From andeagle@execpc.comFri Jun 2 12:45:21 1995 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 00:43:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Andy Eagleson To: babylon5-creative@netcom.com Subject: TEST! [The following text is in the "ISO=88599-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] Several of you complained about mast last posting of a story calles STAR TREK: The Third Age of Man Kind: UNIFICATION. Somthing about it being in the wrong format. Well I am reposting it in a different format and its been proofread so it *SHOULD* be free of errors. Not it looks diffrent from the first. So here we go . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /컴컴컴컴커旼컴컴컴왯컴컴커旼컴커 旼컴컴컴왯컴컴� 旼컴왯컴� /컴/ � 旼컴컴컴牡컴� 旼켸� 납 � 읕커 旼켸� � � 컴엿 � /',/ � � � � � 旼� 납 旼� � � � � 旼� 납 컴冒 �/' / � 읕컴컴\ 읕� 읕� 읕牡켸 읕� 읕� 읕� 읕牡컴켸� \, \컴컴커 넬컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴엿 / \ \, � 납T H E T H I R D A G E O F M A N K I N D납 � '\ \ 旼컴컴컴컴� 냅컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴冒 � '\ '\ 읕컴컴컴컴컴/ Written by Andrew Lawrence Eagleson 읕켸 '\컴\ -=�| U N I F I C A T I O N |�=- ABOUT THE STORY: Okay, this is my first real attempt to write a story about anything. I should warn you that I will not Proofread the Story until I am entirley done with it. I will give it to you in parts though. I am not sure how many parts, but it will be in parts. A request to Akosut since he will probably want to put my story on his WWW page (I think he already has) that when I finish each story ( All eight will take all year probably ) he replace the parts of the story with the entire story. This is the FIRST story out of eight stories. It is a Crossover between Star TreK and BABYLON 5 (Gee how original ) it is not meant to state that one is better than the other. It is a SERIOUS story not a PARODY. It is not meant to be funny. A word of warning. I am a terrible Speller and am bad at grammar. It will be proof read when I FINISH the story not the seperate parts! CHAPTER 1: The Flagship I shot a quick glance at Data as though I didn't believe what he had just heard."Are you saying" Riker said Half laughing "That you tried to give Spot a bath?". I heard Data responded in his usual innocent tone "I had surmised since cats like to keep themselves clean, that I would do a better more efficient job myself and that Spot would feel better" I guess Riker couldn't help himself anymore and laughed out loud. It was ridiculous. Everyone knows that you don't give cats baths. But of course unless you tell Data otherwise he thinks he can do it,"Didn't it occur to you that spot didn't like the water when he tried to get away?" "I thought Spot merely didn't like to be held. She rarely does" Data responded. I was totally amazed at this, I never thought Data would ever do this. You would never think such a sophisticated individual would ever have such a hard time with such a small cute creature as a cat. Riker shot in,"Maybe you should get a tribble instead. If you have it fixed it would be a cute furry little creature that wouldn't claw your furniture" He was obviously enjoying himself too much. And so was I. This week had been dreadful for me. We had been surveying the Dela-Segma-inus Sector for the last 6 days. It was not a fun job. I had nothing but reports and statistics to look at. But then I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Something I had dreaded all day. "Captain" She exclaimed,"How long are you going to put this off?" Crusher was never one to mince words with people. She liked a straight forward approach to everything. I tried to out on a confused innocent look on my face, "Put what off, Beverly?". I didn't think this would work, however. A look of pure anger shot across her face. She didn't like that response and said, "You know damn well what I am talking about" I was trapped with nowhere to go. No more reports to read. No more strategies to plan. No more excuses... "Oh yes. The Medical Exam. You know very well I haven't had time lately". I didn't think that this would work either. She almost laughed at this. But quickly turned cold" You haven't had enough time. I think you could have made some time. Its only 2 months overdue". Had it really been two months? I hadn't kept track. I never did. I always put it off as long as possible. Hoped it would go away. It never did. I don't know why I just didn't get it over with. I guess it was in the back of my mind that one day she would just give up on me and let it go at that. But obviously not today. She was intent on making me go through with this. "Fine. Doctor. I will go now. But I am doing this under protest". A smile arose on her face. And she deserved it. Its not just any doctor who can humble the captain of the flagship of the federation. In fact a took a special breed of doctor. Someone like her. CHAPTER 2: All alone in the night! *BeeP* *BeeP*. The chime brought me out of my train of thought. I was about 7:00 at night and it had been a hard day. First Molari and G'Kar got into an argument that of course lead to a fight and so on. I, since Ivonova was gone, had to take on the mission of once again establishing peace. Not a fun task. At least Ivonova was due back tonight. So I could get some relief! "Captain Sheridan. I have a Message from senator Brats. He wants to talk to you right away". Uh oh. For the last to weeks I had bean working on trade negotiations between the Centari and the League of non-Aligned Worlds. It was the worst week in the history of my command. But somehow I had managed to muddle through. "Patch him through to my room." I said, as a certain fear rose in my stomach. This was not going to be