The Voyage (Part1):
Commander Janeway arrives on Deep Space Nine to begin her new job as
first officer of Starfleet’s fastest and newest vessel: The Voyager.
But before, she does a favor for her mentor and supporter, Admiral
Paris. His son, the rebellious Tom Paris, is in jail on Deep Space Nine
for supporting the terrorist organization known as The Maquis. Paris
awaits several years in a Starfleet jail and probably not a moment
without surveillance.
He offers Janeway a deal and an opportunity to better her career. If he
tells her the location of the Maquis leader Chakotay, who is
responsible for many assaults on federation and Cardassian embassies
as well as killing a high-profile Ex-Maquis and Maquis critical
Journalist, she will help him by arranging better living circumstances
in the prison. Tempted by the opportunity to compensate for her lack of
field experience, Janeway accepts the deal.
The Voyager begins its travel with tracing down Chakotays ship to the
plasma nebulas called the Badlands. After they lose trace of the ship,
they are gripped by a massive energy wave and everything fades out.
Janeway wakes up. The bridge is burning. The captain and the pilot are
dead. A giant hole, protected by a flickering forcefield is everything
that is left of the main screen. Before Janeway fully regains
consciousness, someone brings her out of the bridge just a second
before the forcefield collapses and people and debris are sucked out
into space.
In the turbolift, a supporting officer informs Janeway that the Captain
is dead and it is now her duty to act as leading officer.
Outside of the ship, in a giant field of debris filled with parts from a
lot of different origins, hides a small ship. Some kind of small and
dirty humanoid is scanning the Voyager and seems to be very interested
in “the new one“. He sets a course to explore what it is exactly.
Janeway and the second officer are having a small argument strategizing
for the situation, when they are interrupted by other crew members
climbing through the Tube.
Onboard the Voyager the crew slowly gets an overview of the situation.
Officers are climbing out of the tubes. The bridge is disabled, the
engineering is in a bad state, the warpcore is shut down and many decks
are not reachable due to hull breaches and toxic leaks. They build an
improvised command center in a cargo bay.
Janeway has recovered relatively well. She is able to give orders but has problems finding orders to give. Her helplessness makes her useless for the crew. They start to ignore her and just work to save the ship.
Tom Paris uses this opportunity to break out the brig. He gets a weapon
and is ready to fight but he quickly realizes that there is no one to
fight and decides to just leave the Ship. He believes they are still in
the Alpha quadrant. On his way through the burning ship he saves the
young Ensign Kim from a deadly threat. Kim thanks Tom by helping him to
clear the way to an escape pod (without knowing that they are going to
an escape pod and also without knowing who he is).
In the escape pod area the two meet the suspicious alien from the
debris field. They begin to threaten each other. However, in the moment
the alien doesn’t recognize any of the technology or even the name
Starfleet. They slowly realize that they’re not in the Alpha quadrant
anymore.Paris gives up his plans to leave the ship. He and Kim capture the Alien and bring him to the command center.
The alien introduces himself as Nelix, a garbage trader and owner of
the debris outside. He is arrested, and remains guarded by some
officers. Paris is also arrested, but Janeway claims that under the
circumstances she is willing to listen to what he has to say, if
anything useful. The second officer states that unless he comes up with
some good ideas, he is worth no more than some space garbage and space
garbage is floating... in space. (He shows hate because Paris is a
traitor in his eyes). Janeway doesn’t like what the second officer
says, but doesn’t have the strength to say it out loud. Paris clearly
recognizes her weakness.
Now the warpcore starts to cause problems. It will explode in two
hours, unless they repair the cooling system before then. The cargo
bay, holding replacement cooling, is unreachable. Nelix, the alien,
offers a solution. He says he has a cooling system that he owns and
mentions that it’s compatible with practically anything. The crew does
not trust him, but Janeway orders them to work with him. Unwillingly,
the crew follows the order.
Janeway then gives Paris a chance to prove himself trustworthy and
sends him and Nelix to get the cooling system. Harry Kim volunteers to
join the mission and return the favor to Paris, even if he now knows
who he is.
Onboard the Voyager, they are doing everything possible to stabilize
the situation. Janeway is in conflict with the crew but refuses to give
up her rank.
A group of unknown aliens land on the hull of the Voyager with the hole of the bridge in sight. After seeing many gravity boots, cases, a welding tool and a big board
of metal; the Last stranger lands and and it’s seen that they are
Cardassians. A very recognizable Cardassian with blonde hair enters the
bridge with some others while the rest weld the metal boarding over the
hole.
End of Episode one
