Scenes From Will Riker's War
ST:TNG
https://archiveofourown.org/series/3843319
ST:TNG
https://archiveofourown.org/series/3843319
Quote: An AU that posits a universe where the people running the TNG movies didn't ignore the Dominion War, and didn't insist on trying to maintain the status quo of the series far beyond the point where it made any sense. Not that I'm bitter. *cough*
Goes AU immediately following First Contact. Riker/Troi is threaded throughout, but the main focus is on Riker himself.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg