Captain Bhrode has a little less than a month to weld this rag-tag gaggle of people together, into a Ship's crew. Old friendships will be tested, new alliances will be forged, old scores will be settled.

And the ship? Is this -really- the original USS Galaxy, or is Starfleet trying to pull a 'fast one?' What changes have they wrought on the ship during her year long refurbishment? The Federation is changing around the crew as they explore their new home and organize their departments for...

Written by Liam Collins, Former Co-GM of the USS Galaxy.

An area bordered by the Breen, Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, Orion Pirates, Pakleds, Gorn, Kzinti, Lyrans, Trill, Hydrans, and the verminous scum of a hundred stars hiding in the WYN star cluster...it abuts the site of the last mission of the Original USS Galaxy.. the M'Ichr'aNthal sector of the Klingon Empire.

The Outlands.

A great place to die for the unwary. Legendary for it's 'fast and loose' application of laws... the place that dozens of governments fought bloody wars over to try and forget the existance of. It's vast expanse littered with the carcasses of starships... and crawling with pirates, smugglers, dope pushers, slavers, cut throats, con men, thieves, liars, traitors, and scum of every colour, Leo should feel right at home.

A corner of space where the 'Might makes Right' principal is in full effect. It's here that Captain Bhrode is still trying to find the 'right ' people for the jobs on his new command. It's here where his crew is split between the 'old timers' trying to adjust to the 'new' USS Galaxy and the new faces, some of them right out of the Academy and on their first ship.

Old faces are not as they were remembered... old allegiances and friendships are tested, as are old rivalries. Things are not as they once seemed... Black and White are muddied grey now... Captain Bhrode has a personal mission in all of this. Find the people who removed his predecessor Admiral R.E.L. Price. Track down Price's abductors and dispense a little "Johnny Bhrode Justice' their way. To do this, he's requested some of the 'key players' of the Old Galaxy.. the ones he thinks he can trust. The ones he thinks may know something about what -really- happened a year ago.

John Q. Bhrode made a rare mistake.

Imagine his surprise when a killer starts to stalk the corridors of his new command... as he closes in on a 'Conspiracy Theory' that makes Leo Streely seem sane. A theory will eventually reach all the way to the top of his beloved Federation.

Written by Liam Collins.

Inspiration:
TOS show “The Web of the Tholians” and also the movie “Event Horizon”

Details:
The scene open with the Galaxy doing its regular on patrol stuff when they are alerted to the existence of a Starship’s distress call from a remote region of space. The call is degraded badly and nearly indecipherable, but initial analysis indicates it is probable Federation in origin, however utilizing codes and protocols over 100 years out of date.

The decision is reached to investigate the call, however there is much concern over the signal’s proximity to the borders of the Tholian Hegemony. Tensions with the Tholians are especially high in light of the recent lanjep conference, and rumors of possible all out war have been floated thought the upper echelons of Starfleet.

The Galaxy zooms off to the site of the distress call, as analysis of the call itself continues. About the same time long range sensors begin got pick up rather anomalous readings regarding the nature of space-time in the region ahead. By the time Galaxy arrives on the Tholian border the pieces gradually fall together to form the following shocking revelation:

The USS Defiant (Constitution Class) was lost in Tholian Space over 100 years ago in the days of Captain James Kirk. The hapless Starship had blundered into a sort of Interdimensional Rift in Space/Time that drew the Starship into a divergent Universe from our own. Unfortunately, prolonged contact with the border between the two Universes (the ‘Interphase’) has a disruptive effect on Neural pathways leading to Madness and eventually Death. The crew of The Defiant did not survive the Interphase, although the ship itself was left intact. James Kirk himself was briefly trapped aboard the Defiant as it phased in and out of existence between the two Universes whilst the USS Enterprise was forced to deal with the marauding and troublesome presence of Tholian Web-Ships.

Eventually Kirk was recovered, but the Defiant itself was thought to be lost into yet a third Universe forever. . . . . .

Until now. The Defiant is back, and its brought along some friends from beyond.

Written by Toothpick (Chris D.), writer of Rebecca Von Ernst and Dr. Jebediah Quick.

Written by Brandon Tanner, writer of Curtis Geluf.

The Upanishads often speak of past lives and the relationships and actions experianced in those lives. They live and work together in large family groups that are formed by members who may not be genetically related or have even met, yet still seem to share some unique bond.

The crew of the Galaxy become curious during the Upanishads stay and inquire about thier mysterious practices, and the Upanishads offer to demonstrate. But what will the crew do when they all awake in a medieval village with no memories of the Federation, Starfleet, the Galaxy or their lives aboard, but instead those memories of another life?

How will the crew survive in a township under the rule of Count Bhrode, in a small county of Lefedera? How will they live in the middle of a political struggle between Dukes Hoth and Price and others that are beginning to tear the poor country apart? And what will they do when faced with the looming threat of invasion from thier neighbor, Kling? Will any of them realize that there's another life?