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<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: erran's Dinner</h3> | |||
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by Joseph Baker 2-4-1996</h4> | |||
SD: 80205.0026<br> | |||
Scene: Ensign Jerran's Quarters<br> | |||
Jerran laughed as he set his glass down on the coffee table and said to | |||
Ensign Jennifer Cartwright, "You can't be serious!" | |||
She smiled at him and said, "I am serious! I think that the Constitution | |||
Refit class was the best ship to come out of the 23rd century, even | |||
better than the Excelsior class." | |||
Jerran leaned back on the chair he was sitting in and said, "I must admit | |||
that the Excelsior did have some glaring flaws when it first came out..." | |||
"Like the whole idea of transwarp drive," Cartwright interrupted with a | |||
smile. | |||
He smiled and nodded saying, "Yes, like transwarp drive. But, a lot of | |||
useful concepts came out of transwarp drive that are still in use today. | |||
By the Prophets, if it wasn't for transwarp drive, we probably wouldn't | |||
have the D-Drive nowadays." | |||
She chuckled and said, "It was still a flop. The constitution was a much | |||
better ship." | |||
"Yes, the Excelsior was a flop, and so were a few other ships which came | |||
after her, but once they refitted the Excelsior design and built the | |||
Enterprise-B, those problems were all fixed." | |||
"Yeah," said Cartwright, "Like the pitifully slow impulse engines the | |||
Excelsior had." | |||
"And then they added the extra set of impulse engines on the saucer | |||
section, increasing the performance by a hundred and fifty percent," | |||
Jerran said as he took their plates over to the disposal unit. | |||
While he was doing that, Jennifer got up and walked over to the small | |||
table where the Romulan freighter model was sitting. "What's this, | |||
Terri? I don't think I've ever seen one like it before." | |||
He smiled and walked over to stand beside her. "Ah, now. This is from a | |||
Romulan legend that I heard once. It's a Vas Ocalam class freighter | |||
named the Ja'telaih. | |||
"About a hundred and twenty years ago, it was supposed to have been the | |||
flagship of the Rihannsu Ael'Arrhai, the Romulan Merchant Fleet. Legend | |||
has it that her captain, Stefanh tr'Khnialmnae, disappeared for a short time | |||
during an internal struggle the Empire was having in which its Praetor | |||
was almost assassinated. No one really knows what his involvement was in | |||
the conspiracy, but shortly after this event, he returned to his ship | |||
rather the worse for wear, as the legend goes, and he and his crew went | |||
off into the frontier systems between Romulan and Federation territory, | |||
but not before making a quick stop to one of the other Romulan worlds to | |||
pick up his wife." | |||
Cartwright was intrigued and said, "What happened after that?" | |||
"Well, Stefanh and his crew were being hunted by the Romulan navy by | |||
then, and they had to find a way to survive and keep the ship in top | |||
condition, so they resorted to piracy. The Ja'telaih became one of the | |||
most infamous pirate ships of the 23rd and 24th centuries." | |||
"Well, what happened to the Ja'telaih and her crew?" | |||
"No one really knows," Jerran said. "There have been no solid reports of | |||
its destruction. But, there have been a few acts of piracy which have | |||
happened off and on over the past century which have been attributed to | |||
the Ja'telaih. As for Captain Stefanh, legend says that he lives still | |||
today." | |||
"That would make him how old, though?" | |||
"Around 150, I'd guess. He was only 30 when he got the captain's chair of | |||
the Ja'telaih, which is a very young age for both Romulans and Vulcans. | |||
It's not uncommon for those in either species to live to upwards of 190 | |||
years old." | |||
"So he could still be alive?" she said wide eyed. | |||
"Yes, it's not entirely inconcievable. But, of course, most of the | |||
stories are just legend, and even though they may be based in some truth, | |||
it doesn't necessarily mean that it is all truth. Like for instance, one | |||
of the rumors I heard once said that it was the Ja'telaih which destroyed | |||
the Klingon outpost on Narendra III, the same outpost where the | |||
Enterprise-C was destroyed. That seems highly unlikely seeing as though | |||
most legitimate accounts say that it was a trio of Romulan warbirds which | |||
took out the colony." | |||
Jennifer smiled at him and said, "That's an amazing story, Terri. Where'd | |||
you hear it from?" | |||
"Over the computer nets. Being the son of a Vulcan ambassador allows me | |||
access to some of the more interesting areas," he said with a smile. | |||
He glanced over at her and noticed that as he had been talking, she had | |||
been moving ever closer to him. They were almost touching by this time | |||
when he turned quickly and walked swiftly to the door. | |||
She was startled by his swift movement and said, "Is there something | |||
wrong, Terri?" moving over towards the door. | |||
"Oh, nothing's wrong," he said, opening the door for her. "It's just | |||
that it is getting awfully late, and I'm sure we both have duties to | |||
perform early tomorrow morning. The new parts for the NOGURA are supposed | |||
to be coming in from EPSILON, and I want to get on completing the repairs | |||
right away." | |||
She nodded to him and said, trying hard to hide her disappointment, "Oh, | |||
I see. I guess I'll let you get some rest. See you in the morning, then?" | |||
He smiled, trying to hide his embarrasment and said, "Yes, I'm sure of | |||
it. Bright and early in the main shuttlebay." | |||
She nodded and walked off, not hearring Jerran's sigh of relief as the | |||
door to his quarters closed. | |||
Respectfully Submitted,<br> | |||
Ensign Jerran Terel<br> | |||
aka Joseph Baker<br> | |||
jobaker@chuma.cas.usf.edu<br> | |||
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* Daisemi'in rhhaensuriuu * Of the chief parts of the Ruling * | |||
* meillunsiateve * Passion, only this can be truly * | |||
* rh'e Mnhei'sahe yie ahr'en: * said: * | |||
* Mnahe afw'ein quii; * Hate has a reason for everything, * | |||
* rh'e hweithnaef * But love is unreasonable. * | |||
* mrht Hes'he ehl'ein quii. * | |||
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* Joseph W. Baker * | |||
* Physics Major, College of Arts and Sciences * | |||
* University of South Florida * | |||
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