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8th

Excerpt from: The Remaining Immortal
“We've been spotted,” Lady Me stated.

“We have?” Ella asked as she started panicking again.

“Yes,” Lady Me answered. “But please remain calm and follow my lead.”

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Excerpt from: The Memorial Dance Incident
It was an ordinary day at Lawndale High School. Brittany Taylor was bored. Just painting what one saw wasn’t interesting. She preferred it if it was more interesting. She looked at Jane Lane’s picture. “Why are the people covered in blood?” she asked Jane.

“Because that’s my interpretation,” Jane explained.

“Wait…” Brittany said. “Didn’t Ms. Defoe say to copy what we saw?”

“No, she just said to look around and paint what you see here, in the classroom,” Jane explained.

Words: 80


Excerpt from: A New Generation
Riker and Data looked around the marketplace. “Have you noticed anything unusual?” the former asked a short while later.

“I can’t see as well as Geordi, sir, but so far the material seems rather ordinary,” Data answered.

“Construction records?”

“Construction records show this to be almost identical to that which Starfleet uses.”

“Yar to Riker. We’ve found something interesting. We’re in a passageway directly under the station, sir.”

“But these tunnel walls are something I’ve never seen before, sir,” La Forge reported.

“How are you examining them?” Riker asked.


La Forge tried to understand what he was seeing as he also considered Riker’s question.

Words: 104


Excerpt from: Sixteenth Doctor Adventures
“That was expected, Doctor. Preparations have been made.”

“Of course,” the Doctor groused. “However, I ask you to surrender before they get here.”

“No!” the other said as more drones entered the office. “You can’t get them all, Doctor.”

There was an alarm, different to the previous one. “Sir, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce is approaching…”

Words: 55

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17th

Excerpt from: Jia’hale
“I miss Hotaru,” he murmured.

“Not the first time someone wanted to leave...” the Doctor said in a sad tone.

'There's something there,' Sabir thought. 'Hotaru had been travelling alone with her when I started travelling.' He shook his head. “Have you found anything.”

“Not yet.”


Police Public Call Box. “Huh?”

“What?” the officer asked.

“The markings of the pod. It has an English phrase. 'Police Public Call Box'. That makes no sense!”

“...Sounds familiar.”

“How, sir,” the tech asked.

“Just run the search.”


The Doctor found something. “A particle trace...”

“What kind of trace?” Sabir asked.

“A particle trace. It could tell me something about what happened.”
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Excerpt from: A New Generation – Farpoint
“Lose?” Q asked incredulously.

“Yes, even though you’re judge and prosecutor.”

“And Jury.”

“Accepted, so long as you keep to your agreement,” Picard said. “And assaulting prisoners is hardly a fair trial.”

“This is a merciful court,” Q said as he thawed Yar. “Continuing these proceedings, I must caution you that legal trickery is not permitted. This is a court of…”

Picard interrupted. “Court of fact! We humans know our past, even when we're ashamed of it. I recognise this court system as the one that agreed with that line from Shakespeare. Kill all the lawyers,” he said referring to Henry VI.

“Which was done,” Q added.

“Which led to the rule guilty until proven innocent.”

“Of course,” Q said, clearly enjoying himself. “Bringing the innocent to trial would be unfair. You will now answer to the charge of being a grievously savage race.”


Deanna could feel that Tasha was tense, trying not to remember what she had experienced of the ‘courts’ on her home planet.

Words: 166


Excerpt from: Horrors of the Delta Quadrant
There was still discontent and worry. But they settled down. Chakotay wondered how Kes was having that calming effect.


“I’ve reversed course, Captain,” Paris reported. “Ready to go to warp.”

“Slow and Steady, Lieutenant. Warp 2.”

“Warp 2, aye.”

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Excerpt from: A November of Change
“One drink,” she said.

“Sure.”


However, Daria quickly regretted that decision. That one drink was enough for her to get tipsy. “That’s enough for now,” she said, firmly. “Do you have a soda?”

“Of course,” Kelly, one of Natalia’s friends said. “Here!”

Daria nodded, she considered that she had just sounded like Quinn!

Words: 53

Total: 356

14th

Excerpt from: A New Generation - Farpoint
Troi looked around the courtroom. She could detect nothing from the people there other than the other officers who arrived with her. But she knew Q was there, somewhere.

“Historically intriguing, Captain,” Data said. “Very, very accurate.”

“Mid 21st Century, during the Post Atomic Horror,” Picard said, referring to the many warlord states that arose in the aftermath of the nuclear exchange at the end of World War Three.

