Season 2 Ep1 Page 18

- ESS Nimitz -

Sheela exited the Main Computer Core, brushing of the dust that always seamed to get through filters of any type. She had multiple Isolinear circuit boards stuffed in a cargo pocket of her pants.

Making her way to the Senior onboard Tech from the Tomcat. "Whot you make of this?" After she had gotten his attention and showing him the circuit boards. "Those are not standard boards for a Computer to have."

She pointed out the various oddities to the Senior Tech.

The Senior Tech looked each of the circuit boards over with an interest. He took a look at the model number and nomenclature of each. It was obvious they was a series of circuit boards that should've been installed in sequence.

He listened to her explain where she had found each of them, scattered throughout the Computer Core.

"Someone wanted the ship to fail epically." Sheela spoke softly. "If Iz guess mez tech correctly. Those are Romulan Manufacture. Placed aboard the ESS Nimitz in the later part of the confrontation when the shields failed. Then let the ship go to track the ship to others of its ilk." She placed the original computer circuit boards onto the senior desk that he was using. "Iz found these in a vent."

Sheela settled in for the flight back to the Starbase as the Senior Tech relayed her finding to the Tomcat Command element.

- Bridge – USS Tomcat –

Jasmine was sitting on the bridge when the side console to her right came to life, she called up the latest report from Lieutenant Sheela and read it quietly.

“Let’s see now, incorrectly installed circuit boards and found throughout the core, it seems that they were Romulan in origin… Hmmm interesting. Looks like it was sabotage, typical Romulan’s of that period, wait! Some more found in the vents, okay I know this ships did not come from our reality, but it was still underhanded, beyond even the ken of the Romulan’s.

“Sorry Captain?” Donovan asked.

“Nothing Major, just reading this report to myself.” She responded then saved and closed the file and a new message appeared; and Jasmine read it aloud.

To: Commander Jasmine Somers

Commanding: USS Tomcat NCC 62114

From: Office of the Chief of Fleet Operations Pegasus Fleet Headquarters

Stardate: 239203.10

“Greetings”

“It is my great pleasure to pass on some good news, you have been granted a promotion to Captain as of Stardate 239203.10 you now officially carry the rank of Captain, and with all the rights and privileges the position affords.

Live Long and Prosper

Commander T’Klin Aide”

When she finished reading, she looked around the bridge as those who could were looking at her with pride, she just got up and went over to the replicator and replicated a fourth pip and put it in place and returned to her seat.

“Back to work, Mr. Barker ETA on arrival at Starbase 39 Sierra?” She said ending with a question.

“Still four days Captain” He answered, she nodded and he returned to flying the Tomcat.

As the ship was flying at warp one Jasmine left Donovan in command and went into her Ready room and she had not been sitting down long when her desk interface activated. She read it and it was about Lieutenant Sheela. She read it slowly and sighed at the end, it seems her leadership was recalling her back to the Mousian homeworld.

Tapping her Commbadge =/\= Captain Somers to Lieutenant Sheela =/\=

=/\= Squeaaa?=/\= Sheela sounding distracted as she was busy with the current situation on hand.

=/\= When you have finished on the ESS Nimitz and you and your team has returned and when we arrive at Starbase 39 Sierra please report to my Ready Room, I have some updated news for you on your posting to the Tomcat =/\=

=/\= Iz will be there soon as wez drop from warp in the vicinity of the star base=/\= Sounding more focused on the conversation.

=/\= Affirmative, I will see you then, also all data you have come across and I mean everything you have gotten from the Nimitz put a copy of that onto the Security Database, Lieutenant Commander Oda is our Chief of Security, please liaise with her. =/\=

=/\= Advice. Run a Romulan DNA check on Mizz Oda. Found Main Computer Core sabotaged. I'll give yooz, XO or Donovan the information. =/\= Sheela spoke and then killed the link. Only way to resume communication was under a Red Alert Situation.

The Senior tech looked at her overhearing the conversation. "Is it wise to buck the Captain's orders?"

"Iz call it as Iz see fit. Once what wez gathered and turned over. It's outta of ourz paws." Sheela looked over her report as she had been working on. It was good to bring in a working historical artefact, but one from a different timeline. Even she heard of the Temporal Agency that strove to keep the different timelines from effecting each other. She gave it a brief thought and returned looking through the information gathered. Crew manifests. It was a big package of information.