fun. "Captain, you are two weeks late on getting your report in" Brats said in a professional angry voice. "I know that Senator, as you may have noted we are quite busy arou..." "I DON'T CARE HOW BUSY YOUR ARE!" He cut in as though I didn't exist. He really likes his reports. I am not sure what he does with them. But I guess he likes all those interesting stats at his fingertips to play with. "Yes sir I will have it done as soon as possible" I said this only to keep him from beaming me with another angry statement. Although he didn't like me that much, he knew full well what this station meant and what I did for it. I guess he just likes to keep me informed that he is in control of me. Or so he thinks. "You had better have that report ready. Captain. and on time. I am giving you 2 days to complete it. Is that understood?" His tone of voice got really cold here. "Yes Senator I understand perfectly well. Sheridan out!". I quickly pressed the button to cut the transmission not giving him time to bark at me some more. I saw the look on his face when I did it, too. Oh, I wouldn't want to be his secretary now. I don't think anyone would. I crawled back into bed and lost myself back into the dream I was having before this happened. I thought I couldn't do it after that but I soon found where I was and lost myself there! CHAPTER 3: The anomaly. "Doctor I don't see why all these tests are necessary. I am in perfect health and I don't need to have you poke and prod me in spots I never knew I had." Now this was getting ridiculous. I had been here over 3 hours getting hoards of instruments pointed at me and being poked and prodded as though I where some sort of animal! "Shut up Juan-Luke. I am sick of your whining. If you need it I will get you your own personal Teddy Bear to keep you company while I do these tests. So if you want one just say so". That shut me up real quick. The one thing I hated about Dr. Crusher is that she new how to handle me. She new how to get me to talk. She new how to get me down here and worst of all how to shut me up. Life is not fair when it comes to these things. "That will be unnecessary doctor I am perfectly fine". She new she had won another round with me. And I knew for the next 30 minutes I would have to be quiet or she would go replicate a Teddy bear and give it to me. But it was then I was saved. "Captain Picard". It was Riker's voice. I never wanted to hear it more so than now. "Picard here. Was is it Number One?". I didn't care what it was, really. All I knew was that it was probably going to provide a way to escape from the confines of sickbay. "We have a message from Star Fleet command." A message, well... it's always proper for the captain to receive messages for the ship. How convenient. "I will take it in my ready room.". I was free right then and there and Doctor Crusher knew it. "Well Doctor. I guess I will have to leaving sickbay after all. Can't leave StarFleet waiting on me now, can I." I was really enjoying this. "No Captain I guess you can't. However I expect you down here right after the message." That was a useless order of course. "I will if I can Doctor" I left quicker than I ever had. I never knew that Sickbay had an odor to it until I left it and rediscovered what the real ship smelled like. Incredible. I hurried of to my ready room Hoping Dr. Crusher wasn't following me. When I got to my ready room there was a smiling Admiral there to greet me on my console view screen. It wasn't sure who this Admiral was. I had never met him before. Not that it mattered. An Admiral was okay as long he knew his business and he knew mine. "What can I do for you Admiral.." He interrupted "Delphine, Captain.. Admiral Delphine" I continued "Admiral Delphine. Yes." He responded with a smile that almost seemed too fake to believe. "Star Fleet has picked up a Spacial Anomaly in the Epsilon System. We want the Enterprise to go investigate it". I was stunned. The epsilon System was over 1.500 light years from here. That was over a days travel at warp 9 right in the heart of federation space. About 50 light years from earth in fact. Why did he want us to go there. "Admiral this is a little strange. It will take us at least a day and a half to get us there. Its kinda a long way to travel for a mere Spacial Anomaly. Aren't there any other ships that can do just a good of job as us?" I was Confused now after my statement. "Well this one is different. A probe actually came through this one. We aren't sure but it looks like a probe from a less advanced Civilization. And using a different type of technology". He said this in a Star Fleet drudgery tone of voice. "I see Admiral. This may turn out to be very interesting. I will set course at once. Oh and what are my orders if Life is encountered?" I asked "First Contact situation. As usual captain" He said "Yes sir. Enterprise out" The Federation Logo appeared on the screen. I was almost kinda getting sick of it. I should take Data up on the offer to replace it with a new Picture. I walked out onto the bridge seeing Rikers ever so curious face. "We have been ordered to investigate a spacial Anomaly in the Epsilon sector. Apparently they have detected signs of life there", I said Riker responded in a curious tone "That's less than 50 light years from Earth" "I know. But that is Star Fleet's orders and I intend to follow them" I responded in a dutiful but subtle voice. Riker really didn't mind that we where to be so close to earth. Maybe he would have time to Visit Centari 4, a great vacation spot near earth. And the Narn system wasn't far from there either, and, of course, my favorite is the Excavation sight on Captran 4. It was one