'Our' Captain Janeway puts down the PADD and looks up at her four doubles
arrayed around the Ready Room.
One was missing an eye, one was bald, one had a prosthetic left arm and the
last one...well, doubles of herself Janeway was used too but not a vixen
double of herself. She had a tail!
Janeway shoved the conflicting emotions to small space in her mind. She
gestured to the instrument.
"All this chaos is caused by Scott and his doubles jumping around from
dimension to dimension and all through the time stream?"
"Exactly." said the bald one. "We've been following Scotts and collecting
them. My ship has a transdimensional beaming device that sends the Scott's
to my Federation. There, they put the Scott's onto a planet that dampens
all forms of energy. They only have enough to live as if they were on a
starship. Not enough to jump through space/time."
"And that's why you took Scott's coffin."
"Yes."
"But he's dead."
"You don't understand, Captain." said the furry one. Janeway wondered how
she could speak with the muzzle. "Scott is immune to death. We think it's
because of Q. Scotts do speak of strange and omnipotent beings called
Authors. We think they are Q in disguise."
"So you beamed over Scott's coffin and now are dumping that on your planet
while you wait for him to revive. I don't like it. He saved our ship."
"He saved my ship too." said the one with the prosthetic. "Then he killed
Ensign Caplan, nearly murdered Suder and shot my arm off."
"I'm...I'm sorry." Janeway knew what it felt like to lose crew. But on that
Voyager, Suder was still alive. Should she tell her that on this ship,
Suder killed Darwin?
Before Janeway could say anything more...
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alien ships attacked and destroyed 'our' Voyager. The entire crew was safely beamed off by ten other Voyagers while thirty more destroyed the attackers.
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