Alara Rogers' Writing Journal

they flutter behind you, your possible pasts
some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost
a warning to anyone still in command
of their possible future, to take care...
-Pink Floyd, "Your Possible Pasts"

Being dead wasn't boring, Janeway had found, but it was frustrating and lonely...

Author's Note(s): This is part of my series "West", stories exploring Janeway's fate after what happened to her in the bookverse. It's actually envisioned as the second story; Strange New Worlds is currently the first, although it's a placeholder and I intend to expand it. Also, while it probably goes without saying I feel the need to say it: I'm very grateful to my beta, Rocky, for her assistance with this work, but any mistakes are my own and anything you don't like about the story is my fault. :-)

Disclaimer: This story is set in the Pocket Books universe; it takes place after "Before Dishonor" by Peter David, and draws on events from "String Theory" (a trilogy by Jeffrey Lang, Kirsten Beyer and Heather Jarman), "Star Trek: Destiny" (a trilogy by David Mack) and "Full Circle", a novel by Kirsten Beyer. There's also a throwaway reference to "Q-Squared" by Peter David, although most of that novel was jossed by Voyager canon, and another to the events of the Excalibur series by Peter David, and specifically to the concept behind the short story "Q'uandary" by Terri Osborne in "No Limits", the Excalibur anthology, although I do not consider the exact details of that short story binding on my fictional universe. Bookverse stories or novels that I have not specifically mentioned may or may not be "canon" for this universe; since books contradict each other and get jossed by canon, I pick and choose what parts of the bookverse to treat as "canon". Of course, as always, this story is based on "Star Trek: Voyager", which is owned by Paramount Pictures. All characters are created by Paramount, except q, created by Heather Jarman, and Queria, q-ling and the asshole Q, all created by me.

Warnings, spoilers, pairings: This is not a pairing-fic, but it's not entirely gen either; there are background and/or flashback pairings of Janeway/Chakotay, Janeway/Paris, Janeway/Q, Picard/Q, Janeway/Picard, Q/"Lady Q", "Lady Q"/original female Q, Harry Kim/q (young female Q created by Heather Jarman in "String Theory"), and Q Jr unsuccessfully hitting on q. There is non-explicit het sex in flashbacks, including sex between giant sentient salamanders. There is also canonical character death, multiple times. Consider all the books named in my disclaimer to be spoilered except "Full Circle" and "Q'uandrary".

Summary: Q gives Janeway a gift containing all of the memories from her time in the Delta Quadrant that she lost to amnesia or temporal loops, or which belonged to an exact double.


Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

( Your Possible Pasts 6/6 )

( Your Possible Pasts 5/6 )

( Your Possible Pasts 4/6 )

( Your Possible Pasts 3/6 )

( Your Possible Pasts 2/6 )

they flutter behind you, your possible pasts
some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost
a warning to anyone still in command
of their possible future, to take care...
-Pink Floyd, "Your Possible Pasts"

Being dead wasn't boring, Janeway had found, but it was frustrating and lonely.
( Things To Do In The Q Continuum When You're Dead )

For the matrithon, prompt "Silva LaForge, saying goodbye".

( Goodbye )

For the matrithon, prompt "Lwaxana Troi, loving the alien".

( Loving the Alien )

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Written for Ad Astra's "Haunting Challenge", turned upside down. Like the entire West series, this contains spoilers for the Pocket Books Star Trek novel "Before Dishonor" by Peter David, and even a detailed summary would be a spoiler, so: Janeway and Seven meet again; also, Janeway contributes to the education of a baby Q. Strong J&7, implied background J/C but that one's not going any further. Sorry, J/Cers.

( West: Ghost In The Machine )

( Everything You Ever, ending )

Oh my God I'm finally done with this thing. I have no idea why it took so bloody long -- I've had the outline of it since I started it, the day after finishing "Game Over", but for some reason Scorpius refused to talk to me. You'd think that a "Q and Scorpius" story would just flow out of me, given that they're two of my top four characters (the other two being Xavier and Magneto), but I had to struggle to get this thing out.

This takes place in the same universe as my other two Multiverse fics featuring Scorpius, Perfect Imperfections and Resistance. Of course, in the old Multiverse format, you couldn't reveal your identity in your fic because it was secret for a week, so I couldn't actively tie those two together, but I always thought of them as part of the same universe. And now that Scorpius is dating Seven and has held off being assimilated by force of will (for a few hours, anyway), now Q has taken an interest in him. :-)

( Everything You Ever, pt. 1 )
Continued here.

The "West" series takes place in the Pocket Books bookverse, or the parts of it that I'm choosing to consider "canonical" for purposes of this series, anyway. Its entire premise is a massive spoiler for Peter David's "Before Dishonor", so don't click on the link unless you're okay with that. I will say that it features Janeway and the Q Continuum, and that this particular story is one of Janeway's logs about the unusual place she's ended up.

( Spoilers within )

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Written for multiverse5000, for the prompt: ST:TNG/Firefly, Wash becomes a Q. I apologize to any actual Chinese speakers for what is probably really crappy Chinese -- I was pulling it from The Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary, but I know enough about languages to know that just grabbing phrases that sound like they would fit might actually not work nearly as well as you think. Also, it's been too many years since I've watched Firefly to *really* get the speech patterns down, and I apologize for that as well.

The majority of this story is built around the plot of the Serenity movie and contains major major *major* spoilers for that movie. It hasn't really got much in the way of Star Trek spoilers at all, though having seen the Voyager and DS9 Q episodes would probably help.

( Game Over )

Footnotes:
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