"So much for a welcome home celebration," said Geordi, shaking his head as he wandered around Engineering. "I'm sorry too Mr LaForge," said Captain Picard, sipping from a small cup of Earl Grey tea,"But once I contacted Starfleet they ordered a quarantine." "You know," said the Engineer,"How do you know it was Starfleet, Engineering may not be in a timepocket, but various parts of the ships memory is - we could be talking to a recording from the future or the past?" "No such luck Mr LaForge, I had them quote Stardate straight of the mark - and besides, despite the need for R&R that the entire crew must be feeling - myself included - the ship needs to be quarantined for our own good." Data stepped into Engineering, followed by Worf, he grinned openly at Geordi and the Captain and walked briskly over,"Sir, I have it - a way out." Picard raised an eyebrow,"Explain Mr Data." "I have noticed a pattern in the time pockets Captain, the fewer people from 'real' time who move through the timepockets, the lesser the occurrence. If we can keep everyone out of all timepockets for 2.36 hours, the timepockets will cease entirely. Then we must travel back through the temporal field before the computer can access any timepockets in it's memory, when we shoot back out the timepockets will have ceased to exist." "Are you positive Data?" asked Picard,"This is important." "Don't worry sir, there is a 98.6742% chance we will succeed, the main problem is keeping crew members out of the bridge and holoroom 1. Those are the major timepockets and passage through there will in all likelihood increase the occurrences of timepockets." "You're saying that we're going to put the timepockets to sleep and then abandon them in the temporal field?" asked Geordi,"That could be dangerous." "Yes but..........." before Data could finish Picard interrupted him. "You said holoroom 1 has to be kept clear?" "Yes." "Then why did you ask Commander Riker to join you there?" "What? Sir, I made no such request." Worf growled,"A time pocket, we have to get to the Commander before he gets there, how long ago was the message given?" "Half and hour ago," said Picard with a sick look on his face,"He must have been there for a good 25 minutes now." --- Riker stopped trying to pick someone up on the communicator, he stared around at the softly glowing hologrid, Beverly appeared, she smiled and looked towards Riker, then disappeared. He nodded, this had happened several times, Beverly had appeared twice, Guinan and Captain Picard once, Wesley once, Worf had been the last, he had walked into the holoroom and Riker had thought it was the real Klingon, but then he had spoken some words - no sound had traveled through the timepocket at that point, though it had at others - and then swung his arm through empty air and rushed out of the holoroom - disappearing just before he got to the door. He tapped his badge again,"Riker to Captain Picard - please respond." "Picard here," came back a faint voice. Riker spoke quickly, fearing to lose the connection,"Captain - the holoroom is empty, the doors aren't responding to voice command and refuse to open manually......I need help." "Good, get Dr McCoy to try one more time, then we'll have another talk with No'Kase." Riker shook his head, realizing he was talking to the Captain sometime in the future, it was interesting to note that No'Kase - the Cardassian prisoner on DS9 - would at some point be on board the ship, as would a Dr McCoy, he discounted the idea that it would be Leonard McCoy - they had last seen him nearly ten years ago, when he was over 130 years old. He walked over to the doors again and tried the manual release, it pumped up as it was supposed to - but the doors remained closed. He sighed and sat down to think things through, then he heard the noise. He looked up and found himself sitting in a familiar garden paradise. The wind was blowing strong enough to bend the long grass towards him, but he found he couldn't feel it, or the grass around him. He looked over and smiled to himself - he knew where he was now. Across from him sat three men dressed in Musketeer outfits of the 17th Century - it was Worf, Data and Geordi. They were drinking from mugs of ale and laughing. This was a holo program that had been assumed erased completely over 6 years ago, but obviously a copy had been kept by Reg - the engineer who made it - and now Riker found himself inside it once more, he grimaced as he remembered how the rest of the program went - sure enough - here came the fourth musketeer, himself - only he was now only four to five feet tall. He got up and walked away from the scene of the other three musketeers mocking his diminutive double. He found himself in a clearing, the wind was dying down but he could feel it now - the timepocket was moving closer into his own time. "Hello darling," came a voice, he turned and saw Deanna approaching, she was dressed in robes and she looked exceptionally beautiful,"I am the goddess of this glade......" Riker had had enough, he took a gambit based on the timepockets proximity. "Computer, end program," the images suddenly started to fizzle and fade, then slowly only the hologrid was left, Riker turned and strode to the door,"Open," this time the computer replied and he walked out into the Enterprise. --- Data and Worf stood outside holoroom 1, they watched Riker standing alone in the room, he could not hear their cries to him. "If only we could go inside," muttered Worf,"Why doesn't he come out?" "He has opened the doors," said