Star Trek:

The Canine Voyage

part two

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Iditarod. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no dog had gone before!

Cast: Balto Mandrell- Captain

Boris Goosinoff- Commander

Kaltag- 1st Lieutenant

Star Henderson- Helmsman

Steele Karzon- Security Chief

Jenna Alba- Counselor

Doc- Doctor

Stella Rahssi- Nurse

Nikki, Muk, Luk, and Kodiak- Security Personnel

Mel, Dusty, Sylvia, and Dixie- Engineers

Previously...

Balto however, was in Ops once more, talking with Sisko, when Dax said “Sir, we have something coming through the wormhole.”

“On screen.” said Sisko.

The wormhole opened up in a dazzling display of light and color. What came out, however, was not dazzling or colorful at all.

“Borg.”

and now the continuation.

Ops went into a frenzy of movement. Sisko was shouting orders to everyone. 'I've got to find my crew' thought Balto. He ran out of Ops, down hallways and everywhere he could. He finally found them all attending a party in the promenade. He was shocked by the immaturity of most of his usually stern-faced crew. Steele was dancing on top of a table with a bottle of beer balanced on his head, Jenna was tossing a phaser up and down... while running. And the engineers weren't doing much better. Sylvia and Dixie were passed out face down on the floor. Morn wasn't too active. He was sitting on a barstool drinking something.

“Hey! Attention, crew of the Iditarod! In case you hadn't noticed a Borg cube just arrived!” shouted Balto.

The promenade went quiet.

“Oh no.” said Mel, an engineer. “This is bad.”

Steele said “Oh, yeah right. A Borg? Why would they come back? We whooped them!” At that moment a phaser shot one of the docking pylons.

“Aw crap.” said Steele.

The promenade was no longer quiet. Everywhere people started panicking. Except Morn, who was still drinking. Over the speakers came Sisko's voice.

“Everyone, battle stations! Now!”

Suddenly everyone snapped into action. Except Morn. All began heading for their stations. Balto slapped his badge and said to Sisko “Commander! Permission to board the Defiant and pull her out of dock!”

“What for?” came Sisko's reply.

“To use it against the Borg!”

“Permission granted. Don't let us down.”

Balto called to his crew “Crew of the Iditarod! Meet in the airlock where the Defiant is being held!”

They were quickly there. “Alright,” said Balto “Who here has had experience handling this ship?” Only five raised their hands. Boris, Kaltag, Steele, Nikki, and Star.

“OK, that won't be enough. How about some engineers? Mel, Dusty, Sylvia, and... uh, Dixie! Hmm. Doc, would you and Stella come along? We could probably use you. Uh, that still won't be enough.” He slapped his badge again. “Sisko, do you have anyone you could spare that has experience piloting the Defiant?”

“Sure. How many do you need?”

“Uh, about half a dozen.”

“OK. I'll send them down.” Sisko then shouted orders to his team in Ops and broke off communication with Balto.

“Steele, could you bring some of your security team? We'll need help if the Borg manage to get aboard.”

“Yeah. Luk, Kodiak, and Muk! You're coming along!”

As soon as the six DS9 people showed up, they boarded the Defiant and took off. As they were flying toward the Borg cube, Muk said “Look! The wormhole is opening up again!”

When they saw what came out, the bridge went silent for a moment. It was two more Borg cubes!

“Great!” cried Boris. “Just what we need!”

“Star! Fly us directly toward the wormhole! Let DS9 deal with the first one. We'll tackle these two! Steele! Arm quantum torpedoes!” ordered Balto.

“This is bad! This is very bad!” said Mel.

“Don't worry. This ship was designed to fight the Borg.”

“Yes, but was Deep Space Nine?” Balto had to think about this one for a minute. He soon stopped as Kaltag said “The cubes are within firing range!”

“Fire at will.” Eight quantum torpedoes shot off with astounding precision, all hitting their mark. Balto then ordered to fire a few rounds of phasers while the torpedoes reloaded. Three phaser blasts from the Defiant where answered by a powerful volley from the Borg.

“Shields are at 84%” said Steele.

“Already?! After one volley? I thought this ship was designed to fight the Borg!”

“This is bad.” said the ever helpful Mel.

“Would you shut up? Kaltag, fire a few more torpedoes at the same spot the last ones hit.” After eight more torpedoes struck again, the Defiant flew up and circled around the cube to the back of it. They were now in between the second and third cube. “Kaltag, fire a phaser at the third ship and see if it returns fire.” Well, it did. Balto then ordered “Fire one more at it, then fly straight up as soon as the Borg fire back.” Phasers went off toward the Borg, then when the Borg fired back, Kaltag complied. He flew up just in time to dodge the blast, which then hit the other cube.