‘Could have been worse,’ Troi thought. It could have been Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge Cambodia or the Great Khanate.

“All present, stand and make respectful attention to the honoured Judge,” the bailiff said.

Troi leaned closer to the Captain. “Careful sir. This is not an illusion or a dream.”

“But these courts happened in the past.”

“I don’t understand either, but this is real.”

“Get to your feet, criminals!”

Then Q appeared, in a garb appropriate to a ‘Judge’ of the era.

“At least we’re acquainted with the Judge, Captain,” Data remarked.

Picard stood. “Can we assume you mean this will be a fair trial?”

“Yes,” Q answered. “Absolutely equitable. Proceed.”

The Bailiff spoke again. “Before this gracious court now appear these prisoners to answer for the multiple and grievous savageries of their species. How plead you, criminal?”

Words: 207

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9th

Excerpt from: Meeting a Community
I hope you have had a good week. Let’s pray and thank God for what He has done.”

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Excerpt from: A New Generation - Farpoint
“Captain’s Log, Stardate 41153.7. Preparing to detach the Saucer Section, so that families and the majority of the ship’s company can seek relative safety while the vessel’s Stardrive, containing the Battle Bridge and main armaments, will turn back and confront the mystery that is threatening us.”

Saucer Separation was hardly new. The Galaxy class had simply taken the concept further. The earlier classes of ship (the Excelsior and Ambassador classes mainly) could reconnect with an involved manual process, but the Galaxy could do it with various automated modes.
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Star Trek: A New Generation
Farpoint
Captain Jean-Luc Picard wandered the corridors of his new command, the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D, an example of the Galaxy class. It was an example of how advanced the Federation had become in the two centuries since its founding. Having just left Sector 001 they would reach their destination at Deneb IV in less than a day. ‘Remarkable. It would have taken the Stargazer a week!’ he thought as he stepped into a turbolift. “Bridge.” He was sure he was ready for the command, despite being out of it for nearly a decade.


A month earlier
Picard entered Admiral Satie’s office. “Jean-Luc, welcome,” she said.

“Good Morning,” he said as he sat down and sipped at the offered tea.

“You have received your orders?” she asked.

“Yes, Admiral. To take command of the Enterprise and begin a voyage of exploration. But…”

“But?”

“It nearly a decade since the Stargazer was lost. I’m not sure I still have it in me.”

The Admiral raised her hand. “I have confidence in you. So does the rest of the Admiralty. I have read the reports on your recent missions. You did well in a command role. Besides you will have an experienced First Officer. The field has narrowed down to a few officers.”

That did reassure him, but there was one niggle. “I’m also not sure having children aboard a starship is a good decision.”

“If we are going to have long term missions, we can’t have officers who have families miss them for long periods.”

Picard had heard that argument before. “I understand. I guess I will have to let the First Officer deal with them.”

“Is that all, Captain?”

“Yes.”


Enterprise – Present
Diplomatic Officer and Chief Counsellor Deanna Troi looked over the bridge as she emerged from one of the turbolift. Most of the Senior Officers were there. The Android, Data, stood up from the Command Chair. “Welcome Counsellor,” he said.

“Afternoon, Data,” she said, trying to warm.

“We’re one hour, forty-seven minutes out from Deneb IV, maintaining a speed of Warp 9.”

“Making good progress,” Troi said as she sat at her station, next to the command chair.
Data nodded and sat down again.

She activated her terminal and looked over the information on Deneb IV again. It didn’t really tell her anything she didn’t know. That the Bandi had been able to build Farpoint over a very short period of time was part of the reason Starfleet had sent Enterprise to investigate. There were rumours that they intended to join the Federation. ‘I’m certain I’ll be able to determine if that is true or not,’ she thought as she played with a lock of hair. She quickly stopped that action. She looked around.
None of the other officers had seen that action. She was sure. She sighed inwardly. ‘Counsellor, counsel yourself,’ she chided. That was one reason she usually wore it tied up. She made a note to schedule a session with one of the Junior Counsellors for sometime the next week. She heard one of the turbolift doors open and saw the Captain come back to the bridge.

“You will agree, Data, that Starfleet’s orders are difficult?”

“Difficult? Simply solve the mystery of Farpoint Station,” the Android officer stated. He looked, perplexed. Unlike everyone else aboard Enterprise, she could read very little from him.

“As simple as that,” the Captain added.

“Farpoint Station,” she mused. “Even the name sounds mysterious.” If it wasn’t too good to be true, it would be a very useful forward base for exploration of the regions beyond, given that First Contact with the Bandi had only occurred less than twenty years earlier.