Data,"But he is seeing the door from another time, and it is still closed." Riker walked over to the door and tried the manual release, the door remained opened to them, but to Riker it was obviously still closed, he sat down and suddenly turned his head, he was engrossed in watching something. "Obviously he is seeing something," said Worf,"Why can we not?" "We would have to be in the timepocket itself, but look, he's walking now." Riker was walking on the spot, but to him he could be walking briskly down a street, he stopped and said something, they couldn't register what, he nodded in satisfaction and walked to the doors, he mouthed the word open and then smiled broadly at Data and Worf. "Commander Riker......." began Worf, but then Riker stepped out of the holoroom and disappeared. --- Deanna sat on Data's bed and watched as Beverly pulled something out of a closet, it looked like a human body, only with yellow skin. "Data?" she asked, confused. "No no no," said Beverly, smiling as she tipped drunkenly to the side,"Not Data, it's his brother - Lore." "Lore," said Deanna with a grin,"Wasn't he a bad boy?" Beverly smiled,"Who cares, I want a good fuck and he can give it to me." "But he's an android," said Deanna,"You can't fuck him." Beverly staggered to her feet,"You can't tell me you didn't feel jealous of Tasha when she got to fuck Data?" she was referring to one of their first missions, when they had been infected by a virus that reduced all inhibitions - even Data had been affected to a certain degree and had had sex with Tasha Yar - the late chief of security. Beverly pulled the sagging form of Lore to it's feet and pressed a button in it's side, it jerked up and around and then collapsed. "So much for that," said Deanna sadly,"You broke him." But Lore did not stay down, he sat up and pressed a hand to his forehead,"Oooohhh, do I have a cramp or what." He looked around and saw Beverly and Deanna, he took in the situation instantly,"You both show high blood alcohol levels, and I detect the scent of sexual arousement,"He wagged his finger and smiled,"What do you naughty girls want?" Deanna was delighted, he was like a gigolo that didn't want to be paid - at least not in monetary terms,"I wanna get laid, but I want my pleasure to be the main concern." "Hey," said Lore,"I live to serve, but what do I get for my troubles?" "You get to stay turned on," said Beverly angrily,"And you better not try any tricks on us - I know where your off button is." Lore thought things over for a few brief seconds, then he smiled broadly. "You got a deal, who goes first?" --- Riker knew it was impossible, his ship was the Enterprise E, but he stood on the Enterprise D - and no timepocket could take him to another ship. He was at least invisible, for now anyway, and it was with some amusement that he watched his younger self - beardless - chatting with Wesley Crusher. He wished he knew the stardate, this was obviously an early mission - he couldn't help but wonder if he had been given the powers of the Q yet. Then he noticed that his younger self was talking into the communicator, he rushed of and Wesley looked dejected, Riker hadn't realized just how much the young genius hero worshipped him. --- "It's in the records, all the original ships recordings from the Enterprise D are on board this ship," said Data,"By accessing a memory trapped in a timepocket, Commander Riker may well have walked back on board the Enterprise-D 9 years ago." "It makes no sense?" said Picard,"That would mean that Will is existing in the computer's memory without physical form." "Not true sir, his physical body is walking around our ship, but we cannot see it, and his mind is trapped inside the past, or even the future." "Can we get him out?" "It may be possible sir, but to do so may cause our own destruction." "Data, explain yourself." "I have a theory sir, given the complexities and paradoxes of time travel, it may explain why we have encountered these timepockets when it first seemed we had survived the encounter with the Klingon Bird of Prey unscathed." "I'm not sure I understand Data?" "Let me explain........" --- Deanna lay on the bed, naked, legs spread and gasping with pleasure and Lore ate her out, he licked and sucked on her pussy with amazing expertise. As she came he stood up and removed his pants, his large android cock sprang free and she gulped in anticipation of a cock nearly the size of Worf's entering her - but this time for her own pleasure. He slid into her slowly, letting it in inch by inch, she groaned and began to feel up her own tits, her thumb and forefinger twisting a nipple between each. Lore was fully in her now and he slowly slid out of her, coming out nearly all the way before slowly sliding back in, he repeated this move again and again, driving her wild with pleasure and excitement. He began to move faster now, his cock pumping into her like the the wheel on a train, moving slowly at first but then picking up speed, she rammed her hips upwards, slamming her pelvis against his as they timed their movements perfectly with each other - for the first time Deanna felt that she was part of a greater whole - the only thing that ruined it for her was her emphatic capabilities - which let her see that Lore was dead inside, their were no emotions to read, she realized that even his need to rule over others was not driven by emotion but by cold, implacable logic - and that his laughing, sarcastic appearance was just an act to make him seem more human, to fool others. But even