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The Ice
Queen
A J/7 Advent
Calendar Story 2008 by Gun Brooke
Disclaimer
1
”Captain!
We’re going in too fast!” Ensign Harry Kim, senior
operations officer of the star ship USS Voyager clung to his
console as the sleek vessel they all had called home the
last six years lurched beneath his feet.
“I’m aware
of that, Mr. Kim.” Captain Kathryn Janeway spoke through
clenched jaws, her auburn hair in complete disarray as she
crawled back up into her command chair. “Keep her steady,
Mr. Paris. If we hit the wall of this wormhole—“
“The
shields will fail and we will become space dust.” Lieutenant
Tom Paris didn’t avert his eyes as he struggled with the
controls. “Recommend going to half impulse, Captain.”
“Negative.
Stay on full impulse and don’t take your eyes off those
controls.”
“Captain,
reports are coming in from the lower decks. Minor
casualties.” Commander Chakotay frowned as he read off the
console between the command chairs. “Internal transporter is
offline. Bridge to sickbay. Doctor, you’re needed on level
six. Two crewmembers with suspected fractures.”
“Aye, sir,”
the holographic physician replied smartly. “Let me know
where else I am needed.”
“Engineering to the bridge. The warp core is destabilizing.
I can only give you another twenty seconds of this, Captain.
I can’t risk having to eject the core inside a wormhole.”
Lieutenant. B’Lanna Torres, chief engineer could hardly make
herself heard above the blaring sound of the emergency
klaxons.
“I hear
you, Lieutenant. You remember what Tkarios said. It would be
a bumpy ride.” Janeway dug her nails into the armrests, dead
set on not making another painful trip to the floor. “I will
need you to squeeze everything you can out of the warp
core.”
“Aye, ma’am.”
Janeway
stared at the view screen where green and purple lines
formed a whirling pattern, depicting the worm hole they’d
created by opening up a singularity using Tkarios’ device.
No matter what, Janeway was not going to let one of her crew
disappear into a rift in time.
Especially
not her.
Especially
not Seven of Nine.
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