of the first evidences we had of the ancient Minbari Empire. Compared to the Government's today it was nothing but they had controlled space up to the Epsilon sector over to the Vor sector. In fact we aren't even sure how they got that far in the first place. There has been no evidence of that they ever achieved Warp Technoligy. I heard the Infamous beeping that woke me up every morning. I looked over at my clock and noticed it was not time to get up. In fact it was much earlier. That meant I got a call on my Linkup: "Sheridan here!" I said! "Captain" She said " We have picked up a disturbance in section 34" Epsilon section 34. That was by the next planet away from the sun. Not too far from here... about a 12 hour trip via StarFury! "What kind of Disturbance?" I asked puzzled. I heard some typing going on in the background. She was busy at work. "I can't get a clear reading captain. Request permission to send a Starfury out to investigate it" She said. I replied. "Go ahead. I want report every 2 hours or if anything happens" "Yes sir. C&C out" And with a blip the comlink went dead. A disturbance could mean anything from an Asteriod to a battle or even the uncommon Unexplained Phenomena. Probably it was some stupid pilot that can't keep his or her engine balanced and was disrupting our sensors. The Enterprise slowed down. You could see the streaks of light that were stars get ever slower and slower. It finally stopped and the Enterprise was sublight! "Full Sensor Scan" I ordered. "We have located the Anomaly sir. Its near the planet Epsilon 8." Data replied almost immedaitly. He always was ahead of me on such things and very quick in his Duty! "Excellent set course for the Anomaly. Full Impulse back off at Half Impulse when we are about 100,000 K. from it"I said! The Ensign replied in a fake tone of respect that was fresh out of the Academy, "Yes sir!" The Enterprise moved forward. It took about 15 minutes to get there but when we got there I saw what appeared to be a big hole in space. "Theory. Could this be a wormhole?" Data again was first to respond, "Unlikely. Captain. There are no Nuetrino Traces that would Indicate a wormhole" I pondered this. Thought about it for a while longer. "Move us in closer about 50,000 k. Let's get a close range scan on it. Mr. Data keep an Eye on the sensor reading to make sure its safe" "Yes sir" And we were off. The Hole grew bigger in the view screen. All in all it wasn't really that big. But this ship could easily go through it. We got to about 30,000 K. when the Ship lurched forward. "Status Report" I quickly Ordered! "Shields down to 50%. No Apparent Damage but we are being Dragged into the Anomaly" Worf said while Busily Checking his systems! "Mr. Dragor ( the ensign at the helm ), give us full impulse reverse" He seemed to go white. This must have been his first real bridge duty emergency! The ship started to go into reverse but the Hole was still dragging us toward it. I thought of warp power but that would tear the ship apart. So a gave the only order I could, " All decks brace for acceleration". At that I ordered the Ensign to stop the reverse impulse and off we went into the Anomaly. It appeared to be a giant tunnel with whitish, greyish walls. Kind of a cloud type of effect similar to a wormhole. But suddenly it changed colors and was red. Right then my sightseeing stopped when I became aware of bridge reports coming from all sides of me. "Shields have failed. Aux Power is not responding." "Life Support has failed. We are completely powerless captain" This did not sound very good. Whatever it was we were travelling through didn't like any of our ships systems. But as quickly as it started it was over. We were on the other side of the thing. "Status" I yelled over the commotion of the bridge! "All systems are coming back online, captain. Minor Damage only reported on decks 6,7, and 8 sir" Worf Barked. I saw his hands busy at his controls tying to make sense out of all of this. God only knows what was going on. "Captain. Sensors are picking up another ship. Very small. A one man vessel". Worf said. "On screen" I said back to him. It was small. A one man vessel. It had four wing like extensions shaped in a x. On the end of the wings are what appeared to be rocket engines of some sort. "What is its Weapons Status" I ordered. "Minimal. Captain. It has Plasma Projectiles and that's it. Apparently a fighter of some sort. But also Multipurpose. Its structure suggests primitive design using simple alloys and polgrams. Oee man crew aboard travelling at about 720 kph." 720 KPH!. That was not very fast at all. But where did it come from! "Captain, we are receiving a tachyon pulse from the ship. It could be some kind of Signal". Tachyon Beams where considered for use as communications but was abandoned due to the discovery of Subspace which is much more efficient. "Can we convert sensors to pick up the Tachyon pulse" I asked. "Yes sir modifying now" he responded! The sound jumbled a little bit and fizzled out but then it came and a voice started becoming clearer and clearer until it was perfectly readable. "This is the Earth Force pilot Luetinet Peckman. Please identify yourselfs" he said in a not so confident voice! Earth Force. I never heard of earth force. Could this be a trap? We had gone through the Anomaly but were we in another dimension? "This is Captain John-Luke Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise. we mean you no harm: I said in the least provocative voice I could muster!" "Federation. I ain't never heard of no Federation. It is a crime to lie to an Earth Force Patrol ship. Are you sure your part of a Federation" He said suspiciously! I had no choice but to respond yes. At that I could hear the suspicious tone in his voice, but I didn't really care. There wasn't much he could do to this ship. At least I hoped not. Then I asked, "Leutenant, a ship of your size had to come from somewhere. It doesn't look like it could get very far on its own. How did you get here?" He seemed a little annoyed now," You mean you never heard of Babylon 5, the huge 5 mile long Space station located at Epsilon 3" Babylon 5?. No, I couldn't say I had ever heard of such a place. 