STAR TREK
THE FINAL INVASION
New Orders
Captains Log:After a year aboard the Titan I have fully settled into my role as Captain, and with my beautiful wife Dianna as my First Officer, I couldn't be feeling more confident. For the past three hours we have maintained our position exactly
5000 kilometers outside the nebula's outer reaches. Geordi, an old friend of mine and the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise has been working with my own engineer to find a way to modulate our shields against the radiation deeper in the nebula. So far no success.
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"No, that won't work," Geordi said as Yevak finished explaining her latest idea.
"Why not?" She asked.
"Omicron particles come in two forms, positives and negatives. Both are very dangerous, and both are inside that nebula. This modulation will stop the positives, but the negatives would still be able to slip through," Geordi explained. Yevak
considered that for a moment.
"But then, if we set the shields to a lower freqeuncy that would block the negatives, but then the positives could get in," She observed thoughtfully.
"And setting the shields to a middle frequency would let both in," Geordi added.
A moment of silence passed before Yevak said "This ship has two shield generators, both hooked together to form a single shield. That way if the enemy knocks out one generator, our shields will still be up. Maybe if we deconnected the two
generators we could have two shields around the ship. One to block the negative omicron particles,"
"And the other to block the positive particles, thats good thinking," Geordi finished.
"It'll take a few hours to set it up, but I think we have a solution," Yevak sai with a smile.
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Riker stared at the veiw screen intently, almost like he expected something to happen. Dianna sat in her chair just watching him.
"Your bored," She observed after a moment.
"Yes I am," Riker replied simply.
Suddenly his badge chirped and Yevak's voice came through "Engineering to the captain,"
"Riker here," Riker said.
"Geordi and I have a way to modulate the shields, but we need your permission to deconnect the shield generators from each other," Yevak explained.
Riker was briefly confused, but then realization hit him. "Do it," He said. "Riker out,"
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Picard sat behind his desk in his ready room reading through some old records of past battles. Mainly from Kirk's era. Kirk was still remembered as one of the greatest starfleet captains ever, having saved Earth many times from any number of
threats. It always served as inspiration for Picard, to read of past Enterprises, and it was a great way to kill time.
A chirping sound came from his desk, and a minature veiw screen rose out of it. Picard pressed a sequence of buttons to accept the message, and the face of Admiral Janeway appeared. "Admiral, how good to see you again," Picard
greeted with a friendly smile.
"Good to see you as well Jean Luc," Janeway replied. "Hows your assignment going?'
"We hit a minor drawback, but it should be dealt with soon," Picard replied.
"Good to hear, I have a new assignment for the Enterprise," Janeway informed him.
"Please tell me I'm not going to Romulus," Picard said, remembering the last time Janeway had given him an assignment.
Janeway smiled as she said "Don't worry, its just a simple task. An anomoly of some sort has opened a few lightyears from your current position, I just want you to go see what it is,"
"Very well, I'll get right to it," Picard said.
"Good to hear it, Janeway out," Janeway said, then the veiwscreen went blank.
Picard took a moment to collect his thoughts, then made his way to the bridge. "Hail the Titan," He ordered. B4 quickly pressed a series of bttons, and a moment later Riker appeared on the screen. "Will, I'm afraid were going to have
to leave you for awhile, we just recieved orders to investigate an anomoly," Picard said.
"Understood, are you going to want your Chief Engineer back?" Riker asked.
"He should be fine over there, we should be back within a few hours," Picard replied.
"Well then, I'd hate to delay you," Riker said with a smile.
Picard returned the smile as he said "See you in a bit, Picard out," The veiw screen went blank.
", set a course for the anomoly," Picard ordered.
"Aye sir," Wesely acknowledged as he began typing, and a moment later the Enterprise leapt into warp.