The End of Night

"The End of Night"
Attribution
Series:	Star Trek: Voyager
Author(s):	Paul J. Kaplan
Publication information
Printed:	Strange New Worlds VI
Chronology
Date:	2374

Summary

Space is destroying itself, wiping out whole planets and civilisations. In a last desperate move, Captain Kirk travels to the Guardian of Forever to try and reach the epicentre of the catastrophe... and ends up on the Starship Voyager.

Using Kirk's information, the Voyager crew determine that when they opened up a rift into fluidic space some months earlier to battle Species 8472 they damaged the fabric of reality. The first rift is forming near their current position and their only hope of preventing the end of time is to seal it. However, Q arrives with the news that the Continuum have determined the universe is doomed and ordered him to wipe out humanity as punishment. Kirk convinces him that with human ingenuity and the power of the Q they might stand a chance and Q co-opts several Borg cubes to help.

Kirk takes the Delta Flyer into the rift to use a combination of Federation and Borg technology to plant a seed that the Q can use to seal the rift. However, a Borg sphere is despatched to alter the mix and destroy fluidic space. With the Q distracted, Voyager destroys the sphere in a suicide run.

Time is set back on the proper course and Kirk is returned to the Enterprise with no memory of what has transpired, or of the newly-assigned "Crewman Kew"...

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References

Characters

Chakotay • Guardian of Forever • Kathryn Janeway • Harry Kim • James T. Kirk • Tom Paris • Q • Seven of Nine • Spock • B'Elanna Torres • Tuvok

Referenced only

The Doctor • Kahless • Edith Keeler • Douglas MacArthur • Neelix • Horatio Nelson • Jean-Luc Picard • Montgomery Scott • Hikaru Sulu • Trelane • V'Ger • Vorik • Samantha Wildman

Starships and vehicles

Borg cube • Borg sphere • USS Enterprise • Delta Flyer • USS Voyager

Locations

fluidic space

Races and cultures

Borg • Human • Klingon • Q (species) • Vulcan

Referenced only

Gorn • Metron • Organian • Species 8472 • Thasian • Tholian

States and organizations

Q Continuum • Romulan Star Empire • United Federation of Planets

Appendices

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")
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit" • "Seven v Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Seven and Seven	Strange New Worlds VI	Next story: Hidden
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Blood Sacrifice	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Omega Directive
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2374. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in one other timeframe:
Previous Adventure: The Lost Years Chapters 1 & 2	2271 first and last sections	Next Adventure: The Captain's Daughter Chapters 5-12