5 miles long! That was quite big. The Enterprise was about maybe 1/5th of a mile long and the largest space station I knew of was hardly in the category of 5 miles long. The pilot was growing impatient so I said, "Would you like us to pick you up and take you there? We can go a lot faster than you can in your ship." we can get you back in a few minutes." He seemed really annoyed at this and replied, "That's impossible. It took me 12 hours to get here and think you can do it in just a few minutes? I've already reported you. You can expect an Earth Force Destroyer to visit you very soon. They can handle this better than me. Meanwhile set your course for the Station" "As you wish. We will meet you in 12 hours then" I said. And I ordered warp 1.1. That would get us there in a few minutes. I wondered why our Sensors didn't pick up the station. When we got there and we saw it, it was, indeed, about 5 miles long. Incredible. It was spin induced for gravity, presumably! It had weapons similar to the ship we encountered earlier but much more powerful. But still no match for this ship! "Captain, sensors are detecting an object moving faster than light toward us" Ivonova said. I quickly moved over towards the console and saw what the display read. It was an object about 6000 feet long moving towards us at about 5 times the speed of light. Incredible. This was a Phenomena. "Sir, it's now dropping to Sublight". I looked out the observation port and there it was. Another ship. Really big. It had a saucer-like part on the front and a neck connecting it to two long Cylinders and a flatter Cylinder. It was also moving very fast toward us, decelerating much faster than I had ever seen. In fact I didn't think that was possible. The G-Forces must be staggering. "Open Frequencies. This is Captain John Sheridan of Babylon 5. Please Identify yourselves" I said. But I wasn't sure they had Tachyon Communication capabilities. After all they where obviously a different race of people. To my surprise a Human face appeared on the screen. He was a Bald man on what seemed to be a bridge of some sorts. I thought no private company owned ships that large though! "This is Captain John Luke Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise. Is this the Station Babylon 5?" He said A smile went across my face. "Yes it is. I regret that you where not scheduled to be here therefore I cannot Acomodate(SP?) you. Especially with a ship of your size." "We are in no need of accommodations, Captain. We Were investigating a spacial anomaly, when we where pulled through. We think we may have gone to another universe" He said. Another Universe could explain a lot. The oddity of the ship the technology. What we had here was a first contact Situation with ourselves. TO BE CONTINUED... ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Any comments or suggestions are apreaciated. But the main point of this is to track down the problem! From andeagle@execpc.comTue Jul 18 22:13:17 1995 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:32:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Andy Eagleson Reply to: b5-creative@best.com To: b5-creative@best.com Subject: Unification Part II ( AGAIN ) [The following text is in the "ISO=88599-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] I know I know. Its been about 1 1/2 monthes since the last part of the story. I have had many technical difficulties with the list but now thats all fixed. This is my little attempt at a SERIOUS Star Trek/Babylon 5 crossover story. It is not meant to say one is better than the other or to stur up endless flame wars for years to come. Its just a story. I am also going to start another story called "A Shadow in the Darkness" pretty soon so you should start getting parts by then end of this week to next week. I WANT CRITISISM. ALL YOU CAN GIVE ME AND MORE. BE RUTHLESS AND SHOW NO MERCY. I can't get better if I don't know how I am doing! And now... /컴컴컴컴커旼컴컴컴왯컴컴커旼컴커 旼컴컴컴왯컴컴� 旼컴왯컴� /컴/ � 旼컴컴컴牡컴� 旼켸� 납 � 읕커 旼켸� � � 컴엿 � /',/ � � � � � 旼� 납 旼� � � � � 旼� 납 컴冒 �/' / � 읕컴컴\ 읕� 읕� 읕牡켸 읕� 읕� 읕� 읕牡컴켸� \, \컴컴커 넬컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴엿 / \ \, � 납T H E T H I R D A G E O F M A N K I N D납 � '\ \ 旼컴컴컴컴� 냅컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴冒 � '\ '\ 읕컴컴컴컴컴/ Written by Andrew Lawrence Eagleson 읕켸 '\컴\ -=�| U N I F I C A T I O N |�=- PART 2: "Spacial anomoly? Ah yes, its around Epsilon 4. Isnt it? We sent a ship to investigate it. It should have arrived there by now" I (Sheridan) said. "That must be the ship we ran into" one of the bridge officers said aside to Picard and the captain nodded. Then I (Picard) spoke, " Yes, we encountered a small one man vessel that claimed to be from some so called Earth Force". "That would be our vessel. Its design is called a StarFury its a one man stunt fighter" I told him. He seemed surprised at that. As though they never used one man stunt fighters. I wouldn't know why they wouldn't. They where very effective in battle if you had enough of them. "Im sorry. We don't employ the use of one man fighters. They wouldn't do well against our