Ok here comes chapter four, are ya ready?
"As you are all doubtless already aware, we have some very unusual visitors with us down in sickbay." Janeway started. "How about an update on their condition Mr. Paris, since the doctor wasn't able to leave them unattended."
"They're recovering. It might be another couple of days before they are completely healed. The doctor is keeping them sedated in the meantime."
"Alright then I would like to have an explanation and at least a start of a solution by the time these people wake up." She let her eyes scan over those seated around the table. If anyone could be expected to accomplish the impossible it would be this crew. They had done it countless times before, what was one more problem.
"We did a check on the planet they mentioned." Chakotay broke in to her thoughts. "There seems to be no record of them going to the surface of the planet, though Captain Archer did place a warning buoy in the system. It was later removed by Starfleet command, and surprisingly, even though it is now open to trade, not even a Faragi ship has approached it."
"I reviewed the information in the Vulcan databases, the planet was not even listed among the known inhabited world. And there is no record of a Vulcan ship ever landing there." Tuvok supplied.
"Well that's odd, how is it then that they claim to have gone there?" Torres asked.
Janeway held her hand up to be allowed to think. "What we know for sure is that these people are who they claim to be. The DNA testing was conclusive. As for their last mission, we are going to have to fill in the blanks as best we can. Ensign Sato said that there was a temporal disturbance not unlike a tear in space-time; located at the bottom of the ravine they fell in to. She also mentioned the intention of the locals to have a sacrifice on that very presupis and that it was an annual acurance. From this we need to fill in what happened down there. And then we need to build a working hypothesis on how to get these people home. The last thing we need is for there presence her to change our past."
"Great more paradoxes." Harry Kim muttered under his breath.
"We should be good at this by now." Paris said in answer to him friend, with a sarcastic smile.
"Chakotay, I want you and seven to work in astrometrics and gain all the information the database has about this planet and its geology and anything it may have on the inhabitants."
Chakotay nodded.
"Mr. Kim I would like you to gather every thing we have about time distortions."
"Yes mame."
"Mr. Paris, you and B'elanna are going to find out everything about these people, prior to the accident only."
"Ok, we're on it."
"Good, and as soon as they wake up I'm going to enlist the help of our friends. This is a dangerous puzzle people; we need to tread with caution. Make sure that when, and I mean when, these people go back, they don't take with them knowledge they shouldn't have." She waited to receive nodes from all those around the table. "Dismissed."
Hoshi woke with the vague knowledge of were she was. When she opened her eyes that knowledge was confirmed. It was the same strange sickbay she had hoped had been a dream. She saw Trip and Malcolm still asleep on the beds across the room, their readings silently registering on a screen.
She was about to try and get up and go to them, when the doctor came out of the adjacent room.
"Ah Ms.Sato, your awake."
"Very much so." She answered rubbing her forehead absently to rid her self of the shadow of a headache that still remained.
"Well lets see what we can do about that shall we." He said advancing on her with a weird looking hypo.
"No really I would prefer to stay awake thank you." She scooted to the edge of the bed away from him.
"It really would be easier for you to be sedated. You will be fully recovered before you know it." He had a large smile plastered on his face as he continued to come nearer.
"I'm sure it would be fine, but I just really want to stay awake."
"It is Captains orders."
"Not my Captain."
"Look the lady said no pal." Trip said from behind as he grabbed the doctor by the arm to stop his progress. He had come awake in the middle of the conversation and didn't like the way it was progressing.
"Listen I know this is hard for all of you, and I understand you apprehension, but it really is for your own protection."
"We don't need that kind of protection." Malcolm said, he came around them to stand in front of Hoshi who had climbed off the biobed.
"We need their help to get back." Hoshi said coming to stand next to Malcolm.
"Yes but its hard for us to know what their doing when they keep us unconscious the whole time." Malcolm stated.
"I agree, we cant even be sure what they say is true. How do we know we've been hurled in to the future?" Trip pulled the doctor out of the way of the other two so they could make it to the door.
"I assure you we haven't lied, but we are as much surprised by your presence here as you are to be here." The doctor could feel the situation quickly backpedaling out of his grasp. He watched as the first two made it out the door and in to the hall, pausing to wait for their shipmate. No this was not good at all.
"Tell your captain, we'll be around." Trip said as he released the doctor and ran through the door after the other two.
"Are we sure that was the wisest move?" Hoshi asked as they wandered the strange corridors avoiding the other people by occasionally ducking in to a side door.
"Its better then being unconscious and unaware." Trip answered.
"We need a plan of action though. If they have internal sensors it's only a matter of time before they send someone to drag us back to sickbay." Malcolm said, looking back in to the corridor to make sure they weren't already on their way.
"If I could get to an access port I might be able to figure out how to disable their sensors. That should be our first priority. And then if we could get to engineering I may be able to get some idea of were we are from a panel in there."
"Great now we just have to find these things." Said Hoshi, not to optimistically.
Just them the deck below them shifted. They knew this feeling it meant the ship had hit something, or something had hit it. To confirm their suspicions, the red flashing lights and alert klaxon echoed through the corridor.
"This should be interesting." Malcolm commented sarcastically.
