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Ok, here goes. A snippet of my own imagination & an amateur attempt at something non canon:
Of all the ways to lose them, after all of the close calls over the years...a simple diplomatic mission. Will Riker wasn't one to wallow in melancholy, but this pain was unlike any he had faced before. It had been almost a year, and it still hurt like hell. At times he felt a part of himself was lost that day, along with what he loved so dearly.
Life on board the Titan hadn't changed much for the rest of the crew, but for her Captain, it would probably never be the same. As Riker sat in his ready room, his arm propping up his head on the desk...he gazed out at the stars streaking by. Out of his reflective trance, the door chime startled him:
"Come in." said Riker, fixing his seating position to something more befitting of a Captain.
"Excuse the interruption sir, but can I have a moment?" Lieutenant Keesya had been assigned as ships Councillor on the titan now for the better part of eight months. She was Bajoran, & unlike the fiery stereotype Bajoran officer, Keesya was far more suited to a counselling role. She had grown up after the Cardassian Occupation of her homeworld, & as such didn't grow up with the passionate hatred of Cardassians & distrust of outsiders that Bajorans of more recent years tewnded to have.
"Of course Keesya, what can I do for you?" smiled Riker, as much as it pained him to smile.
"Actually Sir, I came here to talk to you." "Captain, its been almost a year since Captain Picard & Councillor Troi were lost. I've seen how hard it is for you, to run this ship, to pretend life goes on. There have been times when you've seemed to cope with such a tragic loss well, and there have been times, like over the past few days, where you've practically isolated yourself in this room."
"Your point?" Riker pulled back defensively. Captain Riker could face down a board-room of hostile Romulans, or take on a Klingon twice his size...but nothing hurt more than someone else touching on the loss of Jean Luc and Dianna. It was like his pain, his suffering, and nobody else was allowed to have it.
"My point Captain, is that you don't need to go through this alone. You can speak to me any time. I hear also you've not been returning messages to your friends. Didn't Geordi try to contact you there last week?"
"I've been busy Councillor. This mission to the Tindyan colony is to negotiate an armistice which could end a very long & bloody war. I've had to learn ten different dialects of an already complex language, just to sit at the same table as the two parties. I don't have time to talk about my feelings" touted Riker in an unnaturally hostile tone.
Ok thats all I've time for, the school run beckons. But there you go, in a few short paragraphs I've killed Picard & Troi
I havn't promoted anyone, there's no new enemy or wonder weapon & its a story on a seemingly more human scale. Picard & Troi were killed on a diplomatic mission by a solitary rebel militia. It was a needless, senseless death. No Borg, No Jem Hadar, no Admirals... 0 -
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More, more, more!
Oh you
Ah I just knocked that together mostly as I wrote it. Its nothing at all really, its a character we all know, facing the loss of two other characters we know. If I were to continue it on, I'd probably have Riker become more & more detached & preoccupied with the loss, possibly contemplating going on some kind of wayward non sanctioned retaliation mission, in a bid to bring those responsible of the deaths to justice.
I dunno, to me non canon frees you up to do almost anything you want. Canon stuff has set the framework for you, you can do anything within that frame. But a lot of it seems to be "Admiral Kim enlists the help of Admiral Janeway & Admiral Crusher to find the secret source of power thats been fuelling a fleet of unknown enemy ships that are able to attack at will" type rabble.0 -
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Ok, here goes. A snippet of my own imagination & an amateur attempt at something non canon:
Of all the ways to lose them, after all of the close calls over the years...a simple diplomatic mission. Will Riker wasn't one to wallow in melancholy, but this pain was unlike any he had faced before. It had been almost a year, and it still hurt like hell. At times he felt a part of himself was lost that day, along with what he loved so dearly.
Life on board the Titan hadn't changed much for the rest of the crew, but for her Captain, it would probably never be the same. As Riker sat in his ready room, his arm propping up his head on the desk...he gazed out at the stars streaking by. Out of his reflective trance, the door chime startled him:
"Come in." said Riker, fixing his seating position to something more befitting of a Captain.
"Excuse the interruption sir, but can I have a moment?" Lieutenant Keesya had been assigned as ships Councillor on the titan now for the better part of eight months. She was Bajoran, & unlike the fiery stereotype Bajoran officer, Keesya was far more suited to a counselling role. She had grown up after the Cardassian Occupation of her homeworld, & as such didn't grow up with the passionate hatred of Cardassians & distrust of outsiders that Bajorans of more recent years tewnded to have.
"Of course Keesya, what can I do for you?" smiled Riker, as much as it pained him to smile.
"Actually Sir, I came here to talk to you." "Captain, its been almost a year since Captain Picard & Councillor Troi were lost. I've seen how hard it is for you, to run this ship, to pretend life goes on. There have been times when you've seemed to cope with such a tragic loss well, and there have been times, like over the past few days, where you've practically isolated yourself in this room."
"Your point?" Riker pulled back defensively. Captain Riker could face down a board-room of hostile Romulans, or take on a Klingon twice his size...but nothing hurt more than someone else touching on the loss of Jean Luc and Dianna. It was like his pain, his suffering, and nobody else was allowed to have it.
"My point Captain, is that you don't need to go through this alone. You can speak to me any time. I hear also you've not been returning messages to your friends. Didn't Geordi try to contact you there last week?"
"I've been busy Councillor. This mission to the Tindyan colony is to negotiate an armistice which could end a very long & bloody war. I've had to learn ten different dialects of an already complex language, just to sit at the same table as the two parties. I don't have time to talk about my feelings" touted Riker in an unnaturally hostile tone.
Ok thats all I've time for, the school run beckons. But there you go, in a few short paragraphs I've killed Picard & Troi I havn't promoted anyone, there's no new enemy or wonder weapon & its a story on a seemingly more human scale. Picard & Troi were killed on a diplomatic mission by a solitary rebel militia. It was a needless, senseless death. No Borg, No Jem Hadar, no Admirals...
Meh....Riker is missing....swag 0 -
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Captain_Hindsight wrote: »Was Guinan ever "explained"? And what was the background between her and Q?
I wonder if she had any powers? When she and Q met, she raised her hands like she was able to repel Qs powers.
She stabbed him with a fork later thoughI think I'm too old to know what that means
You have it or you don't, and Riker had it :pac: It's unexplainable0 -
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