In Thy Image 3/16; 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, so the Doctor is David Tennant's and the girl companion is the one who won't debut till next spring.

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. (This is actually yesterday's. Today's later today.)

In Thy Image
Chapter 3

"Hmm," the Time Lord said at first, when apprised of the EMH's situation. Janeway was still getting used to the Doctor's new, tenth incarnation, with his four-century-old dress suit and his athletic shoes. His last four personalities seemed to have gotten increasingly manic. She sometimes wondered whether he was such a great role model for the traveling companions he chose, who tended to be young women, since the first of them had been his granddaughter Susan. But the present girl, Martha Jones, was a twenty-first century medical student, and so hopefully a little more stable than the teenager before her.

"Will you plead my case?" the EMH asked.

"'Plead your case'?" the Doctor repeated. "Yes, I think perhaps it ought to come to that."

"Our EMH is scheduled to be shipped out to a mining colony within the week, Doctor," said Janeway, attempting as she always did while the Time Lord visited to use the title doctor without ambiguity. "We must act quickly if we're to -"

"Well, what makes your hologram special?" Martha interrupted.

"I beg your pardon." The EMH was stunned and hurt by the question.

"Yes ..." But the Doctor seemed to think she had a point. "Are his experiences all that much more unique than those of Michael O'Sullivan, or even Lord Chaotica?"

"I do save lives," said the EMH, with the return of some of his usual prickliness. "And 'uniqueness' is a binary condition. Something is unique or it isn't, you can't have degrees of -"

"Starfleet already knows your record," said Janeway. "So your uniqueness is a point we may need to demonstrate another way."

"Well, if you take away the saving of lives thing," huffed the EMH, "I don't know whether Lord Chaotica is all that much less special than I."

"Exactly," said the Doctor. "Here's what we're going to do ..."

--

"What!?" exploded Admiral Paris.

No less inflamed, the Starfleet JAG repeated, "The crew of Voyager has filed a class-action suit against Starfleet, suing for full civil rights on behalf of all holograms in Starfleet service!"

continued

Comments

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

WAAH! chapter two slipped past without letting me know.. bad LJ!