By David A. McIntee 483 pages
PART 1 CHALLENGER
Jason Lambert is the captain of the Intrepid. All the ships in the Fleet, were changing to Federation ships, codes, getting warp 6 engines, more trandportor ability, and greater torpedo yields. The Intrepid hit a Romulan mine and exploded.
Admiral Collins asked the Vulcans to help see what happened to the Intrepid. The Vulcans found three bodies and some hull plating. Geordi was talking to a Vulcan shipmates about the connection one feels to a ship. The Vulcan dismissed it immediately.
Picard was busy figuring out what reports were to forward to Starfleet. Enterprise found the debris from the Intrepid. The Intrepid had radiation leaks from a nearby star. There was a question of its authenticity, but that got resolved.
Laforge and his team found something like moss on the Intrepid but then it was found that oy was the suits of the crew melted down. The remains of the.ship were 2,500 years old but the ship was only 250 years old
"Sometimes it's not just the treasure that draws us to the past, but a human connection."
Starfleet was sending the Columbus to study the Intrepid and asked Geordi to temporarily be on the mission while studying it.
He was asked for by Scotti. Worf helped Laforge make up his mind.
He met Guinin on the starbase while waiting for Scotty's ship.
He met Ogowa and Barcley aboard as well as Nog and Leah Brahms.
Rasmussen beamed aboard, a person Geordi helped apprehend on Enterprise.
Their questioning the use of Slipstream drive or Slingshotting around a star, to make possible a jump from 200 years ago. Radiation caused rust on the ship.
They had to make di-lithuem for the Intrepid. They brought the computer back online and a holographic projection of the last few minutes on the Intrepid were seen. Dr. Brahms, talked to Guinen about Geordi about his relationship with Rasputan. He was not trusted by Nog or Geordi. Nog scanned him for stolen items when he could.
On Earth, Rasmussan worked on a blade to cut through anything but an EV suit. In a diner he met a professor who he thought stole the invention from him. The professor was a time traveller. The professor was sick, from a condition that didn't exist yet, and needed some meds from his pod, but Rasmussan wouldn't get it. He died.
He was taking the professor to the storage area where he kept his time pod, the professor hand opened it. Intreped was under attack
Challenger was in battle with the ship that was scouting the Intrepid. Challenger was intetiating sauser separation. Challenger got the bridge crew of the enemy vessel. Nog was talking to the Ferengi dressed in civilian clothes saying the ship was Ex-Federation
Rom was the Grand Nagus. Rom was a member of the Bajorean militia. Rasmussan let the Ferengi know where Challenger was. They're under armed guard.
La Forge ordered the Starfleet crew to repair the ship. They were repairing the cloak as well. The Intrepid was taken over by Ferengi.
They were going to wait until the Federation had fixed the Intrepid, however they were taking to long.
Challenger was having trouble finding Intrepids warp trail.
They beamed a parsec of space to the Challenger and found a cloaked ship, which decloaked with s phaser. Geordi and Barcley found the wormhole Rasmussan wanted to travel back in time because he missed his friends and family. Bok was going back in time to save his son. Challenger was under attack. Geordi and Barcley were going to use the transporters to dematerialize and be out of phase with reality and be ghosts.
Barcley made Rasmussan think that Bok was about to betray him by recording Boks conversions and editing the words together. Everyone aboard the ship was out cold. Reg and LaForge came back into phase. Both ships were getting signals from the future as well as the past. Bok was in control of Challenger by a remote, which couldn't be overridden. The Challenger was travelling through time. Intrepid was going to beam Geordi and Reg off Challenger.
Challenger was going further back then 2423, it couldn't control when it was going. Intreped was going to use their Transpoters to degrade Challengers temporal coordinates to keep it in this timeline. They used the Romulan Probe to close the timerift before Challenger entered. Guinan was against the wall with shrapnel keeping her, because Challenger was trying to prevent it from going back in time. Transporers were destroyed because of this as well.
Ogawa had so many patients that Barcley suggested using the holodeck, however she refused. They realized a mine hit the ship and caused another trans slip stream wave. Hera, which Geordi's mother disappeared on, was due to the same phenomena. Hera could still be out there. Scotti was forced to step down from captaincy because of his age.
LaForge was asked to take command of Challenger. Barcley was first officer. Scotti went to engineering. The Tal'Shiar found the Trans-slipstream wake.
PART 2 MOBIUS TRIP
Gomez, captain of the DeVinci, came aboard Challenger. A Klingon Bird of Prey detected a cloaked ship detected a cloaked ship which they assumed to be Romulan.
They were crossing the galactic barrier. The Romulan ship was headed on an intersept course to Federation space. The Romulans detected the slipstream. The ship was hit by something and they lost most systems but lifesupport.
Challenger got a distress call from a Romulan vessel. They rescued the Romulans from the Stormcrow.
The preator, head of the Romulan ship was Sela, the one that resembled Tasha, and the one that was head of the crew that caused Geordi to almost kill the Kligon govenor against his will. Geordi was hit and knocked out when Barcley found what blew the Romulan ship up.
The device Rojan gave Kirks Enterprise took them between sub space and actual space. Sela, was as Romulan as anyone, if she died she'd be honored. Challenger was thrown back by a trans Slipstream and blew up and lost power. Scotty was in sickbay.
He talked himself out by saying he would be more useful in engineering. Reg was talking through a shuttlecrafts comm. The Romulans came to engineering to help. They found found the Hera.
They're sending an away team to the Hera of Scotty, Barcley, Nog and a Romulan to go by shuttlecraft. Reg is in love with the Romulan. The shuttle got swallowed by an unknown energy source.The planet was not rotating or so they thought. They found La'forges moms and her crewa grave. The away team was being attacked by an unknown zombie like entity. Control of emotions was found to weaken the moss monsters. Some of the Hera crew saved the away team. The moss creatures were made by the fear they caused. The engines were going off brainwaves
The aliens were explorers who visited other galaxies as well. Scottie and Barcley were looking for a way to go through Universe bubbles to be able to reunite with Challenger. Challenger was going to send a Romulan vessel through the fold. They were melting Hera. Geordi's mom died suddenly in a landslide. They are two hundred years from known space. Both the Federation and the Romulan had to travel together, which.could end up to be a major problem. They were soronded by anti body like aliens.
Scott just transported himself to collapse the fold by having Challenger explode. The alien body had promised to deliver the ship safely to the Alpha Quadrant. Picard expected the Romulan vessel for days after Challenger disappeared.
