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Previously, on Star Trek: Voyager (Cavit Ro Alternate Retelling) Season Two...
Ensign Sahreen Lan’s Symbiont Offspring
After a “pregnancy” that involved intense memory flashbacks and even full-on hallucinations on the part of the host, Sahreen, the Lan symbiont’s offspring were “delivered” (with help from the Vidiian organ harvesting device Voyager gained from their first run-in with the Vidiians). They are placed in a specially constructed “pool” in Ensign Lan’s quarters, where it soon became clear the offspring needed “contact” through an electrochemical connection to someone immersed in the liquid.
Ensign Michael Murphy, who Ensign Lan was now dating, alongside a group of Lan’s good friends—dubbed “the Village” after the phrase “It Takes a Village”—began taking turns keeping a hand in the pool to give the offspring the needed interaction.
Initially, Ensign Lan was worried the two offspring would spend years and years in the pool, given she was the only Trill on board and already joined. Later, however, quirks in the development of the offspring made it clear that the Caretaker didn’t just help the symbiont create offspring, but the alien had also adjusted the offspring to be able to join with Ocampa in an attempt to create new caretakers for the Ocampa. Given there are six Ocampa on board, it is likely the two symbionts, once they are mature enough, will be joined after all.
[See: Projections (Alternate), Parturition (Alternate) and Cold Fire (Alternate).]
Relationships Begin to Form
As months go by in the Delta Quadrant on Voyager, relationships have started to form among the crew. While the notable relationship between Lieutenant Scott Rollins and Lieutenant Pete Durst from Season One ended with Durst’s betrayal of Voyager, other relationships flourished.
Ensign Sahreen Lan began dating Ensign Michael Murphy, after a symbiont-pregnancy induced hallucination made her realize just how much she was repeating the patterns of her previous hosts and not allowing herself a chance to explore her feelings over the handsome—and compassionate—stellar cartographer.
Most surprisingly to many of the crew was a relationship that formed between one of the Ocampa, Daggin, and Ensign T’Prena, the Vulcan Nurse, which coincided with the sudden onset of ‘the Elogium’ among all the Ocampa. Months later, T’Prena would give birth to a single half-Vulcan, half-Ocampa son. By the end of the year, the boy developed to more-or-less the state of a ten year old human.
The other Ocampa also had to come face-to-face with their relationships—or lack thereof—during the Elogium, though none of the others chose to have children at this early state. Kes and Crewman Li-Paz, originally having butted heads in Doctor Fitzgerald’s training classes, have since formed become a couple, and at the end of 2371, Abol admitted his feelings for Lieutenant Zandra Taitt, who confirmed them. Before the end of 2372, they have moved into her quarters together. Cir and Eru are together, and Gara realized her nascent relationship with Ensign Doug Bronowski wasn’t romantic, but platonic, and the two shifted to a close friendship instead.
When Voyager accidentally released Q (a different Q than the one who interacted with the Enterprise-D) from a prison the rest of the Continuum had placed him in, Q (the one who had interacted with the Enterprise-D) altered Doctor Jeff Fitzgerald to be aware of multiple temporal “resets” so he could judge the character of this released Q, who wished to end his own life. In the process, the Enterprise-Q made multiple references in private to Fitzgerald’s feelings for Aaron Cavit, forcing Fitzgerald to consider those feelings—and ultimate decide he needed to step away from them, given how often Cavit noted his desire not to let a relationship affect his primary role as Voyager’s Captain, especially in light of Durst’s betrayal which, in part, included seducing and manipulating Lieutenant Rollins. When Voyager was joined by a group of Trabe refugees, Fitzgerald began a relationship with one of the Trabe, a man named Dimur, with whom he initially connected over them both being injured and forced to adjust their lives given their disabilities, but eventually admitted to having feelings that went deeper when they were isolated during a ship-wide disaster. Ultimately, Fitzgerald confessed he held back when he saw loss on the horizon, but he and Dimur decided to move forward—and had over a month of being together before the Trabe decided to remain at the Kohl Settlement.
