Elfin Recaps (Part 1)

The Brigadier

B'elanna, being her turn this time, was the one to tell the tale ....

So it began, a bit earlier, in response to a question that I had asked.

B'Elanna

Earlier in the TARDIS

"Believe that I shall take this one," I say as I come forward, "It is, after all, my turn in the game."

"Game?" the Brigadier asks, a little perplexed, "What the devil is that about?"

I laugh a little as Ace explains to the Brigadier how the Doctor's Companions take turns in explaining things to others whilst the Time Lord is busy with other things. In this case, the Doctor is double checking the coordinates we'll be landing.

With a small apology to Ace for going over the adventures we had already enjoyed together, I begin at that point. Would tell everything from the relative start, in as far as what had happened to the Doctor upon his rather abrupt arrival on Terra Prime. However, that would cause a lot of problems right now that I and the others had silently agreed upon not needing right now. The most prominent being the fact that the Doctor, while a friend and ally for the Brigadier well enough, is not same Time Lord that the guy had worked with throughout those long years on the Brig's Earth. Originally that fellow had been Dr. What, you see. This universe that the Brig came from came about from a "focal point" where the question of whether or not Dr. What would ever return to his home reality had arisen. In one universe (through the intercession of the Rules in exchange for Dr. What becoming a Champion), that noble person had been able to return. However, the universe that the Brig come isn't that universe. The Brig's universe is a universe (one of them besides Terra Prime's universe and his own) that Dr. Who ("my" Doctor) had been tasked to look after and protect. In that reality and Dr. What's reality, he was "standing in" for the native Doctors in the time periods that would have been....er.... otherwise covered had those Doctor's not departed permanently. In other words, Dr. Who was sort of masquerading as his analog "brothers".

Would have been nearly impossible for anyone else than a Time Lord. The Doctor had a sense we'll call a "Time Sense". That's a sense that allowed him and those of his race to travel through and participate in events throughout time without disrupting it's normal flow. That is, he could travel about and not cause things to change. It just happens that this sense also translates into something that he can use to keep things well enough alike with those other universes in as far as the periods of time that have been covered so far by Time Lord society up until the time of the native Doctor's had vanished. That would cover something akin to the first few seconds after the Big Bang to a point that had been designated by the various Supreme Councils and Lord Presidents that Time Lords shall not travel beyond. Being that Time Lords do not like to know before hand what shall happen to them (i.e. their own future), all Time Lord's (even the Renegades) comply with that mandate. Besides, according to the Doctor, before it had been discovered that these universes had become "Steady State" universes due to what we did with those radio telescopes, no Time Lord would dare risk his or her neck in pushing their TARDIS too far forward in time. Risk getting their TARDIS caught up and pulled into the maw of what can be termed "The Big Crunch".....where the universe would collapse back in upon itself.

So after that, we were pretty much free and clear on how we could act and react..... But in the meantime whilst traveling within those time periods, the Doctor's time sense (as well as consulting with his analog brothers on several "hot spots") was the order of the day.

Hope you got that because I sure am not going to repeat myself or try to explain in more detail. The theory is long and dry. That and I know that few folks out there could stomach the "techno-babble" involved. It makes what I am used to in Star Fleet, in my false memories, look tame in comparison!

I explain this to both Ace and the Brig, and am at least able to mollify them enough with a promise that we'll take them to Terra Prime as to be better able to explain in detail than we otherwise could here.

Hey, it works! At least they aren't grumping about us withholding information, you see.

Well, I tell them basically the info that is found in these little data files we have out there online:

http:// www.geocities.com /rule179 /PlotSummaries /18535.htm
http:// www.geocities.com /rule179 /PlotSummaries /CrossoverTPD.htm

"Rather long and complex in detail, eh?" I finish up, smiling a little at the Brig.

"You could say that," he says dryly, "And I take that it is even...er...more long and complex in those matters of Terra Prim? That is why you wish to hold off until us going there to tell those tales? Can well see why!"

