Title:   Colony
Author:  Jemima
Contact: jemimap@crosswinds.net
Series:  VOY
Part:	 0/20
Rating:	 PG
Codes:	 crew, J/C
Date:	 November 2000

Disclaimer:  Copyright has expired on the works of Alfred, Lord
	     Tennyson quoted herein.  Certain of the names below have
	     been trademarked by Paramount; be assured I am not
	     conducting trade with them.

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Part 0: Preface

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Summary: There'll be aliens and phaser fights and hull breaches and
         really wild things! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to
         settle down in the Delta Quadrant.  As an added bonus, you'll
         find out why everyone in the galaxy looks alike.

Dedication:  to MJB.

Borg Plot Classification:  001, 007, 009, 051, 113,
                           124, 236, 550, 666, 718

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     For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
     Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;


"Colony" is my attempt to be serious.  Other attempts have provoked
feedback along the lines of "sweet", "so jetc", and "aaaaaww", so I
can't say that I'm feeling very hopeful about this one.  Nevertheless,
I have produced an entire novella with plenty of action and plot.  My
muse, however, insisted on sprinkling it with humor and pouring on the
J/C.

Rather than make everything up myself, I have done a bit of research
for this story.  Dr. Deb, my consulting physicist, helped with the
megatonnages and planetary motions in parts 13 and 15, respectively.
Jade, my intrepid beta-reader, verified that The Powers That Be had
stolen part of my plot in a Next Generation episode, and helped me
steal it back again for part 6.  She also requested gratuitous
kissyface, and I have done my best to oblige her.

I'd like to thank MJB, the author of Revolution and Revolution II
(available for your reading pleasure at
http://www.crosswinds.net/~jemimap/voy/mjb/) for inspiring me to write
a 'crew' story.  She is the Borg Queen of action-adventure with
resurgent Maquis; I would never have attempted to write this story
were it not for her excellent example.

The couplets I've used as little chapter inscriptions are from
"Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poem which provided the
lines on Voyager's dedication plaque, quoted above.  I'd like to thank
all the websites out there that incorrectly attribute those two lines
to "Ulysses", also by Tennyson - while I was out checking my facts, I
read both poems and found a couple of good lines for Chakotay in the
latter.  He can always use a good line.

Thanks to Christien Ruehl for his Galactic Atlas - Local Space map.
All remaining credits are spoilers - they will appear at the end of
part 20.  The Borg Plot Classification is also a spoiler; see
http://www.crosswinds.net/~jetc23/archive/plots.html for more details,
but don't make me say I told you so.

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