The Echo's Last Words

Echos can fairly rebound.

This short story is connected to a recent role play with the USS Menelaus in Second Life where the USS Menelaus has been pulled into a wormhole and thrown back in time to a branching time line in the year 2389.

As this happened Reina Beaumont died when her bio-technology that keeps her alive destroys itself due to following it's programming in regards to being duplicated, a transporter accident when the wormhole opened created a duplicate of Reina which stayed on the Menelaus while the other beamed over to the Vox Aura, a Federation ship that had met up to take crew from the Menelaus for shore leave while the Menelaus proceeded to a new assignment.

The duplicate died not long after while the original is still alive and taking her shore leave on Earth.

In this other time line in the past things went differently, the Menelaus was never built and the crew never met, Reina served on other ships. The USS Menelaus, upon finding itself in the Gamma Quadrant in the past, set out to locate the Federation in this time line, the ship suffered some nasty damage though from the sudden wormhole.
The USS Shore, an Akira class ship that Reina was serving on, saw the Menelaus on long range sensors over a week later and set course to render aid when they saw a Dominion cruiser was also moving towards the Menelaus.

Upon arrival and offering assistance, Reina was assigned to beam over and help the Menelaus crew get their bearing and help them get to Deep Space Nine for repairs. Upon beaming aboard she was surprised at the reaction of the crew when they saw her, it was like they had seen a ghost.

And that's the story so far.