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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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(attachments)

Image :  Tuvok, frowning.

Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
               the holodeck.

Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

Image:  Michael Sullivan from Fair Haven, charming Janeway.

Image: The EMH looking mean.

*animated gif*   A burning forest at night.

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Effective immediately, Voyagerliveaction will be
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Time and time constraints have prompted the agency
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Voyagerliveaction.com will continue to air
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since Year 2000 and the Online Illustrated Book of Coda.

Come meet a Star Trek Impersonator
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..From the Theater Creator..

Oh gentle thespian who loves a good Trek read once in a while.
You've hit a mecca of canon (True to Television series facts and
characters) fan fiction.

This is the fourth showing of a Voyagerliveaction adventure
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Voyagerliveaction is a live ongoing Star Trek Theater
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Voyagerliveaction--A  Live Theater Star Trek Story
co-written by fan members on an email driven
Yahoogroups site and seen in four countries
by an audience of thousands.


Nothing is preplanned, nothing rehearsed, This is true
live theater with words.  The storylines which developed
in the first two years took many honors in fan fiction
realms abroad.


This is a collected work of fanfic'ers like you who've
banded together on a Yahoogroups list to write a
story true to all four Star Trek TV Series from a
live action theater site.  They spruced up the fiction
with sounds, images and animated movies of their
own.  Starring whichever character individually
cast they wished from the four TV shows.  If the role
was seen on TV, it is here, in our cast as well.

The Site is called Voyagerliveaction, and NOTHING you'll
read was preplanned. It was simply write as you go. Each
author had the creative floor whenever they submitted a page
within their roles.

The style of each character is reflected in their author "animator".
Those lurkers present on the list were treated with eye and
ear candy whenever an author sent
pictures and sounds with their story pages.

It's intriguing watching each author's flavor evolve over
time within the adventure.

This story's premise starts with a bang that isn't what it seems and settles
into a mystery far larger than anything any one author could have come up
with on their own. It shows the joy of role playing in the discipline of
creative
writing in a round robin setting.

We've been graced with honors from Yahoogroups Site
of the Week (Oct 2000 ) and have attracted  actors to write
with us.

Rated PG-13 for all audiences.

This adventure is year FOUR,  now just beginning its first
month long episode of "web" time as of  21 January 2003.

If you like what you see here when you are done,years ONE and TWO
and THREE are also completed in yet another set of year long episodes
for a satisfying read. You can find them here.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

******************************


From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Tuvok, frowning.

Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
               the holodeck.

Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

******************************


From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Tuvok, frowning.

Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

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Image: The EMH looking mean.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

Image:  Michael Sullivan from Fair Haven, charming Janeway.

Image: The EMH looking mean.

*animated gif*   A burning forest at night.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
               the holodeck.

Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

Image:  Michael Sullivan from Fair Haven, charming Janeway.

Image: The EMH looking mean.

*animated gif*   A burning forest at night.

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Oh gentle thespian who loves a good Trek read once in a while.
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This is a collected work of fanfic'ers like you who've
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The Site is called Voyagerliveaction, and NOTHING you'll
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The style of each character is reflected in their author "animator".
Those lurkers present on the list were treated with eye and
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It's intriguing watching each author's flavor evolve over
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This story's premise starts with a bang that isn't what it seems and settles
into a mystery far larger than anything any one author could have come up
with on their own. It shows the joy of role playing in the discipline of
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If you like what you see here when you are done,years ONE and TWO
and THREE are also completed in yet another set of year long episodes
for a satisfying read. You can find them here.

http://www.voyagerliveaction/completestory.html

Best of all, you can help shape our fourth adventure, now
ongoing, live, in 2003,  with us after your visit reading.
We've a sizable fan following to read what you have to offer
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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

******************************


From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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(attachments)

Image :  Tuvok, frowning.

Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
               the holodeck.

Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

Image:  Michael Sullivan from Fair Haven, charming Janeway.

Image: The EMH looking mean.

