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@Burning Kitty Discovery is... Complicated. It's canon, whilst not being canon. The official response for Discovery's canonicity is "It is canon, but it has no baring on the rest of the Prime Timeline" Because Discovery's backstage was a mess, going through multiple writing teams, each of which pulled it in a different direction.

Discovery only makes sense if it is non-canon. I mean, unless something happens that turns all of the Klingons back into their old selves, wipes out all references to the Spore Drive, explains why a Starship had a holodeck about 100 years before they were invented and numerous other problems.

Point is, I like Discovery as an Elseworlds story, or a continuation of the Kelvin timeline, but I refuse to accept that it's Prime Timeline canon, because it is a square peg that they are trying to force into a hexagonal hole.

Shran sat in space, right in front of Defiance, as the larger ship took a defensive posture, keeping her nose slightly elevated to bring her dorsal beam cannon to bear on any potential opponents looking to take this advanced new ship from them. Kiana walked along her corridors with Canderous and one of the non-clone utility officers. "We have already finished shipping some of these Photon Torpedoes back to Defiance for study, but it's slow going. It's almost as though this ship wasn't built to accomedate standard shipping and munition storage practice." The utility officer explained.

"I have a feeling it wasn't." She replied as they passed a door that had stuck solid. Vuka was stood with Marbacca and a cutting team that had just finished removing the door as they arrived. Inside they saw the body of a dead woman, human. As well as a strange device. Vuka ran over to the controls and began looking it over.

"It's a matter transporter, apparently... A teleporter! I thought these things were for bad fiction." He chirped happily. He began to press buttons on the console as they lit up. The computer came to life to speak in it's high-pitched, female voice.

"TRANSPORTER ALREADY IN USE!" It said "PLEASE INITIATE RE-ENERGIZER SEQUENCE!" It ordered. Bupa looked over the console and quickly sussed it. He ran his fingers across It, before grabbing a pair of toggles and pulling them down. In a whirl and flash of golden particles, a basket appeared on the pad in front of them. Juana immediately rushed over to it and looked at the small bundle of cloth. It started to move and, in a moment, she pulled back the cloth to reveal an Andorian baby... one that looked a little different. This one had blotches of pink skin as well as the antennae being less pronounced.

"What happened?" She asked. "How did they do this?" Vuka tapped the consoles buttons.

"I'm still trying to understand all of the technojargon phrases this thing is using, but, apparently, about a minute before the crew was wiped out, this console was very quickly modified by the "Chief Transporter Technician" who appears to be this dead woman. The console was stuck into a mandatory maintenance loop... Computer, can you explain what happened?" He asked.

"AFFIRMATIVE. SEVERAL THEORIES HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD THAT A TRANSPORTER PATTERN COULD BE SUCCESSFULLY STORED FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD BY MODIFYING A TRANSPORTER TO CONSTANTLY CYCLE THE PATTERN THROUGH A TRANSPORTERS PATTERN BUFFER. THIS HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS WITH NO RECORDED SUCCESSES."

"Apparently there was a success now." She said, picking up the baby and cooing to him softly. "I remember when you were this small and adorable, Jiktu." She laughed. She then stopped as she saw the medics taking the Transporter chief away on a stretcher. "Computer, this child belongs to that woman, doesn't he?" She asked. The computer didn't answer as it was programmed for engineering questions, not crew. She sighed and began to carry the baby out "See if you can get it working. It should make our job easier." She called to Jiktu on the way out. Canderous followed her.

****

3 days later.

****

The Jedi and Canderous sat in the Shran's Conferance room. They had finally found out that this computer was the one with personell files in. They had all met to hear the answers together. "Computer, can you tell us about this child's parents? He will deserve to know when he is older." Kiana asked.

"CHIEF PETTY OFFICER MARIA PERELI. HUMAN. BORN, NEW BERLIN COLONY, LUNA, STARDATE -78248.5. STARFLEET RECORD. ACADEMY TRAINING, SAN-FRANCISCO, PASSED WITH MERITS. TRANSPORTER SPECIALITY. AWARDS, 5 YEARS LONG SERVICE, 10 YEARS LONG SERVICE. U.S.S. SHRAN, TRANSPORTER CHIEF, 11 YEARS. MARRIED STARDATE -52636.6 TO LT. DRAFA, CEREMONY PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN KINGSTON. OFFSPRING, RICHARD-DRI"

"Not exactly a distinguished career." Canderous said.

"No, but not every hero was one from the start. Just took the right situation to bring it out of her." Marbacca growled. Kiana smiled at the padawan's wise words.

"You teach your apprentice well." She laughed to Vuka.

"So, let's hear about this Lt. Drafa." Tuk-Tuk called to the computer.

"LIEUTENANT KTHA-DRI DRAFA. ANDORIAN. BORN, LRAKRIK COLONY, ANDORIA, STARDATE -87249.2. STARFLEET RECORD, ACADEMY TRAINING, SAN-FRANCISCO, PASSED WITH DISTINCTION. SECURITY SPECIALITY. AWARDS, 5 YEARS LONG SERVICE, MEDAL OF DISTINGUISHED BRAVERY FOR EFFORTS DURING THE BATTLE OF BATEN RIFT, 10 YEARS LONG SERVICE. U.S.S. RELIANT, SECURITY OFFICER, 3 YEARS, U.S.S. SHRAN, SECURITY OFFICER, 9 YEARS. MARRIED STARDATE -52636.6 TO CHIEF PETTY OFFICER MARIA PERELI, CEREMONY PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN KINGSTON. OFFSPRING, RICHARD-DRI."

