Summary:

Hello everyone. With the discussion forum down and not all of us having our Ad Astra blogs up and going I thought I would try to create a little round robin story where we can all post a little response to my posited ‘How do we cope when technology fails?' prompt.

 

Our heroes would have to tackle Star Trek life without the magic of their technology - say no transporters, no replicators, no grav-plates, no warp power, etc. Maybe they find themselves in a crutch, maybe it ends up with some hilarious or fish out of water moments, or puts their lives in mortal peril. Have at it. Remember to keep it clean given the K rating and that this is just for fun to help us while over the absence of the forum.

Just post your prompt response as a new chapter and sign your name to the ‘chapter' you write. Well that's the plan. Fingers crossed as to whether this works! Remember, just write it, don't edit it to death - for this one time on the archive! ;)

Chapters: 4    Table of Contents
Categories: Enterprise, Original Series, Alternate Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Alternate Universes, Expanded Universes, Meta, Essays and Everything Else
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Friendship, General, Humor, IDIC, Other, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: None
Series: None
Completed: No    Word count: 2191    Read Count: 1104

Summary: Two weddings and a redhead

or, when Beverly Howard became Beverly Crusher

or, when Jack Crusher took on more than he could handle

or, Hath Marriage Licence, Will Travel
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Crusher, Beverly
Genre: Romance
Warnings: None
Series: Always Possibilities: Further Adventures of Beverly Crusher
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3797    Read Count: 151

Summary: Life as head of Starfleet Medical is a matter of routine for Beverly Crusher until a cadet is found dead on the no-win scenario forcing her to embark on a hunt for the murderer before they strike again...

featuring Admiral Janeway and Doctor Bashir
Chapters: 14    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Crusher, Beverly
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: Beverly Crusher Investigates...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 18675    Read Count: 3213

Summary: A small crush turns into something else.


(Artwork by Sean Tourangeau)
Chapters: 11    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Picard, Alexander, Picard, Jean-Luc
Genre: Romance, Slash
Warnings: Graphic Slash
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 6647    Read Count: 1000

Summary: The road to being Chief Medical Officer of the Enterprise started for Beverly Crusher in her youth on Arvada III. From death close to hand came her inspiration to be a doctor.

December/January Challenge entry "Pathways"
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Crusher, Beverly
Genre: Drama, Family
Warnings: None
Series: Always Possibilities: Further Adventures of Beverly Crusher
Completed: Yes    Word count: 2857    Read Count: 157

Summary: This story is set in one of the alternate universes that we saw in the episode "Parallels". It tells the story of how this particular universe at which we only got a glimpse unfolded - why Riker appears to be somewhat hostile to Worf, why Alyssa Ogawa is the Chief Medical Officer, how Worf and Troi ended up together, why Data has blue eyes and how the Federation ended up being at war with the Cardassians.
Chapters: 15    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Alternate Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - TNG, Q
Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, Friendship, Het, Romance, Slash, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Graphic Het, Graphic Slash
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 30496    Read Count: 1008

Summary: Picard gets emotional support from a rather unexpected source.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Picard, Jean-Luc, Q
Genre: Angst, Horror, Slash
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1014    Read Count: 401

Summary: Worf has a hard choice ahead of him. Chancellor Gowron has taken charge of Klingon Defense Forces fighting in the Dominion War, and has been sending General Martok to endure one humiliating defeat after another. Such dishonorable conduct demands a response, but Martok has chosen not to take action.

Feeling he still must take decisive action, Worf reflects on the hard choices he has had to make knowing that the cost of his silence too steep a price to pay.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine
Characters: Dax, Ezri, Dax, Jadzia, O'Brien, Miles, Odo, Picard, Jean-Luc, Sisko, Benjamin, Worf, Yar, Tasha
Genre: General
Warnings: Character Death, Violence
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 3284    Read Count: 229

Summary: Deanna Troi has a secret.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Picard, Jean-Luc, Troi, Deanna
Genre: Het
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 475    Read Count: 320

Summary:

Season 2, Episode 6:

As the Seventh Fleet pushes deeper into the Kalandra sector, Captain Limis Vircona learns the whereabouts of her missing son. Former Maquis Goris M'Rev is reunited with a a former colleague. A disgraced former Starfleet captain seeks redemption. Shinar sh'Aqba is torn between duty and family obligations.

Chapters: 8    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - USS Lambda Paz, Kozar, Ronnie, Markalis, Aurellan, Morrison, Mandel, Sullivan, Rebecca, Vircona, Limis
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: Lambda Paz
Completed: Yes    Word count: 17601    Read Count: 3225

Summary:

Season 2, Episode 7:

Out of contact with her strike-team colleagues, Captain Limis Vircona embarks on a potential suicide mission to Sentok Nor to rescue her son from criminal scientist Crell Moset. Mandel Morrison recalls the Setlik III massacre during a similarly dangerous engagement. Shinar sh'Aqba considers the consequences of violating one of her people's strictest taboos.

Chapters: 12    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Ensemble Cast - USS Lambda Paz, Kozar, Ronnie, Markalis, Aurellan, Morrison, Mandel, Sullivan, Rebecca, Vircona, Limis
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Tragedy
Warnings: Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek: Lambda Paz
Completed: Yes    Word count: 29429    Read Count: 7577

Summary: Captain Picard is retiring, leaving Will Riker in command. But before he rides off into the sunset, taking Dr. Beverly Crusher with him, the Enterprise crew encounters a strange man named - Gene Roddenberry?
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation
Characters: Ensemble Cast - TNG
Genre: Mystery
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: None
Completed: Yes    Word count: 10652    Read Count: 272

Summary: For a Fleet Commander, there is no such thing as a "sick day"

A humourous look at what happens when an outbreak of Rigellian Flu occurs among the Romulan First Fleet. Not intended to be particularly serious at all.
Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes, Next Generation
Characters: Donatra, Tomalak
Genre: Humor
Warnings: None
Series: Miscellaneous
Completed: Yes    Word count: 5337    Read Count: 359