Chakotay's Lament
by Rob Morris
Tuvok had been Starfleet.

Seska had been Cardassian.

Suder had been nuts.

Tom's Maquis career had been fronted by Section 31.

Belanna had been forced by honor-rituals even she believed in to spy for the Klingons.

The group that he had asked Tuvok to train all turned out to be Romulans.

Jonas had been beaten by Neelix. And he had been working for Seska.

Now, Chakotay stared with dread at the disk. The one that contained a message from himself to himself, that he totally could not recall making.

Resolved, he decided to view this unknown memory not in pieces, but wholesale.

The man on the screen was Chakotay, but he spoke with an odd Germanic accent. The First Officer screamed as he spoke.

"Hello, Chakotay.....My name is Hauser."