Ace echoes those sentiments, despite having lived through that adventure herself. Basically, besides skimming over the parts involving us being Champions and what that meant, she had only seen a facet of the overall picture.

"Now, for the rest," I say calmly, looking over at the Doctor, who'd come over awhile ago after having finished with his work.

"For Ace it had been only a few short hours since last we had met," I say smiling a bit, "However, for us on the TARDIS, a time machine, it had been something like three years back on Terra Prime. Shan't bore you with the details of our travels and our trips throughout that universe, for it was relatively tranquil. When Ace got somehow pulled into the place where she met the Brigadier and his wife, it started things rolling. When Ace interrupted their day at the garden shop, crushing those flowers that the wife had been looking over, she seemed to have been smitten with some kind of....well....some kind of garbled message from this reality. This reality had elements in it that had intruded upon the Brig's reality, as we can well see by that wormhole that Merlin has locked up down in Arthur's tomb. Otherwise, key players kept more or less to a similar 'script' as what would have been seen in a television episode of Betty's. It would be called Battlefield."

Note: A script of "Battlefield" can be found here:

http:// www.kingspyder.com /dwtp/7thdoc /7n /7n1.html

"Things started to go really askew when we arrived around scene 7," Ragan puts in from the side.

"Yes, the part where we all met Brigadier Bambera out on the road," I agree, quieting the odd looks I get from the Brig.

"Oh, but of course." he says, nodding sagely (with a slight sarcastic tone underlying it).

....

Will ignore that for now. If I was actually still my old self, I might take loud issue of that. But things change....

Witness the fact I am an elf and not a Klingon/Human hybrid. Or...more accurately, not a magical construct who had at first thought herself to be the "real" B'Elanna Torres.

Remember, I was something called a "Dream Golem" before being reincarnated an elf. It's a long story that....I'll tell another time, heh.

"Yes, that's where you had called the Doctor through that telegraph," I continue, "Roland had picked up the call and passed it on to us. We met after you pulled some strings in order to meet where we met and so forth."

"Yep," Ace adds, nodding.

She then turns towards the Brig.

"Sorry about that," she says, "Don't think I apologized for almost having almost fallen on your wife back there when I 'popped in' after that Time Storm."

"Quiet alright," the Brig replies, a little non-pulsed that Ace should feel the need to apologize for something like that. Something she had had no control over, alas.

Hmm, wonder what had caused her to do that? Maybe we'll find out here soon....

Ace nods, then breaks out into a grin as a thought occurs to her.

"Things really then went askew when after 'Scene 7', eh?" she laughs.

"Yes, I dare say that it did," the Doctor put in from the side, a little chagrin in his face at some of it.

Having the Brig almost get run over by Bessie, his old antique (and souped up) motorcar had been just the start! The Brig had been about to congratulate Inquirer for having landed the Doctor when that had happened.

Then things had sped up to after having learned a little bit what was in store for us here in the "Farscape" universe from the ramblings from that poor woman who'd driven Bessie so recklessly. She had used it, I gather, to get away from her guards and drive through that wormhole here to the Brig's Earth. Even up to the point where we had left she still couldn't remember much about her ordeal with her torture session with Scorpius (the TV show's bad guy).

"I still would rather like to know why you had not included me in that mental conversation," the Brig then says, looking a little hurt.

"Sorry about that, old friend," the Doctor sighs, "But it had everything to do, then and there, with Brigadier Bambera. You would have felt obligated to call, verbally, her into that planning session. Somewhere down the line she'd ask just how this plan had come about, if she hadn't heard us speak....and you would hesitantly mentioned telepathy, believing that she'd at least become familiar enough with the oddities that UNIT had dealt with in the past so as to understand. But she was....er....."

1. "Too close minded to have believed," I say, "Too close minded to have listened after that."

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