"Second Star to the Right...."
A ST:Voyager,ST:NG,and DS9 crossover




Ever since the Borg attacked at wolf three-five-nine Jake Sisko had
developed a special bond with his father.
The teen wasn’t sure if it was telepathic or what but he could tell
whenever his father was hurting or in some kind of trouble.
Forcing away memories of his mother dying on the Saratoga Jake walked
quickly through the promenande.
Jake stopped at Odo’s office and backtracked to Quark’s bar in surprise.
There was his father sitting at one of the corner tables,a tall purple
glass in his hand.
At three in the afternoon this was the last place he had expected to
find his father.

“Dad?”Jake asked hestiantly as he sat down across from the elder
Sisko,”Are you alright?”
Jarred from his thoughts Benjamin Sisko smiled at his son,”Fine. What
are you doing here Jake?”
Jake smiled,”Looking for you. You missed our weekly game of Quazar.”
Startled Sisko looked at the chronometer behind Quark’s bar,”I’m sorry
Jake I completely forgot.”
“Its alrlight.”Jake assured him,his curiousity finally winning out,”So
did they really find Voyager?”
Sisko glanced at the teen sharply,”How’d you hear that?”

“I got an email from Nog a few minutes ago.”Jake explained as he folded
his hands on the table,”He’s back at Starfleet headquarters for one of
his final exams. Anyway whenever he gets really excited about something
he slips into native feringi so most of the message was greek to me. But
I managed to pick out a few key words here and there. If I decphiered it
right Nog could see Voyager from his dorm window.”
“That’s impossible Jake,you can’t see a ship from that distance with the
naked eye.”
Jake nodded,”Knowing Nog he probably hacked his way into the central
computer and projected the image onto.....”

/Kira to Sisko./
Benjamin slapped his combadge,”Go ahead,Major.”
“Just got an interesting message from a friend of O’Brien’s back at
Starfleet headquarters that you might want to take a look at.”
Sisko glanced at his son,”Let me guess it says that Voyager’s orbiting
Earth.”
He could almost see the Bajoran’s eyebrow’s lift,”How’d you know?”
“I’ll fill you in when I get up there.”Sisko replied with a grin,”Sisko
out.”
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Kathryn Janeway was concentrating so hard on fighting the urge to pace
the width of the sickbay she barely noticed Tuvok’s precense.
“How is he?”The vulcan asked with his usual outward calm.
Janeway jumped slightly turning to face her old friend,”How’d you
know.....”She waved a hand absently,”Never mind of course you’d be
alerted.”
“The chief of security is normally alerted when an alien presence is
detected.”Tuvok replied dryily as he turned to face her,”Did Q attack
the commander?”
Janeway shook her head as she walked a few feet away from the security
chief,”Right species,wrong alien.”
Tuvok blinked,”His spouse attacked the commander?”

Janeway nodded as she folded her arms across her chest,”Chakotay was
playing hero,Tuvok. She had a hypodermic needle and came at me. Chakotay
being typical Chakotay threw himself in front of the needle.”
The vulcan nodded,”A noble but foolish gesture.”
Kathryn finally met his gaze,”He saved my life,Tuvok.”She said softly,”I
just hope I get a chance to thank him.”
“Do you have any idea what was in the needle?”Tuvok asked as he came to
stand next to her.
Janeway shook her head,”She wouldn’t say anything more than that it was
the same drug that she had used to kill B’Elanna.”
The vulcan’s eyebrow’s went up at that statement,”Did she offer any
proof of B’Elanna’s death?”

