Season Two

214 The Message
Stardate: 5153.6

It is the day of Ashok and Lyranna's reception. (The wedding took place on the spur of the moment, so the reception is the moment for presenting the wedding to friends.) It takes place on the Orion Coffee bar, and old friends are invited.

The Tholians allow the opening of a second corridor between New Lhasa and the rest of the UFP. This corridor opens near Klingon, rather than Gorn, space, and cuts short the time taken for the party to get home from Qu'onos.

Lyranna gets a package - a scarf of white Tholian silk, a gift from Tholian Ambassador Tzadok.

The invited old friends include William Scarlett, from the USS Darwin. He is approaching New Lhasa in a public shuttlecraft when Q appears, and makes him an offer. Will Scarlett, like Lyranna Quayn, lost his partner at Wolf 359. Q offers to bring the partner back if Will will try to convince Lyranna to abandon the deeply inappropriate Ashok.

Will meets Ashok, and asks him searching questions before checking what Ashok says as best he can, as well as discussing him with Loras. He uncovers nothing to convince him to take Q's advice. (Which is to say, he uncovers nothing other than him being not offically half-Betazoid.) He tells Lyranna that he was offered a not inconsiderable incentive to convince her to drop Ashok, but not what or by whom. He adds better defensive systems to The Orion Coffee Bar.

Around this time, Lyranna gets a message.

The USS Voyager - the ship that was lost years previously with all hands - including Lyranna's sister Miri - has made contact with the Federation. Messages are being exchanged.

The marriage is confirmed with a private Betazed ceremony on Ashok's holodeck. (Since the marriage, they have found a sympathetic Betazoid priestess.) The meal is interrupted by the drunken Klingons, still celebrating their recent victory against the hosts of House Jej'vagh, who are convinced to leave. Later on, Lyranna gets a message from Voyager, which she takes in private.

It is Captain Janeway, reporting the death of Miriana Stadi to next of kin.

Lyranna goes home alone. The party is over. At home, her grief is interrupted by a call from the front line of the Dominion War. Cmdr Cain, the Trill first officer of the USS Darwin, offers her congratulations on the wedding, and receives an awkward explanation of the news.

When Ashok joins her later, he finds that she has removed the picture of her sister from its place in her bedroom.

Miriana Stadi is the Betazed Paris flirts with who is more interested in Voyager, and dies when the ship is flung accross the galaxy. The player behind Cain joined the game over the phone, and thought that her timing sucked. (The juxtaposition was deliberate.)

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