"Hmmm... Computer, send all available information to the Defiance. If we are unable to find someone to look after him, we may have to take him with us." Kiana said, then stood up. "So, 3 days, what have we learned?" Vuka gathered his notes that he had made. "Yes, Knight Jiktu."

"Some startling discoveries." he said. "Firstly, this ship appears to be far older than it seems." he said. "I've been correlating stardates and look at this." he said, showing everyone a Captains Log labeled "Stardate -48369.7" "This isn't the weird part, though. As we see, there are logs going at least once a day for all this time. But now, look at the log entry." Suddenly, the notes showed a jump to Stardate 50630.2 "I've done some calculations and, according to the ship, this is right. This ship has been transported not through space, but time, according to what the ship calls its "Chronometers" This ship has travelled aproximately 102 years into the future." The others looked curious and shocked.

"Not even through the power of the force is time-travel possible..." Marbacca growled.

"I don't agree." Vuka replied. "This ship is built using technologies our finest minds said were mere fantasies. I think that we may need to re-write the text books on what is and isn't scientifically possible, because we are sat in an impossibility."

"If this is true." Canderous butted in. "Then it's possible that the starcharts are wrong. It's possible that this Federation might not exist anymore. Hell, it's possible that these Klingons already wiped them all out." Kiana nodded.

"A distinct possibility. 100 years can change the galaxy a lot. Knight Jiktu, use the ships scanners, locate the closest place that is broadcasting any signals that this ship recognizes as friendly."

"Already done that." he said. "The ships starcharts have no idea what this place is, but." walked over to a desk at the back of the room with a monitor on it and pressed a few buttons, before turning the monitor around to show a region of space labelled "Unknown" Which is where they were, along with a flashing red light that they were close to. "This planet seems to be broadcasting Federation signals. There also seems to be a metallic object in extreme-high orbit of the planet, also broadcasting these signals." he said.

"Alright, set a course, inform Defiance where we are going and match speed... Are you sure the Hyperdrive on this ship will work?" Kiana ordered. Vuka nodded to her.

"I am positive." He chirped, before walking out, with Marbacca in tow, heading for the bridge. She let out a heavy sigh. She looked at Tuk-Tuk and Canderous.

"Ready?" she asked. "We are about to travel at speeds unknown of." She informed them. "If we turn inside-out, it's all Knight Jiktu's fault." she smiled. They then got up. "Come on, let's see what she's capable of." she said.

****

The 3 of them walked onto the Shran's Bridge and watched. The consoles were all manned by Clone troopers that had been brought up to speed on the ships operation. "Knight Jiktu, Diagnostics complete, the ship is as ready as she is going to be." One of the clones informed him.

"Defiance is hailing. Navi-Computers course is laid in and they are ready to jump on our orders."

"Excellent. Let's not do anything crazy. Set course and engage Hyp... Warp drive. Setting 3. That's half of it's regular cruising speed." He informed them.

"Aye, captain. Warp-Factor 3." The Clone at Helm said.

"Defiance, you are green to jump." In a blinding flash, the Defiance jumped to Hyperspace. Meanwhile, it took a few seconds as the Shran lunged forwards and then jumped into low Warp. Kiana was a little surprised by the lack of jolt from the ship. There was no inertia in space so, naturally, they would feel nothing, but it still felt odd to her that they were travelling 3 times faster than anyone before them, and yet, if she hadn't been watching what was happening, she would have sworn that they hadn't moved an inch.

"Hmm... Anti-Climactic..." Vuka sighed as he looked out of the viewscreen and saw the stars whizzing past.

****
Above Bajor
****

As Deep Space Nine tried to deal with their current problem of giant transforming robots invading their space, they were about to get an equally pressing concern. An older Constitution-Class ship dropped out of Warp a couple of thousand killometers from the station. Vuka swivelled round in the captains chair to look at the viewscreen. "Well, there it is." He pressed the intercom button. "Master, you may want to get up here." He informed her. Kiana had already sensed their imminent arrival and stepped out of the turbolift, she adjusted her armour. In all honesty, she had just come from a rather rough round of passion with Canderous.

"Sorry... I was training with Canderous." She said, then looked out of the screen. "Well, that's most certainly a space station. She's got several larger vessels docking with her already, though... Maybe a trading outpost?" she asked. She walked over to the conn and pressed the open hail button. "Attention outpost, this is Jedi Master Kiana, acting captain of the U.S.S. Shran. We are in need of assistance. Is there a Federation representitive I can talk to?" she asked, sending the hail to the station. Moments later, the immense Venator-Class Star Destroyer dropped out of hyperspace above them. Kiana sensed this, along with Vuka. She stepped back from the console, closing communications as the Clone at sensors stared into the perescope.

"Sir, Defiance has just dropped out of Hyperspace..." He reported, slightly confused.

"How?" Kiana asked. "They should be several hours behind. We were travelling twice their speed.

"Maybe the laws of physics work different here..." Vuka asked.

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