Justin Michael Greenway
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Author of the contemporary Gothic horror adventure, Ravenword and The House of the Red Death, and West Coast native navigating the alien world of the American Midwest. While a sci-fi fan at heart, his muse is not bound by genre.
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Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 8
Chapter Eight Picard and Riker find themselves suspended side by side in a vast darkness like toy figures on a rack. Surrounding them on every side are thousands of alien species suspended and luminous in a Dominion designed stasis protocol. Above each of them is a glowing symbol, a Founders designation. Similar symbols appear above Picard and Riker as they are catalogued and the archive's stasis program activates.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 7
Chapter Seven Geordi's shadowed figure emerges from a Jeffries tube access in a dark alcove just off main engineering. Drawing his phaser, he moves onto the deck with the hyper-vigilance of an experienced cat-burglar. His targeting arm, however, drops to his side with the phaser in hand as he stands stunned at the site before him. All around him, bodies lay on the floor. Shaken to action by training and experience, he moves quickly to kneel over the closest body and checks for a pulse. He sighs deeply, looking up at the device that rests like a monolithic boulder in the center of the deck. He rises and approaches it cautiously but takes pause at the abandoned interface helmet at his feet. He stoops down and picks up, examining it with the superior technology of his cybernetic eyes. Fingerprints, microscopic scuffing of the alloy, and residual traces of an energy pattern he has never seen before.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 6
Chapter Six The Dominion device sits on the deck of main engineering with the Titan's WARP core pulsating behind it in a deep soothing tempo. Protruding from its side is the metallic box containing Moriarty's holographic matrix, which has been haphazardly integrated into the machine's casing. Three cords from a bundle spilling out of the machine run pass through the box, then along the floor to the virtual reality helmet once again worn by Alden, who stands in front of the device's targeting array.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 5
Chapter Five It is said by the local systems that the only thing remarkable about the Zendalen Ardis asteroid belt is that there is nothing remarkable about it. Even the most common collection of cosmic drift harbors something of value; ore for mining, chemical ice, or even a mineral density strong enough for the foundation of an outpost to cling to. Yet this collection, decorated with a backdrop of the cloudy belt of the Ardis nebula, offers nothing of value. Not even pirates or smugglers bother with it, as the alloy hulls of their ships are easily detectable among the balloons of dusty rubble. However, these are the very reasons the asteroid belt has been chosen for the rendezvous with the Enterprise. As the Titan wades deeper into the giant rocks towards the center of the belt for her rendezvous any other ship would be just as easily detected.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 4
Chapter Four As the Enterprise E sails effortless through the glittered expanse, Captain Picard emerges from a turbo lift. He finds the long intersecting corridor bustling as it curves into the various sections of the deck. Some crewmembers nod politely as he passes while others are so engrossed with their errands or conversations that they take no notice of the captain’s presence. With a somber stride he watches them pass, consumed in their dedication. He contemplates all the new faces and suddenly his years commanding the Enterprise in both her incarnations cascade upon him like a deck of cards shuffled into order in his mind. His reminiscing highlights various adventures over the long years, but even the best memories are tainted with pain and loss. The pangs of all those who have come and gone trespass like thieves. Images of his first stroll through the corridors as captain of the Enterprise D distract and he is struck by how the current perspective of memories against the experiences recorded in one’s mind reveal such stark contrasts in perception. His experiences on the Stargazer had given him a sense of being forged by fire and equipped for whatever lay ahead making the ascension to commanding of the flagship seemed appropriate and natural. But now, he looks back and muses over how utterly unprepared he was for bonds of camaraderie and friendship that would change him and his understanding of service. ‘Such arrogance’ he muses with a subtle grin.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 3
Chapter Three Captain Alden stands in the center of what could be mistaken for the bridge of the Enterprise D but for the steal blue walls and consoles, gray carpet, and upgraded controls. The U.S.S. Patrokles is the Venture class variant of the Galaxy class flagship, however, its additional bulk of offensive weaponry is still no match for that which stalks the ship in the depths of space. The bridge is subdued under emergency lighting rhythmically overlaid with the flashing red of the alert systems. Alden stares into the viewscreen, his black shouldered, red-breasted uniform is clingy with perspiration. His command crew stand at their stations transfixed on the view screen, layered in sweat and dread. Although nothing in the projection of the outer space around them provides any insight to their anxiety they are well acquainted with the unseen foe.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Star Trek: Ascension - Chapter 2
Chapter Two A Klingon cruiser sails through the fantastic energy patterns of the wormhole passage between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants. With a burst of light, it penetrates the threshold of the Denorius Belt and settles into the familiarity of normal space. In the distance ahead the tiny, spider like structure of Deep Space Nine rotates like a battle-hardened sentinel guarding the Bajoran planetary system. The Klingon cruiser adjusts its heading and changes its vector to intercept the station. Within minutes it is docking with one of the high spires.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
The Bohemia Incident
THE BOHEMIA INCIDENT Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. However, no one thinks they’ll ever find out, least of all the two men sharing a yawning porthole more ample than the dimensions of the narrow room should allow. The tranquility and grace of the starry Van Gogh depths of space beyond that luxurious window contrasts the utilitarian canisters and supplies that crowd the hemming shelves in drab hues as equally reminiscent of a penal facility. Facing knees to knees in bleak uniforms consistent with the setting, the two men wait on the upload that will dictate the tedium of their shift. Embroidered badges on the shoulder of their sleeves display the BluLinque emblem encircled with DELV Bohemia 42 while similar threadwork on the left breast of their uniforms reveal their station and individual designations.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
Echo of the Elders
Chapter One GLIMPSING NOESIS Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. The horrific truth is the mind will provide all the audio necessary to augment the atrocities witnessed by unhearing eyes and, just as nightmarishly, the scream in the eyes of those meeting their fate. That scream was the only thing my panicked brain could hear, despite the alarms of my environmental suit and the frantic cries screeching through my commlink as she was snatched from my existence. When silence and darkness swallowed her grappling form, framed in the debris of our lander tumbling against the canvas of open space, my entire being was riddled by the harrowing realization that it was I who had been stolen from that chaos.
By Justin Michael Greenway3 years ago in Fiction
