What Happened and What's Going On (Part 2)

Posted on Wed Oct 29th, 2025 @ 4:25am by Commander Chiyomi Anzai & Commander Ryosuke Takahashi 'Ry' & Lieutenant Commander Nezuko & Lieutenant Minerva Zephyrin & Lieutenant Monica Everett MSc
Edited on on Wed Oct 29th, 2025 @ 5:32pm

1,547 words; about a 8 minute read

Mission: The Next Myogi
Location: USS Myogi-A Conference Room
Timeline: After 'What Happened and What's Going On (Part 1)'

Previously, on Star Trek: Myogi:

Ryosuke lowered his head. Clearly, this was not what he was wanting to hear:

"Must I be the one to remind everyone in this room of everything we have lost and continued to lose every day?" He asked. "I'm not a believer in chance, but the fact that we were out here assisting the Invincible at the precise moment a ship we thought destroyed three years ago turns up. If there are any non-vengeful gods left, I'd say they handed us a game changing opportunity, and we'd be foolish to let it slip through our hands like a grain of sand."

"I agree with the captain:"

It was the Myogi-A's Chief Engineer, Robert Lucas. It was he and his engineering teams who had overseen repairs to the other Myogi.

"Have all of you forgotten the protomatter bombs the Iconians dropped on your homes??" He continued, passionate anger in his voice. "This shouldn't even be a debate! If it's just one ship or James Kirk and whole armada of Constitution class cruisers, we need all the help we can get against these bastards!"

And now, the continuation:

“Have you forgotten all the people they killed?” Minerva snarled back at the engineer, “Do you remember the worlds that died because of these, these..” she couldn’t dredge up the right word from her memories, “I’m the LAST Roman. No more, no others in this gods-damned universe. There are no more of my people left, they died to the last trying to defend Rome and to evacuate the civilians, which didn’t succeed. I’ll be damned if my sisters, my brother died for nothing. In their universe, they still live and I’ll do anything to keep it that way.”

"You know what else still exists in their timeline? Roanoke." Robert rebuked. "Spacedock. All things I saw turned to dust in the bloodbath at Sol. You're not the only one that lost everything, sweet cheeks, and I believe we owe it to everyone who's not here to ensure they didn't die in vain. And if that means drafting any blood that gets drawn from these temporal tears, then so be it."

“You know what you have left now, Sir, you have your sister and newborn niece.” Minerva stared daggers at her CO, whom she would do anything for on any other day, “Are you going to enlist your three day old NIECE to fight in this war right here, right now?” She let that hang in the air.

"As much as those of you who would prefer that we restore the past would like to object, Commander Lucas brings up a valuable point:" Ryosuke said coldly. "The simple fact of the matter is we're strapped for ships and desperate for more."

"If this were a task group or a Fleet, Cap, I'd agree with you." Minerva shook her head, couldn't believe what he was saying, "One ship isn't going to turn this war around, not even a Project Jomo ship. My job is to keep everyone around me alive to the best of my ability, right? This is me doing my job, sir, they have their own place and time to fight, one where they can do more good than in a forlorn hope."

"And even by some miracle they were the Hail Mary that we needed, Captain, what's left for us in the unlikelihood that we do manage to win?" The XO was quick to add. "Our remaining numbers are in the six digits; we're stretched way too thin for our supply lines to be effective; nearly 9 in every 10 habitable planets have been reduced to dust; and even when we're not fighting for our lives, simply subsisting on what few habitable worlds are left for us is a challenge. This is no future for a child, and were we to continue on this course... I have my doubts that your niece would even live to see her first birthday."

Ryosuke stroked his chin as he considered the arguments put forth in favor of restoring the past.

"Perhaps... You might have a point." He finally admitted.

"Captain, you can't be serious!" Robert blurted out.

"Hear me out, Commander:" Ryosuke sharply rebuked. "I suspect... That I might be emotionally compromised: I have gone through the same cycle of loss as all of you. However, with what has transpired over the last few days, it appears that I have been given a second chance. Perhaps... My own selfish desires to retain the family that I have lost and then found again would be just what a bad actor would need to twist my viewpoint."