“She’s not dead,Captain!”Tom Paris protested as he and Harry entered
sickbay.
Janeway turned to face him,”Tom,we have to start to face certain
facts.....”
Tom shook his head firecly,”She’s not dead,Captain. I know it sounds
exteremly corny but I would feel it if she died.”
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“We don’t need your kind of help,Q.”Picard said firmly as he moved to
stand toe to toe with the alien.
Q leaned against the back of the chair,”Did we wake up on the wrong side
of the bed,Jean-Luc? Or did you just not get your daily dose of
caffine?”
“You have two seconds to explain why you’re really here before I call
security.”Picard snapped as he folded his arms across his chest.
Q pushed himself away from the chair making a mock attempt to walk out
the door,”Alright Jean-Luc if that’s how you want it. Then you’ll never
know how Voyager got home.”

Picard sighed,he could feel a migraine coming on,”Alright Q I’ll bite.
How do you know how Voyager got home?”
Q grinned,”Voyager got here the same way the enterprise first
encountered the Borg,Jean-Luc.”
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Janeway jumped slightly as the medical emergancy hologram suddenly
appeared at her left shoulder,”Doctor,how is he?”
The doctor’s expression softened as he looked at the crew members that
were assembled in the small waiting area,”I’m afraid it doesn’t look
very good,Captain. I’ve tried every identification program at my
disposal and there were no matches.”
The hologram met Tom Paris’s gaze,”If the female Q injected Lieutenat
Torres with the same kind of drug....”He shook his head,”I wouldn’t want
to guess on her chances,being somewhere without proper medical
treatment. With all the technology the federation has to offer I’m
afraid Commander Chakotay’s chances are very slim. I’d guess he has
forty eight hours,tops.”
Kathryn inhaled sharply at the doctor’s report. There had to be
something they could do. It couldn’t be that hopeless.
“Try to keep him as comfortable as possible,Doctor.”Janeway ordered as
she met the hologram’s gaze,”Can I see him for a few minutes?”
The doctor nodded,”Yes,but keep it brief. He’s very weak.”

/Seven-of-nine to Captain Janeway./

Kathryn hit her combadge,”Go ahead,Seven.”
/Captain,there’s a galaxy class starship coming along side Voyager.
Looks like they’re preparing to rendevous.”
Janeway glanced at Paris,”Whoever they are,they can wait a few
minutes,Seven.”
/Captain,its the Enterprise./
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Major Kira Nerysis glanced up from the ops console as Benjamin Sisko
strode onto the bridge followed close behind by Jake.
“So can we confirm any of this?”Sisko asked as he came to stand at her
left.
Kira shrugged,”Who knows. This whole thing is just too weird. First out
of nowhere we get this woman claiming to be the engineer of Voyager.
Then within a week same said ghost ship suddenly appears in Earth’s
orbit but with no communication to Earth.”
Sisko glanced out at the wormhole,”I wouldn’t classify Voyager as a
ghostship just yet,Major.”
The Bajorian followed Sisko’s gaze,”Maybe its a bad choice of words,but
she’s been gone for over four years. Starfleet had classified the crew
as dead. Where have they been?”

Sisko turned to meet his son’s gaze,”That’s what I intend to find out.
Where’s O’Brien?”
“On the Definant. He mumbled something about getting clearer reception
from starfleet with starfleet equipment.”
Benjamin nodded,”Good. I’ll be in Sickbay with our lost engineer. Jake
go to the Definiant,see what you can do to assist the Chief.”
With an enthustic smile that almost dwarfed the glow from the wormhole
Jake nodded,”Yes,Sir!”He replied quickly bounding into the turbolift.
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A frown crossed Commander William T. Riker’s face as he leaned forward
in the Captain’s chair.His brown eyes fixated on the ceiling to floor
viewscreen at the front of the bridge.
“Data,anything? She looks like she has a heck of a lot of battle
scarring.”
The android swiveled his chair around,tilting his head slightly to the
left,”All of Voyager’s systems are functioning at normal. One hundred
fifty two life forms aboard. No response to hails.”
“Thankyou,Data.”Riker replied leaning back and turning to the dark
haired woman next to him.
“Deanna?”The brown haired man in his middle thirties asked with slight
trepidation. He didn’t want to think that the Borg,Dominion,Romulans or
some unknown alien race had killed Voyager’s crew and taken over the
ship. But it was a possiblity they had to face.

