The Destiny Series, by April French

April's Shran Fan Fiction

Destiny: A Series

8/27/08: For the absolute ever-lovin' last time, if the story title does not have a link or a date after it, the story HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN YET!!! I'm sorry to sound so sarcastic, but the amount of mail I get about this issue is really staggering. I'm thrilled that so many people want me to continue--I'm working on it, I promise--and I appreciate every bit of feedback and pleading I get, but this little niggling about 'broken links' is getting on my nerves. Thank you all. ~AF

Author's Note

The Long Night of Commander Shran -- Uploaded 7-17-07
~Thoughts and musings of Shran, Commander in the Andorian Imperial Guard and captain of the Kumari, after the incident at P'Jem. (Takes place after "The Andorian Incident.")

Ice-Brook
~Commander Shran takes a shine to his new crewmember, Lieutenant Talas. And she takes more than just a shine to him...

"It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook temper." -- Shakespeare, Othello

The Crippling Fever
~Lieutenant Talas makes an... overture towards her commander. (Takes place some time after "Proving Ground.")

"We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever." -- Adrienne Rich

In Sickness and In Health
~2154: Shran and Talas spend a night together. Not precisely what it sounds like... (Takes place after "Babel One.")

The Blue Wall of Silence
~2155: A transmission from an Andorian lawyer brings to light the trouble that Archer's some-time ally, Commander Shran, is in. But what begins as a simple military investigation turns into an empire-wide debate over what it means to be Andorian.(Takes place after "Terra Prime." Alternate universe from this point on.)

Soldiers of Fortune
~2155: Shran does his best to adjust to life on Enterprise. He tries to keep to himself, but his new crew notices that something is wrong with him. Meanwhile, Captain Archer is having problems of his own. The crew's solution? Sic the two friends on each other and hope for the best.

Destiny
~2156: Military, family, politics and history are once more conspiring against Shran, this time to turn the career soldier into another prop for the figurehead that the Andorian emperor has become, and despite Archer's urging, Shran is going to go through with a marriage that will make him part of the Royal Family and destroy his spirit at the same time. But his legendary claim to old blood will not simply let him fade into the night, and when his bride-to-be is the victim of a vicious attempted murder, Shran finds that he still has battles to fight.

A Cry in the Wilderness
~2156: During an away mission to test an experimental new orbital sensor array, Archer, Trip, and Sarona become trapped on the notorious Andorian moon of Bashraan, the "house of ice and stone" that in six hundred years of space travel, has never once given up its dead. On Enterprise, Shran and Reed refuse to leave their people behind, and on the moon, Archer and Trip have no intentions of dying without a fight. Meanwhile, Sarona is hiding something...

Tower of Babel
~2158: A diplomatic conference on Andoria is disrupted when the Terran embassy is attacked. Hundreds are presumed dead, including Ambassador Shran's two small children, and the planet descends into mourning. But when the rubble is cleared and the bodies claimed, the ambassador's children cannot be located.

Sang Bleu
~It is 2267, but at the Babel Conference to determine the Coridan Emission, the high morals and simple honor of Commander Shran still lives on in his descendent. (Actually an Original Series story.)