[FANFICTION] - WHAT IF: A STAR TREK SERIES - THE GAMMA QUADRANT EXPLORATION - FAR HORIZONS - INDEX

New ship. Old legends. New adventures. Are you ready to meet the U.S.S. Europa (NCC-1648-E) and its crew?

STARDATE 48467.3

Eva Ferrari, a young Starfleet Officer, has recently completed a two-year project at the Zefram Cochrane Space Flight Center, where she had served as a pilot and test pilot immediately after graduating from Starfleet Academy. At the same time, a new class of vessel (the Sovereign-class) has been brought to its conclusion: in addition to the Enterprise-E, which will be launched on stardate 49827.5, the shipyard orbiting Earth, that of San Francisco, also gave birth to the U.S.S. Europa (NCC-1648-E), assigned to Captain T'Vok. The Vulcan, who served during John Harriman's time aboard the Enterprise-B, arranges for Lieutenant Ferrari to be assigned to the starship, believing that her talents and skills would benefit the crew in anticipation of future missions.

📖[FULL VERSION] – For those who want to immerse themselves in the story without interruption.

🔖[CHAPTER VERSION] – For episodic reading:

👉Chapter I. The Launch of the U.S.S. Europa (NCC-1648-E) – From the Zefram Cochrane Space Flight Centre to the Utopia Planitia shipyards: newly promoted Lieutenant Eva Ferrari is selected to face the unknown aboard the U.S.S. Europa, part of the new Sovereign-class starships. Under the command of the strict Vulcan T'Vok and alongside legendary figures such as Dr Pulaski, Ferrari must prove that her talent is ready for the front line, while the shadow of Voyager's disappearance still haunts the Federation.

👉Chapter II. Bound for the Gamma Quadrant – The U.S.S. Europa prepares for its first mission: to explore the Gamma Quadrant and gather information about the Dominion. Since the first explorations of the Gamma Quadrant, the United Federation of Planets has found itself interacting with the Dominion, which was immediately considered a serious threat to the political realities of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Will they succeed in “exploring strange new worlds” and, at the same time, gather information on the Dominion?

AUTHOR'S NOTE

• Star Trek and all related characters are the property of Paramount/CBS. This work is written for non-profit purposes, purely out of passion and in accordance with the official canon. The character of Eva Ferrari and the characterisation of the U.S.S. Europa (NCC-1468-E), the better its officers (as for the better part of the characters seen at the Zefram Cochrane Space Flight Center) are the fruit of my creativity.
• This story is not for profit and is also available on other fanfiction platforms such as EFP (in my dedicated space) and Archive of Our Own (AO3) under the nickname “oscuro_errante”.
• Far Horizons is set in the sub-series titled The Gamma Quadrant Exploration, and it is a bridge of sort between the adventures set at the Zefram Cochrane and those that will be featured in the Gamma Quadrant, aboard the Europa.

ALL RIGHT RESERVED – ©CHIARA SAROGLIA