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• the gasping weight of time by archaisis

  Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  26 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • William Riker
  • Deanna Troi
  • Jean-Luc Picard
  • Data (Star Trek)
  • Worf (Star Trek:TNG/DS9)
  • Beverly Crusher
  • Klingon Characters (Star Trek)
  • Geordi La Forge
  • Angst
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Implied/Referenced Torture
  • tis better to have loved and lost
  • than never to have loved at all
  • Alternate Universe

  Summary

  Four travelers from a war-torn time; their only hope: their counterparts from a peace-time reality.
  The Klingons encroach upon Federation space; their war camps slowly fill with those bearing Starfleet uniforms. During a rescue mission gone wrong, Riker and his comrades are thrown inexplicably into a reality ruled by diplomacy, not guns, and ambition, not fear.

  //

  Or life, death, and the circumstances that shape us.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  9,938

  Chapters:

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