*animated gif*   A burning forest at night.

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..From the Theater Creator..

Oh gentle thespian who loves a good Trek read once in a while.
You've hit a mecca of canon (True to Television series facts and
characters) fan fiction.

This is the fourth showing of a Voyagerliveaction adventure
in our fourth writing season..

Voyagerliveaction is a live ongoing Star Trek Theater
made just for sharing the joy of creative writing in month long
television episodes of fan co-written fiction .

http://www.voyagerliveaction.com
United States Showcase Site

http://www.geocities.com/voyagerliveaction
Mirror Site.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voyagerliveaction
Distribution Writer's Hub Site.


Voyagerliveaction--A  Live Theater Star Trek Story
co-written by fan members on an email driven
Yahoogroups site and seen in four countries
by an audience of thousands.


Nothing is preplanned, nothing rehearsed, This is true
live theater with words.  The storylines which developed
in the first two years took many honors in fan fiction
realms abroad.


This is a collected work of fanfic'ers like you who've
banded together on a Yahoogroups list to write a
story true to all four Star Trek TV Series from a
live action theater site.  They spruced up the fiction
with sounds, images and animated movies of their
own.  Starring whichever character individually
cast they wished from the four TV shows.  If the role
was seen on TV, it is here, in our cast as well.

The Site is called Voyagerliveaction, and NOTHING you'll
read was preplanned. It was simply write as you go. Each
author had the creative floor whenever they submitted a page
within their roles.

The style of each character is reflected in their author "animator".
Those lurkers present on the list were treated with eye and
ear candy whenever an author sent
pictures and sounds with their story pages.

It's intriguing watching each author's flavor evolve over
time within the adventure.

This story's premise starts with a bang that isn't what it seems and settles
into a mystery far larger than anything any one author could have come up
with on their own. It shows the joy of role playing in the discipline of
creative
writing in a round robin setting.

We've been graced with honors from Yahoogroups Site
of the Week (Oct 2000 ) and have attracted  actors to write
with us.

Rated PG-13 for all audiences.

This adventure is year FOUR,  now just beginning its first
month long episode of "web" time as of  21 January 2003.

If you like what you see here when you are done,years ONE and TWO
and THREE are also completed in yet another set of year long episodes
for a satisfying read. You can find them here.

http://www.voyagerliveaction/completestory.html

Best of all, you can help shape our fourth adventure, now
ongoing, live, in 2003,  with us after your visit reading.
We've a sizable fan following to read what you have to offer
as a new writer to our ranks. How does 18,543 strike you?
They tune in every day in "Now showing" windows in Nepal,
Australia and Germany and the United States.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Tuvok, frowning.

Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
               the holodeck.

Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

Image:  Michael Sullivan from Fair Haven, charming Janeway.

Image: The EMH looking mean.

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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
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Episode One, Season Four....January 2003.
Series :  Star Trek Voyager
Title :     The Uneasy Alliance

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From :"Cassidy Meyers" <killashandrarey@...>
Subject : Holobook H*ll
Date : Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:34:47 +0400


Tuvok glanced at the bridge chronometer from the center
seat and said, "Computer, begin nightwatch."

There was a warble and the computer lowered the lights
on Voyager to a dimmer mode. The officers on the bridge
didn't even look up from their tasks as they scanned a
nebula spreading out in front of them. It had just
appeared on the ship's long range sensors.

"Report Mr. Kim.." Tuvok called out.

"Reading a Class Five Nebula. Argon, Radon, Hydrogen,
Helium and that's Berylium causing the energy spikes
we're seeing visually."

Tuvok regarded the blue light flashing pinkish cloud
then made up his mind. "Mr. Paris. Steer our course
to 215 Bearing 347 And slow to warp three."

"We're going around the nebula, Tuvok? Where's your
sense of adventure. A good hurricane'd really pick up
everyone's spirits. That nebula is uncharted waters,
er...ok, noble gases. It's a vast new unknown spreading
out before us. And it's just begging to be explored."

