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	Cabral managed to save himself and Kasyov from the explosion by touching her (Well, more like harpooning her with a tendril launched from inside his sphere) and then taking them both and his housing out of phase with the Anomaly after quickly disconnecting himself from the ship’s systems. Nurse [[~~Ih’vik~~]] arrives with a medical team and transports Kasyov to sickbay just before Marsden gets there with an engineering team. The explosion took out the conduits connecting Cabral’s housing to engineering, so until those are replaced, the Anomaly doesn’t have anti-sing. Marsden’s team sets about making repairs while Cabral considers the message from Chindela that he heard loud and clear while phased: “This was planned for.”		Cabral managed to save himself and Kasyov from the explosion by touching her (Well, more like harpooning her with a tendril launched from inside his sphere) and then taking them both and his housing out of phase with the Anomaly after quickly disconnecting himself from the ship’s systems. Nurse [[Ih'vik]] arrives with a medical team and transports Kasyov to sickbay just before Marsden gets there with an engineering team. The explosion took out the conduits connecting Cabral’s housing to engineering, so until those are replaced, the Anomaly doesn’t have anti-sing. Marsden’s team sets about making repairs while Cabral considers the message from Chindela that he heard loud and clear while phased: “This was planned for.”

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	In the briefing room, Commander [[Vioxx]] informs the gathered officers that he, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] have been reassigned to take out the Romulan Empire’s new prototype anti-singularity drive ship. Marsden is shocked that the Romulans were able to build one. Prosak asks about joining the Romulans, but Bain tells her she has been very specifically ordered to remain on the Anomaly. They will take the other Romulans to the shipyards at [[Malak Pasala]], where they will transfer to their new ship then remain in the area in case the prototype ship requires assistance during its test flight. After the meeting, Bain tells Prosak that, while he’s upset that the other Romulans are leaving, he’s pleased that this means Prosak will be his First Officer again. She is not so thrilled.		In the briefing room, Commander [[Vioxx]] informs the gathered officers that he, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] have been reassigned to take out the Romulan Empire’s new prototype anti-singularity drive ship. Marsden is shocked that the Romulans were able to build one. Prosak asks about joining the Romulans, but Bain tells her she has been very specifically ordered to remain on the Anomaly. They will take the other Romulans to the shipyards at [[Malak Pasala]], where they will transfer to their new ship then remain in the area in case the prototype ship requires assistance during its test flight. After the meeting, Bain tells Prosak that, while he’s upset that the other Romulans are leaving, he’s pleased that this means Prosak will be his First Officer again. She is not so thrilled.


	Bain visits Vioxx, who is packing his belongings in his quarters, and tells him that the Anomaly crew is throwing a farewell party for Vioxx and his officers in Twain the Keel that night. He goes on to say that while he hates to lose Vioxx, he’s happy that the Romulan is getting his own command again.		Bain visits Vioxx, who is packing his belongings in his quarters, and tells him that the Anomaly crew is throwing a farewell party for Vioxx and his officers in Twain the Keel that night. He goes on to say that while he hates to lose Vioxx, he’s happy that the Romulan is getting his own command again.

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	On [[Gathering Point]], Bain, Tovar, Marsden, [[Rosalyn Bain]], [[Cabral]], Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], and Commander Prosak watch with [[Chindela]] as [[Jacinda]]’s sphere descends to its final resting place on the planet. Chindela thanks Bain for going to retrieve her sphere after Jacinda’s expiration, which required the Anomaly to pass through Breen space using their [[anti-singularity drive]]. With Jacinda now there and Cabral no longer having an expiration date, Chindela says that he has completed his duty to the [[Cerebe]]. And with the news that the [[Pliggeri]] left their homeworld, Chindela asks Cabral to do something for him. Chindela shrinks himself and all of Gathering Point into a cube about three centimeters across. Cabral brings the cube into his sphere and begins to hear it whispering to him.		On [[Gathering Point]], Bain, Tovar, Marsden, [[Rosalyn Bain]], [[Cabral]], Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], and Commander [[Prosak]] watch with [[Chindela]] as [[Jacinda]]’s sphere descends to its final resting place on the planet. Chindela thanks Bain for going to retrieve her sphere after Jacinda’s expiration, which required the Anomaly to pass through Breen space using their [[anti-singularity drive]]. With Jacinda now there and Cabral no longer having an expiration date, Chindela says that he has completed his duty to the [[Cerebe]]. And with the news that the [[Pliggeri]] left their homeworld, Chindela asks Cabral to do something for him. Chindela shrinks himself and all of Gathering Point into a cube about three centimeters across. Cabral brings the cube into his sphere and begins to hear it whispering to him.

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	Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.		Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.

	Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s ~~possible~~ one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.		Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possibly one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

	As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended ~~eight~~ years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.		As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended several years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.

	==Links==		==Links==
	[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]		[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]

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	Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.		Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

	And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten, the Dillon Consortium ~~was involved~~, ~~and~~ the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.		And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten involved the Dillon Consortium, the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot-Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

	Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.		Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.

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	Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.		Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.

	Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.		Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

	And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten, the Dillon Consortium was involved, and the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.		And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten, the Dillon Consortium was involved, and the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

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	We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.		We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.

	We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed.		We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we go open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed?

	Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.		Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.
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	Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possible one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.		Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possible one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

	As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended eight years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.		As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended eight years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.


	==Links==		==Links==
	[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]		[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]

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And now we bring you the final tale of Star Traks: Boldly Gone…. in which everything from the last 10 series culminates in an extended meditation on the very nature of human existence. Or maybe there’s just a bunch of bad jokes and explosions. Our money is on the latter.

==Summary==

==Featuring==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*[[Cabral]]
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]

==Author's Comments==

We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.

We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed.

Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.

Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten, the Dillon Consortium was involved, and the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.

Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.

Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possible one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended eight years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.

==Links==
[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]