TITLE: Things You Don't Expect To find

AUTHOR: Kool-Cat

DISCLAIMER: I felt like taking my imagination for a walk. This is what happened! I don't own anything Star Trek related. Not the character anything! They just came for the ride. ENJOY!

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This turn of events was not and is not expected to happen to a starship. Problems are expected to happen; there are lots of things on this ship that are either prototypes, or just not meant to be used in deep space exploration. That is why we have engineers, and people who are experts on each system. However, it seems that there are too many problems for one day. The workload is enough to have the entire crew working double shifts. Sleep is now a luxury that no one can afford. Repairing the primary systems came first, and now were are working on the non-essential systems. Once we got Life Support and Main Power back, the rush left with a question of 'What happened?'

~ End Captain's Personal Log

Oh god... I don't even know where to begin with this log. There is so much going on and so much that has to be done that this is going to be... long. I do not even know the whole story behind this. Captain Archer, Sub- Commander T'Pol and Commander Tucker are the only ones that understand this the best. Leaving me, Malcolm and Travis the rest of the senior staff to be only given scarce information. The rest of our departments are getting information on a need to know basis. It's working for the time being. Yet you always get those few that are curious and others who's hearts in the right place to know what's going on, but they, I mean I can't tell them anything.
I remember I was so scared when we lost all power! Even the emergency lights gave us nothing. We lost everything even Life Support which to me meant we were going to die. I was... I don't know how to describe it, but I must have been so terribly scared that I... went numb. I can't seem to remember what happened from the outage to when we got Life Support and Main Power. The next thing I do remember is John kneeling beside me; asking if I was OK. Then asking me to begin the repairs on the Communication system. I've been working on it, but I still can't get it working. I'm a communicator/ translator! Not a god damned engineer.

~ End Ensign Sato's Personal Log

Bloody hell! I don't understand why our Captain is so naïve about our situation at hand. The moment the entire ship went dark I hand to agree with him on getting life support and main power back online first, but what I can't and I reiterate I can't understand is why he came to the conclusion that getting the weapon systems online isn't a priority. We have no idea what happened or why it happened. It could just be some glitch in the power, or it might be some alien force that is trying to destroy us! Captain Archer takes things far too easily. He doesn't understand the possible severity of our situation!
If we are to be in a situation that will require the torpedoes or the phase cannons; we will be sitting ducks. I can't stand just waiting for the other systems to be repaired while the best I can do is what little engineering knowledge my armory staff and myself have to repair the damaged components. Further more the rate at which Commander Tucker's staff is working; it might be some time before I can get the weapons online.

~ End Lieutenant Reed's Personal Log

I find it most unsettling that way that these humans react to situations. Our current situation; even if it is most inconvenient, and does pose a challenge to solve; it is most unsettling to see my counterparts acting as if we are going to be unable to repair the damaged components, or that we are going to die. I have great faith in the crew of Enterprise; they have proven themselves countless times in the face of danger. They are "the best that Earth has to offer". I do not doubt in their capabilities; they need to trust each other and work for the common goal. This last day has been most hectic in nature. Of all the days that we have been trying to recover our inoperative systems; another problem exposes itself and there is little being gained each day.

~ End Sub- Commander T'Pol's Personal Log

I don't like thinking' that the Enterprise ain't working right. I got myself so much work that doin' one right after another just makes things damn near impossible. My team is going overtime just tryin' to get life support and main power. God damn that took a long time; I dunno if it was gonna be done in time. The entire ship had about an hour of air before we all suffocate. The once we got those two systems up every department started calling to get systems fixed. I try to help them all, but Cap'n Archer gave me a to do list of what systems are gonna get fixed. That didn't stop a certain British officer from callin' me every hour to check the progress of my crew. He is so annoyin'! I can't get anything done! Sleep sounds good right 'bout now.

~ End Commander Tucker's Personal Log

A/N: My first ever fanfic, and this is just your intro to the story so what do you think? Any review is a good review.