Tuvok's eyebrow rose. "We already face vast new unknowns
in the Delta Quadrant every day, lieutenant. My job is to
make sure we survive them long enough to discover even
more vast new unknowns. "

Harry Kim and Tom Paris exchanged looks of "wow,
Tuvok's joking" while the dark skinned lieutenant went
on. "Long range sensors will suffice Lieutenant. I will
not put this ship at risk solely for the sake of..
"pushing the envelope". Perhaps a holodeck session
with downhill skiing will succor your thrill and danger
need after your bridge shift is over. Make sure
you leave the safeties on when utilizing the holodeck."

Tom whirled around in his helm's seat. "Aww, Tuvok.
You take the fun right out of it.."

Harry Kim chuckled.

Tuvok raised his eyebrow once and went on scanning
the nebula as Voyager slowly wove its way around
the massive colorful blinking nebula. "I'm taking
into account handling another crew complaint Mr. Paris.
This time from the EMH. Who of our crew's complement
has logged more hours in sickbay this month than any
other."

All officers on the bridge pointed to Tom Paris without
looking up.

Tom blushed. "All right. Ok. So I live a little dangerously.
No harm done. I remember when B'Elanna Torres got
onto that risk kick last month. Let me tell you. I am
NO where near that level of stupidity.."

Harry Kim cleared his throat significantly."Yeah? Then
why do we get to hear the EMH complaining about
your mishaps whenever we have to report in for
our monthly physicals?"

"Look Harry, I'm not responsible for the doctor's
grousings? I can't control what comes out those
hololips of his."

"Well you can control what you do down there.
If you'd stop having accidents on the holodeck,
we wouldn't be hearing them." Kim countered.

Tom just threw up his hands in exasperation.

Tuvok ignored the banter going on between Tom
and Kim's combadges. His other eye was
watching the holodeck power consumption grid.
  Three crewmen were running a program and
Tuvok wanted to make sure that the captain,
Sam Wildman and her tiny daughter, didn't experience
scenery glitches due to the nebula's occasional
lightning plumes jutting out into space from the cloud.
::This is the first time the Captain's truly vacationed
in over three point five years.:: he calculated. ::No
doubt, her restful week will make the EMH "happy"
too. Captain Janeway has time to relocate some
of the ship's memory core over to the doctor's
program to allow for more personal growth.
My theory is that she's doing this to end the swath
of complaints from the crew about the holodoc
piping his Opera singing into their quarters as
wakeup calls. As Captain Janeway had said during
the last senior officer meeting, the EMH is in
sore need of expanding his horizons..::

Tuvok said, "Carry on, Mr. Paris.."

"Aye aye, Tuvok. Second star to the right
and straight on until morning.." Paris
quipped.

Tuvok just sighed.

--------------------------------------------------

"Come out come out whereever you arrreee!!"
Naomi Wildman's voice filtered through the
trees of the Fantasy Holodeck program Treemus
and the Tree Monster. Sam rolled her eyes at
Captain Janeway, who was wearing suitable
village garb alongside Michael, the holo bartender
from Fair Haven.  "She's such a kidder. I've tried
for two weeks to teach her the rules of hide and
seek using Flotter, the water nymph. So far, this
is as far as we've got!" she laughed.

"Oh it's so wonderful to see Naomi actually playing
Sam. I know we've had a rough few months
fighting the Kazon and the Vidiians and what have you.
Not to mention that horror of the Nekrit Expanse.
Tell me truly, is Naomi holding up well so far?" Janeway's
face fell enough so Michael, the bar tender wrapped a
powerful arm over her in comfort. "I- I mean, I've done
all I can to make this journey home as smooth as
possible."