so, in her drunken state she was incapable of reading the larger picture, she was only concerned with her own pleasure. Lore himself felt nothing as he fucked her, the warm feeling of her cunt around his cock did nothing for him, but he put on a different exterior. "Oh baby, yeah you are one hot fuck you know that?" he grinned happily down at Deanna, watching her large tits bounce up and down as he began to fuck her faster now, their movements were no longer timed perfectly, but he knew how to fuck - he had read thousands of terabytes of text on method, technique and skill. She came several times in succession, her cunt squeezing his cock, trying to milk some cum out of it, but he was able to control his sexual organs release and so he continued to fuck her faster and harder, she squealed in pleasure and excitement as more orgasms came, she had never felt anything like this before - even with Worf, even with Riker. Lore started moving faster and faster and then he grunted, fluid spewed from his cock into her cunt and he rolled of her, he lay on his back panting, pretending that he felt physical exhaustion. Deanna moaned happily and slid her hand down to her cunt, she cupped it, slipping a single finger inside, put the thumb of her other hand into her mouth and fell asleep. Lore stood up and stared at Beverly, she was sitting against a wall, legs spread wide apart, pants around her knees wanking, he smiled at her,"Your turn." She smiled,"Let's do it somewhere exciting, like in a ventilation duct, or the bar at ten forward." He grinned back at her, although inside he felt nothing, not even disdain, just a slight curiousity and feeling of superiority,"I've been monitoring the computer, the bridge is empty - let's do it there!" --- Data sat at helm controls on the secondary bridge, he began to type in commands, suddenly he stopped, he swiveled around and motioned Picard over. "Captain, I just felt a presence." "A presence? what are you talking about Data?" "I was monitoring the ships computer, checking the progress of the timepockets to see if Commander Riker had reappeared, when I noticed someone else inside the computer." "Someone else? Who Data?" "I don't want to voice my suspicions Captain, but if they are correct then the new plan is sure to fail - he'll see to it." "Data, I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about, but could this presence perhaps be in some sort of timepocket?" "No sir, it was definitely moving about outside of time pockets." "Okay Data, check it out, but we need you back here before the timepocket in holoroom 1 expands more." "I'll do my best Captain." --- Riker stood in Ten Forward, hands folded across his chest, the expression on his face was one of amazed confusion. For several seconds he had found himself back on board the Enterprise E, then he had slipped back to the older Enterprise, in that few seconds several hours had seemingly passed, and now he knew what mission they were on. All throughout Ten Forward various crewmembers were having sex, men and women fucked on tables, chairs, on the bar and the floor. In the center of the room about 20 people had gotten together for an orgy, 12 of them were women, 8 were men - among them was Chief O'Brien and Geordi, who were dealing to a female crewmember. She - Sheryl, he thought her name was - was on her hands and knees, Geordi was getting a blowjob from her while O'Brien fucked her doggystyle. Geordi came suddenly and sat back, panting heavily he grinned, Riker found it hard to look at him with his visor back, he had gotten used to the optical contacts he had replaced it with. O'Brien continued to fuck the woman and Riker wondered where his wife was, he had never seen O'Brien be anything but faithful to the Asian beauty he had married. He walked over to the bar and sat down, he was surprised to see that the chair supported him, he must be moving closer to the timeline. "You're not here are you?" said a familiar voice behind him, he turned and was surprised to see Guinan staring at him. "Are you talking to me?" he asked,"How can you see me?" "I can't really see you," she said, smiling,"But I can sense you, and when you replied I knew I was right - what are you doing here - has Will Riker become a voyeur in his maturity?" "No," he said, smiling,"I'm trapped here, I walked into a timepocket and when I stepped out I found myself on this ship." "On this ship? have you left the Enterprise then?" "No - but this is a different ship.....it's difficult to explain - I don't even know how I could possibly be here." "At least I know this will end soon then," said Guinan,"But I'll have to clean up the mess afterwards." "The virus......it's doesn't affect you?" "Yes - but I'm able to resist it - most people can - but they chose not to, Jean Luc is capable," she smiled dreamily and Riker realized for the first time that Guinan had a crush on the Captain - was possibly in love,"And he's been able to hold back on his urges." "Do me a favor, warn the Captain that Wesley is going to take over the ship, he has to stop him - it'll save a lot of trouble." "Will? I can't hear you anymore - I can barely sense you," said Guinan,"What did you say," she paused, then shook her head,"Ah well, best that he get back to his own time." But Riker had simply faded from her perceptions, he stood and watched the orgy, several male crewmembers were spent now - O'Brien included - and the woman had turned to each other, licking cunts, sucking on nipples and kissing passionately, they began a lesbian love fest.