The Best of All Worlds

"The Best of All Worlds" is an alternate universe in which Captain Jean-Luc Picard was promoted to Admiral and reassigned to Starfleet Command after his capture and assimilation by the Borg on stardate 43993.5.

Major highlights include:


 * Captain William T. Riker retains command of the USS Enterprise-D with first, Commander Elizabeth Shelby, and then Commander Benjamin Sisko, and finally Commander Data as his First Officer.
 * Shelby is promoted to Captain and acts as Picard's executive officer on Project: Rebirth, a program dedicated to rebuilding Starfleet as an organization capable of repelling the Borg and retaining its mandate to seek "out new life and new civilizations."


 * Admiral Picard is assigned the Enterprise as his flagship from which he will help rebuild Starfleet after the battle of Wolf 359. This arrangement brings him into direct conflict with First Officer Sisko. Sisko overcomes his hatred for Picard, however, after a recovery mission into the newly discovered wormhole in the Bajor system brings him into contact with the non-linear "wormhole aliens."
 * DS9's Commander, Aaron Cavit, and his science officer, are killed trying to traverse the wormhole.
 * Sisko leaves the Enterprise to take command of starbase Deep Space Nine. He is accompanied by his son, Jake, Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien and O'Brien's wife, Keiko.