Fitzgerald didn’t remain single long, however. He and Captain Cavit ended up stranded on a planet after being exposed to a lethal virus that the local environment held at bay. After spending a month and a half on the planet—and not having any shipboard reasons to hold back—Fitzgerald and Cavit finally admitted their feelings for each other. Thereafter, Fitzgerald found a cure for their disease, and the two managed to “catch up” to Voyager by doubling back to a Sikarian planet and with the help of dissident allies using the spatial trajector technology to get slightly ahead of Voyager when Voyager was due to potentially pass by Dedestria—a gamble that paid off when Voyager did, indeed, stop there to trade, restoring them to their places on Voyager nearly three months after they’d left, but now as a couple.
Other romantic relationships that began or continued include Ensign Tricia Jenkins and Crewman Christopher Vance, Crewman Atara Ram and Crewman Steven Niles, Ensign Richard Bennet and Ensign Lydia Macormack, Ensign Louis Culhane and Ensign Mary Harper, and Crewman Frank Darwin and Ensign Deborah Lang.
[See: Projections (Alternate), Elogium (Alternate), Death Wish (Alternate), Alliances (Alternate), Deadlock (Alternate), and Resolutions (Alternate).]
Humans in the Delta Quadrant
Voyager followed clues left by a spatial distortion alien to find themselves among humans in the Delta Quadrant—a planet, Arde, where three hundred humans abducted in 1937 resulted in what is now three cities of their descendants. Though they offered to allow any of the people on board Voyager to stay, none chose to do so. Voyager was also gifted with an amount of kelbonite-fistrium composite material that absorbed sensors, and—most importantly to Doctor Fitzgerald—six Kona coffee trees.
[See: The 37s (Alternate).]
The Kazon and the Kazon Alliance
Multiple times in 2372, Voyager found itself face-to-face with various Kazon sects. They had a run-in with a Kazon-Ogla youth, Kar, who attempted to destroy a shuttle containing the four Bajoran members of Voyager’s crew during a Bajoran rite. Instead, Commander Ro Laren, Crewman Atara Ram, Crewman Li-Paz, and Crewman Celes Tal rescued the boy from his own less-than-successful attempt and later, when he helped them escape from the Kazon-Ogla First Maje—and now an outcast from his people—Ro and Cavit offered Kar a place on Voyager, where he gravitated towards Lieutenant Rollins as the closest analog to a “warrior” in his mind. Over the following months, he offered local insight—especially when Voyager was confronted by other Kazon—he asked to join Fitzgerald’s classes, but has yet to pass the entrance requirement tests for an enlisted crewman, though he continues to study.
Later, Pete Durst, who allied with the Kazon-Nistrim after betraying Voyager in an attempt to barter technology for passage through Kazon space, make a return by faking injury and a “damaged” Aeroshuttle. Durst tricked and kidnapped Lieutenant Rollins, gaining access to medical supplies he needed for his lung transplant, and also stole a transporter module. Captain Cavit, realized he had three skillsets to work with: Cing’ta’s intelligence training (which Durst wouldn’t know about), Ro’s advanced tactical training—and Maquis tricks—and the crew’s Starfleet know-how. This multi-pronged response that not only recovered Rollins, but denied Durst the replicator and transporter technology, which he was hoping to use to ally multiple Kazon sects into an alliance. Voyager’s rescue plan included using half of the Arde sensor absorbing composite to coat the Cochrane, turning the ship into a stealth shuttle when running at very low levels of power. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to recover and dock the Aeroshuttle, so instead they kept control of it long enough to place hidden program that would update Voyager any time the Aeroshuttle made a course correction. Regardless, Durst managed to create an alliance between the Nistrim and three of the lesser sects: the Kazon-Pommar, the Kazon-Hobii, and the Kazon-Mostral—and claimed to have already allied with Voyager, which only made the other Kazon sects more likely to attack Voyager, given this “alliance” meant they believed Federation technology was spreading among their now allied enemies.
