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<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: Catching Up</h3> | |||
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by | |||
Andrew Catterick 9-14-1997</h4> | |||
SD:90914.1800<br> | |||
Scene: Observation Lounge<br> | |||
MD: 3: 1200<br> | |||
<I> | |||
> "It's a mountain lodge," Cardiff said, "So there will be lots of<br> | |||
> tourists."<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> "I could easily see my group passing as a group of vacationing human<br> | |||
> tourists .. once we cover Mary's green skin and Teri's ears .."<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> ".. and nose." Maril added, "All of which Dr. Mac's cosmetic surgery<br> | |||
> can take care of."<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> Krysa nodded at the XO, "How about your group, commander?"<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> "Intellectuals .. celebrating the recent publication of a long time<br> | |||
> research paper?"<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> She grinned, "Now I know Klingons like to celebrate.. but will you get<br> | |||
> any work done between mugs of Blood wine?"<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> "Have no fear, Commander," said Maril before turning to the Captain,<br> | |||
> "What about you, sir?"<br> | |||
</I> | |||
"Apparently Flint and Stone will be able to make contact with the | |||
Temporal Division of the past. They have assured me that they will be | |||
able to get a few of us onto the staff at the lodge so I guess my team | |||
will don their waiter outfits." Zane said with a smile. "You would be | |||
an excellent private butler Mr. Cardiff." Cardiff did not seem amused. | |||
"Well now that we have our covers all we need to know now is what to | |||
do. "Krysa said ruefully. "How do we know who to watch? A seemingly | |||
innocent action could be the end of everything and something that might | |||
be construed as suspicious could in fact be completely innocent." | |||
"And if we move to early we could blow our cover." Maril finished. | |||
Zane gestured to Cardiff who held up a small wristband that looked like | |||
a watch. "Each team leader will where one of these. It has the ability | |||
to identify the beginning of a ripple into the timeline…an attack on Lt. | |||
Nicholas or some other action that will postpone or bar his testimony. | |||
There will be seven ‘ripples’ that have the potential to disrupt the | |||
timeline. Just before they occur the ‘watch’ will warn the closest | |||
team. They must then foil the attempt. If they do not the mission has | |||
failed." | |||
"And if we stop all seven attempts there will be no more?" | |||
"Not at this time, however that does not rule out further attempts." | |||
Zane held up his hand. "Let’s keep to one mission to save the galaxy | |||
at a time please." | |||
"What do we tell the crew?" Maril asked. | |||
"Nothing." Zane replied clearly not liking the answer. "Thats a direct | |||
order from up high. Apparently the Temporal Division has quite a deal | |||
of subterfuge in the system, enough that no one would really care do any | |||
major exploration. We will arrive in orbit of the planet, the twelve of | |||
us will beam down and we should be back within 30 minutes. If we are | |||
not…well it won’t matter anymore. While we’re gone the ship is not to | |||
do any scans of any nature. Flint assures me that scans would not find | |||
anything but there is no point in leaving anything to chance." | |||
"It will seem strange that we all beam down with out explanation." | |||
Krysa said. | |||
Zane nodded. "Agreed. And there will be talk. But it will just be | |||
talk. Very few know about the Guardians and its a General Order that | |||
those that do can not talk about it so the secret should remain safe." | |||
"With all of us the planet who will be leave in command?" Maril asked. | |||
"Lt. Garret." Zane replied. The BETA-OPS was the best choice. Besides | |||
the senior staff she was the most experienced bridge officer on the | |||
ship. Zane felt completely confident in her abilities. She was a | |||
excellent officer and he had no doubt she’d make an excellent captain | |||
one day. If she let it happen at least. She’d already turned down two | |||
promotions to other ships as an OPS/20. | |||
"Any other questions? Good. We’ll have a full meeting once we reach | |||
the system." | |||
Scene: Observation Lounge | |||
MD: 9.0900 | |||
<I> | |||
> "The pulsar is a fast rotator as far as pulsars go, but the FEYNMAN | |||
> can't afford to be directly exposed to it long even with her shields," | |||
> stated Flint as he pointed to the sectional slice of M5578-B. | |||
><br> | |||
> Continuing with their disturbing habit, Stone picked up as soon as<br> | |||
> Flint's sentence trailed off. "Therefore, the FEYNMAN will come in behind the<br> | |||
> fourth planet, and take up station keeping on it's farthest side from<br> | |||
> the pulsar. We will then put an away team on the planet, who will make<br> | |||
> contact with the Guardian, and proceed with the mission from there."<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> The senior staff had already gone over the mission specific details<br> | |||
> days ago, but Flint and Stone had argued that another would be necessary to<br> | |||
> finalize mission details.<br> | |||
><br> | |||
> Both men paused to accept questions from the staff.<br> | |||
</I> | |||
After a brief pause one of the officers asked the most basic of | |||
questions. "Now what?" | |||
Zane spoke before Flint or Stone could. Quickly he went over the | |||
particulars of the plan, the distribution of teams, the temporal wrist | |||
bands that he, Maril and Jenn would be wearing and of course the seven | |||
time waves they would have to counteract. He ended with a nod to Lt. | |||
Garret. "Lt. Garret will be in command while we are gone. From here we | |||
will head to sickbay to get into character while Garret puts the ship in | |||
orbit. Once there she will operate the transporter and beam us down to | |||
the sight. No one outside this room will have any idea what is down | |||
there and what we will be doing. And I’m sure I don’t need to remind | |||
any of you that breaking the silence is in violation of Starfleet | |||
General Orders. Very well then if you all head down to sickbay I’ll | |||
join you presently. Lt. Garret if you’ll join me on the bridge." | |||
Scene: Bridge. | |||
"Helm, put us into orbit around the fourth planet and keep it between us | |||
the pulsar." | |||
"Aye sir." | |||
Once there Zane wasted little time. "Lt Garret you have the bridge and | |||
you have your orders." | |||
"Aye sir." | |||
<<<NRPG>>><br> | |||
Ok, I’ll post us on the planet tomorrow. | |||
Team One: Zane, Cardiff, Allard, Loren…will pose as staff of the lodge.<br> | |||
Team Two: Maril, Koreth, Jerran, Stone…a group of intellectuals on | |||
conference<br> | |||
Team Three: Jenn, Meleah, Mac, Flint…a bunch of tourists.<br> | |||
Respectfully,<br> | |||
Andy<br> | |||
<nowiki>__________________________________________________</nowiki><br> | |||
-Captain Zane, Commanding, USS FEYNMAN<br> | |||
-Commodore Robert Steele, Commanding TF ZINDERNEUF<br> | |||
-Commander Horatio Sinclair, Currently Unassigned<br> | |||