Okay, I don't own Enterprise or anything written by Paramount, through I wouldn't mind some shares of their stock. The only thing I own is the character Kylin Moore and a '94 Buick Regal.
Recap: The ship has had first contact with the planet Calveria. The ruling class has expressed interest in the transpotter that the crew uses. The captain has told them no. When they returned back to the ship, Kylin was arrested and so lets rejoin them.
Chap 8
Kylin stared in disbelief as her various crewman went through her things.
"What is your evidence," Kylin asked Archer as her things were being flung around.
"There was an unauthorized transmission made from the shuttlebay with your access code. Lt. Reed is going have talk with you right now. Malcolm," Archer said.
Reed came over and took Kylin's arm, "Dr. Moore, we're going to have a chat right now in the ready room", Malcolm said.
Stunned, Kylin didn't protested and they left the room. ARcher watched as they left the room and he went to Engineering. Trip was working by a console. "Trip I need to talk to you for a minute."
"Sure Captain, whats up", Trip asked.
"In private," Archer said, gestured to Trip's office.
Trip seeing how serious the captain was nodded and they went inside. Archer pushed a button and the door closed. "I've arrested Kylin Moore, Trip."
He put down the scematics Ensign Chang had given him on his desk and took a deep breath. "How come,"Trip asked, obviously in shock.
"Hoshi found an encrypted transmission that came from the shuttle bay after we came back. Her code was used to access it. The tranmission had the plans for the transporter on them. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this," Archer put his hand on Trip's shoulder.
"There has to be a mistake," Trip said, "I know Kylin, Captain, she has been working a long time to get where she is, she wouldn't do something this stupid and get leave herself out to get caught."
"Trip, I'll admit, I didn't want her on board, but we checked. I understand you have been spending time with her," Archer asked, Trip blushed slightly, given the captain his answer, "How close have are you two?"
"We were getting pretty close," Trip admitted, wondering if this had clouded his judgement, after all he was pretty clueless when it came to the opposite sex.
"Did you walk her back to her quarters, after we landed," Archer asked.
Trip shook his head. "I had to get back to world, I wanted to make sure all the engines were at peak efficiency if we needed."
"The rest of us were on the bridge afterwards," Archer said, "Do you know how she could have gotten the plans for the transporter."
Trip thought back to the tour he had give her the previous evening. He had showed her everything. Kylin was pretty bright. Once he had show her how to use the screens, she had picked it up had scrolled through them herself. At the time he didn't think anything about it but in theory she could have going through anything. Then just this afternoon they had been in the library. She could have download anything into that device. Her brother was engineer, so she have had more layman's knowledge then they experience. After all no one had bother to check her personnel file prior to her boarding.
"Captain, I gave her a tour last night in Engineering. Her brother is an engineer, she may know something we don't. She was also using her padd at the library earlier."
The two men looked at each other. "I think we found our connection," Archer said, miserably, "Lets go talk her, you might get something out of her."
Meanwhile, Kylin was sitting in the Ready Room being interrorgated by Malcolm. "For the last time, I went back to my quarters after dinner, Lt Reed," she said, she couldn't remember feeling so frustated.
"According to your quarters records, you took 20 minutes to return your quarters, thats rather extreme don't you think" Malcolm told her, the sarcasm thick in his voice.
"I went to mess hall for a cup of tea," she said ready to bang her head on the table.
"We found a number of correspondence chips in that jewlery box of yours, care to save us a lot of work and just tell us the truth," Reed said.
"Since when is it a crime to save personal letters," she retorted.
The doors open and Archer and Trip walked through. At first Kylin was relieve to see Trip but got a look of his eyes and retracted that feeling.
"Lt. Reed, let Com. Tucker talk to Dr. Moore, he might have some insight," Archer the armory officer.
Both men left the room and left the two of them alone. "Just tell me the truth Kylin, did you do it," Trip demanded, crossing his arms.
She looked at him, not believing this was the same man she had seen several hours before. "Just as I have told everyone else this evening, I had no knowledge this until my arrest," Kylin said turning her back on him, visibly hurt.
"Kylin you don't have an aliby and your code was used to transfer the data stream. You have a ton of mail in that weird box. You've been to Engineering, the library, and interface with the computer with a device you had custom made by your brother. If you did something you better come clean," Trip shouted.
