Star Trek Prodigy

"Dead Space"

"Captains Log Stardate: 40 days after escaping deviner. After discovering that the Protostars engine is a literal miniature star with one heck of a kick. We managed to loose the deviner. Gwyn is still dealing with the betrayal by her father pretty hard, but she has shown to not be what we first expected. Now she knows that her father only cares about himself, and she has chosen to walk her own path. Janeway has been teaching us how cloak our plasma and warp signature so he can't find us. Though lately being without needing to evade from someone is feeling pretty dull. Janeway says this is normal. Moments of action are only fleeting replaced by endless days of bore dumb. The others keep themselves busy in their own way. Rok likes to fantasize in the holodeck. Jankum likes making tweaks. Murph could care less. He doesn't appear to need stimulation; he seems to be able to enjoy himself no matter what. As for Gwyn she spends her time training me in combat. She says you should always be prepared. Though now the preparations is just getting me so sore I can hardly move at times. Still, we keep going and seeing what else the galaxy throws our way."

On the bridge while still in warp travel Dahl is sitting at the captain's chair with Zero still at the helm. Dal is lying across the chair playing a game on his data pad as Gwyn enters. As Gwyn looks at the spectacle of the warp vortex she asks, "Wow, do you ever tired of watching this?" Zero then interjects before Dal can answer, much to his annoyance, "As a matter of fact it does." Before Dahl can say anything Zero says, "And don't get agitated with me Dahl. I did not need to read your mind to know that was exactly what you were thinking. Because it's the same for me as well." Dahl: "Well, thanks then Zero for saying what was on both our minds." Janeway appears, "I'm sorry if you think this is not exciting, but you all need to learn to enjoy these moments of peace while they last. Sometimes boredom is preferable to being constantly on the edge of your seats facing life death every second of each day. Saver the peace while you can." Dahl replies, "Thank you Nanny for your wisdom, I'll treasure it always. Now if you all will excuse me. I think I'll just go get some sleep. That maybe the only exciting thing that will happen. At least I can adventure in my dreams." He turns to face Gwyn asking, "You mind taking over for a few hours?" Gwyn, "Not at all. Unlike you. I don't need to constantly distract myself from getting bored. I am quite adept at keeping myself occupied and productive." Dahl is leaving as he says, "Lucky you…" Suddenly the ship starts shaking like crazy and Dahl and Gwyn are loosing footing. Dal shouts to Zero, "Zero what's going on?" Zero in a panicked tone responds, "I don't know, but for some reason our Warp field is collapsing. Primary systems are going offline. Brace yourselves, I'm sure what's awaits us but hang onto your whatever's." Then another violent shake causes Dahl to fall on top of Gwyn making them touch foreheads.

When the shaking stops Dahl gets up and he and Gwyn look each other straight in the eyes causing them to both bluss. Gwyn gently pushes him off before Zero can sense what's going on between them. Jankum and Rok arrive on bridge with Jankum being the first to ask, "What the frontorg happened?" Rok, "Yeah why we were we shaking so much. It wrecked my party." Dal calls for Janeway, "Janeway you alright?" Her hologram appears and says, "For now, I've needed to reroute my program through the back-up systems." Gwyn asks Zero, "Zero what's the damage? Zero, "I don't know. All diagnostics say there has been no substantial damage done to the ship, but all primary power systems are inoperative. Warp drive offline and shields at only minimum capacity. Fortunately, the Protostar containment core is still at full strength, so we are safe from a core rupture and are in no present danger of losing life support." Gwyn then asks, "Well why are the other systems offline." Zero, "Unknown, though there seems to be some kind of external damping field that is preventing the primary energy conduits from properly channeling power. So, all we have are just low shields, food and all other replicators at 40 to 50 percent capacity, and all we've got for movement are impulse and chemical rockets." Rok then points to the main viewer asking, "Uh guys is something covering the viewers sensors." Jankum replies, "No they are functioning normally." Rok, "Then where did the stars go?" The Protostar is a drift in a vast dark void of nothingness."

