The following is a list of episodes in the fourth series of stories for the "Star Trek: Athena" site. The stories in Series 4 follow the events of "By the First Light of Dawn," and the series starts with Episode 102, with no end point decided yet. Series 4 stories will come at a slow pace, unfortunately, though Episodes 103 to 110 are now available.
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After the events in the final episodes of Series 3, ending the Ksassan incursion into Federation space, the Athena returns to Earth, for a period of transition. Captain Thorpe reconnects with Matsubara and his son, while Vorwoorts deals with family and friends, Indesakr with his plans to move into the command track, Brigson with her former commander on the Socrates, and Bayanhong reunites with the comsfosaur Dusty. At the same time, they get a hint of how attitudes on Earth towards Starfleet are changing, meaning that these sensior officers on the Athena are learning who their new family seems to be. They come together over ther concern for Dusty. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name coming_home.pdf, file size 612 Kb]
There is still unfinished business from the Ksassan incursion; the fact that the Ksassans continue to hold the non-Federation planet Waukins, and the people of Waukins are requesting assistance to throw off the Ksassan occupiers. The Federation responds with a task foece, of which the Athena and the Overseer ship Dublin are part of. They get assistance from an unlikely source, a Ksassan scientist who claims he can defeat the Borg cube still at Waukins, but he also informs Captain Thorpe, Admiral Quinn and others of a potential dangerous new threat. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name silver.pdf, file size 634 Kb]
The Federation starship U.S.S. Clements, a Galaxy-class starship, had been conducting a long-term exploration mission in the remains of the Arosian Empire when it stopped communicating with Starfleet. The Athena is sent to look for the missing ship and its crew, and so head to the last known location of the ship, a planet whose name in the Arosian language suggests some kind of time portal, and they soon run into actual Arosians as well. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name indistinguishable_from_magic.pdf, file size 565 Kb]
After determining what happened to the Clements, the crew of the Athena attempt to undo the damage, but realize that might not always be desirable and that learning that undoing what the other starship is not always easy, but there are still principles to maintain. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name principles.pdf, file size 494 Kb]
Whilte tracking down the alien race and the homeworld of the race that built the time core on Hollos, so that the Arosians on board can return to their proper time, the Athena detects a signal from the remnants of a race that the Arosians had destroyed some time in the past, or so they thought. This race, the Yudens, have a startling secret. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name the_hiding_game.pdf, file size 462 Kb]
While travelling back to the Federation after leaving Arosian space, the Athena observe a star that seemingly just disappears. They investigate and find that a powerful alien weapon was used to destroy the star and by extension the planets in the star's system. The cres determines where the device came fom and at the site, determines that one of the three copies of the weapon in unaccounted for. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name eve_of_destruction_part_one.pdf, file size 459 Kb]
The Athena is investigating the Arosian structure that was the base for the massive "star-destroyer" ship that destroyed the Cheshire sun. The Odonans learn about what the Federation starship was doing, and they send their Battlesphere to assist. Together, the two crews attempt to learn where the missing third ship went and who has it and for what purpose. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name eve_of_destruction_part_two.pdf, file size 478 Kb]
While on its way back to Federation space, the Athena encounters an ancient unmanned vessel, but they find on board a computer sentience that was confined to the probe ship as punishment. The sentience is from the planet Reioshek, and when the ship heads there, they find a planet without sentient life, but they do find more machine intelligences, ones that cannot conceive that the society they support is no more. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name last_soul.pdf, file size 535 Kb]
The Athena learns that the missing Arosian star-destroyer ship appeared at a planet later named Japhia, so the ship heads there, and finds that the Japhites have a massive structure that travels in time. A malfunction traps the Athena in the Japhia star system, and in the process, they learn how the Japhites have interfered with their planetary development, and they learn something significant about the future as well. To read the story off-line, download the PDF version of the story. [file name time_and_time_again.pdf, file size 459 Kb]
These are the stories so far in Series 4 of "Star Trek: Athena," and I hope that you have enjoyed reading these stories as much as I have writing and posting them. Episodes 102 to 110 have been written and posted, while Episodes 111 and 112 are works in process
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