Story:Star Trek: Conflict/Dwells in Madness

A rendeavous with a renegade Federation cargo vessel goes awry and the crews of the Enterprise-C and the Admonitor find themselves on a planet ruled by a mysterious cult who seek to awake a titanic avatar of destruction.

Chapter One
The Enterprise and the Admonitor are docked, pooling each other's resources due to the fact that their supplies are dangerously short. Both ships are on auto-pilot, and the crew are preparing for a well-deserved "R'n'R". Only a skeletal crew is allowed to remain awake at all times, keeping the ship active, rotating every second hour. On the Admonitor, Captain Young insists that she keep all the maggots awake for all the night, but also adds that she has to stay awake with them, since they can't be trusted with running her ship. None of the crewmen of the Admonitor are happy with this arrangement, but they know better than to question. Nox, however, is extremely weary. He tells the captain that he has to rest or else he might be unfit to perform his duties. Though she initially rejects his petition, Edward Shield, who is also staying up on his ship, insists and Young relents.

Nox basically falls asleep the moment he enters his quarters. He sleeps for five hours, restfully and without incident: but just before the sixth hour (when he is to be awakened for his duties), he begins to dream.
 * In his dream, there is a dark forest, the trees bare of their leaves. A great light appears before him. He runs towards it, but it begins to move. He follows the orb of light for a great time, until it coalesces into the form of a planet. The planet is mostly oceanic from its appearance, with black rock land-masses on it. Not exactly sure why, he reaches up and touches the orb. But it melts away into a black hole; but it isn't a true black hole since things are coming out of it, and he - Nox - is not being affected by its presence. The things are four, black, ravenous alien monsters similar to the | canis lupis. They begin to chase Nox, who, naturally, starts to run. They continue to relentlessly hunt him down, and though he grows weary, they do not tire. He trips, and the monsters almost catch him...

Nox returns to waking and storms madly onto the Bridge, muttering variations of the phrase "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" in English, Romulan, Vulcan as well as a Xindi-dialect that no one believed he knew. Young orders him to go to Sick Bay at once, but he tells her to beware of "the Thing that Cannot Be Named" before she has him forcibly taken off the Bridge.

She continues her communique with Shield, apologizing for the "annoying interruption". Shield thinks that there might be some worth to what he's saying, but Young says that he's probably had too much Romulan ale and is suffering under its intoxicating affects, despite the fact that Shield reminds her that Romulans are more tolerant of its affects than humans. Dismissing this, she asks him about this meeting with the USS Emma, which he reminds her will be peaceful only. He assures her that | Captain Johansen, who is friendly to their New Insurrectionist movement, has agreed to meet them there with supplies on his ship.