This new Kazon Alliance cost Voyager three more crew—Crewman Coleman Lewis, Crewman Chuck Jones, and Crewman Liam Santos—in increasing raids and attacks from Kazon sects outside the Alliance, which was what Durst wanted: for Captain Cavit to feel he had no choice but to come to the Alliance. Durst hosted a meeting of the First Majes of the smaller sects on a planet called Sobras to increase his Alliance, and Captain Cavit came up with a plan—he reached out to Kar’s former First Maje from the Kazon-Ogla, Jal Razik—who hadn’t attacked Voyager since Kar came aboard and who Cavit believed wise enough to see the reality ahead of them if the Alliance continued to gain power—and they presented a unified front at Sobras, making it clear Voyager and the Kazon-Ogla would sign their own non-aggression pact. On Sobras, however, they learned that a major leader of the Trabe (the people who had once enslaved the Kazon), Mabus, and another group, the Krowtonan Guard, had also joined this Alliance, and then Mabus attempted to assault Cavit and Jal Razik. Cavit and Razik were rescued in part through the actions of Kar, and before Jal Razik left to warn his people of the incoming, larger, Alliance, he gave Kar his name: Jal Karden, though Karden remained on Voyager given his goven status. Voyager also gained four Trabe ships as allies, who couldn’t explain Mabus’s decision and didn’t agree with it at all.
Later, when it became clear that the Kazon Alliance was gaining information from Voyager somehow, Captain Cavit, Commander Ro, and Lieutenants Cing’ta and Rollins worked on the problem trying to track down the leak, at first wondering if it might be Karden himself, or one of their Trabe allies on the four ships that joined them, but ultimately it was revealed the traitor was the Emergency Medical Hologram, who didn’t even know his program had been altered via his backup module when Durst’s people had been in Sickbay during his theft of medical supplies months earlier. The holographic doctor had even been unconsciously trying to nudge Doctor Fitzgerald away from Sickbay by reminding him he could perform duties Fitzgerald could no longer do as a way to gain more access to the crew for information. Once this was exposed, however, the crew realized they had an opportunity, and programmed a work around so the hologram could instead be a double agent, and feed false information to the Kazon Alliance thereafter.
Later, the crew would also learn the Kazon Alliance had defeated and destroyed the Kazon-Relora, one of only three remaining non-alliance sects. Also, the Alliance has set up a full network of subspace relays, allowing them organize on a scale never before seen in Kazon space. The net around Voyager seemed to be growing too tight to escape.
[See: Initiations (Alternate), Maneuvers (Alternate), Investigations (Alternate), and Innocence (Alternate).]
New Allies, New Crew
After encountering—and accidentally damaging—a Cravic vessel, a Cravic Automated Personnel Unit realized Lieutenant Alexander Honigsberg and his team could help them create new Automated Personnel Units to fight their war with the Praylor. They abducted Honigsberg as well as other members of Voyager’s crew (most notably Crewman Kimble Meyer, a former-Maquis truly gifted at programming), and threatened to destroy Voyager unless they succeeded in creating a new unit, which they did. However, thanks to quick thinking from Honigsberg and Meyer’s skill, they included the EMH’s ethical subroutine in the new programming centres—and spread the same programming among any of the Cravic who took part in creating new units—and then repeated the process with the Praylor when a Praylor vessel arrived to attack the Cravic. In giving both sides of the war an ethical desire to do no harm, Honigsberg hoped to have done enough to repair the damage he’d done in helping the Cravic learn to make new units. In the end, Voyager picked up a new crewmember in the form of an Automated Personnel Unit, 1106, which the other Cravic believed was “incomplete” since it hadn’t retained its core programming.
