destabilizing. Faced with trying to find and rescue Chakotay and a possible way home, Ry leads a reluctant Voyager through the wormhole as it falls apart behind them.
Rocked by the ride, Voyager's crew awakes to find themselves slowly drifting into the Sol system. Engine power is coaxed as they head in and arrive in Earth orbit, but not the Earth they were expecting: no sign of Starfleet or advanced technology of any kind. Investigation leads them to find out that they've been delivered, through time, to the 21st Century.
Utilizing the same technique that Captain Picard used to return to the 24th Century after experiencing First Contact, Voyager opens a quantum singularity only to pass right through it. The Doctor learns that Voyager and her crew have been infected with a temporal particle (further explanation coming when this gets actually written), a side effect of the Borg's malfunctioning wormhole, and it causes temporal singularities and other means of returning home to pass through or by Voyager as if it didn't exist. However, they can communicate with their present and inform Starfleet of their situation. It is through this that they learn they're in an alternate universe (Starfleet has recorded no temporal distortions and Tom Paris reports earth as being nothing like it should be) - it isn't their past, not anything like the past they know - it is some strange other universe. With no other option, Ry and the crew come to the realization that they're stuck in the 21st century. They got home... it's just not the one they were expecting; but their adventure has barely begun...
That concludes the Voyager finale - which would lead into the equivalent of a "TV Movie" story to act as a bridge from one series to the other.
It has been a few months since Voyager was stranded in the 21st Century. Many of the crew have begun scientific exploration of Earth of this time frame, including Ry himself who has utilized his young appearance to infiltrate a small high school and study the population. In an effort to help understand this time period more, and to fill a few caps in the crew roster, Ry decides to recruit three promising students from this school: Mark Collins, Aaron Hall, and Rachel Tyrese.
Although framed around two attacks from the Borg (who clearly used their own wormhole prior to it's destruction), the TV movie primarily serves to introduce us to these new characters, and introduce them to Voyager. After the second attack a few months later, Ry officially welcomes them into the crew; Rachel moves to study medicine with the Doctor and Aaron works in Engineering under B'Elanna Torres. Both of them are granted a field commission of Ensign. Mark elects to follow the Operations track and at the promotion ceremony is quite surprised to find Ry giving him a rank of Lieutenant and places him in charge of Operations.
This, obviously, provokes quite a protest from the Voyager Senior Staff - most of whom haven't been promoted very often over the last 7 years, certainly not skipping that many rungs on the ladder of command at once. Harry Kim especially is confused since Ry essentially just gave away his job. Ry feigns absent-mindedness and notes that due to continued lack of a first officer, he has decided to fill that spot with Harry.
How can a man who, by his own admission, doesn't know the Voyager crew nearly as well as he should, come in and so violently shake things up and throw out Starfleet policy in terms of promotion out the window? Not to mention the number of answers he still has refused to provide to the Voyager crew.
All that backstory aside, it'll eventually get written in what I hope will be a quite much more dramatic means and equally hope iron out some of the plot holes/stretches. So if you're still with me after, please enjoy:
1.01 - Strange New Worlds, Part 1
I'll assume that you stopped at the link to read the PDF (or, alternatively, stopped long before the link and certainly haven't come back to read this part of the post) and have just finished. Well, I hope you enjoyed - I'd love any feedback you might have... there's a lot of things going on that aren't clear yet, by any means.
I should note that the above is still a draft - I just caught another typo tonight, and until I write the two stories that precede it (the Voyager finale and TV Movie), I can't call it final draft -- after I write those I can come back and revise this episode to make sure all the details still mesh. So it has a few issues. Although likely less than I expect in my ever pessimistic view of the world.
Should your interest be peaked to keep reading, hooray for me and hooray for you - 1.02 (SNW, Part 2) is completely, 03 is in progress from my other writer, and I recently finished 04 (Balance). Personally I'm in mid-draft of the Voyager finale and have a rough sketch for episode 5.
If your interest be really peaked, I'm always after new writers - I'd love to invite more and more people on board to help write episodes faster and also further improve my vision of this world and the characters - I have a pretty extensive bible written that outlines the overall arc of the story, but this is quite organic and fluid and is already adapting with some create ideas that the other writer on board has brought to the table.
Thanks for reading!
