Where No Dragon Has Gone Before (Wings of Fire-Star Trek crossover)

By Weston Rosch (InterstellarNerd8760)
(none of this is canon)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise entered the bridge as Lieutenant Data sat up in his seat. 
:“We’re nearing the planet of Draco, sir,” Data announced, “third planet to Draconian 3497, sir.”
:“I want stats on this planet, Data,” Picard said.
:Data nodded. “Roger that sir,” and he begins to pour out information: “Draco is a type M planet, similar to Earth, that is inhabited by several species of dragons and a good amount of humans. The planet composes of two continents: Pyrrhia and Pantala, the dragons and humans are currently a type one civilization on the Kardashev scale and-“
:“Enough Data!” Picard said; Data fell silent.
:Lieutenant Tasha Yar spoke up: “They’re scanning us sir.”
:“Open hailing frequencies,” Picard ordered. 
:“Hailing frequencies open sir,” Yar responded. 
:An image appeared on the screen, it was a dragon who had pink, blue and purple scale patterns and piercing yellow eyes. Behind her, sunlight filtered through an array of plants and a sloth climbed lazily behind her. 
:“I am Queen Jacaranda III,” she began. “And you are?”
:“I am Jean-Luc Picard, Captain of the USS Enterprise,” Picard stated. “We come from the Federation.”
:"Ah, I see,” Queen Jacaranda hissed. “I wasn’t the one to call for you, that was Professor Moonshifter of the University of Pantala.” she turned her head to the left. “Lemur! Call the University of Pantala and get them talking to this… Captain Picard.”
:The image disappeared. 
:“What did you feel from her Deanna?” Picard asked.
:“Annoyance, and some anger,” Counselor Deanna Troi said. “She certainly didn’t ask for us to visit. I don’t know if you noticed Captain but her scales changed hue based on how she was feeling.”
:A new image appeared on the screen.
:This one was a dragon whose scales were black as night and another dragon behind them who had alternating patterns of yellow and black and had dragonfly-like wings. The black-scaled dragon spoke first.
:“Hello Captain,” he said in a slightly growly voice. “As you may have learned from Queen Jacaranda, I am Professor Moonshifter of the University of Pantala.” he waved a talon to the dragon behind him. “This is Pinacate, she’s one of my top students.” 
:“Uhh, hi,” she said. “Sorry but my Human is not so good.”
:“You speak a different language?” Data inquired.
:“Data!” Picard snapped. 
:“Sorry sir.”
:“No, it’s fine!” Pinacate said. “Yes, we speak a different language, Dragon it’s called, I’m studying Human though as well as astrophysics.” 
:“Truly fascinating,” Data said. 
:Pinacate laughed. 
:“Well Professor,” Picard said. “What is it you’d like from us?”
:“We’ve heard about your Federation of Planets and we’d like to join it. Me and some top scientists and government officials have agreed that it would be best for our civilization and help us reach for the stars,” Moonshifter explained.
:“Alright then, we can see to that,” Picard said. “We’ll just have to send what we call an away team down to your planet and have your world leaders sign a form.”
:“You have permission to land at the University, Captain. Moonshifter out.” the image blinked out. 
:Picard turned towards Commander William T. Riker. “Riker, assemble an away team.”
:“Yessir,” Riker said as he, Tasha, Data, Geordi, and Deanna left the bridge. 
	
The away team gathered in the transport room and prepared to beam down to Draco. 
:Riker tapped his comms badge. “Permission to beam down sir?”
:Captain Picard’s voice came through. “Permission granted.”
:“Energize,” Riker announced to the transport officer. Slowly the six figures were disassembled atom by atom and rearranged at the other side. In the transport room of the University of Pantala, in the Southern Republic (formerly the Leaf-Silk Kingdom).
	
