(2259) Kirk's rise to power, and Scott's involvement in it.

While on a relief mission to a colony of the Norsai Republic, Rebecca Sullivan's shuttle is shot down, and she is taken prisoner by a Cardassian seeking to avenge a death in the family perpertrated by her former Maquis cell. Rebecca is soon rescued by soldiers of the Norsaian Liberation Front. But when she finds her saviors have not contacted the USS Lambda Paz, as they had claimed, she does some snooping around and learns of their plans to cause a major cataclysm that could claim many innocent lives.

Rebecca Sullivan must now enlist aid of her former Cardassian captor if either of them is to survive.

Season 2, 25th story

Max makes a shocking discovery that one of his ancestor's pioneering mathematical, and hitherto unknown, research into subspace and warp flight may have been unwittingly used by Zefram Cochrane. Faced with the paradox of whether his ancestor, John Weatherby, is the missing link to how mankind developed its first warp drive, Max asks of Ezri for them to investigate what happened all those hundreds of years ago back on Earth.

Seeking a way to send the Defiant many hundreds of years in the past, Ezri invites Seven of Nine to the station to implement untested work into time travel. The year Ezri wants to go to is 2053; the year where World War III ended due to nuclear Armageddon.

When the Defiant does go successfully back in time, Ezri and Max begin their investigations into John and his involvement with warp research. After some digging around, it falls upon Ezri to carry out one truly terrible decision; either way many lives will be lost and altered because of it.

Warnings: Adult situations and occasional strong swearing.

Chapters: 9    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Holo, Kira Nerys, Seven of Nine, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 28335    Read Count: 1657

Season 2, Episode 3:

The USS Lambda Paz, as part of the Kalandra Campaign, is assigned to a strike force on the outer reaches of the sector. Former Obsidian Order operatives aboard station Sentok Nor are feeding information to Starfleet Intelligence, which Section 31 believes is part of a more devastating plot that is a threat to both the Federation and Cardassian Union. Doctor Aurellan Markalis is recruited to infiltrate a mysterious Augment cabal.

A superior man? Maybe. A man not to be trifled with? Definitely.

Holodecks on the NX-01? Not bloody likely!