*Now I have to work on part five, shesh…it never ends : )
"As you are all doubtless already aware, we have some very unusual visitors with us down in sickbay." Janeway started. "How about an update on their condition Mr. Paris, since the doctor wasn't able to leave them unattended."
"They're recovering. It might be another couple of days before they are completely healed. The doctor is keeping them sedated in the meantime."
"Alright then I would like to have an explanation and at least a start of a solution by the time these people wake up." She let her eyes scan over those seated around the table. If anyone could be expected to accomplish the impossible it would be this crew. They had done it countless times before, what was one more problem.
"We did a check on the planet they mentioned." Chakotay broke in to her thoughts. "There seems to be no record of them going to the surface of the planet, though Captain Archer did place a warning buoy in the system. It was later removed by Starfleet command, and surprisingly, even though it is now open to trade, not even a Faragi ship has approached it."
"I reviewed the information in the Vulcan databases, the planet was not even listed among the known inhabited world. And there is no record of a Vulcan ship ever landing there." Tuvok supplied.
"Well that's odd, how is it then that they claim to have gone there?" Torres asked.
Janeway held her hand up to be allowed to think. "What we know for sure is that these people are who they claim to be. The DNA testing was conclusive. As for their last mission, we are going to have to fill in the blanks as best we can. Ensign Sato said that there was a temporal disturbance not unlike a tear in space-time; located at the bottom of the ravine they fell in to. She also mentioned the intention of the locals to have a sacrifice on that very presupis and that it was an annual acurance. From this we need to fill in what happened down there. And then we need to build a working hypothesis on how to get these people home. The last thing we need is for there presence her to change our past."
"Great more paradoxes." Harry Kim muttered under his breath.
"We should be good at this by now." Paris said in answer to him friend, with a sarcastic smile.
"Chakotay, I want you and seven to work in astrometrics and gain all the information the database has about this planet and its geology and anything it may have on the inhabitants."
Chakotay nodded.
"Mr. Kim I would like you to gather every thing we have about time distortions."
"Yes mame."
"Mr. Paris, you and B'elanna are going to find out everything about these people, prior to the accident only."
"Ok, we're on it."
"Good, and as soon as they wake up I'm going to enlist the help of our friends. This is a dangerous puzzle people; we need to tread with caution. Make sure that when, and I mean when, these people go back, they don't take with them knowledge they shouldn't have." She waited to receive nodes from all those around the table. "Dismissed."
Hoshi woke with the vague knowledge of were she was. When she opened her eyes that knowledge was confirmed. It was the same strange sickbay she had hoped had been a dream. She saw Trip and Malcolm still asleep on the beds across the room, their readings silently registering on a screen.
She was about to try and get up and go to them, when the doctor came out of the adjacent room.
"Ah Ms.Sato, your awake."
"Very much so." She answered rubbing her forehead absently to rid her self of the shadow of a headache that still remained.
"Well lets see what we can do about that shall we." He said advancing on her with a weird looking hypo.
"No really I would prefer to stay awake thank you." She scooted to the edge of the bed away from him.
"It really would be easier for you to be sedated. You will be fully recovered before you know it." He had a large smile plastered on his face as he continued to come nearer.
"I'm sure it would be fine, but I just really want to stay awake."
"It is Captains orders."
"Not my Captain."
"Look the lady said no pal." Trip said from behind as he grabbed the doctor by the arm to stop his progress. He had come awake in the middle of the conversation and didn't like the way it was progressing.
"Listen I know this is hard for all of you, and I understand you apprehension, but it really is for your own protection."
"We don't need that kind of protection." Malcolm said, he came around them to stand in front of Hoshi who had climbed off the biobed.
"We need their help to get back." Hoshi said coming to stand next to Malcolm.
"Yes but its hard for us to know what their doing when they keep us unconscious the whole time." Malcolm stated.
"I agree, we cant even be sure what they say is true. How do we know we've been hurled in to the future?" Trip pulled the doctor out of the way of the other two so they could make it to the door.
"I assure you we haven't lied, but we are as much surprised by your presence here as you are to be here." The doctor could feel the situation quickly backpedaling out of his grasp. He watched as the first two made it out the door and in to the hall, pausing to wait for their shipmate. No this was not good at all.
"Tell your captain, we'll be around." Trip said as he released the doctor and ran through the door after the other two.
"Are we sure that was the wisest move?" Hoshi asked as they wandered the strange corridors avoiding the other people by occasionally ducking in to a side door.
"Its better then being unconscious and unaware." Trip answered.
"We need a plan of action though. If they have internal sensors it's only a matter of time before they send someone to drag us back to sickbay." Malcolm said, looking back in to the corridor to make sure they weren't already on their way.
"If I could get to an access port I might be able to figure out how to disable their sensors. That should be our first priority. And then if we could get to engineering I may be able to get some idea of were we are from a panel in there."
"Great now we just have to find these things." Said Hoshi, not to optimistically.
Just them the deck below them shifted. They knew this feeling it meant the ship had hit something, or something had hit it. To confirm their suspicions, the red flashing lights and alert klaxon echoed through the corridor.
"This should be interesting." Malcolm commented sarcastically.
*Now I have to work on part five, shesh…it never ends : )