Voyager and the Convergence
It was an ordinary day aboard Voyager. The starship was on course for the Alpha Quadrant at Warp 8. It had been over two weeks since they left Lokrrim space. In Astrometrics, Seven of Nine was scanning the region ahead...
Something wasn't right. “Computer, re-run latest analysis,” Seven commanded.
“Affirmative.”
30 seconds later, the computer redisplayed the sensor data. Seven was now sure. Voyager was headed straight towards something strange. “Seven of Nine to Captain Janeway. Please report to Astrometrics.”
Captain Kathryn Janeway looked over the data on the screen a second time. There was no doubt. There was a strange phenomenon directly in her ship's path to the Alpha Quadrant. “Distance: 1 light year at the closest edge. Time to intercept; 8 hours, 24 minutes at current speed.”
“So, far I have just used the passive scanners, but what I've found so far is disturbing.”
It wasn't often that Seven of Nine described a phenomenon as disturbing. “Disruptions in Space-time,” the Captain stated as she looked over the data.
“A spherical region 40 light years in diameter, centred on a G-type star which is almost certain to have at least one M-class planet in it's habitable zone,” Seven said, as she manipulated the visual data on the screen, highlighting the star in question.
The captain noted that the computer had already added the star to the automatic catalogue of stars observed during their journey. “Does the region show any signs of expansion?”
“Yes,” Seven answered. She focused the relevant data on the screen. “It is expanding at the Speed of Light. Which is why I'm hesitant to use the active sensors.”
“You're afraid that using the active sensors would trigger expansion through subspace?”
“Yes. I strongly recommend keeping our distance,” Seven said. She input another few commands and a course projection appeared on the screen.
“An additional two weeks to our journey?”
“Twelve days, ten hours, to be more exact,” Seven said.
The captain thought for a moment. Something told her that this phenomenon needed to be investigated further. But then there was a hail from the bridge. “Bridge to Captain Janeway, Intruder alert, Code Blue.”
“Not again,” the captain groused.
“Maybe, there is more to this phenomenon than there appears,” Seven said.
The Captain tapped her commbadge “I'll be right there.”
“They're in the Mess Mall.”
Tuvok and two other security officers were in the Mess Hall, where the TARDIS had materialised. It looked different to the other time the Doctor and Voyager had crossed paths. She could see that it was a different version of the Doctor also. “Captain Janeway! Nice to see you again,” he said.
She got straight to business. “I guess there is a reason why you're here again.”
“Very astute, that's what I like about you.”
“And that reason is?”
“You have just discovered a strange phenomenon, haven't you?” the Doctor asked.
“I think you know the answer to that question.”
“A spherical region with a radius of 20 light years showing signs of interdimensional disturbances. You were pondering whether to investigate further.”
“Correct,” Janeway said. “Is there any reason why I shouldn't?”
“No, you shouldn't,” the Doctor said. “Not right away.”
“Otherwise the phenomenon will expand back along our path,” Janeway said.
“Yes.”
“I'll have to confer with my officers.”
“Of course.”
Ten minutes later, the officers, the Doctor and his two travelling companions were in the Observation Lounge. The Doctor introduced his companions, and then got to business.
“Before you ask; yes, I have encountered something like this before,” he said.
“So it should be easy to deal with, right?” Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres asked.
The Doctor scoffed. “Define 'easy'. The one I dealt with hadn't existed as long as this one has. I found out later that the effect had propagated back through the Vortex to places I had been just before-hand.”
“So, dealing with this phenomenon would be more difficult?” Commander Chakotay asked.
“Yes,” the Doctor answered.
“Of course,” Janeway said. “You would have to give us more evidence, rather than your anecdote about how you combated something like this.”
“Of course, Captain,” the Doctor responded. “That's one reason why I brought Thor along. He has also experienced a phenomenon like this,” the Doctor said. He indicated one of his companions. A blonde male with long hair.
“Thanks, Doctor. I was wondering when you would get to that,” Thor said.
“And you were involved with this kind of phenomenon also?” Janeway asked.
“Yes. It turned out that Asgard got affected via the Bifrost after I arrived.”