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Pinacate couldn’t believe she was about to meet humans from another planet!!!! Some space telescopes in orbit had detected life on other planets (possibly, just possibly, they didn’t know for sure until now) and now this was finally confirmation that there were others out there! But, my, the chances that these aliens would be anatomically the same as Humans on Draco was crazy, and they spoke the same language! She was going to die.
:The five humans appeared in a shimmering glow on the transport deck and Pinacate rushed forward to greet them. “Hi! Hi! My name’s Pinacate although you probably already know that! I’m so excited to be meeting you… sorry my Human isn’t so great, I’m still learning it.” 
:Riker cautiously stepped forward, after all the dragon was about twice his size. “No, no,” he said. “Your, um, Human is fine.”
:“Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,” Data retorted. 
:“Um… what?” Pinacate asked gingerly. 
:“I was testing your vocabulary, miss, pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis a medical term for a respiratory disease caused by inhaling ash, first coined in 1935 by-”
:“Data!”
:“Sorry, sir.”
:Pinacate giggled a strange dragon laugh. “What kind of human are you?” she asked Data. “You are so pale and there’s something about your speech patterns I find so peculiar.”
:“I am a Soong-type android, created on Omicron Theta by the renowned Doctor Noonien Soong,” Data proclaimed. “A robot if you may.”
:“Thank you, Data,” Riker said.
:“You are welcome sir,” Data replied, slightly confused for Riker had already known that information. 
:“We haven’t given you a formal greeting Pinacate,” Riker said with a small bow. “I am Commander William T. Riker, this is Lieutenant Commander Data, Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Lieutenant Tasha Yar and Counselor Deanna Troi.” Riker paused and slightly raised an eyebrow. “Where’s Professor Moonshifter?”
:“Up here!” a voice cheerfully shouted as a large black dragon flew down from a level above on his star-speckled wings. “Greetings Commander Riker. Sorry for being a little late, I am trying to get permission from all the Queens and the rulers of our Human countries. All the Dragon Queens have agreed, except —ugh— Jacaranda. The Human nations have agreed to join the Federation. King Oak of Oakenshire will be coming here soon to sign the accords after he announces it to his country and lets the other Human monarchs know.” 
:“That is all right Moonshifter,” Counselor Troi said, “we have time.”
:The group waits in a sort of awkward silence and Data breaks it to try to teach Pinacate how to pronounce pnuemoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Pinacate tries to pronounce it but to no avail. Professor Mooncrusher actually decides to do something useful. 
:“Why don’t we give you a tour of Atlas?” he says. 
:Data raises an inquiring eyebrow. “I’m sorry but Atlas? It brings up nothing in my database. Well, except a kind of moth and…”
:“Atlas is the capital of the Southern Republic,” Moonshifter explained. “And— Oh wait, how fast do you soak up information Mr. Data?”
:“As fast as it is presented to me sir.”
:“Splendid! Pinacate: take Mr. Data to the library and show him anything he wants to learn.”
:Pinacate nodded. “Aye, sir.” 
:The dragon and the android exited to a nearby room.
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Ugh. Jacaranda did not want to go all the way out of her wonderful rainforest and to the insect infested hellhole that was the ENTIRE CONTINENT of Pantala (yes, there were insects in her jungle but those were rather nice insects, not like giant wasps that could kill a full grown elephant with just one sting). She lounged in the sun on her hammock as her pet sloth climbed onto her head. Her assistant, Lemur, flew over from a neighboring tree. 
:“Your majesty,” he said oily, the wrinkles around his eyes scrunched disgustingly. Which made Jacaranda wonder: Why the hell did she keep this guy around?
:“I would recommend that we beam over to the University of Pantala and get this crap over with,” Lemur said calmly. “After all the sooner we get this over with, the sooner you can come back for your sun time.”
:Jacaranda let out a long, drawed out sigh. “Fine.”
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Deanna was overwhelmed with the thoughts and emotions of the hundreds of dragons and humans around her. Professor Moonshifter had led the away team to a large conference hall where hundreds of delegates from around the world had gathered to sign the accords that would bind this planet to the Federation and open them up to trade and support from outside their solar system. For a civilization this was truly a monumental moment and would help them —and help the Federation— for years to come. Kind of poetic really. 
:Meanwhile Data was walking around following Pinacate and was pointing out the different breeds of dragons. “SandWing, HiveWing, SeaWing, LeafWing,” he was saying as he passed the species of dragon. “There are ten in total, correct?”
:“Yes,” Pinacate said in confirmation. “The LeafWings, HiveWings, and SilkWings are from Pantala and the SkyWings, MudWings, SandWings, IceWings, SeaWings, RainWings and NightWings are from Pyrrhia.”
:“Fascinating,” Data said.
:There was a shimmering as Queen Jacaranda III beamed into the room. She clearly didn’t want to be here as her scales started to become tinged with orange. 
:“RainWing,” Data said, “Queen Jacaranda III of the RainWings to be exact.”
:Jacaranda moved aggressively past Data. “Move it weirdo,” she said as she passed the pale android. Data scrunched his brow in confusion and then shrugged.
:Tasha, Geordi and Riker stood at where the contract was laid out. As Jacaranda came, Geordi and Tasha backed up to let her through. 
:“Let me sssign the damn contract,” Jacaranda hissed as she sidled past. She muttered something in Dragon, something like, “ugh, Humans, such disgusting little primates, we really shouldn’t have stopped eating them.” Which is kind of strange for a RainWing to say because for the longest time they were pacifists, but as I have once heard somewhere (I can’t remember where) “The times, they are a’changin’.”
:Riker flinched slightly and Tasha and Geordi reached for their phasers as the massive now pink and orange dragon stepped forward, her massive tail swished to and fro behind her and almost knocked Lieutenant La Forge over. Jacaranda dipped a claw in an open inkwell and signed her signature in the contract. 
:“Uh,” Riker said, “thank you, miss.”
:“Don’t mention it,” Jacaranda growled as she walked away. Once she made it to the center of the room she was beamed out in a flash of light. 
:“That was intense,” Geordi mumbled as she left.
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Captain Picard stood on the bridge as his away team entered and took their respective spots. “I assume that the Draconians have signed the accords?” 
:“Affirmative sir,” Riker announced and took his seat. 
:Picard nodded. “Geordi set a course to Earth, warp 4, mark 123.7. I would like to let headquarters know in person about the new addition to our Federation.”
:“Earth, warp 4, mark 123.7,” Geordi said as he punched in the commands into the helm. 
:Picard nodded. “We’re going home.”
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