Story:Star Trek: Conflict/Tragedy


 * I am frankly pissed off that my page was deleted. I've had serious writer's block and yet my work has once again been cut out from under me! Even if I have only an introduction and a chapter outline on my pages, I beg that you please leave my work alone!!!! Bookworm1138 23:41, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

The secrets of Alicia Rookwood's history are revealed...

Teaser

 * "I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?"
 * Robert A. Heinlein

Lianna Young finishes reading Heinlein's novel, and ask Zhangli Tai about her thoughts regarding origins, and wonders if, since most anything is possible in their experience, it were possible that one person could orchestrate the creation of their own existence. While they debate on whether or not the constrictions of temporal travel and the Temporal Prime Directive - which, though they have broken at times, they try to remain the most adherent to - would make doing such a death-sentence or not, an emergency message comes through from another place on the ship. The message is from the Bridge, it is Nox, who urges the captain to order a full-stop and allow him to go to the Enterprise's medbay. Though she is confused as to why he chooses to ignore his pledge never to step foot on it, he gives her the cryptic reply of...


 * It's time.

Chapter One
In the med-bay of the Enterprise, Alicia Rookwood has gone into labor. Nox beams over from the Admonitor, rushes into the med-bay and, despite protests from Dr. Boreas, makes his way into the medical bay to attend to her. Young prepares to go over there herself to represent both herself and the missing Captain Shield, but K'hallA reports that they have an incoming ship to worry about. With Rookwood going through strong contractions and an armed and shielded Earth ship having now dropped out of warp, it looks like a stand-off, one which neither Young nor K'hallA which to bring to blood for fear of damaging Nox's offspring.

The moment Rookwood's baby is delivered (a female), the third vessel breaks radio-silence. It is a run-about, piloted by a lone human female, who requests that she be allowed to board the ship and meet Alicia Rookwood, to whom she claims a distant relation. Captain Young accepts, but has the woman placed in a cell while she goes onto the Enterprise-C herself to welcome the new child.

Chapter Two
Practically everyone is gathered in the med-bay of the Enterprise. Dr. Boreas has frankly given up on trying to keep people out. Young is happy that the child is a girl, and tells the mother and father that Captain Shield would be proud if he were here. She asks them to think up a good name and then leaves, asking K'hallA to join her. Young asks her what she knows about blessed births, and K'hallA mentions the Klingon Kuvah'magh sect, but says that she never believed in it. Young tells K'hallA that the birth of this child means that whatever end might become of the crew, their mission is blessed since life has come about. After sharing a brief moment of sentimentality wherein Young's eyes start to water and K'hallA is disgusted by the weak ways in which humans express their emotions, the captains then make for the prison-cell to interview the prisoner.

The person begs them once again to be let out to meet her relative, now adding urgency to her tone and stating that others will come to kill the child. Young asks the person if she is one of the ones who wishes to kill the child, but the prisoner admits that if she did so, it would unmake her entire existence and cause some great catastrophe, since, she then admits, she is Diana Rookwood, great-niece of Alicia Rookwood.

Chapter Three
Diana is allowed to enter the med-bay, though stripped of her weapons, and she and Captain Young decide it best to not disclose her relation to Alicia Rookwood just yet. Alicia recognizes the new-comer from that time in the bathroom in that bar on Earth, and asks the woman to make herself known. She calls herself only Diana, and says that she is a relative. Alicia likes the name and asks Nox if he would like that to be their daughter's name. He agrees, but only on the condition that she also be called Alicia as well, after her mother: and so Alicia Diana Nox is welcomed into the world.