Dahl asks the crew, "Does anyone have a clue as to where we are?" Jankum, "Maybe reality stopped making sense and we are in nothing." Dahl, "Try to be to be productive." Jankum, "Look as far as I am able to tell by the instruments, we are somewhere that seems to have a diameter of a least 1,000,000 kilometers, but other than that, nothing. Our distress beacon and all our other scans are just being bounced back to us. The only other thing I can tell you is that there is something in here with a mass of almost 4 billion standard planet masses. Somehow causing spacetime to just warp back in on itself." Zero then says, "Maybe this place is like a space time sink. A place where space curves back in so no single can get out. That objects can only drop in here by warp drive and the mass, of whatever is creating this damping field, that causes most power sources to go inert. Then nothing that falls into it can get back out." Dahl asks Janeway, "Do you have access to any of Janeways missions where she encountered something anything, similar to this?" Janeways, "Several, but none with these circumstances and unless there is worm hole or some opening of some kind, I'm not sure what we can do other than gather as much data as we can and try to figure something out."

Zero then informs everyone, "Wait I'm picking up something on the scanners of that immense gravitational mass you stated earlier Jankum. Straight ahead about 2000 kilometers." Dal, "On screen." There is still nothing until Zero puts it through a gravitational lensing filter and they see a large spherical object similar to a meteor. Gwyn, "This is the source of the intense gravity and damping field?" Zero, "Not impressive I know, but even though its only the same size as our ship. It is still incredibly gravitationally massive. Almost like a black hole, but somehow solid." Janeway says, "This could probably be what is only theoretical. Solidified dark matter." Then Rok shocks everyone by saying, "Guys I'm picking up something else. I think its another ship. To our left by about 400 kilometers." Dahl orders, "Okay lets head there, maybe if there's anybody over there, they can help us, but be cautious." When the scan results come in, they read, "Borg!" Dahl, "The who and the what now?" Janeway, "The Borg were cyborgs bent on assimilating people into their collective hive mind dooming those who became drones to a living death. Shields up and prepare to engage." However, when they arrive and shine light on the Borg cube it has a full third of it blown off." Gwyn asks Jankum, "What do the scans say?" Jankum, "No power emissions. No propulsion. No shields, and its reading total vacuum inside." Then they see all the Borg drones that are adrift in space. This makes Rok look away. Rok, "Get us away from here." Zero, "Wait picking up another reading about 300 kilometers from this Borg ship. It's another ship, but of unknown origin." Dahl, "On screen."

They see a ship that looks like a giant seed pod. Gwyn standing next to Dahl says, "No doubt that it's a starship, but none like I've ever encountered or have seen records of." Zero, "Hang on everyone there seems to be a subspace beacon coming from that ship." Jankum then adds, "That's confirmed, but that should be impossible because that ship is dead. There is no power emissions of any kind or chemical emissions." Dahl asks, "Can you identify its design or the metal in its haul." Zero, "Negative on both. The hull appears to be made of strange combination of crystal ceramic that is infused with Nutornium and an unknow alloy that is harder and lighter than what we have and the nutronium is blocking our scanners. It is unknown ship design that is not made by any known race. Wait, now this is incredible." Gwyn, "What is it?" Zero, "Partials clinging to the hull and their atomic decay give a rough estimate of age. This ship has been in this void for almost precisely 5 billion years." Janeway and Gwyn are both standing next to Dahl as Gwyn says, "Its almost impossible to believe. A space traveling civilization capable of making a ship of incredible durability and beauty that existed 5 billion years ago. Back before most present planets were born." Janeway, "Barely a blink in the vastness of eternity." Dal, "Wonder aside from how old it is, we still need to figure a way out here." Jankum, "Uh guys you're going to find this hard to swallow. Latest scans show that damage that Borg ship sustained came from this ship even though it's suppose to be dead." Rok, "You mean there could still someone over there that has survived all this time here." Zero, "illogical, still better investigate for further details. I recommend launching a recon probe." Dahl, "Go ahead." As the probe nears the ship a single beams shoot from it and destroy the probe. Dahl, "Back us off now." Zero, "Hold on according to what the probe recorded the blast came from an automated defense system. Perhaps it only fires when it senses an unknown object that gets to close, but a teleport onto its hull wouldn't be detected." Jankum, "Are you suggesting we board that ship." Gwyn, "Actually I think Zero might be right." After a heated discussion it is decided. Dahl says, "Okay we'll attempt to board it but lets keep a teleporter lock and be ready bail out at the first sign of danger. We will all wear suits and life-support belts. Jankum you and rok stay here. Gwyn, Zero, and I will go aboard to gather what intel we can." Jankum, "Okay but it's your funerals."

