"Retribution" is a Star Trek: Voyager short story by Lisa Klink. Edited by Jonathan Wilkins, it was published in April 2022 in the subscriber digital supplement to Star Trek: Explorer, Issue 2. It first saw print in the Q and False and Other Stories omnibus in December 2022. The story takes place during a parade for USS Voyager's bridge crew in Kathryn Janeway's hometown of Bloomington, Indiana shortly after their return to Earth in 2378.

Description

The Voyager crew leap into action to stop a saboteur.

References

Characters

Chakotay • the Doctor • Kathryn Janeway • Harry Kim • Tom Paris • Seven of Nine • Sirkan • B'Elanna Torres • Tuvok

Referenced only

Miral

Starships and vehicles

Acheron (Andorian science vessel) • Delta Flyer II

Referenced only

cargo ship • medical transport • USS Voyager

Locations

Earth (Bloomington, Indiana) • Earth Monitoring Station • the galaxy • Mars • Jupiter (Callisto • Europa • Ganymede • Lysithia)

Referenced only

Starfleet Headquarters • Starfleet Medical • Utopia Planitia shipyard • Vulcan

Races and cultures

Andorian • Borg • Human • hologram • Klingon • Vulcan

Referenced only

Romulan

States and organizations

Borg Collective • Borg Task Force • Federation • Maquis • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Command

Science and classification

anesthetic gas • antidote • assimilation • Borg drone • Borg implant • combadge • engine • evasive maneuvers • holo-picture • hypospray • impulse • ion trail • laboratory • medical tricorder • medkit • nacelle • neurolytic pathogen • observatory • PADD • phaser • poison • scanner • sensor • shield generator • shields • stun • subdermal communicator • transporter • transporter pad • warp core • warp drive • weapon

Occupations and titles

captain • chief of police • engineer • first officer • guard • instructor • mayor • pilot

Other references

atmosphere • beam • bridge • captain's chair • cell • crew • evolution • gas • handshake • hour • ion • kilometer • kiss • marriage • medical • moon • orbit • parade • plasma • security • skin • space • subspace

Appendices

Related media

• VOY episode & novelization: Endgame
• VOY novel: Homecoming (novel)

Background

• The short story takes place in 2378 shortly after VOY episode & novelization: Endgame, following Voyager's return to Earth in 2377 and after the former Maquis aboard Voyager were granted amnesty, but prior to Kathryn Janeway's promotion to vice-admiral.
• Analogous events take place in the First Splinter timeline in VOY novel: Homecoming (novel).

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Connections

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Star Trek: Explorer	"Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen" • "In Two Minds"
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Short stories published in magazines
TV21 Weekly	TOS stories	"Gateway to the Future"
Stardate Magazine	TOS stories	"Force of Law" • "The Killax Vendetta" • "Planetfall" • "Coronation Presumptuous" • "Boarding Party" • "Roleplaying in the Final Frontier"
Amazing Stories	TNG stories	"Last Words" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "Bedside Matters"
	VOY stories	"When Push Comes to Shove" • "A Night at Sandrine's" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Star Trek Magazine	STO stories	"Unexpected Honor" • "Shakedown" • "The Gale, Part 1" • "The Gale, Part 2" • "Mirror Image, Part 1" • "Mirror Image, Part 2" • "Chief, Part 1" • "Chief, Part 2" • "Of Chaos and Kal-toh, Part 1" • "Of Chaos and Kal-toh, Part 2" • "Dove" • "Backchannel Negotiations" • "There's No Place Like..." • "Locks Without Keys, Part 1" • "Locks Without Keys, Part 2" • "Hope Remains" • "After the Storm" • "Recruitment Drive" • "Time of the Scotsman" • "An Honorable Frontier"
Star Trek: Explorer	stories	"All That Most Maddens and Torments" • "Q and False" • "A Night In" • "The Offer" • "Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Quality of Life" • "Retribution" • "Broken Oaths" • "The Way to Exile" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Cumulative Damage" • "Explorers of the Storm" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "By Special Request" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "The Guardian" • "The Mission" • "Things Can Only Get Better" • "Frontier Medicine" • "Control" • "The Victim" • "Scramble" • "You Can't Buy Fate" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "Lost and Founder" • "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die" • "See and Seen" • "Work Worth Doing" • "The Trouble with Jones" • "Sundering" • "Academy Acquisition" • "Jack of Diamonds" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "Forewarned and Three-Armed" • "Working Miracles" • "Confirmation Bias" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in" • "Cat and Mouse" • "Housewarming" • "The Sirius Snarl" • "Memoriam" • "The Simulation" • "Chekov's Challenge" • "The Snake and the Worm" • "Freeblade" • "The Needs of the Many"• "Family History" • "In Two Minds" • "My Name is Mudd" • "The Lost Noel" • "Into the Cardassian Quagmire"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Quality of Life	short stories (Star Trek: Explorer)	Next story: Broken Oaths
Previous story: Quality of Life	short stories ("Q and False" and Other Stories)	Next story: Broken Oaths
Previous story: Seven ﹥ Seven Star Trek: Explorer	Voyager short stories	Next story: Kill Captain Proton! Star Trek: Explorer
Previous story: Q and False Star Trek: Explorer	Stories by: Lisa Klink	Next story: Kill Captain Proton! Star Trek: Explorer
chronological order
Previous adventure: Widow's Walk first entry Strange New Worlds VI	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Watching the Clock chapter 16 Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations

Publication history

12 April 2022

First released in Star Trek: Explorer magazine. (Titan Magazines)

20 December 2022

Collected in the Q and False and Other Stories omnibus. (Titan Magazines)