Touched

Touched
Attribution
Series:	Voyager
Author(s):	Kim Sheard
Publication information
Printed:	May 1999, in Strange New Worlds II
Pages:	13 (296 - 308)
Chronology
Date:	2371

Summary

A young alien girl is inspired by an encounter with Chakotay and B'Elanna Torres to become a science fiction writer.

References

Characters

Chakotay • Quator • B'Elanna Torres

Starships and vehicles

shuttle • USS Voyager

Locations

Mount of Kubl'a • Pathon

Races and cultures

Human • Klingon • Pathon

Other references

Age of Choosing • Age of Marth'o • karlak • mak'a

Appendices

Background

Before beaming back to Voyager, Chakotay and B'Elanna destroyed the unnamed shuttle that they crash-landed in.

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: A Ribbon for Rosie	Strange New Worlds II	Next story: Almost... But Not Quite
Previous story: A Ribbon for Rosie Strange New Worlds II	Voyager short stories	Next story: Almost... But Not Quite Strange New Worlds II
Previous story: First Star Trek story	Stories by: Kim Sheard	Next story: Ninety-Three Hours Strange New Worlds III
chronological order
Previous adventure: Distant Voices	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Through the Looking Glass
Previous story: State of Flux	Journey of the USS Voyager	Next story: Heroes and Demons