In the transporter room Dal, Gwyn, and Zero are on the teleporter pad. Janeway, "Best to set to transporter to automatically retrieve in two hours." Dal, "Sounds as good as anything." As Janeway prepares to transport the away team Jankum asks, "Hey when you're all dead is the ship mine?" Everyone shouts, "Jankum!" "Sorry I mean if you die?" Janeway, "Energizing." The away team finds themselves on the hull of the ship near an entrance port that is sealed. Dal, "Great, there's no way in." Gwyn, "Allow me, captain." She says in a sarcastic joyful tone. She wills her staff to melt and go through the seems to the other side and disables the lock from the inside causing the door to open. Zero, "It never ceases to amaze me how you are able to do that." As they enter Zero examines a cross section of haul with a tricorder telling the crew of the away team and the Protostar, "Incredible this haul material it wasn't cast, rolled, or welded. It appears it was in a liquid state with no intense hea. Like it was made from individual nanosized units and then structured itself by laying down and weaving individual threads no more than a nanometer thick and were just laid down on top of one another. Assembling themselves with-out welding heat. Not dis-similar to what you can do with your staff Gwyn, but much more enhanced." Gwyn, producing a stronger and lighter metal than what we have. Lets beam a sample back over to the Protostar for analysis." Gwyn puts a tracer on a fragment of loosened haul, and it is transported to science bay.

They explore further seeing the halls and entire structure of the ships interior made of hexagon shaped cells like honeycombs of beehives. They make their way to the core to see a large sphere similar in shape to the core on their ship but looking almost organic in origin. Dahl, "What do you make of this?"

Gwyn, "Dahl, its registering energy. Little but consistent. I think this could also house a miniaturized self-sustaining star as well like the protostar on our ship." Dahl, "It still works after all these eons this ship has been here." Zero, "Indeed with a miniature self-sustaining star it is in a very real sense an unlimited source of power." As they move on Gwyn hears something that makes her turn to her back. Prompting Dahl to ask, "What is it?" Gwyn, "not sure. I think it was nothing. Lets keep moving. We still got another 90 minutes before retrieval."

They open another door and discover a terrible sight, the corridor lined with the frozen bodies of the crew that was on the ship and died billions of years ago. They appear to have a main cone shaped body similar to a crab but with seven legs and ten eyes going in a circle around them with rounded toothlike mouth on top and ten tentacles ending in pincers. Zero, "They are mono gendered. All dead from suffocation.' As they continue on an apparition starts to fade in and then out as Gwyn looks again. Dahl, "Somethings bothering you and its not just these dead aliens. What is it?" Gwyn, "I don't know I just have this un-easy feeling I've been having since we got on this ship. It feels almost like someone is watching us." Dahl, "What like ghost? Come on you should know better than anyone that there are no such things as ghost." She in an annoyed tone states, "I'm not scared, and I am not making this up." She then goes ahead of them leaving Zero to look at and shake the sphere containing Zero in disapproval. Dahl, "Who asked you gassy?"

Meanwhile back on the Protostar Jankom is monitoring the away team as they explore the ship. Dal calls in, "Hey Rok, Jankum you two not trying destroy each other?" Jankum, "For your information no. If it weren't for this QEC communication, you would not be able to call in and ask that?" Dal, "Sorry. Anyway, we should be about finished." Janeway, "Better wrap it up soon. Your auto retrieve is set initiate in another 3o minutes." Dahl, "Copy that Dal out." Meanwhile Rok is looking for Murph. "Murph, Murph, come here Murph." Then Rok hears something that sounds like someone breathing behind her. "Jankum are you…?" Turning around to find there is no one there. Then hearing it again, "Is that you Murph?" As she looks, she still sees no one. "Come on Rok keep it together don't let your imagination get the better of you." Then she hears another sound and out from behind a door Murph comes out and leaps on her in a panic. "Whoa! Whoa! Easy Murph what's gotten into you?" Back on the bridge Janeway is in the captain's seat when she notices, "That's strange." Jankum turns to look at her asking, "What you I'm strange you're not exactly what I call beautiful lady." Janeway, "As a wise person on Earth once said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Besides that's not what I was referring to. Scanners are picking up un-usual energy readings that seem to appear and then disappear again on the ship here and over where the away team is. Computer do a full scan of the areas where the strange energy readings came from. Scan for anything out of the ordinary." The computer reply's, "No un-usual readings however small sights where previous readings were taken show seven spots on corridor floors where something at a temperature at almost absolute zero was." Janeway, "Origin?" Computer, "Unknown and presently un-able to answer." Janeway, "Curiouser and curiouser."