technology since our weapons are too powerful for them to be of any use." Weapons too powerful? They must have *some* weapons then. Or they could be lying. But if they did have that powerful of weapons, peaceful confrontation would be preferable to open conflict! "Captain Picard, I would like to invite you on behalf of the Common Council and Earth Force to our station" I offered. He seemed to like this. I am not sure what the Common council would say about this. Knowing G'kar and Molari, they would surely argue about it and the Non-aligned worlds would ramble on about a completely diffrent topic. Delen was probably the only person who would Identify with me on this. "Great. We will beam aboard in about 3 hours, is that time enough?" Beam? I'm not sure I understood what he was telling me, but apparently he was going to join us by some energy/matter transferral method with which I was unfamiliar. I have got to see this. 3 hours seemed reasonable to me so I replied " We would be honored to be your hosts this evening" CHAPTER 4: The Dinner I was walking through the ships corridors towards the transporter room when I was intercepted by Riker."Why Captain don't you look charming tonight" He laughed I humoriously responded,"Well Number One, I think the entire bridge crew looks good in dress. Besides this is a first contact situation I wouldn't want the other race to see us as we really are". We both laughed at that. But seriously this was a first contact situation and all the Federation needed was another Enemy. Relations with the Clingons weren't so good. Romulans after the Dominion Massacre have greatly increased their nuetral zone monitoring. The Cardasians were always up to somthing and the Dominion has destroyed two private transports within the last month. Not so good. But this was one of the good opportunities to actually make friends with a new race. But to make peace with humans was an interesting perspective on the subject. We stepped on the transporter pad and watched ourselves fizzle out then back into existence. I saw a figure standing there in a blue, grey uniform with a gold bar across his chest with a rather nice looking woman next to him. "I'm Captain Sheridan of the Earth Force Station Babylon 5. This is my First Oficer Comander Susan Ivonova and this is my security officer Chief Garibaldi" He said in what seemed a diplimatic tone. I responded, "I am Captain John-Luke Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise. This is my first officer Commander William Riker and my second officer Commander Data". They seemed surprised at Data's Appearance. I guess they didn't have androids working with them there. None at all. This only further proves that Data is One of a kind. "If you would follow me I think you would enjoy a brief tour of the station" he said. And we followed. This place was incredible. I had never seen anything like. At least 20 different types of aliens all at once going places. Stores, Bars even a Casino. We were taken to what looked like a garden of some sort and there was a table set up there. There were 4 different aliens seated there, all totally new to me. "Captain", He motioned towards a female alien with what appeared to be a bone sticking out of her head,"This is ambassador Delean of the Minbari Federation. And this".. he pointed towards a green alien who was partly reptilian, "..this is Ambasador G'Kar of the Narn Regime and this.. " he pointed to a humanoid with what was the most ridiculous hair cut I have ever seen "is Ambasador Malori of the Centari Republic." Finally he pointed to someone completely enclosed in a large space suit and said, "This is Ambassador Kosh of the Vorlan Empire". Vorlans, Minbari, Narns. Centari, I have heard of the Centari and also the Minbari but not the Narns or the Vorlons. In fact from what I saw of Ambassador Kosh I wasn't even sure what he could eat. But I was a guest here so I politely sat myself down at the table and waited for the other Captain to start the meal. I saw some waiters come out with some food. One to each person. They opened up their trays and I saw some sort of unrecognizable slime on the plate. I had seen some pretty weird dishes in the past but none like this. "May I ask what this is?" I inquired. The closest I could match this food was Klingon food. "Its a Minbari delicacy called Fruton. Please do not ask what is in it. It would spoil your apetite" So I didn't. I really didn't want to know either. But it seemed to taste pretty good when I took a bite of it. Then I was asked a question by the Captain.. one which I had been waiting for. "So what is this United Federation of Planets you belong to?" Sheridan asked. Right on time I might add. And so I suppose a history lesson is in order. "Its a group of about 200 planets all aligned by the Federation Counsel located on Earth. It was started many years ago on earth. But back then it was called the United Earth Alliance. Anyway, I am part of a faction of the Federation called StarFleet. It has a Military function, of course, but actually our main purpose is Exploration and science". This seemed to surprise them. The Narn spoke up first,"200 planets is a lot. There aren't even that many we know of today. Let alone inhabited. How big is your territory?" I responded,"We have charted aproximately 11 percent of the known galaxy. Federation borders spread out about 5,000 light years from earth. Our closest neighboring empire is the Romulan Empire followed by the Klingon Empire followed by the Cardasian Empire, all of which are highly militarized Empires" I sat there for a minute and continued, "The Federation has managed to keep the peace for about 200 