Title: The Imzadi Files - Allegiance

 

Author: Rising Sun

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Rated: PG

Summary: Let us call it what it was… a mutiny.

Classification: Riker/Troi

Disclaimer: Star Trek: The Next Generation characters portrayed belong to Roddenberry Productions and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended.  All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

 

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Story Written December 29, 2001

Personal Log – Deanna Troi

Today I had my abilities questioned.  By who you ask… the answer is by myself.

 

I am the ship’s counselor granted. By I pride myself on being empathic and telepathic … yet Captain is Picard kidnapped and replaced by carbon copy and I am none the wiser!  Now it is true that it was done by telepathic beings but that should be all the more reason that I should be aware of the switch.

 

An energy fluctuation in the Captain’s quarters was dismissed and we almost died as a result.  The doppelganger was taking us into dangerous territory a mutiny is all that saved us.  Let us call it what it was… a mutiny. All that saved us was the fact that it was not the Captain but an imposter!

 

I should have picked up on what was happening from the fact that the Captain was detached from his emotions.  He is a disciplined man but not unemotional – clue number one. Number two was not so much that he came to our poker game something he NEVER does, but the conversation we had afterward.  That Jean Luc Picard wanted to be warned if the crew’s loyalty should waiver should have been a red flag.  Was it? IT WAS NOT!

 

I was engrossed with Will Riker… as usual.  There I was in Ten Forward with my Imzadi in a rare moment of being together.  I cherish these moments. On a ship as busy as the Enterprise it is so easy to slip into the routine of work – home; home – work.  We see each other on the Bridge but that is no place to conduct a friendship and so the moments we get to just relax with each other are great!  I know I know … Ten Forward is a hub for the crew to unwind so how can we be “alone”?  We were and you will have to take my word for it!

 

Any way there we were… When the Captain comes in orders a drink and starts to sing!  That was the last straw for Will.  The senior officers went into caucus.  Thus laying the foundation for the mutiny that followed.

 

And so in the middle of the face off between Captain and First Officer where loyalties and allegiances have to be decided on the spot… a Picard beams in and before we can blink he has taken command of the ship.  Now there is no doubt in my mind that this is the Captain. All the readings matched how I missed it before I don’t know.

 

I talked to Will about this after and he doesn’t seem to be concerned. He has an alls well that ends well philosophy.  Me? I still wonder… maybe it’s because I’m only half Betazed that I missed the signs… yes maybe that’s it.

 

DT

 

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