Samantha Wildman looked up from where she
was watching her young daughter hanging from
a tree like a monkey with Flotter, Sam's joyful
laughter immediately tempered and she regarded
Kathryn with a warm regard. "Captain. I couldn't
ask any more of you. Don't worry about us.
Or even.. the rest of the crew.. We're all standing
behind you. It's got to be an awful burden guiding
us through the Delta Quadrant on the seat of your
pants, not knowing who's friend or enemy.. I'm sure
glad Chakotay turned out to be on our side. I wasn't
so sure about him in those early months.." Sam
admitted.

Janeway laughed and glanced with embarrassment
at Michael when he said. "Ah, it's that chap again,
isn't it. Can't I have one day with my Kathy without
hearing about the exotic outsider.."

Sam chuckled. "He's Kathryn's first officer. They have
to work together.." she told Michael.

"Ach, that crazy idea again. You know I'm not one
for having women in the military forces. It's not
becoming at all." and he ran forward to catch
Naomi Wildman when her grip fell on the tree.

But, of course, before he got there, the Holodeck
safeties activated a repulsor beam to slow the
child's fall to the flowery ground. Michael set his
arms inside the beam so Naomi was set down
there instead of back onto her feet. "Oh, missy!
You can't outclimb a figment!"

"I can try.." Naomi said. "Besides, Captain Janeway's
dating a figment.." and she laughed.

Michael Sullivan's forehead puzzled and he set
the tiny strawberry blond headed girl down
onto the forest path.

Flotter from above said. "Hey Naomi, where are
you going? We haven't found the golden fleece
yet..."

"After lunch, Flotter. I'm hungry.. Why don't you
go play with Michael? He's free.."

The blue water nymph's face lit up in mischief and
he grabbed Michael by the underarms and hauled
him up into the tree from where he hung.

"AhhhhhHHhhhhh!!" Michael hollered in surprise.

Janeway and Samantha Wildman looked up from
the picnic blanket they were spreading out at
his shout and Kathryn grinned. "Play nice Flotter.
He's a bartender, not an orangatan."

"Oh, I will Kathy. See? I even tied a rope onto
him so he won't fall. Come on spirits selling man!
This has got to be the right tree. Naomi and
I have already climbed all the other ones in
the grove. Last one to the Golden Fleece is
a rotten acorn!!" And Flotter dashed higher
into the tree and out of sight, dragging Michael
Sullivan's rope and Michael Sullivan, along with him.

Janeway shook her head ruefully. "Michael.. I'll
make it up to you somehow.. I promise.." she
shouted after, then ducked in sympathy when a
rain of leaves fell from where the two tree
climbers scrambled. Michael's boot hit the ground.

Naomi started to get up from in front of her
plate of sandwiches and cucumbers but Samantha
grabbed her arm. "Oh, no. Leave the boot be. It's
not going anywhere. Eat..!"  she laughed, brushing
off leaves from her daughter's dress shoulders.

Janeway poured herself and Samantha Wildman
some coffee into the flowered teacups that were
there. "Thanks for coming along and thanks for
the suggestion on a vacation spot for today. It's
been years since I've been in a Tremus and Flotter
Holobook. Kind of nice revisiting old friends." Kathryn
sighed.

"No problem. I know how hard it is to pick a destination
from a hundred worlds, times and places. Going back
to old familiar places is always best.." Samantha sighed,
taking a huge bite of her cucumber sandwich.

Naomi dutifully drank with two hands from her
chocolate milk. She wiped off her moustache before
she said. "So, where are we off to next? The great
Fire Swamps of Ick?"

Both Janeway and Samantha made a face. "Ooo.
well.. if you want to.. " Janeway said.

But Sam clicked her tongue. "Naomi, we were invited
along today to share Captain Janeway's vacation time,
not turn it into a survival experience.."

"Sam," Kathryn chuckled, "It's ok. The unplanned
outcomes are what I'm counting on. I didn't want
to make any decisions this week. "

"Oh.." Samantha Wildman's face said in surprise..
"Ok.." she beamed. "The Fire Swamps it is....."

Lunch finished quickly and as soon as the three
rose to their feet, the picnic blanket turned back
into the grassy knoll it had been before.

