Please note all characters are copyright of Paramount and I am merely playing with a facsimile of their Trek characters. Slightly different versions than the originals but just as much fun in their own, unique way.
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Tom Paris manuevered the starship Voyager hard to the port side, barely evading Borg cutting beams that had lanced out from the cube at the Federation vessel a millisecond before. "Where the hell did that cube come from!?" shouted Chakotay, a maquis freedom fighter turned second in command of Voyager, due to some very strange circumstances years prior.
"Sensors didn't indicate a spatial anomaly of any type before the cube arrived and opened fire, Sir!" Harry Kim gritted his teeth as the ship was rocked by another explosion before again speaking, "I'll run a full diagnostic on the ship's sensors and see if we've had some type of malfunction there!"
"Do it, Harry!" Captain Kathryn Janeway uttered from her chair.
"Aye Captain!" Harry quickly responded, "We have an incoming hail too, audio only." The metallic, cold voice of the Borg collective spoke resoundingly and convincingly: "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to out own. You will adapt to serve us. Resistance is futile."
Captain Janeway had heard that hail more than once... it offered no inflection in the tone, no change in the pitch or tone... very cold and, to her human ears, devoid of anything that would remotely suggest it had a soul. "Like hell it is!" She screamed audibly. The Captain then locked eyes with her good friend and Chief Security Officer, Commander Tuvok. "I want a full dispersal of photon torpedoes with rotating phaser frequency fire so they can't adjust, at least not immediately!" She knew the Borg would adapt, however. It was their nature; adjust, adapt and overcome their enemies. Janeway new it would only be a matter of time until they were assimilated, unless something miraculous occured.
Tuvok launched a full volley of photons at the cube, phaser fire coming quickly on its heels...not surprisingly, the counter-attack did minimal damage. "Captain," Tuvok began in his monotonal voice, "The Borg vessel suffered minor damage, preliminary readings indicate it is still 89% combat ready and our own shields are down to 15%."
"Shit!" Janeway thought to herself, her eyebrows knotted together out of frustration and the lack of damage that they had returned onto the Borg. "One more hit and our shields will be gone," Tuvok stated.
"Maybe we can run from them, perhaps hide near a spatial distortion!?" Chakotay quipped.
"Harry grimaced and replied," The diagnostic indicates our sensors are working within acceptable parameters... in addition, I've scanned for spatial distortions, singularities, black holes, worm holes... nothing within 8 light years, Commander!"
"Get your phasers and change them to a modulating frequency!!" Janeway barked like a drill instructor. "If we're going to be boarded, we'll give them the fight of their lives! Until then, Tom, take us out of here at maximum warp!! Maybe we can find some aliens who would help us with the Borg... as vicious as they are, they're bound to have enemies all over the Delta Quadrant, and any enemy of theirs is a friend of ours!"
Immediately after Janeway stated that, a brilliant flash on incandescent light filled the bridge and there appeared... Q.
"Well, well, well if it isn't my little humans!! I see you've decided to take on the Borg once again! I really should have introduced your species much sooner... seems you can't help running into each other and the Borg have taken a liking to you!! Why don't you just let them go ahead and assimilate you!? I'm sure you'd find it ... an interesting experience." Q smirked wryly and interlocked his fingers as he did. Captain Janeway didn't know if Q's presence counted as miraculous or if he instigated the entire event, watching from behind the scenes, so to speak. If she had to wager her life, she'd choose the latter.
Janeway shot a scowl at Q but before she could speak, he said, "Come now Kathryn, I was merely having a bit of fun. My life is dull, drab and weary at times and I need to spice it up on occasion!! "Janeway gave Q a look that could kill but he paid her no heed, he simply snapped his fingers and the Borg cube imploded in upon itself. "There now, all the nasty Borg are all dead... feel better?" Q chuckled ominously.
"That wasn't necessary, Q and we both know it! You could have just as easily sent them back where they came from!" Q had a look on his face as though he were mulling it over, then said, "I suppose I could have... I still could even. just pluck them out of the space/time continuum and voila, they'd be back assimilating other species as though they never had been dead... that's the beauty of this universe, Kathryn... the past and future are both fluidic... you can alter events so easily, even on a whim! However, I think they should stay dead...the Borg are spiders and prey upon others... they needed to be squashed!!
Picard seldom would agree with me on anything but I would think you, of all people, wouldn't have such a bleeding heart... I've always fancied you as a female version of James Kirk... Gung ho, tough as nails and takes shit from no one, not even me. And I would think you wouldn't care if the Borg collective lived or died! I am happily surprised at that, Kathryn... to know that even I can get a reaction that I don't expect! I have to thank you for that!"
Q leaned down and kissed the back of Janeway's hand, gently pushing his lips against it while she sighed in disgust. She was still very angry at Q for bringing the Borg here and risking the lives of her crew, just so he could alleviate his boredom. "Thank you again Captain, it was indeed a pleasure... and now since you've done something pleasurable for me I'll do something even more pleasurable for you!" Q stated again with a sly grin which spread across his lips.
Chakotay then spoke up, "What the hell are you talking about, Q?! First you almost kill us and now you're wanting to do something you think will make us happy?! I think I can speak for the rest of the crew when I say thanks but no thanks... you've done more than enough as it is!" Q turned towards Chakotay and his smile downturned into a frown. "I wasn't speaking to you, now was I!?"
Q turned back towards Janeway and continued, "Captain, your crew was never in any real danger... I would have stopped the Borg before they would have had a chance to board and do any damage to either your people or your vessel. I see you all like... what's that Earth creature you love so much... those things... dogs yes... that's what they're called... I turned Picard's medical officer into one once upon a time but that's another story." Q laughed softly as he reminisced, then continued. " I see you all as my dogs, I suppose you could say and I care very much about your welfare, though I never would admit that to Jean-Luc! I have to play the part of the bad dog owner with him more often than not it seems, but all good owners play with their dogs right? And that's what I'm doing with you and your crew when I do these things Kathryn!"
Janeway didn't know whether to feel flattered or insulted... she thought perhaps a bit of both was appropriate. "So you see us as your DOGS?!" She mouthed. "Q, we don't need your interference in our lives in any manner, in fact you are a nuisance and we would appreciate it if you'd stay the hell out of our business and that of the Federation!"
Q retorted, " I know you don't really mean that Kathryn! You may say that but deep down you know you really have grown quite accustomed to my company and would be lost without me. So I'll tell you what, for being such good "doggies," I'll give you all a treat! What do you say to that?"
Harry replied, "How about getting us back to Earth?! I can't think of a better "treat" than that!" Tom said, " Hmmmmm well I can think of a couple things I'd like better than being back home, but not many. Paris then envisioned B'ellana Torres, his wife, giving him head for hours on end. To Tom, that was one of a couple things better than a ticket back to Earth.
Q must have been reading Tom's mind because he said, " I know the perfect treat! I'm going to lower all of your sexual inhibitions. Therefore you may all engage in fellatio, cunninglus and penetration without any need of a relationship, fear or rejection or any other social situation that may hinder you "gettin' some!" "he said in a voice identical to the 20th century musician, Barry White.
Q then snapped his fingers and another flash of white brilliance filled the deck, then vanished just as quickly. There, it's done!, "Q smirked" Now you all have the morals of an alley cat... though for Paris, I think that's a step-up! Without another word Q vanished like fog on a warm sunny day; leaving no sign that he had ever been there in the first place to begin with.