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Protocols Unknown: A Decision of The Stars by Thelifeofanother
Fandoms: Star Trek: Voyager
12 Aug 2025
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Summary
Captain Janeway never meant to become a mother in the Delta Quadrant. But when Voyager rescues a Borg-influenced infant (from the episode Collective), her choice is instinct, not protocol. She names her Astrea, and from that moment, the crew’s course bends toward family, love, and impossible sacrifice.
Across thirty-eight chapters, A Decision of the Stars follows Kathryn Janeway, Seven of Nine, Naomi Wildman, and Voyager herself through rescue and loss, memory and forgetting, survival and rediscovery. Astrea is both child and catalyst, binding them together as they fight for her against enemies outside the ship and fractures within it.
This is a story of motherhood in uniform, of found family, and of the choices that reshape destiny. It ends where canon Endgame begins, and a triple timeline and three possible futures (Chapter 36, 37, and 38). Readers choose their ending!
Series
- Part 1 of Protocols Unknown - Star Trek: Voyager