<USS Avalon> Captain's Talk

 
Captain's Talk
By Captain Keith Ketchum, Captain Grace  Redgrave-Dareth, and Marine Captain 
Analu  Maluhia 
Takes place immediately after 'Future Talks' and before 'Always Something  
Else'
As Keith watched  Skyler leave the room, he turned back to Grace.  "First 
things first", he walked over to  a comm and opened a channel to outside the 
ship, "Mr. Garrity this is Captain  Keith Ketchum, and the Captain of the other 
vessel of which you were just on, we  are both on the Avalon currently, and 
wish 
to talk to you.  I have some highly classified  information that must be seen 
regarding what may or may not happen.  Please respond soon."  He closed the 
comm.  Turning to Grace, "I do hope he responds  soon." 
"Secondly, these  time bombs, what do you think we should do about them on my 
ship.  I was thinking that I would just pose an  order, asking that those 
that talked to your crew to not relay that information  on.  I know it is not a 
definite  order that they would follow, but I can't afford to have localized 
mind-wipes on  them." 
He continued on,  "Now, thirdly, getting you and your crew home to your own 
place and  time." 
Andy didn't mean  to but the second item, both parts of it, were out of 
question and localized  mind wipes were, in their time, considered assault. He 
snorted in disgust.  They did more harm than  good. 
"They still do  those horrid things in this time?" Grace asked. She 
remembered her Aunt telling  her she'd had several and it always gave her the 
creeps. 
"Seeing as this is the  past, or at least a version of it, I don't see the 
crossovers as much of a  problem on our end. I'm sure your crew will do what's 
best, or at least I know  the older versions of them from my time would.." 
Looking over at Andy and then  back at Keith, Grace addressed the third issue. 
"How 
do we get  home?" 
"I agree that mind-wipes are not the best things to  do.  As for getting you 
home.  I wish I had an answer for that, but the  only thing that was noted in 
my logs from the future were that you were  basically dispatched to destroy 
all future tech in the Badlands.  That could either be the code or that  time 
in 
this reality will be longer that you want.  I'd like to think it is a code.  
Perhaps, once finding some sort of  technology, which I would assume activated 
the original wormhole to begin with  and use that to create another to get 
home.  But that is only speculation.  The Badlands are full of plasma and  
gravitational anomalies, which could be used to the advantage." 
Pinching the bridge of her nose, Grace sighed. "This must  be how Janeway 
felt." Looking up at the other Captain she nodded. "Whatever  information you 
can 
give us will be a big help. As soon as I get back I'll have  Mister McEntire 
and Mister Li begin work on finding a way home for  us." 
"Begging the captain's pardon for the interruption," Andy  said carefully, 
"but I've done a lot of search and rescue.  If there's a map or graph, it would 
 
help." 
"Alas, all the real information that I have is in that PADD  as to what I 
know."  He knew the  predicament that she was in; he was in it a year ago 
himself 
when his ship went  into the future, one that was rather bleak.  Turning to 
Andy, "As to maps of the  badlands, they are limited, as it is difficult to get 
an accurate scan of a  system, without traversing it first.  I know that 
there is a Class-M asteroid that was the base of operations  for the Maquis."  
He 
walked to the  station in the conference room and brought up a map of the 
Badlands.  "The asteroid is in this location", he  pointed to the map, "And we 
are 
currently here", another point, "Which isn't  far, and probably where the 
Maquis were launching the insurgency into the  wormhole."  He pulled out a 
spare  
PADD, "I assume that these are compatible with your system, if I download 
data  to it." 
Grace nodded. "Ours are slimmer and more streamlined, but  they're still 
simply PADDs." 
Tapping away for a moment, "This is what I can give you  now." He downloaded 
the map to the PADD and handed it to Andy.  Turning to the window, "I wish you 
luck  on finding your way home, Captain.  I'm sure I will be watching you 
grow up, and at least in your timeline,  you seemed to have turned out quite 
well.  Now if we can only get Mr. Garrity to come out of hiding." 
Andy muttered under his breath then said, "Captain, when we  get home, I'm 
recommending the Field Marshal go after these guys.  Maquis are causing me  
headaches..." 
"This temporal stuff isn't helping much with my own, Mister  Maluhia." 
Standing, Grace turned to Keith. "Thank you for you help, Captain.  We'll stick 
around until Mr. Garrity is back and then we'll be on our way. I  have a crew 
to 
get home." 
Turning back to them, he  nodded, "Godspeed, Captain."  He  watched them beam 
out of the conference room.  He had to agree with one thing, temporal  stuff 
made everyone's head  hurt.

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