“Mercurial”,...re-run from last Summer

“Mercurial”,...re-run from last Summer

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.

The ship, and crew of the USS Pequod were caught in a temporal slip. There they stayed for 200,000 years. ...give or take.

Outside the Slip the ages raised, and lowered seas, and rearraigned the stars. Through all this the crew lived the same four 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".

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

"The Q". 

Deleted scenes.

The U.S.S. Pequod.

In the Pequod's galley Boson's Mate Ivy reached for her coffee. 200,000 years later she drank it.

In the corridor of deck three Crewman Rodrigo waited for the lift. 200,000 years later it finally arrived.

On the bridge Helmswoman Keong felt a hint of turbulence. 200,000 years later she also noticed all the stars were in the wrong places.

228 years after that,...

Helmswoman Keong's great great grand son's, grand daughter met the "Q".