A knotty hand shot down and snatched a napkin
stack from their lunch spot before the computer made
the picnic basket disappear. Naomi's face screwed
up in scolding annoyance and slapped the thieving
hand, making it drop its stolen booty. "Now Tremus
Behave! You're a tree nymph, not a termite. You
can't go eating everyone's lunch napkins like you
always do when I bring visitors here."

Tremus, coming out of tree camouflage among
the mossy boughs of a willow, looked properly
abash from where he hung upside down from
the branch. "Oh, gee. I'm sorry Naomi. I can't
help it. You see, paper grows no where else in
the grove and I..I..just can't resist.. Napkins
taste SssooooooO good."

Captain Janeway chuckled, picking up the
fluttering napkins where they lay in the grass
and bundled them up. "Here you go, Tremus.
On me. Everyone deserves some candy once
in a while. Good for the soul."

Naomi shrugged. "He's not gonna learn manners
if you do that, Captain...." she warned, skipping
away down the path leading into the Fire Swamps.

"I'll take my chances...." Kathryn laughed.

Then she and Samantha Wildman left the forest
grove to follow the tiny child into the darker
part of the woods.

"I think I'll stay here.." Tremus said.
"Fire and wood just simply, don't get along.."
he trembled.

----------------------------------------------------

Captain Janeway, Naomi Wildman and Samantha
Wildman left the sunny sweet scented woodlands
and entered the sooty gnarly wastes of the nighttime
Fire Swamps. From the viscous pools of quagmire
and mud, spouts of fire shot up around them, stirring
their hair and making them scream in feigned fright.

"Naomi. I forgot about this chapter in the book.."
Janeway said. "What are we supposed to do here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just rechanneling the river to
put out the fire before the Forest burns, remember?"

"Oh, that's right.." Kathryn sighed. "Ooo, I hope
we don't have to get wet.. It hasn't been an hour
since we've eaten yet..." she teased, picking up
Naomi into a hug to make her laugh.

Naomi squealed in surprise. "We don't have
to do that.. We could let the fire burn down
the forest and see what happens.. I've never
done that before..."

"Wow, neither have I." Samantha admitted.

"Ok... " Janeway said, looking up. "There's
the wildfire now coming this way. Let's sit
down on this burnt out log here and wait it
out. My curiosity's peaked."

The three sat down next to each other,
lined up amicably and watched as a fairly
frightening firestorm swept over the ridge
and down into their clearing. The fire got
hotter and hotter and the wind more wild
and the sparks more and more frequent
as the violated woods around them caught
into flame and crackled into ash.

The three started coughing until Janeway
tapped a hidden combadge in her skirts
and said. "Computer, eliminate smoke..."

##Parameter established..## said a fully
engulfed tree near them.  The swirling choking
smoke near them vanished and so did the
smells. The fire raged closer and closer, filling
the air and the swamp around them with
an angry vision of H*ll.

----------------------------------------------

On the bridge,  things were quiet until a bolt
of energy shot out of the nebula across
an impossible distance to Voyager, striking its
whole length in blue fire.

All on the bridge were jolted from their seats
and the red alert came on automatically.

Paris regained his seat and hit his combadge.
"Commander Chakotay to the bridge! Unknown
energy collision.."

"I'm on my way, Tom.." came the quiet reply
that was still calm.

Tuvok gave a quick glance around while he
shouted orders to right Voyager's overloading
systems. He was gratified that no one was
injured from burst panels or falls. He told
Harry. "Run a level three diagnostic the moment
we're free of this electromagnetic interference.
Secure all essential and nonessential systems
from memory core overloads. Mr. Paris,
hard to port. Break us free of the energy tendril.."

"Trying.." Tom grunted.


-------------------------------------------------

Down in sickbay a curious thing happened.

A stray, mindless blue tendril of nebula energy
snaked from sickbay's medical library terminal
and hit the transparent aluminum dome covering
the holographic doctor's portable holo emitter
inside. The unit sparked once and flared into
smoke before built in fire supressers snuffed
it out again with a little carbon dioxide gas.