Back on the alien ship the away team open another door into a room full of what are assumed to be control stations. The door then shuts, and all the equipment activates. Dal, "Quick Tricorder analysis." Zero, "Dahl, Gwyn artificial gravity is in effect here. Both air quality, temperature, and gravity are just 2 percent shy of normal." Dahl takes of his helmet and breaths. Dahl, "You're right we can breath in here. I think this may have been the bridge." Then they are hit by the smell of decay and find the remains of what is assumed to have been the captain in his seat as they approach. Gwyn, "If they didn't make it out of here 5 billion years ago. It doesn't bode well for us." Zero, "I think I found something. It seems that based on these readings these beings controlled the ship through a process not dissimilar to the ability you use to control your staff, Gwyn." Dahl, "Quiet listen." Then a hologram projection appears in-front of them and begins speaking in a language that can't seem to be translated by their translators. Dahl, "It could be the captains last log. Or a warning." Gwyn, "A message from 5 billion years ago." Zero, "It is possible that this much of their technology did survive all this time." Dahl, "Is it possible to get a translation." Zero, "Not here the language is so alien that the universal translator can't make sense of it. We'll need to send this data over to the Protostar for analysis." Zero puts its tricorder on a panel and hotwires some wires into the main data base and begins an upload procedure. Just then Gwyn starts turning her head around every which way. Dahl, "Something wrong? I'm getting that feeling again." Dahl, "Come on we've already been through this. There is not such thing as…" One of the aliens then fades into view Infront of them just as Rok on the Protostar enters another corridor and sees one of the aliens too making them all scream. They all grab their phasers and shoot, but they just pass through them. Rok shuts the door behind her and Dal calls, "Janeway, Jankum, anybody beam us back now!" They beam out and find another alien in the transporter room appear and then disappear after they shoot at it. Gwyn, "Jankum get us away from the ship. We're being boarded. Jankum is about to push the button just another alien appears on the bridge trying to communicate with him, but he just slams the button and as the Protostar moves away all the aliens vanish.

As the away team arrives on the bridge Dal asks, "Are they gone?" Janeway, "Affirmative, don't know how they got on but there is no trace of them now." Rok arrives on the bridge in a panic with Janeway comforting her saying, "It's okay they're gone." Dal, "Still what were they?" Gwyn, "Now do you get why I said it felt like we were being watched." Dal, "But there is no such thing as ghost." Gwyn, "Then how do you explain what we all saw." Zero, "Indeed for I am having difficulty explaining this. Because all scans of them on the alien ship confirmed they were dead, and I took a momentary scan when we encountered that one in the transporter room. All I got was strange energy readings and a surrounding temperature of near absolute Zero, but nothing else. It's like they were and yet also not there." Janeway, "not to mention phasers have no effect on them." "Of course, not hologram echo of Kathy," says a women's voice as she appears. A human woman who looks similar to Janeway, but with blonde hair. "You can't kill what's already dead. We all are, and so will you be as well." This she says as she fades out. Janeway, "It couldn't be?" Dal, "Janeway who was that?" Janeway, "Monica Janeway, Katherine Janeways older sister.

Dal, "Your sister how?" Zero, "Everyone there's another ship. It's a federation ship." Dal, "On screen." Janeway, "The hull, magnify!" The name on the ship reads "The Endeavor." Zero, "According to the Protostars database the Endeavor was lost nearly 33 years ago with all hands-on deck and was never recovered. The bridge crew includes the name of Monica Janeway as first officer. Promoted just one week before the ship was lost." Dahl, "Can we send a probe on board and try to access their systems and their database?" Zero, "We can." Dahl, "Do it then." As the probe approaches an entrance airlock it sends its readings back to the Protostar. Zero, "Sensor readings coming in." Everyone holds their breaths until Zero says, "It's reading vacuum on the other side. No life support." Dahl, "Proceed in." The probe cuts open the airlock door and as the probe enters in, they see the bodies of all the crew just lying frozen to the floor while others just float where they died. The probe makes it to the bridge and sees all the dead bridge crew floating in free space. Passing one by one until it sees a blonde-haired woman and Janeway ask, "Wait! Back up and zoom in on the face." It's her sister with a somber look of defeat on her frozen face. Janeway, "Monica." Zero, "Everybody, I'm getting strange sensor readings. From outside the ship this time." Then suddenly a woman of Latino origin and wearing the red uniform and four rank insignia around the collar fades in onto the bridge. Dal, "Hello, "I'm Dal captain of the Protostar." Then Janeway, "I'm their hologram instructor. Captain Katherine Janway who captained the USS Voyager. Welcome to the USS Protostar." The woman responds, "I guess you will have to do. I am captain Maya Morante. Captain of the USS Endeavor. Welcome to hell, or the next closets thing to it. I'd offer to shake your hands, but we now seem to exist in a different quantum state. It has proven to not be healthy with living tissue." Gwyn, "What happened?" Captain Morante, "We were pulled in while in warp. Warp drive offline. Scanners unable to analyze that blasted piece of rock. That alien ship out there tried to ram us after sending us junk data. We were able to stay out of range. We were trapped here for three years. Our antimatter ran out. Life support began to fail. We knew death for us was ineffable. Most of the crew took cyanide pills to be spared dying in agony. But for my officers and me we stayed to the bitter end. As I sat there gasping for one more breath. I kept silently telling myself 'At least it's finally over.' Knowing that we'll never see our loved ones again on Earth, but at least its finally over and we will not need to stare out into that endless darkness. With my last breath I said its finally over, but it wasn't for when I opened my eyes and saw the others about me, I instantly knew I and all of us were dead. That we would be denied even the peace of the grave." Dal, "Why?" Captain Morante, "It's that dark matter thing out there. So gravitationally massive that it's permanently warped space back in on itself. Making it so nothing can get out. Not even the souls of those who die inside it. Wherever it is we're suppose to go after death. Heaven, Hell, or Oblivion it doesn't matter because now we will never see it. And neither will you." She fades out as she says, "I'm so sorry for you young ones."

