Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Sunday, 11 Oct 1992 13:48:51 MST
From: <ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: STORY: "Timesync" - Chap. 2

Fade onto view of Enterprise going through space.  Voice over:

PICARD (V.O.): Captain's log, stardate 4318.247.  The Enterprise has received
Dr. Stephen A. Becherell, inventer of the little-known, Timesync (medical)
Device.  The unit serves to re-orient victims of the Time-Sensivity Disorder
to their own time and place or origin.  Dr. Crusher has confirmed the diagnosis
personally with Dr. Becherell and with Starfleet Medical.  We now must find
out what to do with this renowned traveller.

In Briefing Room:

PICARD: Dr. Becherell, I must ask, why you, the inventor of the Timesync Device
should find yourself aboard the Enterprise.

BECHERELL: Captain, I don't want to bore you with the details-

RIKER: Bore us, please.

BECHERELL: Very well.  You see, I am more than just the inventor of the Time-
sync Device, and a sufferer of the affliction.  (He gets up and paces.)  You
see, when the Royal Conservatory found the condition, the scientific commun-
ities of most of the major countries went to work to find a cure.

CRUSHER: But, there is no cure.

BECHERELL: That's right.  But, Timesync Device is a way to CONTROL the problem.

RIKER: Why don't you wear one?

BECHERLL: I do, but it was taken off me just before I experienced the emotional
state that brought me here.

TROI: It must have been a violent emotion.

BECHERELL:  Have you ever looked down the barrel of an armed phaser cannon
set on "high?"

TROI: And that emotion caused you to experience lack of timesync...and
come forward in time to the Enterprise?

PICARD: What I don't understand, is why you're not going back to your own
time.  Dr. Crusher tells me, it's like a sling-shot effect once the emotion
has subsided.

BECHERELL: I have asked Dr. Crusher to inject me with a course of Thrionium-
Citrate-77.  This is a stimulant which will keep my emotional trigger level
high enough so that I can stay here on aboard the Enterprise long enough to
as for your help.

PICARD: What do you want from us?

BECHERELL: I need to go to Earth to pick up another Timesync Device.  That's
the first thing.  They DO have Timesync Devices on Earth, don't they, Dr.
Crusher?

CRUSHER: According to Starfleet Medical, the schematics are still available,
and they can have one ready when we arrive in three days at maximum warp.

PICARD: Couldn't we fashion one here, based on the schematics?

RIKER: It's not IMPOSSIBLE, is it, Geordi?

LAFORGE: Maybe, not.  I'll give it a try.

PICARD: But, Dr. Becherell, that's all fine and well, but what I want to know,
is WHY you want to stay here, and what help you REALLY need.

BECHERELL: Once I developed the Timesync Device, we found out that with some
minor modifications, it could be used in reverse...'normal' people could use
it for time travel...historical research, etc.  Once you passed through an
extensive security check, you would be issued a Timesync Device for a short
period of time. The procedure worked fine, until someone passed through all
security checks of credentials, psychological profiles, and interests.
Captain, it's that person who I seek to bring back to my time...to bring to
justice!

PICARD: Who is this person?

BECHERELL: Lorieli Llewellyn. Almost immediately after she went on her
original mission, we noticed 'things' happening.  The first thing that
happened was my medical and physics degrees changing. Instead of having
graduated from MIT and New York School of Medicine, both degrees changed
to read that I graduated from Harvard.  Not an inequitable switch, but
somewhat disarming at least.  Many others of my key staff experienced
similar changes.  THEY knew what the past SHOULD have been, but EVERYONE
else seemed to have quickly FORGOT.

TROI: That would seem to be very unsettling.

BECHERELL: QUITE unsettling, Counselor.  Then, we noticed the structure of
certain industries began changing...owners, mission statements, publics
served.  Why when the Public Broadcasting Service in America began showing
"Caligula" every evening - (looks briefly at Picard).

PICARD: What is it, Doctor?

BECHERELL: Nothing, Captain...as I was saying, by THAT time, we knew something
had gone wrong, and I was chosen to go after her.  And so Captain, I need to
get back on Lorieli's trail...or the stream of time and events as we know it
could hang further in the balance between the experience of what we now know,
the the oblivion which we could experience.  Lorieli Llewylln MUST be stopped
before she destroys REALITY!

Fade to commercial with ominous horns...