years and has managed to ally itself with one of its greatest enemy the Klingon Empire" "So" the Minbari said,"you are a peaceful people?" I was surprised she asked that. I thought I had already made it clear! "Yes, most definitely. The Federation was founded on the principal that all races can live together in harmony. All though this sometimes does not work out and war breaks out. But for the last 200 years it has worked". I thought this was a good explaination. "Tell me commander what is your history of your people?" the Centari asked. History. I hadn't thought about that. The history of my humanity must be diffrent than thei history. "Well after the aftermath of World War III, the United Earth Alliance was formed. We turned our entire combined resources towards space exploration. We first built a moon base. Then the Mars Colony, our closest neighboring planet. Then we established the Jupitor outpost on IO. We were quickly moving into space when another race called the Vulcans who had developed Warp Technology found us and helped our scientists understand the warp concept. At first we used their Warp Drives but we learned and finally built our own Warp units. We were then truly out amongst the stars". They seemed impressed, not surprisingly so. "Have your people fought in any wars?" I thought I already told them that but I still awnsered,"yes the Romulan war and the Klingon War". Now I was curious,"How about your people?" Sheridan responded,"Well not much to tell. It's pretty much the same story all the way up to the United Earth Alliance but instead of Vulcans and Warp Drive, we encountered the Centari who gave us Jump Gate Technoligy". I reponded,"Jump Gate?. I have never heard of that. Sounds to be some sort of faster than light travel?" "Its a device that opens a gate to Hyperspace. Hyperspace is smaller than regular space so we go to a point that intersects the normal space we want to go to and Open another gate". Interesting. A completely original idea. I am sure the Federation never even concieved of this. The dinner continued for about 1 and a Half hours. The conversation was interesting and intriging. How the Earth Force almost lost a war with the Minbari and how the Centari was a great empire. The evening ended and we returned to our ship. CAHPTER 6: Shadows I hurried through the hallways. This place can be really confusing if you didn't know where you were going. I moved into the Alien Sector and put on the mask. I counted down 13 doors and rang the door chime. It opened up and a dark figure appeared. He motioned me into his quarters and I sat down. I wasn't sure Kosh could even sit. "$^@*)#^$)P$^&@#(#_^****We Must talk of Shadows****@)(#_&$#*($". Shadows. I always got a pit in my stomach when I talked about them. Ever since the discovery that they were moving to attack again I had nightmars. "What are the Shadows doing to concern you?" I asked a little softly. "@!@#^*(#)^$*($** The new race. There advanced technology. the Shadows are worried**!&(#&$)(&$". I always wondered how Kosh could figure this stuff out, or how any Vorlon was able to. I guess I would never know. "The new race is not a threat to them. They are probleby more worried on how to get back than how to destroy the Shadows. So far, they don't even know about them" "@%&^*#(%$&*($***The Shadows have never been very intelligent about such things**&Y@)$#^(*#^$(*^". I would have never known that unless he told me. The Minbari did not know much about the shadows, either. All they knew is that they were their enemies. "Then what should I do?". I was curious what we could do. We couldn't stop them from doing something about it so what did he have in mind. "!T%&*#(%#&^%#***Observe and learn Delein. Watch events unfold". I understood. There was nothing we could do. That's why he brought me here. To show me that I must keep out of the way and let the events unfold. But could I just watch the new Race die needlesly. Or quite possibly the new Humans could more easily deal with them than we could. He was walking down the corridor towards the main engineering. He was in a happy mood. He day had gone just right. He had figured out the problem he was working on for months. Tracking down that Particle leak took forever but he managed to finally do it. He passed by Mr. Data whom he new of but didn't personally know. He went towards the turbo lift and got in. Once there, the lift surged up almost so he could feel it. But he heard something. He didn't know what it was. It was a wispering.. apparently behind him. He quickly turned around but there was nothing there. He looked straight foward again. But then he heard it again. This time he opened up the control panel and inspected the audio circuts. He found nothing wrong with them and passed it off as his imagination. He got down to engineering and spoke with Mr La Forge. "Sir. I finally tracked down that energy leak." He said with great confidence. La Forge, a little stunned asked,"What energy leek? OH, the one you have tracking for months. I thought we gave up on that. So where was it". "More like who was it. Ensign Kefer was conducting an experiment in his quarters and it was leaking. I found it and told him so". He was happy with himself. "Well okay. You earned the night off anyways so go have some fun". Hearing this, he looked even happier now. He went off down towards his quarters. He would stop there, change clothes when he would go to ten forward to unwind. When he got to his quarters he heard the noise again. This time it scared him. It was behind him and it was growing louder. He tried to ignore it and went to the bathroom to changed out of his clothes into a casual