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Picking up where [[ | Picking up where ''[[From This Day Forward]]'' left off, Captain [[Lisa Beck]] and Lieutenant Commander [[Craig Porter]] return to [[Waystation]] in the Runabout [[USS Cumberland]] only to find that the station isn't there. After running every scan they can think of to determine what has happened with no luck, they decide to head [[Starbase 219]] to see if they can learn anything there. At the starbase, they are taken to the base commander, Admiral Remington, who shows them on his desk console a scan displaying Waystation still present and accounted for. Remington then demands to know who Beck and Porter really are and insists that Beck give him her command clearance code to prove her identity. Beck almost complies, but stops herself, saying this the situation feels wrong. Porter checks the scan showing Waystation and discovers that it is a static image taken weeks earlier. Beck turns on Remington, but he vanishes. Moments later, his office does as well, leaving Beck and Porter in empty blackness. Beck realizes that the situation feels like a dream and focuses her mental efforts on willing herself to wake up. She finds herself lying on a table with a strange helmet device on her head. She removes the helmet and gets up just as a [[Multeks|Multek]] woman rushes into the room. It is [[Pophlie]], who Beck and Porter have encountered before. Pophlie captured their runabout as they were returning to Waystation and connected them to the simulation helmets. Beck gets the drop on her and forces her to awaken Porter. They turn Pophlie over to the Multek authorities and return to Waystation, which was never missing. In prison, Pophlie uses her one comm to contact her employers and let them know that she ran into a small problem with Beck. They tell Pophlie that her services will no longer be required and that they will be pursuing other avenues. | ||
Revision as of 09:07, 20 May 2008
| Star Traks: Waystation | |
| Episode name | Lost The Way |
|---|---|
| Season | Stardate 57--- |
| Episode number | 1 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2380 |
| Stardate | Unknown |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | From This Day Forward |
| Next in series | All Ahead Full |
| Previous in timeline | Now Or Never [VEX] |
| Next in timeline | All Ahead Full [WAY] |
MISSING: One rather large space station. If found, please contact Captain Lisa Beck or Lieutenant Commander Craig Porter, care of the Runabout Cumberland.
Summary
Picking up where From This Day Forward left off, Captain Lisa Beck and Lieutenant Commander Craig Porter return to Waystation in the Runabout USS Cumberland only to find that the station isn't there. After running every scan they can think of to determine what has happened with no luck, they decide to head Starbase 219 to see if they can learn anything there. At the starbase, they are taken to the base commander, Admiral Remington, who shows them on his desk console a scan displaying Waystation still present and accounted for. Remington then demands to know who Beck and Porter really are and insists that Beck give him her command clearance code to prove her identity. Beck almost complies, but stops herself, saying this the situation feels wrong. Porter checks the scan showing Waystation and discovers that it is a static image taken weeks earlier. Beck turns on Remington, but he vanishes. Moments later, his office does as well, leaving Beck and Porter in empty blackness. Beck realizes that the situation feels like a dream and focuses her mental efforts on willing herself to wake up. She finds herself lying on a table with a strange helmet device on her head. She removes the helmet and gets up just as a Multek woman rushes into the room. It is Pophlie, who Beck and Porter have encountered before. Pophlie captured their runabout as they were returning to Waystation and connected them to the simulation helmets. Beck gets the drop on her and forces her to awaken Porter. They turn Pophlie over to the Multek authorities and return to Waystation, which was never missing. In prison, Pophlie uses her one comm to contact her employers and let them know that she ran into a small problem with Beck. They tell Pophlie that her services will no longer be required and that they will be pursuing other avenues.
Interwoven in the story are flashbacks to the death of Beck's parents when she was a cadet at Starfleet Academy. After receiving the news that her parents were killed in an Astro-Tech shuttle accident, Beck is granted bereavement leave and returns home to North Carolina for the funeral. When she learns that Beck plans to go back to the Academy, Beck's 15-year-old sister, Kathy, is furious. She wants Beck to remain with her in North Carolina, so that she can continue to live in their family home and go to school. Beck refuses, since her parents wanted her to attend the Academy. Kathy is sent off to live with their grandparents on Oraster Colony. Several months later, Beck is contacted by her grandmother and told that Kathy has disappeared. Beck takes leave from the Academy and goes to the one place she believes Kathy is heading: their family home. Kathy does indeed arrive there, and the girls argue. Kathy feels that Beck is getting everything she ever wanted while Kathy has had everything taken from her. Beck, meanwhile, tells Kathy that she needs to grow up and deal with the situation. When Kathy threatens to run off, Beck calls in the police, who take Kathy into custody and return her to their grandparents. From that moment on, Kathy would not speak to her.
At the end of the story, Beck tries to comm Kathy. She ends up leaving a message.
Featuring
- Captain Lisa Beck
- Commander Walter Morales
- Lieutenant Commander Craig Porter