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U.S.S. FEYNMAN NCC-66000
September 1997 Posts

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USS FEYNMAN: Meleah's Input

by Melanie Pocknall 9-1-1997

SD: 90901.0638
>> He paused before continuing. "The gist of it is this. Even though we
>> beat the attacker’s back we did not win the battle, the real battle.
>> Neither did they but they are certainly on the edge of doing so. The
>> whole thing was a diversion for one action. They wanted the DEFENDER
>> to fire on them. They needed the massive amounts of energy that DEFENDER
>> had to trigger their plan. To power a jump back in time." Again the
>> captain paused to let the magnitude sink in. "They have gone back in
>> time to disrupt a trial of a Starfleet admiral, their god. If they
>> are successful then this time-line will end. We are going back in time
>> to stop them." He gestured to Cardiff. "Lieutenant." All eyes turned
>> to the older officer for the details.

Meleah, if she was capable of it, would have been in shock at the suggestion of time travel. Sure it had been done before but at what cost to the actual time line? It was all very well to say that it was alright because the Feynman was going to stop some other race from disrupting the time line but what happened if they stuffed things up? Although it was a logical, if albeit unusual, course of action, Meleah couldn't help but feel that it wasn't quite right. But if they didn't go, what would happen to their time line???

<<SNIP>>
> Cardiff did not even look to see who had asked the question. "No.
>He made contact of his own initiative and recruited the race. He gave
>them ships and lifted them up to our tech level in a less than a year.
>He was revered on that planet. He cured seven major diseases,
>negotiated a world wide government, brought replicators down and pretty
>well broke every rule in the book in doing so. Or at least he shattered
>the biggest rule."

That was unthinkable. An Admiral who would actually break the Prime Directive to satisfy his own ego, it appeared, and no-one did anything about it. Meleah's moral program couldn't comprehend why such a thing would have happened.

<<SNIP>>
> He straightened up and looked the Captain in the eye. "I'm going
>back with you because I know the layout, who was where. I know the
>players and will know if something new has been added."
>
> Zane kept eye contact and stated. "We _are_ talking 43 years ago."
>
> "Sir, I have relived those events ever since. I'll know."

"But you will not know everything," Meleah stated. "You will know about the general events and anything you were directly involved in." That was logical. Even Meleah, who had a perfect memory, would not have know everything about events that she was involved in. And then there was the question which many temporal physicists had been grappling with for many years. "What if that race was supposed to go back and attempt an assassination? If you assume that time is linear, then the event will have already occurred because it is illogical to assume that the same event can be repeated."

"But if time isn't linear," one of the others spoke up, "and events can be repeated, then it's possible that they weren't there originally."

"And if they were," someone else said, "then maybe we were part of those events too."

"That is a possibility," Meleah conceded. "If that is the case, then history shows that we succeeded."

"So if we don't go back, events might change."

"Not necessarily. The assassination may have been stopped by others in that time period."

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NRPG:

The scientist's point of view <G>. Feel free to contradict Meleah <G>.

Sincerely yours,

Lt Meleah
Chief Science Officer, RDMMS
USS FEYNMAN, Silver Fleet

Melanie

USS FEYNMAN: Maril's Comments

by Max Felsher 9-3-1997

SD: 90903

> Maril paused. “And another thing: several of us would look rather > strange in the mid-2360’s. The Federation didn’t break the language > barrier with the Tamarians until the late 2360’s. The Captain would > have a hard time explaining who he was. Lieutenant Meleah, while > appearing human, would probably be shown to be an android to a scan. > As the only known sentient android at the time was the then-Lieutenant- > Commander Data, it would pose some serious problems.

LT Jerran rubbed the ridges on his nose self consciously, "And as far as I know, there were no half Bajoran officers in Starfleet at the time, as Bajor itself was still under the iron fist of Cardassia. Those Bajora that were in Starfleet were considered outsiders by our people because the consensus was that they should be helping to wrest our planet free rather than exploring the galaxy with the Federation."

Capt Zane nodded and said, "Good points from both of you. We'll definitely have to take that into consideration."

Jerran nodded as the briefing continued. He was curious to hear how they planned on making the trip back in time. Back in the Academy, he had done a senior project involving recalculating the equations Captain Spock had invented for first the original Enterprise and then the commandeered Klingon Bird of Prey christened the HMS Bounty for use in time travel to the late 20th century. He had managed to fine tune some of the trickier variables, such as ship mass and how much time was to be traversed. His equations could theoretically send a ship back in time with a temporal accuracy of a couple of months. Of course, when trying to pinpoint a certain event in history, that required quite a bit more accuracy.

Jerran smiled inwardly to himself as he remembered the Vulcan professor he had on his thesis committee was rather perturbed at the variable in the equation which expressly involved the user making a guess, as Captain Spock himself put it. He had even managed to program the Kobyashi Maru simulator to accept the equations. The simulation would probably have turned out fine if Jerran hadn't neglected to remove the three Klingon battlecruisers from the original simulation programming. The end result, to say the least, was one less star in the Klingon Neutral Zone.

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