Kylin looked at him and her eyes changed, they became very hard and she did the oddest thing, she walked past him in a very dignified matter and pressed the intercom. "Capt. Archer, Lt. Reed, Subcommander T'Pol please come out your hiding places right now I have something to say."
The doors opeend and they came in. Kylin took a seat on the table and looked at the small group in front of her. "Thank you for convicting me on circumstancal evidence. Now remember this, I am a lawyer and I am citizen of Earth. I am not a member of Starfleet of any military group, so I get the right to call someone. Have my superiors been notified of this," she asked.
"Starfleet has been notified," Archer informed her, "They gave us permission to preceded-"
"As you see fit, thats nice, I'm a member of F.I.P.C, I demand to speak to my boss Cal Ishira right now," Kylin said, "I can leave a watchdog here and notify me when Hoshi has a link opened to him. By the way, Captain, interrogations are illegal for civilians unless the option of counsel has been offered." With that she got up and turned her back on them.
When she heard the door close, she turned around she saw that they had left her alone. She noticed a camera had been turned on and was following her. She fought the urge to give it the finger.
Fifteen minutes later, Malcolm and got her. "Your channel is opened," he said reaching for her arm.
Kylin pushed his arm off and went to the captain's office. Archer, Trip and T'Pol were there. Ignoring them with her best poker face she when to the stationa and sat down.
Cal Ishira's face looked at her, obviously not please. Kylin did the math and realized it was 0300 for him. There were two Starfleet personnel and a member of the high counsel behind him.
"Kylin, I didn't expect to see you so soon," he said.
"Neither did I Cal, I'm sorry about the time," she said.
"Don't worry, I'm glad you called, I coming out to meet you. The Vulcans are going to take me to you. I should be there in 3 days," Cal said.
"I didn't do this Cal," Kylin starting to feel her eyes tear up a bit. This man had be a second father to her.
"I know," he said.
Determine not to break down and get these people the satification, she said, "Whats going to happen?"
"I've spoken with the officals, we just going to have you transfer out. Make it look like a conflict of interest," Cal told her.
"Will this be erased off my record," she said confused.
"No, but we trump it down," he said.
"Cal I didn't do this, this isn't right. I can live with the transfer, but not lie on my record," Kylin told him, getting more upset.
"Kylin this evidence is circumstance and probably would be dismissed in civilian court, but this is military. This happened on a Starfleet vessel, it would be a military court. You could do serious jail time, lose your career. At least this way you still have a career. Lets talk about this when I get here. Ishira out," Cal replied and the screen when black.
Kylin couldn't believe this was happening. She knew even if took this deal, her career would be permanently damaged. "Looks like you're getting your wish Captain," she said getting up.
"And you getting off easy, for this," Archer replied. Looking around the room she saw that opinion being echoed in everyone's eyes.
She started to laugh, a short bitter laugh echoing the shattered dreams in her head. "You know what, Kylin said, "All of you can go and self fornicate somewhere." (Sorry, I got off The Practice and I had to use that) Kylin pushed the button and told the guard out she was going back to her quarters. The crewman looked Archer and he nodded.
The senior officers looked at each other. They were still a little shocked about what Kylin had said. "Do you think she did it," Archer asked his crew.
T'Pol said, "Its logical, all evidences points to her"
Malcolm, "I agree with the Subcommander."
Archer nodded, "Trip?"
Trip shook his head, "I don't think she did."
"Why is that?" Archer asked.
"She's a lawyer, Captain, she knows the rules and regulations of a Starfleet maxium security prisons and the prison terms. They gave her a perfect out, to get without jail time and go into her merry way with any money she made off this venture. She didn't want it. If fact it looked like she was about to cry," Trip told them, "Can I see the evidence again?"
Malcolm handed him the padd. Trip thought had looked odd earlier, but he was too upset to be sure. "Look right here, this was her code alright, but her one time access code," Trip said, pointing out the difference to everyone, "Every crew member gets one."
"I know, but couldn't she have kept hers?" Malcolm asked.
"Yes, but I walked back with her last night, she had changed it already." Trip told him.
The four of them looked at each other. "Starfleet wanted an ambassador to help smooth transitions between humans and other specices. They only thing was that they wanted military and the Vulcans wanted someone to control. The F.I.P.C was used for middle ground. We know that a lot of factions, Vulcan & Human don't want a civilain in power or humans in space," Trip said, "Kylin helped with this species."
