Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead

Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead is a short story series centering around the Nebula-class multi-mission heavy cruiser USS Farragut and the members of her crew.  Led by their commanding officer, Captain Krystine Leone, Farragut's ability to take on many types of missions result in a myriad of different adventures, from courier duty to border patrol and everything in between.

Story Arc One

Stardate 43224.74: Newly-promoted Captain Krystine Leone is appointed to command the recently-refitted Nebula-class starship USS Farragut, after only fifteen years of excellent service to Starfleet. Her arrival at the Antares Ship Yards is met by friends she's made throughout her career, and of course, she is excited by the prospect of her first command. While she enjoys the festivities of assuming command, two strangers work feverishly within the ship's navigational deflector room toward some unknown purpose. As they ready the ship for warp speed trials, the ship finds itself going on a journey deep into the final frontier!

Stories within this arc (hosted by Ad Astra):

1. Damn the Torpedoes!
2. Damn the Torpedoes! Part II
3. Damn the Torpedoes! Part III

Story Arc Two

Stardate 43239.47: Following the return of Farragut from deep within the Beta Quadrant, Starfleet Command assigns an investigator from the Inspector General's office to determine whether charges should be brought against Captain Leone for her actions during that time. Due to the investigation, Rear Admiral T'Cirya pulls the ship from border duty as it was originally intended. Meanwhile, the missing members of the crew board Farragut from Starbase 310, including Commander Jesse Kincaid, the new executive officer.

Stories within this arc (hosted by Ad Astra):

1. Milk Run
2. Eternal Midnight
3. A Great Perhaps

Story Arc Three

Stardate 43322: Farragut and her crew are reassigned to act as a patrol vessel with the Starfleet Border Service, under the command of Captain Benjamin Maxwell. While on assignment, the crew experiences a number of shipboard dramas common (and uncommon) to life aboard a starship.

Stories within this arc (hosted by Ad Astra):

1. The Unreturned Prodigal
2. Timing, Degree, and Conviction
3. Turbulence

Story Arc Four

Stardate 43651: Farragut responds to a technologically-obsolete but recently constructed distress beacon seemingly from the Constitution-class starship USS Steadfast; a starship that never existed on the registry of Starfleet. When they track the beacon back to its source, they're shocked to discover that the ship and crew are not exactly what they appear to be, despite their Starfleet uniforms, and the truth of their origin will put an away mission of mercy in dire peril.

Stories within this arc (coming soon):

1. Bitter Pills
2. A Piece of Their Action
3. A Piece of Our Action

The Chains of Error

by Gibraltar & Lord McCovey Cove

A Crossover Novel with Star Trek: Gibraltar!

Stardate 54310.98: A very attractive Commander arrives at Starbase 375 near the Cardassian border to assume custody of a very dangerous prisoner... all by herself. They depart together in the runabout Sacramento; sixteen hours into their trip, they come under attack by the Maquis.

Stardate 54311.8: The starship USS Gibraltar, while en route to a Federation convoy to the Rudyard Colonies, is diverted by the distress signal of the runabout Sacramento. Upon arrival, they find the runabout destroyed and an encrypted beacon points the way toward an escape pod. Now, Captain Sandhurst and his new executive officer, T'Ser, must deal with the formidable presence of Commander Ariel Elannis, and her prisoner, former Starfleet Captain Sabrina Diaz.

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After the events of The Chains of Error, the former crew of the USS Farragut are spread out amongst various assignments within Starfleet. In a trilogy of novellas, the crew are impacted by the events leading up to the departure of Task Force Vanguard; a mission to the depths of the Delta Quadrant following the return of the starship Voyager.

Stardate 54571.54: Nuhir t'Aimne risks everything to rescue her kin from being conscripted into the Rihannsu's most dangerous order, the Tal Priax.  Carolyn Kircheis and the crew of Gallant are tasked with breaking into Romulan space and helping her escape with her family before they're discovered and the fragile alliance between the Federation and the Romulans is threatened.

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Stardate 54790.64: Immediately following the events of To Triumph and Not to Mourn, Rear Admiral Krystine Leone struggles to get through her grief after the death of her closest friend and confidant, Commander Ariel Elannis, with the help of her former crew and her son, Dominic. But the work of Starfleet doesn't stop for grief. In the post-Dominion War Federation, several member worlds taking on the burden of rebuilding from their massive losses are also fending off the sharp increase of piracy as Starfleet finds it is spread far too thin to keep up its usual pre-war patrols. Among those worlds is Betazed, whose representatives have become vocal and threatening in conference. Starfleet and the Ministry of Defense send Admiral Leone aboard Indefatigable to directly address the defense of Betazed and the surrounding sectors of Federation space. Meanwhile, Dominic deals with the fallout of his actions during his time at Starfleet Academy with the prospect of joining Task Force Vanguard looming over him, removing him from the Alpha Quadrant for the next five years of his career!

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Stardate 55343: Immediately following the events of Mater Semper Certa Est, Commander C. J. Kircheis joins the first wave of Task Force Vanguard under the command of Vice Admiral Edward Jellico, and is assigned as the executive officer of USS Adelphi. With the information presented to her by khre'Arrain t'Aimne about the wormhole leading from Rihannsu space, Adelphi is ordered to investigate the wormhole and its possible usage by the Rihannsu to send ships and scouts into the Delta Quadrant.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the wormhole, first officer Taibek tr'Tei of the warbird ChR Kholhnen is part of a highly-classified Tal Shiar-led expedition using the same wormhole. When the three ship flotilla enters the Delta Quadrant, they're met by USS Adelphi in the middle of their mission. though they outnumber the Starfleet vessel three-to-one and enjoy a treaty following their shared victory in the Dominion War, tr'Tei wonders if the Tal Shiar will observe that alliance under the circumstances.

Both sides hold their breath as they wait for the next move...

Planned: Ubi Bene Ibi Domo

Planned: Toxicosis