Please Hold For Oblivion - Revision history

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	==Links==		==Links==
	[~~http~~://www.star-traks.com/~~traks~~/~~oblivion.txt~~ Please Hold For Oblivion ~~(text)]~~		[https://www.star-traks.com//original/stories/page2/26_OT_OBLIVION/ Please Hold For Oblivion]

	~~[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/special.html The Original Star Traks Specials page]~~

	~~[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/sttraks2.html The Star Traks: The Original Series web page~~]

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	I started writing "Please Hold For Oblivion" in the Fall of 1997, two years after I had ~~graduate~~ from [[Old Dominion University]]. At the time I was in graduate school in Louisiana and, if I am honest with myself, feeling a bit lonely. Yes, I was married, and I had made new friends. But the group of people I had spent almost four years with had scattered, and I was definitely feeling the inevitable changes that friendships go through as everyone moves on to new phases of their lives.		I started writing "Please Hold For Oblivion" in the Fall of 1997, two years after I had graduated from [[Old Dominion University]]. At the time I was in graduate school in Louisiana and, if I am honest with myself, feeling a bit lonely. Yes, I was married, and I had made new friends. But the group of people I had spent almost four years with had scattered, and I was definitely feeling the inevitable changes that friendships go through as everyone moves on to new phases of their lives.

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	*Commander [[Scott Baird]]		*Commander [[Scott Baird]]
	*Lieutenant [[Patricia Hawkins]]		*Lieutenant [[Patricia Hawkins]]
	*Lieutenant [[Emily Sullivan]]		*Lieutenant Commander [[Emily Sullivan]]
	*Ensign [[Andrea Carr]]		*Ensign [[Andrea Carr]]
	*Lieutenant [[Monica Vaughn]]		*Lieutenant [[Monica Vaughn]]

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	==Links==		==Links==
	[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/oblivion.txt Please Hold For Oblivion (text)]		[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/oblivion.txt Please Hold For Oblivion (text)]

			[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/special.html The Original Star Traks Specials page]

	[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/sttraks2.html The Star Traks: The Original Series web page]		[http://www.star-traks.com/traks/sttraks2.html The Star Traks: The Original Series web page]

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	Forever decides to do it anyway.		Forever decides to do it anyway.


			A chronometric wave shoots out of the moon in all directions, unraveling all of the possible timelines of the universe. The six people inside the Forever moon are the only ones protected from its effects, Dillon cackling all the while that Rydell failed. Seeing no other options, Rydell leaps into the source of the chronometic wave, hoping to find the force in control of Forever. Dillon takes the opportunity to get revenge against Hawkins. Before he can kill her, Jaroch challenges him to personal combat. Dillon stuns Hawkins and accepts the challenge, both men saying that they have been waiting a long time for this. Rydell finds himself in a clock shop. There the proprietor shows him a mangled broken clock labeled "Forever." The clock is our universe, and it is very very broken. The shop proprietor has no interest in fixing it, since he's got many other clocks. Rydell grabs some tools and sets out to fix it himself, knowing all the while that this whole clock shop thing is probably completely metaphorical and that he is in way over his head.


			Jaroch and Dillon fight, Jaroch discovering much to his discomfort that Dillon has spent his time in the asteroid holodeck training himself. Karina, whom Dillon had stunned earlier, regains consciousness and demands to know where Rydell is. Jaroch and Dillon point her in the direction he went, and she leaps in after him, finding herself in the clock shop. She tells Rydell that he is not a god, and they decide to go together to face the end of everything.


			Dillon injures Jaroch badly, knocking him to the floor. Hawkins has recovered by this time and leaps up to continue the fight against Dillon, faring even worse than Jaroch did. She's the one Dillon has been training for, and he attacks her mercilessly. Jaroch is able to summon [[J'Ter]], who takes over Jaroch and gives Dillon a thorough thrashing.


			The clock shop proprietor shows up again, and Rydell and Durham are able to talk him into repairing Forever. Dillon is beaten, but he tells Jaroch and Hawkins that it doesn't matter because they're all going to die anyway. That's when Rydell and Durham return, fresh from having saved the universe, to prove him wrong.


			With the universe back in place, Morticent surrenders, and Trinian takes her and Guardian #492 back to Guardian Control for trial. Beck has Dillon committed to [[Tantalus V]], where he can finally get the help he should have gotten years ago. Hawkins informs Jaroch that, while she does have feelings for him, she needs to go home and see if she can work things out with Mookow.