Archer knew Trip was right. The reason why he wanted it to be Kylin was because otherwise it had to be someone in his crew. "Malcolm look into everyone's record, but keep as if we are investigating Kylin, Trip go talk to her."
"I don't think she'll do that," Trip said ashamed of his earlier behavior.
"I know but you are the only one who bonded with her, if she is going to listen to anyone, its you," Archer told him.
Trip nodded and left. "T'Pol want do yo think," Archer asked.
If a Vulcan could been ashame, that would have been her. "I believe we allow our beliefs to get the better of us." she said.
Kylin was in her quarters wondering what to do next. She started putting things away, the crew had made a mess. She started to cry all the tears she had been holding back since her arrest. Grabbing a tissue, she got ahold of herself. Kylin realized if she allowed this happen she would be kissing her career goodbye. If anything, she wouldn't give it up. She went to the bathroom to throw them away. By the trash can she noticed a vent.
"Oh what else do I have to do," she muttered to herself and took her scissors out and unscrewed the panel. It looked big enough to through. Her heart started to race. She ran to her bed and put her arm under mattress and pulled out a picture box that the crew had missed. She pulled out another padd and slid into pants pocket and zipped it up. Kylin knew that the two decks down were the transporter. Her brother had helped design them, she knew how to work them in theory. She slid into the passage. Not the most comfortable thing but it would work. Her only hope was going to the surface and seeing who had taken the plans.
Just has she got through the panel, Tucker came to quarters. "Kylin," he called entering the quarters, expecting something to be thrown at him. Not getting an answer, he started looking around, trying to ignore the mess the crew had left. He knocked at the bathroom and looked in. The panel was detached. "Oh crap," he said,"Tucker to Archer, she's gone."
ARcher looked at Malcolm, "I'm on it sir," he said.
"Captain, someone just entered the transpotter room by the ceiling," T'Pol said.
Kylin dropped to the floor. Years of being a dancer paid off, she thought, looking at the transpotter and trying to forget the stories of tangled limbs she had heard. She programmed the thing and on the pad. She dematerialized just as Malcolm and a security team entered.
tbc
I promised the the final part next time :) Thanks for being patient.
Recap: The ship has had first contact with the planet Calveria. The ruling class has expressed interest in the transpotter that the crew uses. The captain has told them no. When they returned back to the ship, Kylin was arrested and so lets rejoin them.
Chap 8
Kylin stared in disbelief as her various crewman went through her things.
"What is your evidence," Kylin asked Archer as her things were being flung around.
"There was an unauthorized transmission made from the shuttlebay with your access code. Lt. Reed is going have talk with you right now. Malcolm," Archer said.
Reed came over and took Kylin's arm, "Dr. Moore, we're going to have a chat right now in the ready room", Malcolm said.
Stunned, Kylin didn't protested and they left the room. ARcher watched as they left the room and he went to Engineering. Trip was working by a console. "Trip I need to talk to you for a minute."
"Sure Captain, whats up", Trip asked.
"In private," Archer said, gestured to Trip's office.
Trip seeing how serious the captain was nodded and they went inside. Archer pushed a button and the door closed. "I've arrested Kylin Moore, Trip."
He put down the scematics Ensign Chang had given him on his desk and took a deep breath. "How come,"Trip asked, obviously in shock.
"Hoshi found an encrypted transmission that came from the shuttle bay after we came back. Her code was used to access it. The tranmission had the plans for the transporter on them. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this," Archer put his hand on Trip's shoulder.
"There has to be a mistake," Trip said, "I know Kylin, Captain, she has been working a long time to get where she is, she wouldn't do something this stupid and get leave herself out to get caught."
"Trip, I'll admit, I didn't want her on board, but we checked. I understand you have been spending time with her," Archer asked, Trip blushed slightly, given the captain his answer, "How close have are you two?"
"We were getting pretty close," Trip admitted, wondering if this had clouded his judgement, after all he was pretty clueless when it came to the opposite sex.
"Did you walk her back to her quarters, after we landed," Archer asked.
Trip shook his head. "I had to get back to world, I wanted to make sure all the engines were at peak efficiency if we needed."
"The rest of us were on the bridge afterwards," Archer said, "Do you know how she could have gotten the plans for the transporter."
