Star Trek: Coda: Book 1: Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward

Author:Dayton Ward [Ward, Dayton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781982158538
Google: ct0YEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

20

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E

2387

Sounds of surprise and relief greeted Picard and Wesley as the Enterprise’s engineering section materialized around them. No sooner did the effect fade than Picard felt Beverly Crusher’s arms around him. The hug lasted a brief moment before she disengaged and repeated the action with her son.

“Captain,” said Geordi La Forge. “Are you all right?” He moved his gaze between Picard and Wesley. “You seemed to blink out there for a minute.”

Frowning, Picard regarded the chief engineer. “A minute? That’s all?”

La Forge shrugged. “Okay, it was more like two minutes.”

“How are you feeling?” asked Crusher. Even without a tricorder or other medical equipment, she still appraised Picard and Wesley with a doctor’s shrewd eyes.

Picard patted her arm. “We’re fine.” He looked to Wesley, who nodded in agreement before responding to the captain’s prompt to explain their experience. Listening in silence, Picard replayed the scenes he had viewed as Wesley recounted them while attempting to explain what they might mean.

“It started as an isolated incident,” he said to the three of them. Still ensconced in the nook just off the main engineering floor, Wesley placed his left hand on the worktable, supporting himself with that arm while he reached for the Omnichron, which remained at the table’s center. He placed his free hand on the device’s center crystal. The translucent orb glowed blue, and a moment later a spherical holographic projection appeared in the space over the table. Picard recognized it as the representation of a star map depicting an area of the Alpha Quadrant near the Federation-Romulan border.

“I was… traveling,” said Wesley. “And I sensed a temporal disturbance in Romulan space. It was a wormhole connecting to a point in the Delta Quadrant, and while it was far too small for a ship, signals could still be transmitted through it. A Romulan science vessel had discovered the wormhole and established communications with a ship on the other end. The catch was that the two ends of the wormhole were separated by time as well as space. Twenty years’ difference.”

“I know this story,” said La Forge. “Voyager, while it was stranded in the Delta Quadrant, found a wormhole and made contact with a Romulan scientist from twenty years in their past. This was at a point before Starfleet knew Voyager hadn’t been destroyed in the Badlands. Captain Janeway and her crew sent messages to him to deliver to their families, to let them know they were all right but on the other side of the galaxy. The scientist promised to keep the messages and his contact with Voyager a secret for twenty years to avoid possible disruptions to the timeline, but he died a few years before their original mission even started.”

Crusher also knew the story. “Telek R’Mor. He died of a rare Romulan blood disease, T’Shevat’s Syndrome, as I recall.”

“Yeah, well, in the version I saw, something came through the wormhole, pushing out from both ends to destroy Voyager and R’Mor’s ship.” Wesley grimaced as the projection shifted to show a rush of energy consuming an older model of Romulan civilian vessel.

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