Almost... But Not Quite

Summary[]

DTI agents Marion Dulmur and Gariff Lucsly find themselves in 1996, along with Lieutenants Tuvok and Tom Paris.

References[]

Characters[]

Marion Dulmur • Guardian of Forever • Gariff Lucsly • Tom Paris • Rain Robinson • Tuvok
Referenced only: Neil Armstrong • Pete Conrad • James T. Kirk • James Lovell • Jean-Luc Picard • Alan Shepard • Benjamin Sisko • Spock

Locations[]

Fra Mauro • Griffith Observatory • Los Angeles • Ocean of Storms • Risa

Other references[]

DeathTongue • Los Angeles Times • Temporal Investigations Commander • Temporal Prime Directive

Appendices[]

Related media[]

TOS episode: "The City on the Edge of Forever"
TOS movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
TNG episode: "Time's Arrow"
TNG movie: Star Trek: First Contact
DS9 episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations"
VOY episode: "Future's End"

Connections[]

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Star Trek: Explorer	"Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen" • "In Two Minds"
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline[]

published order
Previous story: Touched	Strange New Worlds II	Next story: The Healing Arts
Previous story: Touched Strange New Worlds II	Voyager short stories	Next story: The Healing Arts Strange New Worlds II
Previous story: Reflections Strange New Worlds I	Stories by: Dayton Ward	Next story: The Aliens Are Coming! Strange New Worlds III
chronological order
Previous adventure: Protecting Data's Friends Strange New Worlds VI	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Final Entry 18th entry Strange New Worlds V
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2373. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in 2 other timeframe(s):
Previous adventure: Future's End Past scenes	1996 Sections 3 - 5	Next Pocket adventure: Research Strange New Worlds II Next MB adventure: From History's Shadow Chapter 38
Previous adventure: The Immortality Blues Strange New Worlds 9	2063 Section 1	Next adventure: Preserver Chapter 39

External Link[]

Dayton Ward's story annotations