Rok is then found tearing the holodeck apart as Jankum and Gwyn try to restrain her with Dal shouting, "Enough! What's going on?" Jankum, "I just said to Rok she was right. That something of us does live on after death." Rok, "You don't get it! None of you do. You grow up hearing stories of the great mother Tomorok, God, The Creator, or whoever who knows all and is all love, and works to make good things come out of bad circumstances. With the hope that if you live a good life to bring peace, love, and understanding to those around you. That after you die you get to live with in a perfect relationship with that one in a place where joy, love, glory, and the sweetness of life never ends. But those poor souls out there on those ships don't deserve what they are going through. Yet they are stuck here, and those aliens have been trapped here longer than our home worlds have been around. So, either the great mother is punishing the innocent, or she doesn't know and has no power over this place, or there is no great mother who knows all and is not all powerful." Gwyn finally uses a stun phaser on her and gives her a heavy sedative.

A couple hours later Dahl is on the bridge sitting in the captain's chair tapping his fingers and feet until Gwyn and Janeway appear. Janeway, "A penny for your thoughts or do you need to get something off your chest." Dahl, "I could use a distraction. How's Rok?" Gwyn, "Sleeping soundly. The sedative finally took effect. Though it could've happen to any of us or will eventually." Dahl, "So is this what awaits us. Spending all of eternity stuck with you guys. Always butting heads and having to put up with Jankum forever. Now that's torture. What about you Janeway? What do you think?" Janeway, "I might not be the real captain Janeway, but like her I wouldn't want anyone. Much less my sister to have to suffer forever the way she is now." Dahl, "Well on that maybe I think I may have a possible answer to help with that. See the data we recovered from the alien ship is still being analyzed and might take years to crack which we don't have the luxury of that. Then I had a look at the Endeavors logs and worked out some simulations based on what they recorded." He puts on the hologram display showing the two ships as they interacted with the aliens going along side the Endeavor. Dahl, "See the logs say the ship was basically operating on auto pilot and was preprogramed to interact with another ship if one was ever encountered. When the Borg came, the ship used grappling tractor beams which the Borg then they tried to attack the aliens ship, so it opened fire and destroyed their cube ship. Then when it encountered the Endeavor it tried the same thing. Used tractor beams to pull the Endeavor closer. I might not be a strategist, but that's bad tactics that limits your own maneuvering abilities. Then what's even stranger the ship pulled alongside and then was parallel to the Endeavor. If your going to attack you fire phasers or ram them with your bow, but what if the Endeavor hadn't opened fire and pulled away instead stayed there. Both ships would have had their chemical rockets pointed straight at the meteor." Gwyn, "The ship wasn't trying to cease control of the Endeavor or attack it but was trying to dock with it." Dahl, "Exactly! Maybe the aliens did have the means that we don't. Maybe they were able to analyze the dark matter. Found out what it was made of and had plan on how to destroy it, but they didn't have sufficient power and needed another ship in order for it to work." Janeway, "What are you proposing Dahl?" "I'm saying that we do what the Endeavor didn't. Enlist the aliens help and use schematics and simulations of all the various theories of what dark matter can be made of that are so simple and intuitive that even an alien mind would be able to understand and make sense of it." Gwyn, "No! Absolutely not, did you not hear the rest of the logs. Their touch is deadly to living tissue." Janeway, "I must agree with Gwyn on this one. Even for me this is a huge stretch and a gamble with-out good odds of success." Dahl, "I know! Believe me I know. But it beats sitting here doing nothing waiting for our lives to end and be trapped here forever. But if we can get these aliens to tell us what this dark matter meteor is made of. Then it could be the only chance we have to escape their fate. Zero can get us out of range if we need to. And I don't know about all of you, but any chance no matter how slim is still better than no chance. Look I know this is crazy, but something in my bones is telling me, 'this can work.' We have to take it, or would you rather spend all of eternity hearing me rub it in how you should've listened when you were alive. Just to wait for the next bunch of saps to try and do the same thing."

