"We are prepared to drop our shield so you can retrieve Janeway."
"Good," said Braxton. "You 24th century primitives have finally learned some wisdom."
The transmission ended. "He's dropped his shields," I reported.
Riker looked at me. "You're ready to initiate transport as soon as we drop shields?" I nodded. He looked around at Julian and me. We all were armed with a phaser and a tricorder. "Drop shields and initiate transport, then."
Within seconds, we were caught in the transporter effect.
We materialized somewhere in the cargo section of the freighter.
Riker looked at me. "Do you have those scans you need?"
I shook my head. "Most of the devices are temporally phased."
Riker considered it. "Can you realign the tricorder?"
"Not without knowing the temporal variance," I told him.
"And where will be able to find that out?" Julian asked.
Riker looked around. "I don't know how Orion freighters will be built four hundred years from now, but in today's models, that kind of information could only be accessed directly from the engineering computer . . . or the bridge."
"I suggest engineering," I told him.
"Agreed, number one," he told me. "Let's go."