After the failed Kazon Alliance attempt on Voyager and the Kazon-Ogla at Sobras, Voyager also gained new allies in the form of four Trabe ships—nearly three hundred new people—though these ships were running on skeleton crews of adults who were looking after children and young adults. The four Trabe ships, led by Adné, and including Doctor Fitzgerald’s eventual romantic partner Dimur, would remain with Voyager for months. Doctor Fitzgerald helped restore their medical readiness, and even expanded his teaching role to young adults among their ships, helping them to learn emergency medical procedures, since the Trabe themselves had only two trained medical personnel among the four ships. The Trabe ships even came to the rescue when Voyager was nearly boarded by a Vidiian cruiser, and it was only through their combined efforts that Voyager and the Trabe managed to escape. Eventually, the Trabe would choose to make a new life for themselves among the Kolhari—new allies Voyager would meet and trade with on two occasions—at the Kohl Settlement after Voyager rescued the only three survivors of a natural disaster on the Settlement, and Voyager was once again moving forward on her own.
Mid way through 2372, Voyager managed to locate the remains of the T’Vran, a Vulcan Science Ship that had been attacked and boarded. Only one lifesign remained, a Vulcan Lieutenant, Setok, but he was in a coma and dying. Unable to resuscitate him, Nurse T’Prena and her mate, Daggin, performed a mind meld to learn what happened to his ship and crew—and, though they’ve kept it to themselves, take his katra back to his daughters—and they learned the full story of the Vulcan ship’s time in the Delta Quadrant before Setok passed away. The combination of mind meld and Ocampa photographic memory has left Setok’s experiences in Daggin’s memory, rather than fading over time. They also learned three of the members of the T’Vran crew were unaccounted for, and those crew were later recovered when they encountered the Cardassian ship also drawn to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, which had attacked the T’Vran and taken the three remaining crew prisoner. Those three survivors—Velar, a Vulcan science officer; Kaurit, a Vulcan engineer who has been mostly blinded by radiation damage; and Yareth, a Rakhari passenger—joined Voyager thereafter. When Daggin and T’Prena gave birth to their son, they named him Setok in honour of the Vulcan lieutenant.
For about a little over a week, Voyager also had a Vidiian passenger and ally, Doctor Danara Pel, who unfortunately lost her battle with the Phage despite the medical staff—and especially the Emergency Medical Hologram—doing everything they could for her.
Voyager would also trade—albeit with a low profile—at a Sikarian planet, Tekestria, when a small group of Voyager crew who hadn’t spent any time on Sikaris the previous year took the modified Vidiian shuttle Danara Pel left behind after her death, which the crew renamed ‘the Pel.’
[See: Prototype (Alternate), Alliances (Alternate), Deadlock (Alternate), The Thaw (Alternate), Meld (Alternate), Dreadnought (Alternate), Tuvix (Alternate), Lifesigns (Alternate), Innocence (Alternate).]
Another Timeline
Lieutenant Alexander Honigsberg and Ensign Sahreen Lan found themselves on the wrong end of a quantum event and ended up in another quantum reality: a timeline where Honigsberg didn’t become the chief engineer of Voyager, and the Li Nalas wasn’t the ship the Caretaker swept away to the Delta Quadrant. Both managed to find each other, alongside Honigsberg’s Alpha Quadrant off-again, on-again partner Trooper Patrick Reese and this timeline’s version of Lieutenant Cing’ta, during the events of the Klingon invasion of Cardassia. They stole the Amundsen, the Captain’s Yacht of the USS Venture (the ship Hongisberg was assigned to in this timeline) and used the wormhole to get themselves back where they belonged, taking the Yacht with them, which was disassembled for component parts, given its lack of warp drive.
Later in the year, Voyager struck a quantum scission, and Lieutenant Zandra Taitt found herself having to cross through five other alternate timeline versions of Voyager to free the various ships from the gravimetric lattice around the scission. One of those ships was from the same timeline Lan and Honigsberg had visited, and Honigsberg met his counterpart—Chief Engineer Mark Lasca—face to face during the event.
A third interaction with the same timeline would occur when the precise lining up of space, time, and quantum resonance meant a transporter accident sent Ensign Sahreen Lan and Crewman Daggin to the other version of Voyager, while Voyager instead beamed up two of the other Voyager’s crew: Neelix and Lieutenant Tuvok, who were also merged into one being. The crew eventually figured out a way to send this new being, who called himself Tuvix, back to his Voyager, while also returning Lan and Daggin back to where they belonged.