“Bifrost. As in the Bifrost bridge?” Tom Paris asked.
“Yes,” the Doctor answered. “It's like your transporter, except with a wormhole and intergalactic range.”
“Right,” Tom said.
“And I brought the information that my people recorded when Asgard got affected,” Thor added.
B'Elanna Torres finished interfacing the Asgardian data storage device to a desktop unit with Seven and the Time Lord's help. “It should work now,” the Doctor said, as he withdrew his sonic device, which B'Elanna was rather sure was a Time Lord version of a tricorder.
Seven pressed a few buttons and some of the data displayed on the screen.“It matches the data in Astrometrics,” she said, simply.
“Look closer,” the Doctor directed.
“Of course,” Seven said.
“That's impossible,” Seven noted after looking through the Asgardian data again.
“It's not impossible,” the Doctor said.
“What is it?” Janeway asked.
“Interdimensional disturbances, Captain.” Seven answered.
“A device that caused a multiversial merge when activated,” the Doctor explained. “Only it does so gradually.”
“Only, it seems this one is much further advanced than the one I dealt with,” Thor added.
“So, it causes, what exactly?” B'Elanna asked.
“Overlaps between one universe and another,” the Doctor explained. “When Voyager enters we will find ourselves occasionally overlapping with other Voyagers.”
“That reminds me of something,” Harry Kim said.
“Your experience with the subspace divergence field?” Seven asked.
“Yes.”
“Could you fill us in,” Clara asked.
“Five years ago, Voyager entered a subspace divergence field...” Janeway began.
“Interesting,” the Doctor commented. “This is a similar phenomenon,” he said to Kim, “But there are differences. Which is why we need to prepare.”
“What do we suggest we do first, Doctor?” Janeway asked.
“First, we'll warp to a 0.08 of a light year of the current position of the edge of the phenomenon and proceed at impulse power until it catches up to us,” he answered.
“And we'll use the time to prepare?” Janeway asked.
“Yes.”
“Over a month,” Kim considered. “We've taken this long.”
Janeway made her decision. “That is what we shall do.”
It was an ordinary day aboard Voyager. The starship was on course for the Alpha Quadrant at Warp 8. It had been over two weeks since they left Lokrrim space. In Astrometrics, Seven of Nine was scanning the region ahead...
Something wasn't right. “Computer, re-run latest analysis,” Seven commanded.
“Affirmative.”
30 seconds later, the computer redisplayed the sensor data. Seven was now sure. Voyager was headed straight towards something strange. “Seven of Nine to Captain Janeway. Please report to Astrometrics.”
Captain Kathryn Janeway looked over the data on the screen a second time. There was no doubt. There was a strange phenomenon directly in her ship's path to the Alpha Quadrant. “Distance: 1 light year at the closest edge. Time to intercept; 8 hours, 24 minutes at current speed.”
“So, far I have just used the passive scanners, but what I've found so far is disturbing.”
It wasn't often that Seven of Nine described a phenomenon as disturbing. “Disruptions in Space-time,” the Captain stated as she looked over the data.
“A spherical region 40 light years in diameter, centred on a G-type star which is almost certain to have at least one M-class planet in it's habitable zone,” Seven said, as she manipulated the visual data on the screen, highlighting the star in question.
The captain noted that the computer had already added the star to the automatic catalogue of stars observed during their journey. “Does the region show any signs of expansion?”
“Yes,” Seven answered. She focused the relevant data on the screen. “It is expanding at the Speed of Light. Which is why I'm hesitant to use the active sensors.”
“You're afraid that using the active sensors would trigger expansion through subspace?”
“Yes. I strongly recommend keeping our distance,” Seven said. She input another few commands and a course projection appeared on the screen.
“An additional two weeks to our journey?”
“Twelve days, ten hours, to be more exact,” Seven said.
The captain thought for a moment. Something told her that this phenomenon needed to be investigated further. But then there was a hail from the bridge. “Bridge to Captain Janeway, Intruder alert, Code Blue.”
“Not again,” the captain groused.
“Maybe, there is more to this phenomenon than there appears,” Seven said.
The Captain tapped her commbadge “I'll be right there.”
“They're in the Mess Mall.”
Tuvok and two other security officers were in the Mess Hall, where the TARDIS had materialised. It looked different to the other time the Doctor and Voyager had crossed paths. She could see that it was a different version of the Doctor also. “Captain Janeway! Nice to see you again,” he said.
She got straight to business. “I guess there is a reason why you're here again.”
“Very astute, that's what I like about you.”
“And that reason is?”
“You have just discovered a strange phenomenon, haven't you?” the Doctor asked.
“I think you know the answer to that question.”
“A spherical region with a radius of 20 light years showing signs of interdimensional disturbances. You were pondering whether to investigate further.”
“Correct,” Janeway said. “Is there any reason why I shouldn't?”
“No, you shouldn't,” the Doctor said. “Not right away.”
“Otherwise the phenomenon will expand back along our path,” Janeway said.
“Yes.”
“I'll have to confer with my officers.”
“Of course.”
Ten minutes later, the officers, the Doctor and his two travelling companions were in the Observation Lounge. The Doctor introduced his companions, and then got to business.
“Before you ask; yes, I have encountered something like this before,” he said.
“So it should be easy to deal with, right?” Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres asked.
The Doctor scoffed. “Define 'easy'. The one I dealt with hadn't existed as long as this one has. I found out later that the effect had propagated back through the Vortex to places I had been just before-hand.”
“So, dealing with this phenomenon would be more difficult?” Commander Chakotay asked.
“Yes,” the Doctor answered.
“Of course,” Janeway said. “You would have to give us more evidence, rather than your anecdote about how you combated something like this.”
“Of course, Captain,” the Doctor responded. “That's one reason why I brought Thor along. He has also experienced a phenomenon like this,” the Doctor said. He indicated one of his companions. A blonde male with long hair.
“Thanks, Doctor. I was wondering when you would get to that,” Thor said.
“And you were involved with this kind of phenomenon also?” Janeway asked.
“Yes. It turned out that Asgard got affected via the Bifrost after I arrived.”
“Bifrost. As in the Bifrost bridge?” Tom Paris asked.
“Yes,” the Doctor answered. “It's like your transporter, except with a wormhole and intergalactic range.”
“Right,” Tom said.
“And I brought the information that my people recorded when Asgard got affected,” Thor added.
B'Elanna Torres finished interfacing the Asgardian data storage device to a desktop unit with Seven and the Time Lord's help. “It should work now,” the Doctor said, as he withdrew his sonic device, which B'Elanna was rather sure was a Time Lord version of a tricorder.
Seven pressed a few buttons and some of the data displayed on the screen.“It matches the data in Astrometrics,” she said, simply.
“Look closer,” the Doctor directed.
“Of course,” Seven said.
“That's impossible,” Seven noted after looking through the Asgardian data again.
“It's not impossible,” the Doctor said.
“What is it?” Janeway asked.
“Interdimensional disturbances, Captain.” Seven answered.
“A device that caused a multiversial merge when activated,” the Doctor explained. “Only it does so gradually.”
“Only, it seems this one is much further advanced than the one I dealt with,” Thor added.
“So, it causes, what exactly?” B'Elanna asked.
“Overlaps between one universe and another,” the Doctor explained. “When Voyager enters we will find ourselves occasionally overlapping with other Voyagers.”
“That reminds me of something,” Harry Kim said.
“Your experience with the subspace divergence field?” Seven asked.
“Yes.”
“Could you fill us in,” Clara asked.
“Five years ago, Voyager entered a subspace divergence field...” Janeway began.
“Interesting,” the Doctor commented. “This is a similar phenomenon,” he said to Kim, “But there are differences. Which is why we need to prepare.”
“What do we suggest we do first, Doctor?” Janeway asked.
“First, we'll warp to a 0.08 of a light year of the current position of the edge of the phenomenon and proceed at impulse power until it catches up to us,” he answered.
“And we'll use the time to prepare?” Janeway asked.
“Yes.”
“Over a month,” Kim considered. “We've taken this long.”
Janeway made her decision. “That is what we shall do.”
