Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 00:41:00 -0600 Reply-To: Highlander TV show stories Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: Michael Smith Subject: Treklander II Part 1 (Highlander/DS 9 Crossover) There can be only one...These are the voyages... T R E K L A N D E R I I Copyright 1994 John F. Moore III Part 1 It was a shift like any other at Deep Space Nine. Quark was busy serving customers while making sure Odo didn't find out about his latest schemes, Dr. Bashir was working on some organic samples taken in the Gamma Quadrant, Chief O'Brian was grumbling about one more thing to jury-rig on the station...just your average day on the station. At Ops, Major Kira was going over the docking schedules for the day. Dax wandered over to see why Kira was so interested in this day's schedule. Usually Kira had one of her subordinates handle such mundane tasks, leaving her to devote more of her time to running Ops. "Why the attention to the schedule, Kira?" Kira paid her a cursory glance. "Odo got wind of a ship from Clari III that had spent a great deal of time talking with Quark. The communi- cations were scrambled so we don't know who it is...only where it was from." "Any luck?" Dax asked, her curiosity peaked. "That's the odd thing. There's only one ship from that region, and it's a warp shuttle carrying a Federation diplomat." "Why would a diplomat want to talk with Quark?" "You got me," Kira shrugged, "but I've informed Odo." "So why are you still interested?" Kira pulled up a file. "I'm working on getting records on the occupants of the shuttle. One is a Starfleet officer who resigned her commision just before leaving Clari III, but the other two I can't find traces of..." "Who chartered the shuttle?" Kira glared at her screen as if that would magicly give her the desired information. "Ambassador Duncan MacLeod. He's on some diplomatic mission into the Gamma Quadrant." Dax looked stunned, then gave her typical whimsical smirk. Kira saw it. "Mind telling me what's so damn amusing?" she asked. "Duncan..." Richie relieved Julia Cathaway of her piloting duties. She went back to the rear of the shuttle to see her lover, Duncan MacLeod, waiting with coffee. She gave him a kiss for his thoughtfulness. "How long until we're due to arrive at Bajor," he asked. "About another couple of hours. We'll be in sensor range in about an hour and a half." One of the things that attracted Julia to Duncan was his `roughness'... his wanting to stand apart from modern society. Duncan once told her that the late twentieth century was his favorite time period, besides the period when he was Awakened. He even went to great lengths to ensure that his personal shuttle, which was waiting for them on the Serties, had been stripped of many twenty-fourth century conveniences. The first she noticed was the food replicator had been replaced with a small kitchen- ette, complete with enough food for the journey. Duncan said he and Richie preferred to cook their own food, and she had to admit that food tasted better when it was prepared by her own hand. She drank her coffee and curled into Duncan's arms. "We'll have about a day while the shuttle's restocked and maintained," Duncan said. "What do you think we should do in that time?" Julia just smiled dreamily and said, "I'm sure we'll think of something." "I knew Duncan MacLeod fifty years ago, when I was Kurzon Dax. He was a swashbuckler back then. Ah, the adventures he would tell me about...I actually saw him in action once, when the Tylok, a starliner on which we were both passengers, was attacked. He--" Kira cut her off. "Judzia, that was fifty years ago. I'm sure he's changed quite a bit since then." Dax laughed slightly. "Can you picture his face when he sees me?" Kira looked sternly at him. "Remember lieutenant, he may have been talking to Quark about who know what." Dax sobered slightly. "You're right. I should tell Odo what I know about him, not that it will help much after fifty years." Dax entered the lift and headed for Odo's office. Kira tried to get something on Ambassador MacLeod again. She pulled his Federation bio. Much of the information was blank, but she found a picture of him. Kira frowned when she saw a thirty year-old man that Dax said she knew fifty years ago. She hit her commbadge, she reached Dax and asked if she knew any ships both Kurzon and MacLeod were aboard and when they were on said ships. She pulled up passenger manifests for said ships, those that were still on-record anyway, and pulled MacLeod's portrait. She gaped when she discovered that the portraits were identical. She tapped her commbadge. "Kira to Odo. I'm sending you something that should interest you." =========================================================================