The telepath shook her head turning to meet his questioning gaze,”I
don’t sense any alien precense,Will.”
Riker nodded turning his attention once again to the viewscreen,”So the
million dollar question is why the hell aren’t they responding?”He stood
walking to Data’s right.
“You’re finally home,Kathryn Janeway so why aren’t you saying
hello?”Riker asked softly.
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Janeway saw Tom’s eyebrows arch almost to his hairline as Seven’s
announcement slowly sank in.
Having the legendary Enterprise so close by was bringing the reality of
the last twenty four hours crashing down around them.
They were home.
They were finally home.

“Don’t acknowledge them,Seven.”Janeway ordered recieving several
surprised looks from the group gathered in Sickbay.
/Captain....../The former borg protested.
“That’s an order.”Katherine snapped,”We’ve been gone for over four years
waiting fifteen more minutes won’t kill them.”
/As you wish,Captain./Seven replied terminating the coversation.
“Tom,I need you,Harry and Tuvok to report to the bridge.”Janeway
ordered,”I’ll join you in a few minutes.”
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Picard firmly slammed shut the door in this mind that had threatened to
open.
The door that held all his memories of the most painful time of his
life.
The time the borg had assimlated him into the collective.
The time he had watched helplessly as the Borg slaughted countless
federation lives at the battle of Wolf three five nine.

“Here’s the data on the scans,Jean-Luc.”Amanda Halloway commented as she
entered the room not looking up from the small datapadd,”Sorry it took
me so long.Damn computers, sometimes I think they’re more trouble then
they’re worth.”
The admiral stopped halfway into the room her gaze fixated on the alien
staring smugly back at her,”Who let you in here?!”
Picard smiled grimly,”I think that’s the least of our problems right
now,Admiral. Q has offered his help in dealing with Voyager and I
suggest we take it.”
At Q’s triumphent smile Picard added,”With a large grain of caution.”
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“Ouch!”Chief of operations Miles O’Brien swore softly as he wacked his
head against the definat’s communcations console.
Jake Sisko’s jublant expression instantly turned sheepish as he offered
his right hand to the blond haired man,”Sorry Chief,I thought you heard
me come in.”

Miles rose to his feet carefully avoiding the consol as he smiled
ruefully at the teenager,”No,I was trying to boost the power to the
communcations stream.”
Jake practicly bounced over to the captain’s chair,”Dad sent me down to
help.”
O’Brien rubbed the back of his head as he turned to face the teen,”Any
news on our mystery patient?”He asked not wanting to tell Jake there
really wasn’t anything for him to do.
The young black man shook his head sadly,”No.Last I heard she was still
unconscience.Dax and Bashir were trying to find a cure but even they
admitted it was like looking for a needle in an extremely large
haystack.”
“With those two working on it she has a chance.”O’Brien met the teen’s
gaze,”What’s your opinion,Jake. Do you believe she’s who she says she
is?”

Jake leaned against the back of the Captain’s chair,resting his chin in
his right palm,”Wasn’t there a Macquis ship reported missing the same
time as Voyager?”
O’Brien thought for a moment,then nodded,”Yes,I believe so.Why?”
Jake walked toward the older man,”What if the maquis ship and Voyager
got caught in this temporal rift? What if for some reason Janeway had to
beam the Macquis crew aboard to save them? What would the macquis do for
four years without a ship of their own?”

O’Brien caught onto Jake’s train of throught,”The two crews would be
forced to work together. Especially if Voyager lost part of her crew
during this *trip* to the Delta quardent.”
Jake nodded,”Anyway we can get a list of the Macquis crew?”
O’Brien was already moving toward the communications console setting up
a link with starfleet,”Might take some digging but if it could prove her
story............Pull up a chair Jake,this could take awhile.”