Caroline and the weird place
A CITC/ Star Trek Deep Space Nine Tale
Part Two
The characters of Odo, Kira and all the rest on DS9, and Caroline and
Richard Do NOT belong to me. If they were mine, I'd be very very
rich right now. :)
Major Kiras Personal Log
Odo and I found two frozen human beings in the cargo bay. We immediately brought the bodies to Doctor Julian Bashir who amazingly found signs of life. Julian quickly worked to recesitate them. A few hours later we were still in sick bay waiting for them to awaken so they can tell us what happened. Captain Benjamin Sisko has joined us.
“You say you found them in cargo bay five, with Quarks supplies for the bar?” Sisko asked as Doctor Bashir ran a medical tri-corder over the bodies.
“I always expect something unusual in whatever Quark orders but this has to, what humans used to say, take the cake?”
“How long do you think it will take to revive them Julian?” Kira asked.
“I have no idea actually. These were rudimentary devices. It’s a miracle they had lasted as long as they have.” Bashir said closing the tri corder. “Could be days, or it could be months.”
“We need to know how they got in this condition.” Sisko said as he left. “Thats the biggest mystery of all right now. Let me know if anything exciting happens. I’m going to have a talk with Quark.”
Later on
Doctor Bashir was in sick bay reading over some medical padds as lounged in his favorite chair. He sat up startled when he thought he heard something. Earlier as Odo and Kira went back to normal routine work Bshir opened the pods in order to speed the “defrosting” process. If he heard what he thought he did, then his idea was medical genius.
Bashir did a light trot out of his office, keeping a small phaser in hand in case someone had come to steal anything. He stopped short of the “bed” area when he saw what had made the noise.
Richard felt frozen solid as he struggled to sit up. The pod he was lying in was slightly more uncomrfotable than his real bed but he was just as anxious to get out. The last thing he recalled was drinking bad coffee, or tea in Carolines place. She had fallen first, he beautiful curls strewn about when she crashed to the floor in a heap like so many of her dirty clothes. Richard managed to sit up and saw the pod next to him. Caroline was in it. But before he could go to her he heard a voice. He squinted to look without his glasses. The man was talking to him but he could no hear a word.
Doctor Bashir walked toward Richard, He knew he could not understand him so he mouthed the words “Hold still” as he placed a voice translator in his ear.
“Is that better?” He asked.
Richard squinted. “Who are you? Where am I? What did you do to Caroline?”
“Calm down....”
“Calm down?” Richard said as he took his glasses out of his pocket and put them on. “How about I throw you in this thing, leave you here a while and lets see how you feel when you come out. I feel like a human popsicle.”
“Richard you are in the 24th century.” Bashir explained to Richard. “You are in Deep Space on a Space Station. Deep Space Nine to be exact. We are millions of miles away from eath.”
“What happened to me and Caroline?” Richard asked. "How do you know my name?"
“In 1998 you ingested some bad substance and it effectively put you in a coma. My research indicates you were in the coma until 20 years in the 21 century when the decision was made to put you in cryostasis till a cure was found. That leads up to today.” Bashir took a hypospray and pushed it against Richards shirt. “This is the cure. I will administer it to Caroline when she wakes up. I got your name from records.”
Richard got up and looked at Caroline in the pod. She seemed so calm, so peaceful and yet so beautiful in her sleep. She was like a snow angel personified.
“I have bad news for you...uh...” Bashir started. He had seemed to alraedy forget Richards name.
“Richard. Richard Karinsky.” Richard touched Carolines face. “What can be worst news than this.”
“We have no way to get you back to your own time safely.” Bashir said as consolingly as he could. “I’m afraid you and Caroline are stuck here.”
Richard turned to Doctor Bashir. He was silent.