Trip thought back to the tour he had give her the previous evening. He had showed her everything. Kylin was pretty bright. Once he had show her how to use the screens, she had picked it up had scrolled through them herself. At the time he didn't think anything about it but in theory she could have going through anything. Then just this afternoon they had been in the library. She could have download anything into that device. Her brother was engineer, so she have had more layman's knowledge then they experience. After all no one had bother to check her personnel file prior to her boarding.
"Captain, I gave her a tour last night in Engineering. Her brother is an engineer, she may know something we don't. She was also using her padd at the library earlier."
The two men looked at each other. "I think we found our connection," Archer said, miserably, "Lets go talk her, you might get something out of her."
Meanwhile, Kylin was sitting in the Ready Room being interrorgated by Malcolm. "For the last time, I went back to my quarters after dinner, Lt Reed," she said, she couldn't remember feeling so frustated.
"According to your quarters records, you took 20 minutes to return your quarters, thats rather extreme don't you think" Malcolm told her, the sarcasm thick in his voice.
"I went to mess hall for a cup of tea," she said ready to bang her head on the table.
"We found a number of correspondence chips in that jewlery box of yours, care to save us a lot of work and just tell us the truth," Reed said.
"Since when is it a crime to save personal letters," she retorted.
The doors open and Archer and Trip walked through. At first Kylin was relieve to see Trip but got a look of his eyes and retracted that feeling.
"Lt. Reed, let Com. Tucker talk to Dr. Moore, he might have some insight," Archer the armory officer.
Both men left the room and left the two of them alone. "Just tell me the truth Kylin, did you do it," Trip demanded, crossing his arms.
She looked at him, not believing this was the same man she had seen several hours before. "Just as I have told everyone else this evening, I had no knowledge this until my arrest," Kylin said turning her back on him, visibly hurt.
"Kylin you don't have an aliby and your code was used to transfer the data stream. You have a ton of mail in that weird box. You've been to Engineering, the library, and interface with the computer with a device you had custom made by your brother. If you did something you better come clean," Trip shouted.
Kylin looked at him and her eyes changed, they became very hard and she did the oddest thing, she walked past him in a very dignified matter and pressed the intercom. "Capt. Archer, Lt. Reed, Subcommander T'Pol please come out your hiding places right now I have something to say."
The doors opeend and they came in. Kylin took a seat on the table and looked at the small group in front of her. "Thank you for convicting me on circumstancal evidence. Now remember this, I am a lawyer and I am citizen of Earth. I am not a member of Starfleet of any military group, so I get the right to call someone. Have my superiors been notified of this," she asked.
"Starfleet has been notified," Archer informed her, "They gave us permission to preceded-"
"As you see fit, thats nice, I'm a member of F.I.P.C, I demand to speak to my boss Cal Ishira right now," Kylin said, "I can leave a watchdog here and notify me when Hoshi has a link opened to him. By the way, Captain, interrogations are illegal for civilians unless the option of counsel has been offered." With that she got up and turned her back on them.
When she heard the door close, she turned around she saw that they had left her alone. She noticed a camera had been turned on and was following her. She fought the urge to give it the finger.
Fifteen minutes later, Malcolm and got her. "Your channel is opened," he said reaching for her arm.
Kylin pushed his arm off and went to the captain's office. Archer, Trip and T'Pol were there. Ignoring them with her best poker face she when to the stationa and sat down.
Cal Ishira's face looked at her, obviously not please. Kylin did the math and realized it was 0300 for him. There were two Starfleet personnel and a member of the high counsel behind him.
"Kylin, I didn't expect to see you so soon," he said.
"Neither did I Cal, I'm sorry about the time," she said.
"Don't worry, I'm glad you called, I coming out to meet you. The Vulcans are going to take me to you. I should be there in 3 days," Cal said.
"I didn't do this Cal," Kylin starting to feel her eyes tear up a bit. This man had be a second father to her.
"I know," he said.
Determine not to break down and get these people the satification, she said, "Whats going to happen?"
"I've spoken with the officals, we just going to have you transfer out. Make it look like a conflict of interest," Cal told her.
"Will this be erased off my record," she said confused.
"No, but we trump it down," he said.
"Cal I didn't do this, this isn't right. I can live with the transfer, but not lie on my record," Kylin told him, getting more upset.