“Woo hoo! It worked!” cried Balto. “I'm not sure if it did much damage, but it worked! Fly back to the front and continue firing at the damaged spot on the front.” Now, normally, Borg cubes are extremely powerful ships, but sixteen quantum torpedoes in the exact same spot do wonders. And the Defiant fired eight more, completely destroying the cube. The crew cheered as it blew up, but they stopped when the third one came flying through the explosion of the second one. “Oh, well. One down, two to go.” said Star. But they completely lost hope when the wormhole opened again.

“We'll never beat that.” said Muk.

Eight more cubes came pouring out of the wormhole.

“Star. Open a channel with DS9.” Balto said quietly.

Soon a channel was open.

“Commander Sisko! Eight more cubes just came through the wormhole!”

“I know.” he replied. “Look, our situation is hopeless. Get out while you can. Get help!”

“We can't run! We need to stay and help!”

“It took an entire fleet to destroy one cube! There's ten here! We can't do anything to stop them!”

“But we've already destroyed one of them all by ourselves! We can help you save the station!”

“It took you, what, twenty-four torpedoes? The Defiant holds one hundred! You'll be lucky to get four of them!”

Balto sighed. “Alright. We'll head for the nearest Star base, reload, and send for a fleet or two.”

“OK. Go now!” And the Defiant was off in a flash. Unfortunately, two cubes were following them. As soon as the crew of the Defiant realized, Balto ordered them to turn around and fight them off. His strategy- turn, fire, run, turn, fire, run. Only one problem with that though. The Defiant's top speed was warp 9.3, whereas the Borg went warp 9.999. Finally Balto said “That does it! They're gaining to fast! Just stop and finish this!” So the Defiant stopped flying, turned around, and held it's position. When the cubes were within firing range, the Defiant's torpedo bays opened and started firing. After a few volleys between the Defiant and Borg, one of the cubes exploded, but the other was still operating. And the Defiant was in bad condition.

“Status report! I want a status report!” cried Balto.

Steele quickly told him. “Forward shields are at 18%, we have seven torpedoes left, and overall energy power is at 25%! We're in bad condition here!”

“Can we use phasers?” asked Star.

“They would do no good.” said Balto. “Our torpedoes are barely doing anything!”

“Then what can we do?” asked Star again.

“I'm thinking. Steele, what's our engine power?”

“Um, not good sir. Engines are at...”

“I don't want percentages. I want top speed!”

“That would be warp 6.8 sir.”

Balto thought for a minute. He slapped his badge and said “Dusty, would it be possible to take our last seven torpedoes and convert them into mines?”

“It might be hard sir, but I think we could do it.”

“Good. Have half your team work on that and the other half work on getting our speed back up to warp 9.3!”

At that point a powerful volley by the Borg brought their shields completely down, and in that instant three Borg beamed onto the ship. One grabbed Steele, another grabbed Kaltag, and the last one got Balto. Steele quickly broke free of the Borg's grasp, brought out his phaser, and shot him. Immediately he fired on the one holding Kaltag, but when he fired at the third one, it had adapted, then beamed itself and Balto onto their ship.

“Oh no.” said Mel. “This is really, really, really, bad!”

“What do we do now? What?” asked Star.

Boris spoke up “It would be foolish to try to get him back. We press on and go to the nearest Star Base!”

“What?” cried Steele “He's our captain! We have to get him back!”

"Do you have any idea how difficult that would be? We might lose more men saving him! But if we keep going, we may be able to save him later.”

At that point Dusty's voice came over Boris' badge. “We've got engine power back on line! And those mines are ready as well.”

“Excellent. Kaltag, warp 9.3. Go!”

“Wait a minute,” thought Dusty “That sound's like Boris.” He asked “What happened to Balto? Is he injured or something?”

“No Dusty. He's been captured by the Borg.”

“What? How?”

“I'll tell you later. Now, drop two mines.”

The Defiant consequently dropped two of the mines, right in the path of the pursuing Borg vessel. Boris was quite satisfied when he saw two explosions in front of the cube.

“Nice job Dusty. Drop two more!”

Seconds later two more small explosions went off.

“Holy Shnykeebits. They haven't slowed down at all! In fact, they're gaining!” said Star.

“Drop two more!”

“But,” said Dusty “We only have three left.”

“I SAID DROP TWO MORE!!” shouted Boris.

'Sheesh. What a pill.' thought Dusty as he dropped the next two.

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