			One year later, Beck visits Rydell at The Suburb and meets his baby daughter, Ashley.


			Eighteen months after Forever, the Secondprize arrives at Starbase 84. Hawkins is there waiting for Jaroch. She and Mookow have divorced, and she wants to see if Jaroch is willing to give a relationship a try. He readily agrees.


			Two years after Forever, Dillon is doing much better and is about to be released from Tantalus V. When asked what he plans to do now, Dillon states that may write a book.

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	On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize. Thanks to a message left by Porter, the Secondprize discovers that the Mitgogae is in the area and send down transport scramblers to prevent Morticent from grabbing Rydell and company out of the moon. Thwarted at this, Morticent instead grabs Dillon in transport and beams him onto the Mitgogae, not realizing that she has an unstable man on her hands. Dillon knocks out Morticent and starts cackling about killing Rydell.		On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize. Thanks to a message left by Porter, the Secondprize discovers that the Mitgogae is in the area and send down transport scramblers to prevent Morticent from grabbing Rydell and company out of the moon. Thwarted at this, Morticent instead grabs Dillon in transport and beams him onto the Mitgogae, not realizing that she has an unstable man on her hands. Dillon knocks out Morticent and starts cackling about killing Rydell. He soon discovers Morticent's secret weapon against Rydell. On the way to Forever, she had the Mitgogae swing by The Suburb and snatch Karina Durham. Dillon grabs Durham and beams down to Forever, where he tells Rydell that if Rydell doesn't do everything he says, he's going to kill Durham.


			With her plan spoiled, Morticent attacks the Secondprize. The Secondprize is again overmatched but gets some much needed help when the Inevitable arrives. During the battle, Porter is able to free himself and sets out to find the Mitgogae's enginer room. Meanwhile, Baird is able to drive Dillon off. Rydell gives chase and is able to appeal to Dillon's sense of Starfleet duty, convincing Dillon to put whatever grudge he has against Rydell aside until after the universe is saved.


			The Mitgogae disables the Secondprize and turns its attention to the Inevitable. Rydell, Dillon, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird try to give Forver their access code and run into one tiny problem: Baird's profanity filter won't allow him to say the final phrase. The Invitable is disabled as well, but before the Mitgogae can strike the killing blow against both Starfleet ships, Porter shuts down power to all major systems. Morticent sends Guardian #492 to find out what's happened as Sullivan and Trinian take a raceabout to the Secondprize, grab Beck and Carr, then all four women beam onto the Mitgogae. Trinian heads to the bridge and fights Morticent. Beck, Sullivan, and Carr are...distracted by some of Morticent's flunkies. And Porter is found by Guardian #492, who decides to kill the Starfleet officer.


			With one minute remaining until universal annihilation, Hawkins takes drastic action to shut down Baird's profanity filter, hitting the engineer with a swift boot to the head. The chip is broken, but Baird is dazed. At the last possible second (of course), they are able to give Forever the complete access code and and tell him NOT to destroy the universe.


			Forever decides to do it anyway.

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	On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize. Thanks to a message left by Porter, the Secondprize discovers that the Mitgogae is in the area and send down transport scramblers to		On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize. Thanks to a message left by Porter, the Secondprize discovers that the Mitgogae is in the area and send down transport scramblers to prevent Morticent from grabbing Rydell and company out of the moon. Thwarted at this, Morticent instead grabs Dillon in transport and beams him onto the Mitgogae, not realizing that she has an unstable man on her hands. Dillon knocks out Morticent and starts cackling about killing Rydell.

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	On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize.		On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize. Thanks to a message left by Porter, the Secondprize discovers that the Mitgogae is in the area and send down transport scramblers to