"You're calling me a bad actor, Captain?" Robert asked. "After everything we've been through together??"

"S...s....SEND THEM BACK!" The timid shy science officer finally managed to get out. Monica raising her voice had never happened, it was just not something anyone thought she could do. She immediately averted her eyes turning bright red. "Time is delicate... There is no mathematical equation to predict it..." she said. "We don't know what will happen... but..." she lifted her head and looked directly into the eyes of Ryosuke. Her gaze was firm and full of determination. "If they go back and can save people, if its a million or just one... then it's worth the risk. Those odds work out. So, send them back."

{Possible that Old Myogi's presence in the past will change things,} Nezuko signed. {Butterfly Effect. The right ship in the right place. They are not in the right place.}

Ryosuke looked over the faces of his senior staff.

"Well, it seems like we have a majority vote:" Ryosuke admitted, turning to Minerva. "If my sister in law and niece are ready for transport, let's get our visitors from the other Myogi ready to fly. As the repairs are nearly complete, our priority should be to get them on their way as soon as possible. There's no telling when we'll be detected by the Iconians."

"I'll have them back on their own Myogi within the hour, sir." Minerva confirmed.

"I'll recall all my engineering teams still on the other ship." Robert began.

"Lieutenant Wilkins shall handle engineering matters moving forward." Ryosuke clarified. "I cannot risk you endangering our operation, Commander. So, I am confining you to quarters until we get the other Myogi back where she came from. "

Robert wanted to scream at the injustice being committed against him, but he had worked under Ryosuke long enough to know that once he made a decision, little could be done to appeal it, and all his anger appeared to burn out as he sighed and accepted his fate.

"Very well..." He muttered.

"We should also look into ways to collapse these rifts, Captain." Minerva pointed out, so the Iconians don't try to use them either."

"They may not be able to, Doctor," The XO replied. "Seeing as their bodies are made of pure chronitrons, they themselves cannot travel forward or backward in time- only exist chronologically, in the present."

She glanced over at Ryosuke. "But that being said, I do concur that we should explore our options so far as collapsing the rifts are concerned, Captain; while the Iconians may not be able to utilize them, that doesn't rule out the possibility of another party with equally nefarious intentions doing so instead."

Before Ryosuke could respond and remind his crew to focus on one issue at a time, his combadge chirped.

"Bridge to Captain Takahashi:"

"Go ahead, bridge:" Ryosuke tapped his combadge.

"Sorry to interrupt you, sir, but long range sensors have detected an Iconian attack force en route to our position." The officer on watch explained.

Son of a bitch. This was the last thing Ryosuke needed right now:

"How long do we have?" Ryosuke asked.

"Not long." Came the response. "Double red alert strongly advised, sir."

"Understood." Ryosuke tapped his combadge again to open a shipwide comms channel. "All hands, double red alert: Man your battle stations. This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill."

"Let's get a move on, People!" the XO ordered as she stood up and began to usher the senior staff out the door. "Nezuko, radio the other Myogi and inform them of the situation! Zephyrin, see to it that Captain Takahashi and her child are ready for transport! Lucas-!"

"Permission to return to Engineering, Commander?" Robert asked.

"Absolutely not, get back to your quarters," the XO immediately rejected. "Wilkins is perfectly capable of handling this herself."

"Understood." Robert sighed as two security officers met him at the door to escort him to his quarters.

Minerva squeezed past everyone, "They're off, they're off, give me five minutes, skipper, eight on the outside and they'll be gone." She took off at a run down the hall without another word.

Nezuko was out next, instructions received to signal the other Myogi. Potentially their last, best hope for life.

A Mission Post by

Captain Ryosuke Takahashi
Commanding Officer

Commander Chiyomi Anzai
Executive Officer

Lieutenant Commander Nexzuko
Chief Operations Officer

Lieutenant Minerva Zephyrin
Chief Medical Officwer

Lieutenant Monica Everett
Chief Science Officer

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