Time's Price IX: Restoration

Time's Price IX: Restoration

Star Trek: Excelsior featuring…
Star Trek Deep Space Nine | Cavalier Squadron

Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry

Concept by ThunderChyld and Ruahforever

Time’s Price IX: Restoration

"A road less traveled…"

Last time on Star Trek: Excelsior:

USS Excelsior | NCC-2000
Mission Date: 4/11/2309

The young lieutenant next to Pavel--Carolyn Richardson who was a blonde, noticed a chime on her ops panel. "Captain Sulu, I am picking up something on our forward sensors. It appears to be an ion storm bearing zero-two-zero mark three--distance four hundred thousand kilometers."

"Bring us out of warp. I want to take a closer look at this phenomena."

"Aye..."

As Pavel dropped the Excelsior to impulse power, they were able to witness a large ion storm directly ahead seemingly close in on their position.

"Sensors?"

"Sir, that is a class-4 ion storm. Our shields will be able to handle it. However, our transporters will be offline if we traveled through it," Carolyn added with a little of her southern drawl.

"Lieutenant, increase power to the shield generators to compensate."

"Power transferred, sir."

"Keptin, that ion storm is closing in on us fast...much faster than it should..." Pavel observed with his finger on the 'trigger'...

"I don't like this..." Hikaru considered his options. "Helm--ease us back from it, nice and slow..."

"Aye--engines back one-quarter."

Excelsior pulled back from the storm itself. As Pavel guided the ship away from this disturbance, the ominous looking storm cloud continued to follow them. This did not sit well with Hikaru at all.

"Mister Chekov, bring us about and take us to warp five..."

"Warp five, aye..."

The ship came around and as it was about to use it's powerful warp drive to leap into warp speed, an acid green beam struck the ship's aft shields directly with no warning. Klaxons aboard the Excelsior flashed and blared--warning everyone to head to battle stations.

"Maximum shields...what the hell was that?"

"Captain that was a coherent disruptor blast. Our aft shields are down 38%! I am rerouting auxiliary power to compensate--but that shot did a lot of damage to our secondary systems...I am also dispatching damage control teams..." Carolyn added as she struggled to get the damaged systems back online.

As the ion storm dissipated, the true nature now had form... This ion storm was created to hide a Romulan D'Deridex Warbird. This was a ship that was over 50 years before it's time.

"What kind of ship is that?" Hikaru shouted over the damage.

"This ship is an unknown vessel...they are firing again...."

"Pavel--return fire!"

Then…

"Pavel--send out a distress call... return fire if--" Hikaru was cut off by an explosion at the rear science station that blew three crewmen over the rail. "Dammit--who are they?"

A blonde haired man appeared on the screen. One that appeared to be human, but somehow Hikaru knew that he couldn't be. "Captain Hikaru Sulu--my name is Leif... I have only one purpose here..."

Hikaru was not impressed, "And what purpose was that?"

"Your destruction..." Leif pressed a key on his panel that fired shot after shot of disruptor pulses with each one landing on Excelsior’s hull, the ship was systematically pummeled. Explosive decompression started to creep up all over the hull of this mighty ship of the line. As the hull could no longer take the stress, the ship’s warp core breached—causing a major explosion killing everyone aboard.

Once the ship exploded, Leif watched his panels. “And so you see—I always get what I want…” Leif looked on as his ship returned into the confines of time and space from whence he came.

And in the present…

USS Vision | Conference Lounge
Stardate 60279.3 (4/13/2383)

Just then, almost immediately—Rex found himself weightless… In a moment, he heard a thumping sound—like a heartbeat. Rex knew where this had come from. Several times over the last few years he had visions…and now another one was coming, on his birthday no less.

A female voice said from a distance, “You are the Rex of Earth…”

After regaining a solid idea of where he was, Rex then stated, “I was…until Earth was destroyed.”

”You have a chance to save it…”