Chapter 7: New Orders.
At ease! Christ said as everyone stood at attention when he entered the ready room. Everryone took a seat. Christ walked around and stood at the head of the table.
First of all I want to convey my pride on your performance during the attack. You;ve all performed well above and beyond the call of duty .. Hell, we were passengers for crying out loud. Christ said out loud.
Now, let s get to the matters at hand. Larek, what s your opinion on the destroyer s condition? He asked. Well sir, it s in shipshape. We ve done absolutely no major damage to it. I don t fully understand how, but they seem to employ some new armour technology as well as some other things I cannot be sure about just now. If we can figure out the controls, it ll fly us anywhere though sir. Larek reported.
Mr. Idamha, how s your assessment of the damage to the Deuzige? Christ asked the engineer of the origional crew. The bridge is gone, That s the most prominent part of it. The other plasma cutter beam hits cutoff one of the nuyscells and part of the soucer section is missing. For a more detailed rapport you d have to wait a month or two. This vessel needs to do one thing, and it needs to do it fast: Get to a shipyard or starbase! the engineer stated without leaving any room for misinterpreting the message. Hmmm. Very well. With how many people, minimum, can you get this vessel to the nearest starbase? Christ answered with a question. Well, if we don t need to make repairs underway and don t run into unexpected visitors we should be able to manage with 25. He replied.
Ezri, how many people do we have available right now? Origional crew and others on board? Christ turned to Ezri. Well, seems like a large portion of the USS Shake s crew was hitchin a ride on this tub. Ezri started her replie In all we have a crew of 438 available She answered.
Okay, Starfleet has ordered the following. The USS Deuzige is to head for the nearest starbase, an Akira class is enroute to supplie escort, The USS Deuzige will do so on an absolute skeleton crew. The rest of it s crew is now assigned to me and to the Destroyer.
He looked around and smiled at the surprised faces. He understood now the pleasure the admiral had had when giving him and his crew the orders.
On the Klingon homeworld there seems to be a political crisis. There are houses, from the region around Donatu and from around Klach D kel Brakt, who feel that the Klingon Empire missed an opertunity to conquer the federation after the dominion war. They feel that the Federation is what stands in the way of the Klingons to rule the Alpha Quadrant. They no longer recognise Mortok as the Chancellor of the high councel.
They are rumoured to have attacked several vessels and stations before us and they seem to be heading straight for Antaris. Wether they have any knowlage of what the Federation is doing there is unknown but we re ordered to find out their intentions and if possible stop them from succeeding.
Again he looked at each of the faces for a few seconds. Amazingly he saw only determination in the faces of the assembled officers. He added Seems we are getting a chance to let the Klingons know how we feel about killing our bridge crews ourselves.
Christ turned his attention to Mimat, the Deuzige s Engineer. Do you think you re up to it? Taking the Deuzige back to Deep Space 5 I mean? he asked him. Well, I ve got some good ensigns and junior officers who were going to be reassigned to command crews who can take bridge duties, If you can spare me a few engineers I ll be allright. The engineer replied.
Very well. Falo, you see to the crew assignments, Ezri, you will take care of the logistics part of this little venture. Make sure we ve got what we need on thatKlingon vessel. I mean quarters, replicators, translator units for anyone who s not up to specs with basic Klingon and so on. All personal belongings of all transferring personall need to be transported to the respective quarters. Nesnaj, I need you to start figuring out the Klingon tactical controls and weopanary. The orders litterly flowed out of his mouth as if Christ was listening to his former captian instead of being the one giving the orders. Christ noticed he found himself asking the same question an awfull lot: What would Cap Deadman have done?
Aerdna, you should get to the destroyer asap and start figuring out the communications on the vessel. I ve allready asked mr. Lalbeohk to assist you in replacing the bridges consoles with lcars displayes and interfaces. They will still be far from standard though so you ll need to familiarise youself with the different controls. He looked up at everyone but that goes for anyone I guess he added.
Lecheim, make sure the injured are all prepped for transport, and set up shop in the destroyer. Being a Klingon vessel, I guess you ll have the hardest job of all, creating an exceptable sickbay on it. He said to the chief medical officer. No problem sir. The chief medical officer of the Deuzige is uninjured and in control at the moment, She will have the injured prepped if they aren t allready., That s why she is not here right now. I allso happen to know the Deuzige carries medical equipment and medications for the Antaris Medical command so we can use them to create our sickbay on the Klingon destroyer. By the way, what is the name of the Destroyer? Lecheim asked.
IKD DivI may Duj would be my choice, but starfleet does not consider this destroyer as being confiscated. We merely borrow it from the Klingon Empire so we ll have to do with the name it has now: IKD Qugh he replied. As he noticed only a few smiles he decided to translate: Imperial Klingon Destroyer Disaster and then he looked at their faces. Then he loughed. Ok people, lets get to it, we ve got some Klingons to catch up to!