The computer, sensing no further fire risk
to sickbay, did not trigger an alarm on the tiny
incident.

--------------------------------------------------

In the Fireswamps, Janeway, Samantha Wildman
and Naomi were cheering wildly like anyone at
a fireworks display as blue tendrils of energy
lit up the skies above the forest inferno going
up around them..

Suddenly, a lightning bolt hit the tree the computer's
voice had come from and an explosion blew out
part of the tree's outer covering to expose the guts
of the computer's user interface module.

##Holodeck Safeties are off line.. Warning. Holodeck
safeties are offline..##

"What?!" Janeway exclaimed. "That lightning's real?'
Just as fast, thick smoke and heat flooded around
them and they were instantly drenched in sweat
and almost unbreathable air.

Janeway hit her combadge. "Janeway to
the computer holomainframe. End Program.
Authorization Janeway Pi One One Zero.."

Nothing happened.

Sam hit another com channel open using her
own combadge. "Samantha Wildman to
the bridge. Emergency!"

Again, they got no reply.

"D*mn, the com system's out."

"Or maybe it's just our combadges because
we're under the lightning in here!"
Naomi guessed. "I'm scared..

Samantha snatched up Naomi and shouted.
"We've got to get out of here!!" and she
coughed. Janeway grabbed Sam too, and in
a huddle the two women ran, dodging falling
burning tree limbs and sparks towards
the path leading to Flotter's Pond. "Let's
get to the water! It may protect us from
the fire!!"

They were almost there when a tree bough
hit Naomi over the head, knocking her onto
the ground. Naomi fell unconscious.

Sam shouted. "Naomi?!" and she fell to her
knees before her daughter, screaming over
the roaring flames around her. A burning twig
landed on Sam's arm and started her uniform
on fire.. Hastily Janeway and Samantha snuffed
it out with their hands.

Janeway crouched. "She's still got a good pulse.
Don't move her yet. Hang on.. And Janeway
called out to the air. "Computer, Medical Emergency.
Holodeck Two!!"

There was a shimmer and the EMH appeared, but
there was a problem. His holoemitter was scorched
strangely black and there was the look of murder on his
face. He held a medkit like normal but in the other hand
was a phaser, set to kill. The oddly changed, sparking
doctor's attention was drawn to the silent little
girl on the ground. "What is the nature of the medical
emergency?" the holodoc said evilly.

Janeway took a risk and waved her hands. "Doctor..
Over here!!" And she dove behind a rock as he
took aim. "Samantha, pick her up and go deeper
into the swamp. The water and fog should hide you!
Quickly!"

"But!"

"Just go! I'll draw him off! Michael Sullivan! Help me!!"
she shouted.

Just like that, Michael Sullivan appeared and jumped
onto the EMH's back. The doctor's aim on Janeway
was deflected when Michael wrestled with the holodoc
and they both fought, rolling on the ground.

On a thought, Janeway log rolled forward, near the
two holograms while they struggled and snatched
up the first aid kit lying there on the ground.

Janeway dove with it into the smelly swamp after Sam
and together, the two women held up Naomi's
head out of the water and used the cover of smoke
and fog to hide them while they made their escape.

Unfortunately, their flight only drove them deeper into
the heart of the blaze raging around them and the air
got subsequently hotter. They were trapped!

::Now, what?:: Janeway thought. ::I didn't mind the
excitement of the Fire Swamps on my vacation, but
this, is overkill..::

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Image :  Tuvok, frowning.

Image :  Naomi standing with Flotter on
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Image:  Samantha Wildman, grinning with Seven
              and the EMH in the messhall.

Image:  A blue energy beam impacting Voyager's
              main sensor array.

Image:  Michael Sullivan from Fair Haven, charming Janeway.

Image: The EMH looking mean.

*animated gif*   A burning forest at night.

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