"Kylin this evidence is circumstance and probably would be dismissed in civilian court, but this is military. This happened on a Starfleet vessel, it would be a military court. You could do serious jail time, lose your career. At least this way you still have a career. Lets talk about this when I get here. Ishira out," Cal replied and the screen when black.
Kylin couldn't believe this was happening. She knew even if took this deal, her career would be permanently damaged. "Looks like you're getting your wish Captain," she said getting up.
"And you getting off easy, for this," Archer replied. Looking around the room she saw that opinion being echoed in everyone's eyes.
She started to laugh, a short bitter laugh echoing the shattered dreams in her head. "You know what, Kylin said, "All of you can go and self fornicate somewhere." (Sorry, I got off The Practice and I had to use that) Kylin pushed the button and told the guard out she was going back to her quarters. The crewman looked Archer and he nodded.
The senior officers looked at each other. They were still a little shocked about what Kylin had said. "Do you think she did it," Archer asked his crew.
T'Pol said, "Its logical, all evidences points to her"
Malcolm, "I agree with the Subcommander."
Archer nodded, "Trip?"
Trip shook his head, "I don't think she did."
"Why is that?" Archer asked.
"She's a lawyer, Captain, she knows the rules and regulations of a Starfleet maxium security prisons and the prison terms. They gave her a perfect out, to get without jail time and go into her merry way with any money she made off this venture. She didn't want it. If fact it looked like she was about to cry," Trip told them, "Can I see the evidence again?"
Malcolm handed him the padd. Trip thought had looked odd earlier, but he was too upset to be sure. "Look right here, this was her code alright, but her one time access code," Trip said, pointing out the difference to everyone, "Every crew member gets one."
"I know, but couldn't she have kept hers?" Malcolm asked.
"Yes, but I walked back with her last night, she had changed it already." Trip told him.
The four of them looked at each other. "Starfleet wanted an ambassador to help smooth transitions between humans and other specices. They only thing was that they wanted military and the Vulcans wanted someone to control. The F.I.P.C was used for middle ground. We know that a lot of factions, Vulcan & Human don't want a civilain in power or humans in space," Trip said, "Kylin helped with this species."
Archer knew Trip was right. The reason why he wanted it to be Kylin was because otherwise it had to be someone in his crew. "Malcolm look into everyone's record, but keep as if we are investigating Kylin, Trip go talk to her."
"I don't think she'll do that," Trip said ashamed of his earlier behavior.
"I know but you are the only one who bonded with her, if she is going to listen to anyone, its you," Archer told him.
Trip nodded and left. "T'Pol want do yo think," Archer asked.
If a Vulcan could been ashame, that would have been her. "I believe we allow our beliefs to get the better of us." she said.
Kylin was in her quarters wondering what to do next. She started putting things away, the crew had made a mess. She started to cry all the tears she had been holding back since her arrest. Grabbing a tissue, she got ahold of herself. Kylin realized if she allowed this happen she would be kissing her career goodbye. If anything, she wouldn't give it up. She went to the bathroom to throw them away. By the trash can she noticed a vent.
"Oh what else do I have to do," she muttered to herself and took her scissors out and unscrewed the panel. It looked big enough to through. Her heart started to race. She ran to her bed and put her arm under mattress and pulled out a picture box that the crew had missed. She pulled out another padd and slid into pants pocket and zipped it up. Kylin knew that the two decks down were the transporter. Her brother had helped design them, she knew how to work them in theory. She slid into the passage. Not the most comfortable thing but it would work. Her only hope was going to the surface and seeing who had taken the plans.
Just has she got through the panel, Tucker came to quarters. "Kylin," he called entering the quarters, expecting something to be thrown at him. Not getting an answer, he started looking around, trying to ignore the mess the crew had left. He knocked at the bathroom and looked in. The panel was detached. "Oh crap," he said,"Tucker to Archer, she's gone."
ARcher looked at Malcolm, "I'm on it sir," he said.
"Captain, someone just entered the transpotter room by the ceiling," T'Pol said.
Kylin dropped to the floor. Years of being a dancer paid off, she thought, looking at the transpotter and trying to forget the stories of tangled limbs she had heard. She programmed the thing and on the pad. She dematerialized just as Malcolm and a security team entered.
tbc
I promised the the final part next time :) Thanks for being patient.