In Thy Image 1/16; Doctor Who/Star Trek: Voyager crossover

[scarfman]

Back in the days when I regularly posted fanfiction to Usenet, this was my story that inspired more discourse on alt.drwho.creative than any other. It's set just after Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant in the series finale, but was composed and posted previous to the final-season episode Author, Author and I have the posting headers to prove it.

This is a slightly revised version of the story. It's now set in the chronology-prorated crossover multiverse of my "sketches" rather than the chronology of my "Dailies" and prose fanfiction; the difference is described here. This means that, since the story's set just after Star Trek: Voyager's series finale, the concurrent point in Doctor Who's timeline is just after whatever's most recently aired; so the Doctor is David Tennant's and the girl companion is the one who won't debut till next spring.* Edit: This is the only reprint to LJ of existing stories from my original fanfiction website which is converted to the prorated chronologies' paradigm like this. All others remain as originally set. Few stories written since 2005 and posted only here on LJ are crossovers as of this writing (early 2010), and even "sketches" are now being set in the same chronology paradigm as the rest of my fanfiction.

There are some differences between the Star Trek: Voyager characters' backstory in this story and their story as portrayed in the original sources. But it's the nature of those differences that this story's version is the true universe and it's the events portrayed in the sources that, where different, are AU. It's all explained in the story.

In Thy Image was the title of the episode of the unrealized mid-70s Star Trek revival series whose script was adapted into Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

This story is a work derivative of intellectual properties owned by the BBC and by Paramount Pictures, but it infringes on no market of theirs, and no other profit has been made.

Chapters will be posted daily.

In Thy Image
Chapter 1

Captain Kathryn Janeway went into her debriefing with the Starfleet chiefs of staff expecting the unexpected. She had no doubt some sort of trauma would surface to point up the strain and separation of her and her crew's seven-year involuntary exile from home space. Yet as the log review dragged on no overt conflict developed. A few of the board were relieved to discover that certain events depicted in popular dramatizations based on Pathfinder transmissions of Voyager logs were inventions; Janeway wondered but didn't ask why they hadn't checked the logs themselves before now, but that was as unpleasant as it got.

Which isn't to say that Janeway didn't expect, and endorse, the board's orders that the crew attend counselor therapy their initial few months back, and longer if necessary should individual cases warrant it. But it was while Janeway was paging through the crew's counselor assignments and scheduled appointments that the first intimations of disaster niggled at her. The crew roster seemed incomplete somehow. Janeway looked it over a second time, listening with only one ear to the praise Admiral Paris was proffering to her and her crew at the end of the hours-long debrief. The second glance-through did nothing to confirm or deny her uneasiness, so the third time she checked the names off in her head in department order: Astrogation. Biology. Conn. Engineering. Medical -

There was no entry on the roster for her medical department.

When the meeting was dismissed Janeway approached Admiral Paris - naturally enough; her old friend. "Thank you for your kind words, Admiral."

"You did good work, Captain." Paris smiled warmly, but was heading for the door in a rush for some upcoming appointment.

"There's one thing I wanted to ask you about, though. There's nothing in the red tape about the disposition of my ship's doctor."

"Oh, don't worry about that," Paris said, patting her shoulder as he passed out of the room. "The mark one EMH was invalidated out of the service, didn't you know? It'll be sent out to mine ore like the others, and you'll get a brand new model installed. You won't have to put up with it any longer."

continued

*In the original version, the Doctor was Rowan Atkinson's and the girl companion was Padme Amidala.

Comments

[melwicker.livejournal.com]

Very nice!! I'll look forward to reading it!

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

yay I'll enjoy reading this again - I missed parts before.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

Onward, onward!