Parallel worlds/timestreams/universes (whatever)

B'Elanna

"But what in name of the Creator are those naked girls and Centaurs doing in that briefing room," Elrondir asks, pointing at the at least the human figures who are staring at us.

Well, isn't this one going to be fun. If this era (look's like Kirk's era by the of this room) was anything like the one that I'm familiar with then we're going to have to walk softly to avoid unnecessary trouble. See, for those who aren't familiar with Star Trek: TOS (and where have you been?) back there is this something of a standoff between the Federation (notable races being human and Vulcan), the Romulan Star Empire (notables being Romulans natuarally), and the Klingon Empire (run by Klingons). If we reveal too much....

Oh hell, who am I kidding? It's not like the natives of this universe are made of spun sugar or we are idiots! In prior adventures where we have managed to get through without inciting an interstellar conflict! We all do have at least a smidgen of moderation and know what to reveal and what to keep secret!

Uh....

Well, Chiana's kind of new to the group, still. Has a tendency to shoot off her mouth at inconvenient times, but her heart's in the right place! She at least will listen to us when we give her mental telepathic warnings and I believe, rather quickly she'll be able to get the lay of the land and know what to reveal and what not to reveal.

Well, Creator, I hope so at least. Not like we can realistically play babysitter here with her, right. Besides, she's hardly a child, really. Oh, in some ways she's got a child's enthusiasm for life that I rather like (it's infectious), but she's got street smarts. So, I do hope that her street smarts will translate over from her Farscapian environment to what we deal with on something of a daily basis.

Heh, one can hope, can't I?

Whatever the case, we're kind of committed now that we've stepped out of the TARDIS into whatever is going on here! Being that unless we are the cause for this Red Alert, our presence shouldn't initially draw too much attention if we don't linger very long! Rather doubt that those who are now staring at us are Star Fleet members, unless the powers that be in High Command have put out uniform regulations that make for even skimpier in this timestream than in the one I know.

As for the centaurs, don't know what the living centaur statues' stories are yet but they don't seem ready to shout for Security! Being that the two naked young women before us haven't look inclined at calling for help yet, themselves, I believe that for the moment we can avoid trouble.

Hopefully.

As it stands right now, there is a good reason just why all Hell hasn't broken loose here. Yeah, you might think that it is because Kirk giving off an order to isolate that section of the ship, but you'd be wrong. That wouldn't be fitting with the delights that he hopes to reap here upon those upon the good starship Enterprise through our naked, sweating girls!

No, what the Oracle and his pals exactly were trying for seems to involve passing along a lot of havoc, but beyond that we cannot be sure, really. Oh, of course a bit of Fred torture is going to be a side item here, but there is probably some sinister deeper game to this nonsense.

No matter, that's a bit beyond the scope of this little segment of the story arch right now, see. Right now we have some potential spoilers here in the form of the Champions, who've walked into the middle of a mess!

Now, didn't it seem odd that nobody acknowledged in any way at all when a frantic Kirk gave off his quarantine order? Orders to Sickbay to mobilize quarantine/decontamination teams to hither and yon to try to contain whatever this Centaur flu?

Oh, you point out that the Red Alert is going off. Wouldn't that be enough?

No. It wouldn't. You see, what the Alert is about is not over the quarantine order by Kirk, but some kind of rather disagreeable visitor hanging out there in the darkness of space.

Despite repeated pagings by Science Officer Spock (second in command) for Kirk, he'd been less than successful and piping up the Captain. That's to be expected when the Oracle has magically isolated the Com circuits to the room that Kirk and Uhura/Fred had been inside. The evil mage wanted to be able to gloat and threaten them at his own pace, without interruptions! And with that isolation, Kirk's orders didn't get to the ears he wanted them to get to at all (sharp pointed or any kind upon the Enterprise, alas).

A quick query of the ship's computer reveals the last known place the Captain was gets Spock to send a runner down to physically rouse the man and get him up to the Bridge!

Ah, but what or who is this visitor who'd caused this Red Alert? Klingons? The Gorn? Romulans?

....

Tribbles?

Nope, none of the above! See, it's a strange business, sometimes with Seems that the events that were being told in another "story thread" done by the JH, ragan, and Bill L are happening here as well, as far as they are able given the alien elements that just got injected into this situation.

Ah, but what's the visitor, you ask (again)?

1. It was a rather large Gamma Omegan man. "I am Stra'a, and I have come to claim my mate and child - surrender them to me!"

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