Star Trek The Next Generation - 101 - Engines of Destiny by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781416506713
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2005-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

With an eagerness she hadn’t felt in centuries, yet with an almost equally intense uneasiness, the woman calling herself Guinan waited on the D’Zidran’s bridge for the Enterprise to come within transporter range.

She had lived with the ghost of the one who called himself Picard for more than four hundred years. Until a few minutes ago she had assumed it had been a dream, despite the fact that her people seldom dreamed. It was likely a result of her many years on Picard’s world, she had often told herself. Humans were—had been—a dreaming race if nothing else, and it wouldn’t be the first time she had temporarily acquired traits of the races she observed and listened to. Some inner part of herself, she had always suspected, was listening as intently as her outer shell, temporarily adapting itself to different worlds in ways that made her observations, her “listening” more…complete.

After all, what better way to understand a race than by not only participating in the conscious lives of its members but by also emulating their generally more honest inner lives? This would have been particularly useful on a world like Earth, where inner and outer lives were often so different as to be almost irreconcilable.

But this particular dream had been so vivid that for decades she had had only to close her eyes for it to return and play itself out on the russet glow of her lowered eyelids.

And in her heart.

In the dream, the one who called himself Picard and a strange, artificial companion had come from hundreds of years in the future, on an errand that she could never quite remember. What she did remember was that he declared with absolute certainty that the two of them would meet in that same distant future he had come from, that they would develop a relationship deeper than any she had experienced even in her long life. She also remembered that, in the dream, she had been injured, and Picard had not only risked his life to save her but had risked being trapped for the rest of that life hundreds of years in his own past.

In the centuries that followed she had often been driven, inexplicably, to return to Earth, not only to observe or listen but to search for anything that would indicate the dream had been more than a dream.

But there had been nothing.

And then Earth itself was no more. In its place was only the utter desolation of a Borg world, its billions of newly created drones toiling mindlessly on the poisonous remnants of the planet they were systematically destroying.

All hope that the dream had been more than a dream ended with Earth.

And she had moved on, finding herself drawn to the Alliance as it slowly and contentiously brought itself into existence, hoping someday to do battle with the Borg.

And now…

Now not only had her dream, dead for centuries, been resurrected, but it had brought with it the possibility that she had been wrong all those years.

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