[See: Non Sequitur (Alternate), Deadlock (Alternate), Tuvix (Alternate).]
The Ocampa “Chorus”
Multiple times, the six Ocampa on board Voyager—Kes, Daggin, Abol, Eru, Cir, and Gara—showed great potential in their telepathic abilities. Both Lieutenant Veronica Stadi and Nurse T’Prena worked with the Ocampa to help them hone and explore their abilities, including prescience, empathy, and telepathy.
During an attempted telepathic attack on Voyager by the Botha, the Ocampa not only fended off the attack but followed the Botha back to their homeworld with a kind of group telepathic projection.
Their abilities grew even more impressive after Voyager encountered the Caretaker’s former mate, Suspiria—and an entire, smaller array full of Ocampa. Those Ocampa showed the Voyager Ocampa they could, if they worked together, display psychokinetic abilities as well as a mastery over the force of life itself. When Voyager realized the Caretaker’s mate wanted vengeance—she believed Voyager had murdered the Caretaker, and also wanted the Lan symbiont’s offspring, believing they were for the Ocampa (which turned out to be true)—but eventually Voyager reached a stalemate with Suspiria, she vanished, and Voyager moved on, but Kes and the other Ocampa realized they could still accomplish greater telepathic and psychokinetic abilities when they worked together in what they called “a chorus.”
They later used this “Chorus” to reach across multiple realities of Voyager not once, but twice—first to help T’Prena stay warm during her difficult pregnancy while Voyager was suffering power loss due to a quantum scission, and then again when they needed to co-ordinate with Kes and Daggin on the alternate-timeline Voyager to bring Ensign Lan and Crewman Daggin back to the right Voyager.
[See: Persistence of Vision (Alternate), Cold Fire (Alternate), Deadlock (Alternate), Tuvix (Alternate).]
The Enhanced Dilithium
The discovery of an enhanced dilithium that resonated at a much higher temperature and capable of creating a much more efficient—if small—warp field resulted in Voyager’s shuttles all being redesigned to achieve high warp speeds, up to warp eight for short durations. This vastly increased Voyager’s ability to scout ahead and their reach for trade missions, but Lieutenant Honigsberg doesn’t believe he can recrystallize the dilithium to the same level once it breaks down, which means eventually, the shuttles will return to their previous maximums of warp three or four, depending on their type. Still, in the meanwhile, it’s an advantage.
Since then, one of the shuttles, the Drake, was lost when Doctor Fitzgerald and Captain Cavit had to trade it to gain access to the spatial trajector to return to Voyager after they cured their illness on the planet where they were left behind, and another was destroyed while all the shuttles attempted to escape the final Kazon attack on Voyager at the end of 2372.
[See: Threshold (Alternate), Resolutions (Alternate), Basics, Part One (Alternate).]
Doctor Fitzgerald and Lieutenant Cing’ta’s Second Cadet Classes
The original group of students under Doctor Fitzgerald’s training program graduated within eight months of starting their training. Samuel Stiles was made a Lieutenant Junior Grade and became an alternate Bridge Officer, while Kes, Abol, and Daggin were officially granted Crewman status on board Voyager as a Medic, Stellar Scientist, and Botanist respectively.
A second glass began thereafter, made up of the three remaining Ocampa—Cir, Gara, and Eru, who began training in Linguistics, Diplomacy, and Anthropology respectively—as well as four new Maquis: Margareta Crenshaw (a security officer), Debra Rogers (a former civil engineer), Kimble Meyer (who, while a gifted programmer, had little other training), and Jean Hajar (who was a Starfleet Academy drop-out who repeated her third year). This new group is being taught not only by Doctor Fitzgerald, but also Lieutenant Cing’ta, who taught tactical and security classes on Bolarus.
(See: Dreadnought (Alternate) and Lifesigns (Alternate).)
The Emergency Medical Hologram
The Emergency Medical Hologram had a romance when Voyager recovered Doctor Danara Pel from her shuttle when she was dying and unconscious, and managed to transfer her consciousness into a holographic form. While they were unable to stop the progression of her disease and she passed on after little over a week, the medical hologram asked to be left with the ability to turn itself on and off so it could further work on researching a cure for the Phage.
