Star Trek: Terra Alpha

He smirked, "No promises. Those two are just as important as you. In the meantime enjoy your life in hiding. And don't worry about the time line. Time isn't so fragile and linear as you think it is."

"Not 'basically a Q' I am Q," Merlin said with a sly grin. "I tell you what Captain, Nicholas is right you do need to return home, and there's no sense in you remembering this either." Merlin snapped his fingers and Sisko was gone. Standing Merlin put his cap on, "Nicholas you and your family are no...

Ignoring Nick, Merlin continued, "So, captain Nicholas says you owe him. Now is your chance to settle your debt with him. What does he owe you Nicholas?"

"Sisko? What an amazing idea," Merlin snapped his fingers and Captain Benjamin Sisko appeared next to Nick.

"What the hell?" Sisko demanded.

"Perhaps you could take that opportunity to change history Nicholas," Merlin announced. He was wearing something that made him look like a local sheep farmer. "Just think you could be the hero of Bajor. Maybe even a religious icon."

"Oh very well. You people are simply impossible. There, I have enhanced the hull of your pathetic little shuttle. You can fly it into a sun now." And with that he was gone.

"I heard that," Q said as he poked his head through the bulkhead as if it was nothing more than a holographic simulation.

"You are simply impossible." Q said with a sigh. In a flash of light everything returned as before leaving Alice and Nick alone. Then as an afterthought a bottle of a very old and very expensive wine appeared in Nick's hands.

"My aren't you the big angry mama bear. Very well," a snap of his fingers and they were transported to the Coliseum of Rome, but it wasn't a ruin rather a wholly constructed stadium gleaming white in its newess. Beside Alice was all her children. "There that's better. It was getting a little cramped...

"Ash?" Q replied with amusement. "Not now my dear," he said turning his attention to Dominus and Bellatrix and freezing them both in place, but still allowing them to speak. Q plopped down on the bed in a seductive manner and patted the mattress it to invite Alice to join him. "Now, why would I want...