A short "Star Trek" tale.

It concerns the fate of the Federation vessel USS Pequod. The back story of the ship, and crew I leave to your imaginations. We join them as they enter the Augustine System on the Federation/Breen border. There the Pequod was caught in a temporal slip.

They stayed for 400,000 years. ...give or take.

Outside the Slip the ages raised, and lowered seas, and rearraigned the stars. Through all this the crew unknowingly lived the same three minutes. The same, and the same, and the same.

'Till they didn't.

Like Angels time slips are mercurial. Coming, and going as they please. The Augustine Event lifted leaving the Pequod facing, "...New worlds, and new civilizations".

Ages later their descendants met a species that knew them. Knew them well, and had plans for them. For these were the authors of the Augustinian Event. These people called themselves,...

"The Q".