title: Flashback (Star Trek: Voyager)
author: Diane Carey
description: A hundred years before the <i>Starship Voyager</i><sup><font size="-2">TM</font></sup> was transported to the Delta Quadrant, Lieutenant Tuvok served under one of Starfleet's most famous officers: Captain Hikaru Sulu of the <i>Starship Excelsior</i><sup><font size="-2">TM</font></sup>.
zlib_text: Star Trek - Voy - 018 - Battle Lines
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1
  
  "yellow alert!"
  
  Captain Janeway wedged her rigid shoulders into the command chair as the ship
  took on an acute hum. Like her captain, the Voyager tensed as she approached
  the unknown.
  
  "Defense fields energized. All decks report ready." Lieutenant Tuvok's voice
  was a calm baritone. Vulcan-calm.
  
  "Intensify scans. I want to know what we're dealing with." Janeway let her
  glare lock on the rushing starscape of the forward viewscreen, as if human
  eyes alone could watch ships that sensors only saw as shadows.
  
  The captain pushed herself up and over toward the Ops station, where Harry Kim
  leaned into his console, shaking his head, frustrated.
  
  "Ensign?" the captain prodded.
  
  "It's there, Captain, all over the sector. Heavy subspace activity."
  
  She frowned. "But not the burst you saw before."
  
  There was no question in the captain's voice, but the young man answered
  anyway. "No."
  
  The tension in Janeway's shoulders worked its way up her neck a