USS Calhoun and Delta One Status Report by Adrian Rodd
The stardate is 2390.11.28. The crew of the Gagarin, the Starfleet ship from the 2240s stranded near Delta One, have been beamed to the station's holodeck while they were still unconscious. There, they were woken and healed in a holographic recreation of a ship from their own era. Some of the station's crew have had to change into mid-twenty-third century uniforms to man the holographic ship and maintain the illusion. . .
Meanwhile, amidst numerous changes to the timeline, the crew work on a way to send the Gagarin back to the past, thus restoring the present to what it once was. In the new timeline, though, Dawn Summers leads a much happier life, while Jordan Reid and John Hart live together. . . but Yarel has experienced a shock as she discovers she might not be who and what she thought she was, and the Alpha Quadrant is ablaze with interstellar war. To save the lives of those dying in a war which never should have been, and to obey Starfleet temporal regulations, the crew must change things back. . . thus erasing Dawn's sister and children from the timeline, and wiping out several other changes which some have grown understandably and sometimes desperately attached to. . .
For some, the choice is not an easy one. . .
To complicate matters further, it has been discovered the temporal rift is some kind of living creature, under attack at the other end - in the past - by a Klingon ship. And another Klingon ship, this one from the altered present timeline and equipped with transwarp, has arrived near the station. . .
Flying through the rift in an attempt to heal the creature and stop the attack it is suffering, the crew have caused the Klingon ship from the past to slip into the present.
With the timeline seemingly made increasingly uncertain by the minute, and as each person on board the ship and station faces dramatic changes to the life which was his or her own, what will Captain Su and her crew decide? And is changing the timeline back even still possible? . . .
