But there is more strangeness to be had here . . .

Strange thing about that one television show: Star Trek, in some episodes they had alien worlds that were so Earthlike! Some actually were duplicate Earths (even if the name was never revealed as such). No real reason was given in the original series, but in the Next Generation a group of now vanished aliens (if you pardon the term) called the Preservers.

Did a lot of mysterious stuff. Transplanting certain Earth ethnicities to different planets. Certain species . . . stuff like that. Was even proven in this one crazy Next Generation episode which proved that most humanoid life (maybe even human life) was the result of "seeding".

Get that? So we have some kind of super intelligent (vanished or at least in hiding) super race out there who'd been responsible for life itself and were involved afterward. Some kind of big, grand experiment?

Hm, will restrain myself with obvious jokes about "intelligent design". One because it is not really funny because that would get some out there (like me) a bit miffed (even though that recent nonsense in the US court system . . . nevermind).

Well, not exactly a new thing out there. After all, we saw something similar (albeit on a smaller scale) where it was said that mankind itself on Earth was an experiment in the Doctor Who TV series. Fail to remember just what episode but it was said that in that series but mankind was considered to be a failed experiment . . .

While the same cannot be said to be the same for ALL of humanity on every Earth (or whatever), in this reality and this version of Earth (or Terra as it had been called back in the day) was a failure.

Big magical war between man and dragon. Weapons too powerful to be used safely and too rash of people using them. Caused what we modern folks call a nuclear winter effect and blotted out the Sun, wiping out all intelligent life.

That said, the place eventually warmed up again (winter faded) but little life was left to speak of (kind of on the sparse side).

Now take one magical artifact (a Necromonicon or two) has a rather sick sense of humor. Got together and constructed a little dorm (a magical construct, not easily detected with some of the more "futuristic" sensors out there for that reason) on this dead world, to exile unexpecting transformed people on this dead world . . . Actually, it isn’t really funny at all (to ordinary people), buta r-real knee-slapper to the magical artifacts! Upset girls crying over being alone and all that, never to see another soul AND starving to death after meager rations run out...

Well, you get the picture.

Stardate 4202.1

In this case, we have some show coming, eh?

It first starts off with two young women in the false dorm hallway (taken from episodes 13773 & 13776 by Bill L.).

"Oh!" said one of the two girls as she staggered backwards a step.

"Are you all right?" her companion asked.

"I think so, yeah. I felt funny for a moment, but - but it's pased now." She shook her head, then smiled. "It looks like you're looking for room 205, too, so I guess you're gonna be my new roomie."

"Really? Cool!" The girl dropped her suitcase and held out her hand. "I'm Belinda Boswell."

"Hannah Fredrics," her new roommate replied. "So, are you a freshman, too?"

"Uh-huh," Belinda said with a nod. "I'm gonna major in chemistry, I think. How about you?"

"Dunno," Hannah replied as they entered the room that would be their home away from home for the next four years. "Right now, I'm just glad to be here - they say St. Tobias University is one of the toughest in the country to get into!"

"I heard that, too," another voice answered. The two girls turned around to see: two other freshmen girls.

Hannah and Belinda turned to see two other girls standing behind them. They were, quite obviously, twins, both with dark curly hair, beautifully expressive eyes and classically patrician features.

Need not be said that both did not witness the two other girls arrive through a magical pulsating portal and transform into these young women.

Anyway...

Those features have an odd and questioning look on them, which matches Belinda’s and Hannah’s own. There is this odd feeling of . . . . kinship there. Faint but there...

"Hi," one said. "I guess we'll be sharing the room with you. Uh, do we know you?"

"Pleased to meet you," said the other. "I'm Emma Royal, and this, obviously, is my sister, Justine, but . . . I don‘t think we‘ve met before. Did we?"

"Hannah Fredrics," Hannah says slowly. "Darn if I and my new roomie here, Belinda Boswell have, but . . . ."

"Sure does feel like it," Belinda mutters.

"Uh, excuse me?" a tentative male voice dressed up in classic Redshirt fashion calls from the doorway. Having come across this odd building that doesn’t register (much) on sensors and finding human life inside had caused a pause in the evacuation of the Constellation to the plant’s surface (per regulation). "We had thought that . . ."

This young man had been volunteered (i.e. pressganged) into investigating by his Security supervisor.

"Oh my Gawd," Hannah gapes. "Who let the nerds from the Star Trek Convention out?"

B'Elanna

Oh good GOD! I recognized that Federation mission patch on that "Redshirt" over there in this strange place we'd just magically teleported into here. Elfin senses are screaming at me right now, saying that something in the air is spelling some MAJOR shit coming down upon us. And being that mission patch on the Redshirt is of the USS Constellation (NCC-1017, the TOS era starship that got jacked up and eventually destroyed by that Planet Killer you might remember from the show) . . .

"We might have a bigger problem than just that," I hear myself gasp in a very nervous voice!

Whatever the hell Belinda and Hannah Franks and those two unknown royal looking girls over there are doing here is besides the point, wherever the hell this school looking academy place IS! What is worrying (by a LOT) is the looks of that roughed up Redshirts uniform (roughed up clothing I'd seen in prior shipborn emergencies, get to know how a uniform gets messed up and all that, and leave at that), he's gone through a major battle (like the Planet Killer, round one)?

I'd heard of that in the Academy back on Earth in my younger days (or rather . . . the false memories of my younger days and . . .oh fuckit). . .

Are we on that planet that was doomed when Decker, the commodore who beamed down the rest of his crew when his ship was wrecked with major system problesm?

We are in so much . . .dren!

1. We have GOT to get OUT of here and NOW!! But . . . . we cannot beam everyone here and outside (if I'm right) by OUR magical/science teleporter . . . .

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