Gwyn reluctantly says, "I despise you make a good point on this. Still, if this fails its on you." The Protosatar gets up along side the alien ship. Dahl, "Okay Zero Jankum hold us here, but be ready to instantly move away." They both give a thumbs up in agreement. Zero, "Getting those strange energy readings again. From outside the ship." Then the alien captain and what are assumed to be the first officer and science officer appear on the bridge. Dahl, "Running simulations now." Dahl points to the projection and the aliens look at the hologram projections as the various models of dark matter theory are presented. Until the alien science officer use one of its pincer tip tentacles to point at one and the others do the same in response. Gwyn, "High frequency super string particles. Wait, that actually makes sense. Their atomic mass is extremely heavy, and their density is immense, but when heat is applied their density and mas decrease." Dahl, "Enough that maybe even this cosmic bubble may just pop out of existence?" They then run the simulation of what the aliens attempted to do with the Endeavor. They all point at it with approval. Gwyn steps forward and makes some sign as a way to show respect. "Thank you. I know you can't understand what we are saying, but I promise you that we will do our best. And I hope you will all finally have your peace." The aliens fade away and then Dahl says, "Jankum, Zero get started on the necessary modifications and linking the Protostar and Endeavors computers for joint control. We've got our work cut out for us."

Later they get up alongside the Endeavor. Janeway, "We have full remote control of the Endeavor, but the onboard computers are overloading. We may only get one chance and loose the Endeavor after this." Dahl, "How long will we need." Janeway, "At best 30 seconds." Dahl, "Then lets hope luck is on our side, engage chemical rockets full burn." The two ships fire their rockets lighting up the meteor like a Christmas tree. Janeway, "Endeavors computers are about to be fried. 20 seconds remaining." Dahl, "Come on, come on, please let this work."

Janeway, "15, 14,… 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." Dahl, "Disengage engines." The meteor still glows blue from the heat given to it by the rockets and begins to fade. Rok asks, "Did it work?" Then as they look out the main viewer, they start to see lights and then the stars come back into full view again. With everyone shouting with Joy and Dahl and Gwyn hugging one another before blussing and stepping away. Then the alien captain, captain Morante, Monica, and a couple others that no one recognizes. Jankum asks the new commers, "Who are you guys?" A man says, "I'm Zarrick Telmmun. We are some of those who used to be Borg drones." Morante tells them, "We came to say thank you and goodbye." The alien captain takes a bow of thanks. Monica, "Yeah thanks kids you've made these sad restless old souls very happy. Not much time remaining. We're going somewhere. Hopefully somewhere better." Then she looks at Janeways hologram asking, "If you are able or you are anything like her in how she thinks and feels. Then promise me this. Live a wonderful life for if you don't treasure every moment you get with those you love who love you. Then you have a whole eternity to spend regretting not saying or doing the things you should've said and done with them when you had the chance. Don't live in others shadows. Cast your own. And if you can let her know that her sister says, 'see you later sis." Janeway, "I promise she will." They all take one last bow before fading away with big smiles.

Dahl, "Lets leave a beacon bouey so the federation will be able to find these ships and make sure their bodies are properly laid to rest. As for us. We go onward. Set a course for adventure." Gwyn, "You got it, Captain Dahl."

Captains Log supplemental. Our experience in the void trap has really opened our eyes that there is life after death and that we must treasure life for as long we have got it. For life is precious because it's fragile and short. Don't waste the moments you get, or you could regret not using them as you should've when you had them. And life really is the ultimate adventure.