"We learned of all this when a small group of Champions asked to
use one of our shuttlecraft's sensors," the Doctor finishes.
I pray to God that they were allowed to use, Edward Solomon,
Demifox Sigin's pupil in magic, finds himself thinking to himself.
"I do hope the Captain allowed them the use?" he asked in a more polite,
reasonable sounding voice aloud.
He pauses in reflection as he remembered that his Voyager had
less than a stellar first encounter with those of Terra Prime and their
ally, the Military (and shuddered in shame at the stupidity he'd done in
trying to stop what had appeared an evil act of genocide.....but was in
actuality something a bit different....and more than justified if one knew
anything about the Lizards).
(Author's Note: for those who wonder what this is about there were three
duplicate furry/human Voyagers that the Military had encountered. One was
Solomon's furry/human Voyager, rescued from admisted one last battle in
the Terra Prime solar system. One was of a Voyager that had managed to
get to the Earth of Star Fleet without outside help. One was of a furry/human
Voyager that had been bushwacked by a stray Lizard patrol (and the crew
eaten all except for one lone human Solomon and a missing Ensign and his
family.....fate unknown).
Oh, it had proven later that somehow some unknown person had played
one side off the other in poisoning opinions of various Voyager crewmembers
(like himself).....but sometimes Solomon wondered if a sneaking suspicion
that his Voyager would have been some kind of grand prank cooked
up by Q..... That he and the others owed their existence not to some distant
parallel universe.....but instead of being created out of the very power
of the almost godlike being to somehow snub the arrogant Federation humans.....yet
again?
Then again, where did it say that even the Federation never made a fumble?
Never was wrong?
Depending on the time of the week, the demifox's opinion on the matter
varied between one or the other.
"The Captain did allow it." a woman's voice says behind them
all.
Solomon's ears stand up in surprise, for he recognizes that voice. So
do most of the others in the room, for it's one they've heard on TV. It's
the voice of Captian Kathryn Janeway, commanding officer of the United
Federation of Planet's Starship Voyager. She and a small group behind her
had beamed into town!
However, some quirk an eyebrow up in surprise when they lay eyes
upon the face and body of the voice's owner. You see, the Voyager that
has come to Nantucket Earth had aboard it. One was the human type that
all of Star Trek fandom was familiar with. The other crew was an analogous
version of the same crew, done up in anthropomorphic animal style. The
"furry" version of Janeway (a vixen) had come to town while her human counterpart
took care of shop back at the Voyager. She pauses and nods slightly when
she sees that her presence does cause anything more than the raised eyebrow.
Considering all that she'd seen and heard happened today.....it was rather
understandable.
Her eyes fall upon Roland and his group (that reader of that strange
King book) and remembers what Ensign Scott Chen had told of Roland in the
past. Something along the lines of what you can find on some Internet sites
in many Earths at:
http://www.southsideweb.com/stephenking/gunsling.htm
http://www.southsideweb.com/stephenking/draw3.htm
http://www.hci.net/~flamingpie/wastelan.htm
If, through some quirk of fate she should ever be so lucky, she might
be even to read a somewhat short (if overly rambling) synopsis of what
had happened to the "real" Roland the Gunslinger after The Wastelands
on one particular URL in an unassuming and out of the way parallel Earth
at:
http://www.chattown.com/home/gen/mystories6/New.htm
Maybe, sometime, she'll just ask.....and maybe if Roland is feeling
generous.....he'll tell her instead.
Right now, she has other things to take care of than idle curiousity.
She does give the Gunslinger a diplomatic bow (Starfleet Academy
perfect), in recognition to the way he helped divert an impending disaster
with Flagg. Then one to the others of power in the room (also a gesture
of diplomacy).
"I figure that with the evidence they provided.....it would be
utter foolishness to impede them," she explained reasonably to those in
the room, "When I child I read the olden fairy tales.....the tales of the
Unseelie Court...."
-
 A slight
shake of the head tells them that she doesn't wish the Unseelie on Nantucket
Earth in anyway, shape, or form! What with magic being real and all here,
that wasn't a mad fear!!
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