Shortly thereafter, the EMH’s “unconscious spy” programming was uncovered—in part because his ability to operate on his own schedule meant an up-tick in the information he was sending to the Kazon Alliance—and he began his life as a “double-agent,” feeding false information to the Alliance.
When Doctor Fitzgerald and Captain Cavit had to remain behind on a planet due to their viral infection, the hologram finally chose a name for itself: Doctor Emmett Hall, the name Fitzgerald had come up with for the program. The gesture was not lost on Fitzgerald. Dr. Hall took on the role of Chief Medical Officer for the three months Fitzgerald was gone from Voyager. He has kept the name since.
When Durst and the Kazon-Nistrim boarded Voyager near the end of the year, Doctor Fitzgerald had Dr. Hall beam the Lan symbiont’s offspring into the morgue, where he could mask their lifesigns and ensure the occupying force didn’t find them, as well as altering the medical files so it appeared the offspring had been successfully joined with Trabe who are no longer with the ship.
[See: Lifesigns (Alternate), Investigations (Alternate), Resolutions (Alternate).]
The Collapse of the Kazon Alliance
Near the end of 2372, something seemed to shift wildly in the Kazon Alliance, and Voyager’s sensors began to make it clear the Kazon Alliance was trying to close its borders and capture Voyager before it could escape—except Lieutenant Stadi realized it wasn’t Voyager the Alliance was after, but the Aeroshuttle. Kazon were attacking their own within the Nistrim sect, and Durst seemed to be on the run. Voyager reduced speed to warp two and adjusted their warp profile to blend in among the various Kazon Alliance vessels on long-range scanners and traced the Aeroshuttle’s path—eventually finding and bringing aboard a Kazon-Nistrim survivor, Teirna, who explained how some of the Kazon-Nistrim had sabotaged their ship and Durst and First Maje Jal Culluh had barely gotten away. Teirna’s shuttle had been overloaded to create a particular signal—the reason for which Voyager’s crew didn’t know, and, it turned out, was programmed by Durst, so Teirna couldn’t enlighten them either—and the crew prepared to make one last attempt to recover the Aeroshuttle by appealing to Durst and Culluh that they’d have a better chance of surviving together.
Durst and Culluh didn’t respond, but when Voyager tried to make a break for the border of Kazon Alliance space, they were ambushed. While they had a series of tricks ready, they were overwhelmed by sheer numbers and firepower. Voyager had launched all seven of its shuttles under the command of Lieutenant Stadi—including the Pel—to fight off boarding fighters, but Captain Cavit ordered them to get free, providing cover for their escape. At least one was destroyed in the escape attempt.
When it became clear the Kazon Alliance were going to board and take control of Voyager, Captain Cavit began to order the self destruct, but at that moment, one of the Kazon Predator classes exploded in close proximity to Voyager and knocked Cavit unconscious, as well as knocking the computer offline. The Aeroshuttle, with Durst and Culluh and other raiders and fighters arrived, and they took control of Voyager.
Durst stranded the former Maquis, Lieutenant Cing’ta, and Kes on a desolate, hot, and dry planet, and then stranded most of the Starfleet crew on another, more hospitable planet—though to these crew he promised to return once the Kazon-Nistrim are restored to power and he can provide them safe passage out of Kazon space.
Lieutenant Rollins, however, woke up in the brig, though Durst’s reason for keeping him on Voyager is unclear.
When Captain Cavit regained consciousness, Doctor Fitzgerald explained their dire state, but he also mentioned Lieutenant Honigsberg left a ‘surprise’ for the Kazon on Voyager.
Unknown to anyone, Jal Karden was overlooked, and is hiding in the Jeffries tubes.
Whatever Durst and Culluh’s plans are to reclaim control of the Kazon-Nistrim, and then the Alliance, they now have Voyager to help accomplish their goal…
[See: Basics, Part One (Alternate).]