Star Trek: A New Era: A Time of Terror
Chapter 1: Arrival
25 minutes later the Enterprise had arrived at the site of the distress call. The Federation freighter was a mess, with hull breaches all over the place. An anomaly was nearby.
"Are we reading anything on that anomaly?" Captain Walker asked.
"Minor subspace distortions, and the visible light aspect, but nothing else. It is entirely unknown. Also reading fluctuating biosigns on the freighter," Livingstone said.
"Fluctuating? How?" Captain Walker asked.
"In a most strange manner. It could be that the anomaly is interfering with our sensors," Livingstone said. She then thought some more. "It could also be something else though," she continued.
"Can we tractor the freighter away from the anomaly?" the captain asked.
"It is worth trying," Hernandez said. She then input into her panel to activate the tractor beam.
The tractor beam leapt out from the Enterprise to encompasse the freighter. It didn't work that well, the gravitational force of the beam fluctuating wildly. The freighter barely moved from its position, though the beam did impart a rotation to the freighter that wasn't there before. The Enterprise being on an angle to the freighter relative to the anomaly. The further from the anomaly, the better the tractor beam worked.
"Deactivate tractor beam," Captain Walker said, after some thought.
"Deactivating tractor beam," Hernandez said.
With the tractor beam deactivated, the freighter continued to spin, though slower than before...
"We need to send an Away Team," Captain Walker said.
"We were going to send an away team anyway, right?" the first officer, Commander Natima Dacet, asked.
"Absolutely, but I don't like the look of that anomaly. It could be doing anything. We don't know what the interior conditions of the majority of the freighter is like," Captain Walker said.
The first officer waited whilst the captain decided who to send over to the frieghter.
10 minutes later the Away Team met in Transporter Room 2, on deck 4. Dacet was leading the team, with Hernandez, Livingstone, the ship's Chief Counsellor Toren Salz, Chief Engineer Lt. Commander Kenneth Daniels, and Doctor Hallia Lezalia also on the team.
"Energize," Dacet said.