getup. But he heard the noise again. Very loud as almost if someone was talking to him. He spun around and saw to see some alien insectoid figures behind him. He hit his Comunication badge and called for security and then he ran to his bedroom. The alien figures followed him. A ball of light appeared by one of the figures and shot towards Kefer. He dodged it and grabbed for his Phaser located in his drawer He fired but the beam went right through one of the figures. A ball of light shot at him again and this time hit him. He remembered watching his consciousness slip away and seeing security run in his quarters and then total silence! I woke up in sickbay, the doctor standing over me. I felt like i had been hit with a phaser. Of course that is what it might have been. I tried to move but it hurt too much. Pain everywhere. I heard someone speak to me but I could not quite understand the words. Soon, however, they started to become clearer. "Can you hear me. Blink twice if you can hear me". A female voice said. So I blinked twice. Even that hurt me a little. I was in serious pain yet there was a sort of calming effect on me I didn't know what it was. "Okay good. He can here us. That is a great sign. Now I want you too blink 3 times if you know who I am". Know who she was? Well I wasn't too sure but then something inside me told me it was a Doctor Crusher. But who was Doctor Crusher? So I blinked the required times! "Very good", she said,"he knows who I am. That means no memory loss. All my other readings indicate that he is fine for them moment". At least I new that but I was struck with confusion. I didn't know who I was or where I was but these thoughts kept poping into my head. I didn't know where they were coming from. Mabye I was just having random thoughts. I continued to try to remember who I was or where I was but nothing came up. Finally though I could mutter some words out of my mouth but it came out more as a moan. "Are you in pain?" the doctor asked? I groaned some more indicating a yes. At that the doctor went over to the cabinet got some sort of contraption and gave me a shot. After about 1 minuet I felt mcuh better. But these strange thoughts kept appearing in my head. It was like they were telling me to do something! But what I did not know. Now I was able to speak,"What happened to me?". She looked suprised and then began to say something but stopped a second. "Don't you know? You were there. We found you and 3 security knocked unconscience on the floor and a bunch of wrecked furniture was strewn all over in your quarters. We were hoping to find out from you what happened". So I was supposed to know this. I wasn't even sure that I was hit with something. What did all this meen? Did I do something? Just what *did* happen to me? I needed answers and I needed them fast. "No I don't know doctor" I responded. She gave a quick reply to that,"And yet you remember who I am. That is interesting. Take a quick look around the room and see if you recognise anybody else". I looked and I didn't recognise anybody. This was frustrating me. But then suddenly a name shot out of my head. It came out of nowhere. it was "Franks". "Franks?" I said stunned. A smile grew on his face and he happily responded,"Yes I am here. You do recognise me". I guess I did, but bareley. And how? I didn't really know his name yet it shot out in my head. How did it do this? And those other, vague thoughts were still going through my head and I did not know where they were coming from! I was staring out the observation port looking at the stars circle around and around the station. I was also looking at the new ship. It was an incredible desgn. Much sturdier than any of our ships. We had done a scan on it and found an immense energy source. Very powerful. All evidence seemed to support what they were claiming. Faster than light capablity, powerful new weapons and best of all that amazing transporter technology. It was much more than we had ever hoped to achieved. But this was, perhaps, a good sign. A sign that maybe at last we also could become so powerful as to feed all of our hungry and sick. To make peace amongst over 200 worlds, to have peace last for over 200 years. Incredible. Suddenly a voice broke my train of thought,"Captain we are recieving a signal from the Enterprise". "Put it on the viewer". She promptly complied and the figure of their captain appeared on screen. "Ah yes capatin Picard. What can I do for you" I asked! "About an hour ago something attacked a few of my crewmen. We don't know what is was and are asking if you know anything about this". Know something? No. If they didn't detect something then what made them think we would have detected it. "I am sorry Captain but we have detected nothing. Do you think it could have escaped to the station". There captain got a strange look on his face. I didn't think he had considered that, so I asked. "We havn't detected a transpoter trace of any kind or any craft that left the ship. But you should heighten you security just in case." That seemed to be a bit overeacting a little. We had murders all the time on this station. About 20 so far this year. Perhaps they didn't have to deal with this kind of thing a whole lot. "Captain" he said, "we will give you updates on our situation if you want". This seemed more like a diplomatic offer than anything else. I refused the offer. So one of there crewman got attacked. And they didn't know who. I had thought about who had done it but nothing came to mind. But then somthing I hadn't even considered came to mind. But I didn't want to believe it so I shoved it off to the side and went about my business of