Sheela had closed the link her end, so now Jasmine filed the latest data and caught up on some overdue paperwork, knowing her crew would call her should she be needed.

Sheela had closed the link her end, so now Jasmine filed the latest data and caught up on some overdue paperwork, knowing her crew would call her should she be needed.

- Cargo Deck USS Tomcat -

For three days Commander Sterling and a select platoon of rifles gathered and arranged bodies on the cargo deck. Most had been placed in empty photon torpedo tube casings for funeral purposes needless to say the replicators got a good workout. Some of the Nimitz dead were easily recognizable, others could only be identified with genetic scans, as a result there were several seeming crew members who were Romulan's altered to look like humans. It could only be speculated that there mission was sabotage or espionage. The honoured dead would be shot out of the aft torpedo tubes into the heart of 29 Canis Majoris which was a type O blue white supergiant.

Engineering reports that power has been restored to the ESS Nimitz including the warp reactor and the port nacelle. Engineering thinks they can align our warp field with the warp field of the Nimitz to achieve warp speed, perhaps as much as warp 2.5. Repairs continue on other primary systems but there seems to have been a lot of sabotage of the primary and secondary systems, especially tactical and navigation systems. Maia has sent Commander Oda to the holodeck to learn about modern security procedures. She really didn't understand why Captain Somers made him chief of security. He might have been Chief of security on the Nimitz but that was over 200 years ago in a different universe. The only thing Maia could do was back the captain’s call, but set Oda up with security procedures tactics and techniques 101.

Incredibly she was picking it up very quickly. He seemed to have an almost eidetic memory; Maia wondered how Lt Sheela was fairing on the Nimitz.

- Bridge –

The Blue white supergiant 29 Canis Majoris blazed brightly on the main view screen, the type O star was early in its life, even at 300 Million kilometres out it filled the main view screen.

"That is what we came for Captain. Our intention is to shoot the bodies of the Nimitz into the heart of a new star. What a fitting memorial for those intrepid heroes". Maia said.

"I quite agree Maia, it is a fitting end for the dead, at least they finally got their burial" Jasmine responded tapping something into her console.

The Tomcat still had the wreckage of the ESS Nimitz in her tractor beam.

"I have scheduled the memorial service for 1400 on the main cargo deck, Captain. I was wondering if you or Commander Oda wanted to say something. It is traditional after all." Maia said.

"Agreed, I planned to say something" she said and fell silent.

Starbase 39 Sierra was still two days away.

Maia had been down in sickbay a lot over that last few days and while Dr. Cahill was close to deciphering the technology behind the stasis tubes, she had not been able to revive any of the other frozen members of the Nimitz crew. In a way it was frustrating. The Tomcat had been limping across the sector to this star for a memorial service and no one other than Commander Oda would even be there for the memorial.

Looking at Sterling "We will get to the Starbase soon Commander" Jasmine said.

- Cargo Deck –

Jasmine leaving a junior Officer in charge of the bridge arrived onto the Cargo deck with Major Donovan in tow, both were in dress whites for the funeral ceremony, standing there was Commander Oda and her only other surviving companion. Jasmine stepped forward and stood in front of to encased bodies all were holograms as the real ones were all loaded in the ships tubes.

"We gather here to honour our fallen comrades, how and why they died is currently still unknown to us and while they were from a different time and reality we honour their memories and their sacrifice to Starfleet regardless of race colour or creed."

*Pause*

"So it is my duty to send them off on their final journey *pause* From the stars we come to the stars we return and may whatever deities they believed in look after them in the afterlife. DETACHMENT Present Arms" Jasmine said and came to attention and saluted as did the other Officers, there was a 6 gun unit with weapons set on stun and they fired three volleys.

With that Donovan played the Last Post on the bugle, as all turned to face the viewports to watch the casings fired into the Canis Majoris Sun on their final journey and a minutes silence was held.

As soon as Donovan finished playing the Last Post…

"DETACHMENT, Rest" Jasmine ordered and all lowered their arms.

With that being done Jasmine turned to face the assembled as the holographic casings vanished.

"Okay dismissed, change back into duty uniform and return to work" She said and left the Cargo Deck.

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