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	Rydell and Beck arrive at the [[Deneria Dry Dock]], where Scott Baird is the Supervising Refit and Repair Officer, a job he was given on the condition that he have a profanity filter chip installed in his brain. His wife, Captain Emily Sullivan, is there as well with her ship, the [[USS Inevitable]]. Starfleet has declared the current situation classified, so Beck cannot tell Sullivan what is happening, but Baird is told that he must accompany them back to Forever. Soon their transportation arrives, the USS Secondprize under the command of Captain Jaroch. Jaroch and Rydell take the Secondprize to get Dillon, while Beck and Baird take a raceabout to find Hawkins. No one will tell Rydell where Dillon is. He soon learns that Dillon went a wee bit on the crazy side after Hawkins abruptly left him and he was passed over for command of the Secondprize. For the last several years, he has been living in a holodeck constructed inside of an asteroid, where he is watched over by Counselor [[Ray Miller]]. Dillon has turned the holodeck into his own fantasy world where he is the absolute ruler. Against Miller's advice, Dillon is yanked out of the holodeck and transported to the Secondprize. Hawkins and her husband, [[Mookow]], run a private security firm, but due to some relationship issues and a botched security job, Hawkins is more than willing to help stop Forever despite knowing it will mean facing Dillon again.		Rydell and Beck arrive at the [[Deneria Dry Dock]], where Scott Baird is the Supervising Refit and Repair Officer, a job he was given on the condition that he have a profanity filter chip installed in his brain. His wife, Captain Emily Sullivan, is there as well with her ship, the [[USS Inevitable]]. Starfleet has declared the current situation classified, so Beck cannot tell Sullivan what is happening, but Baird is told that he must accompany them back to Forever. Soon their transportation arrives, the USS Secondprize under the command of Captain Jaroch. Jaroch and Rydell take the Secondprize to get Dillon, while Beck and Baird take a raceabout to find Hawkins. No one will tell Rydell where Dillon is. He soon learns that Dillon went a wee bit on the crazy side after Hawkins abruptly left him and he was passed over for command of the Secondprize. For the last several years, he has been living in a holodeck constructed inside of an asteroid, where he is watched over by Counselor [[Ray Miller]]. Dillon has turned the holodeck into his own fantasy world where he is the absolute ruler. Against Miller's advice, Dillon is yanked out of the holodeck and transported to the Secondprize. Hawkins and her husband, [[Mookow]], run a private security firm, but due to some relationship issues and a botched security job, Hawkins is more than willing to help stop Forever despite knowing it will mean facing Dillon again.


			On [[Waystation]], Trinian is able to borrow a ship from [[Bradley Dillon]] in exchange for working for him, a deal she has no plans of honoring. She races to Deneria, but finds that the Secondprize has already left for Forever. She runs into Sullivan, tells her everything, and they take off after the Secondprize in the Inevitable. Porter, who has made contact with Forever, is suddenly beamed out of the moon by Morticent and imprisoned on her ship (although, she makes his captivity quite pleasant). The Mitgogae hides, waiting for the Secondprize, which arrives some time later. Rydell, Jaroch, Hawkins, and Baird beam down to Forever and make preparations to have Dillon beamed down while Jaroch's first officer, Commander [[Andrea Carr]], and Beck remain on the Secondprize.

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	That's really what Oblivion is about. I wanted to show that time had actually passed for the Secondprize crew and that they weren't going to stay in the same place forever. Oblivion was written before The Lost Years, so all of the things that happen with the crew at the end of Lost Years were actually dictated by the decisions I made for Oblivion. I knew Rydell would retire young for a while. I'd laid the groundwork for it in ''[[Of Gods and First Officers]]''. Actually "Gods" has a bit of dialogue that shaped a lot of Oblivion. Rydell tells Conway, "There are people for whom this is a job and those for whom this is a life. Figure out what kind of Starfleet officer you are now before your entire life passes you by. If it's just a job, stay only until you figure out what you really want to do. Then get the hell out. If it's your life, give it everything you've got." Nothing especially deep there, but it made me think about the Secondprize crew. Which ones were career Starfleet and which ones were just passing through.		That's really what Oblivion is about. I wanted to show that time had actually passed for the Secondprize crew and that they weren't going to stay in the same place forever (no pun intended). Oblivion was written before The Lost Years, so all of the things that happen with the crew at the end of Lost Years were actually dictated by the decisions I made for Oblivion. I knew Rydell would retire young for a while. I'd laid the groundwork for it in ''[[Of Gods and First Officers]]''. Actually "Gods" has a bit of dialogue that shaped a lot of Oblivion. Rydell tells Conway, "There are people for whom this is a job and those for whom this is a life. Figure out what kind of Starfleet officer you are now before your entire life passes you by. If it's just a job, stay only until you figure out what you really want to do. Then get the hell out. If it's your life, give it everything you've got." Nothing especially deep there, but it made me think about the Secondprize crew. Which ones were career Starfleet and which ones were just passing through.