watching the stars! The pain was coming back to me. I had fought it but it won. and it hurt. I always believed I was alergic to pain. Basicaly because it hurt me. But it wasn't as bad as before. I looked over at the security officers and noticed one of them was also awake. And aslo in obvious pain. And I heard footsteps come towards me. It was the doctor. "The pain is coming back to me doctor" I said groaning. She went over to the panel and looked at my medical scans. "Well I suppose another dose wouldn't harm you". So she went to her cabinet picked up a hypospray and injected it into me. In a minuet I felt much better again. I sat up on the bed and stared at the doctor! "What is my condition?". I asked. She was destracted at the moment. She was checking all the security guards readouts out and then she came to me."It looks like your going to be fine allthough I wish I new what had hit you". Suddenly those thoughts came back. Much clearer this time and they were telling me to do somthing, but what I did not know. "I am trying to remember doctor but I can't". She frowned a second and then returned to normal,"Well If have anything that could help let me know as soon as possible". I would. I wondered if I should report these strange thoughts to anyone. They seemed harmless enough. But then they came back and much clearer this time. They were my own. And I decieded not to tell the doctor It was his turn for nightwatch. And he loved it. He loved to go through the station at night. It was so calm and peacful and relaxing. He came to his designated area and started his patrol through Downbelow. This part of the station he didn't like. He would only have to be here for about an hour then he could go up to the Zocalo and spend the rest of his watch there. He perfered that much more. But down here there was somthing creapy in the air and he didn't like it. He decided to to walk with his PPG drawn. This was against department regulations but he didn't care. Nobody down here would report him. He kept walking along the corridor starting to sweet a little bit from the humidity. "I wish they would fix the envirmental controls" he said out loud. It was allways to humid down there. Even for his tastes. He could see water form on the pipeline on the wall as he continued his watch. Then suddenly he heard some voices. It half startled him from the usaull quit of the night. He walked over to where the voices were. He spyed them for a while as he saw three people in qeird looking uniforms talking to eachother. Then he recognised them. Those were those Federation people he had heard about. What the hell were they doing here. He called to security but one of them must have heard him and started to walk towards him. He tried to hide but it was no use they had spoted him. He pointed his PPG at them and said,"Freeze Security out your hands in the air and turn around". They didn't move. He gave them another warning but again they didn't move. HE fired a shot at one of the people and hit him and he went down. The person should have been okay since the PPG was set to a stun level. In all this one of the Federation people drew some sort of device and pointed it at the security officer. He ducked quick as an orange beem slice right above his head and destroyed half the wall 10 feet behind him. "God thats a powerful weapon" he thought. He fired back at them with his PPG but they had allready taken cover. Again a the orange beem sliced through the air and hit somthing very close to him and it exploded in his face. He flew back hard and landed with a thump on the floor in the open. The orange beem again shot at him and hit him. He watched as conscience suddenly left his body. CHAPTER 7: Possesion Dr. Crusher walked into sickbay like she usaully did and not noticeing the 3 empty beds were the three security guards had been. I was just awoken by here walking in when she hit her combadge,"Dr. Crusher to Luetinet Worf". "Worf here, was is it Doctor" I overheard. The Doctor didn't look nervous but she did look a little concerned. "Your security people have left sickbay without permission. Have you put them back on duty". Mr. Worf seemed anoyed. I didn't know why I guess security people tended to push themselves to hard or somthing like that. "No Doctor, they have not reported for duty. I will find there location and order them back to sickbay". Crusher like the Idea and quickly agreed and she went about here business. She walked over to me and asked,"Did you see them leave". Of course I didn't. But I guess she didn't know that. Senior officers can be so dumb at times,"No I am sorry doctor I didn't see them leave. I have been asleep all night". She didn't like that answer very much. I could see it in her eyes. But it was just good enough. Besides I didn't see them leave. "Well how are you doing this morning" she asked. I didn't feel any pain. Mabye the painkillers hadn't worn off yet. "I am doing fine thank you. I feel no pain anywhere in fact I havn't felt this well in days" I said "Well you arent under my painkillers anymore so I take this as a good sign. I want to run some tests on you to see if you are really all right then we can start the procces of rebuilding your memory". Rebuilding my memory sounded good. I couldn't remember much of anything but what these random thoughts or they now sounded more like voices told me. They were very clear right now and very persistant. I didn't know where they were coming from but every time I tried to tell the doctor about them they didn't let as though they were contoling me. I started to feel darkness come over my body to. And I didn't like that one bit. Not at all. TO BE CONTINUED