The silence of the ship was buffered by the echoes of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, and a low, constant hum of the double engine as it coursed through space. A voice began to sing along with the melody of the song, and led through the empty hallways to a good-sized cockpit. There sat a willowy woman with long raven-black hair which had been twined up into a bundle of many little braids at the nape of her neck.
"Freude, schoener Goetterfunken...Tochter aus Elysium..." Her lilting voice sang the original verses. The control panel blinked and pulsed, as she watched out the window at the vast expanse that was the Omega Quadrant.
