Season 2 Ep1 Page 19

- USS Tomcat - Bridge-

Sterling made it to the bridge before her, Jasmine wondered how the woman managed to change so quickly, but she took her seat.

"So Commander what did you think of the Service?" Jasmine asked.

Maia looked at the Captain "I thought it very fitting Captain" Was all she said.

"I thought it very…. Apt too, okay, I think we can recall Sheela and her team back now, also Commander when you get the chance find out what really was said over on the Nimitz, because our resident Mousian is shiftier than usual" Jasmine said.

"Yes Captain" Maia said before returning her attention to her duties.

"I find her efforts to hid the truth from me on my ship and her attitude amusing, she is good at what she does, but I think has a little touch of a psychosis when it comes to what information she passes on" Jasmine said.

Sterling only shrugged she did not seem to have a comment on the Mousian and her antics.

"I have upgraded your clearances so you can access all her duty logs and files, every single encrypt and cipher she has ever used has been recorded, but she may have anticipated our snooping and planted some Trojan horses, so be careful when searching and transfer all files of hers to an independent console and work on them there"

"Thank you Captain" Sterling responded without looking but surprise evident in her voice "and Lieutenant Sheela?" Maia asked by ending with a question.

"Excellent, now get Lieutenant Sheela and her team back over to the Tomcat we will be at Starbase 39 Sierra in three days" Somers finished and fell silent.

"I am looking forward to some R+R Captain; I think all the crew are!" Maia responded.

Jasmine only nodded in agreement.

- Main Cargo Deck -

Cahill put on her dress uniform and join the others waiting for the Funeral to begin. She knew that a lot of brave men and women died doing what they thought was their duty and died bravely. She commended them all.

She saw Captain Somers and Commander Sterling so she made her way over to them she passed a Padd to them, "Here is my report on the medical files I was able to recover. All dead crew members died of wounds from weapons of the time and died gallantly in battle. Some files are unable to be recovered do to damage to the computer memory" She said.

"I was able to recover Oda's medical files and added them to our medical files here on the Tomcat and also to a group of experts are meeting us at Starbase 39 Sierra. They believe they can open the remaining chambers and bring the crew members back. I have only limited knowledge of them and they have worked on them for years and know them very well."

Jasmine looked at the young doctor sadly "El tee, only two survived their long stasis, that was Commander Oda and an enlisted rank, all other tubes had freeze-dried skeletons, and bone dust" She finished

"Understood Captain, I have sent all information back to the Starbase and they will take over when we arrive. I can only do so much and my knowledge on the tubes is very limited."

"How they survived as long as they did is totally beyond me but it has been known to happen, they must be the luckiest pair I know of" Sterling responded without looking up from her console.

Looking over at Oda who was at the Ceremony "Indeed; I have a feeling that the Commander will not wish to remain on the Tomcat, she needs time to adjust to a new reality and Century" Jasmine finished.

Looking over at Oda who was at the Ceremony "Indeed; I have a feeling that the Commander will not wish to remain on the Tomcat, she needs time to adjust to a new reality and Century" Jasmine finished.

- Canis Majoris -

When the two shops dropped from warp at Canis Majoris, Sheela took advantage of the situation and beamed back aboard the USS Tomcat with her gear, the circuit boards she found in the computer core of the Nimitz and the data on the human looking Romulan’s.

She nodded to the transporter chief when she appeared on the Tomcat. She scampered through the ship and slipped in on the Funeral Ceremony and watched from a darkened corner. She slipped out and scampered to her quarters and settled at the rooms workstation and went to work.

The information was very interesting. As it came to light, USS Nimitz was newest of Earths space ships. The next generation. But the with the war getting closer and closer to Earth, It was rush job to get it out into space and away from Sol System.

It was the first of line to have an advance transporter that had one transporter pad that could handle multiple people plus small carried cases of extra supplies.

Upgraded Multi frequency Phaser cannons to by pass enemy shields once the shielding frequency was discovered. The phaser cannon emission could then be change to by-pass the shielding.

Multiple torpedo launchers and even some in the rear to fire on ships in that direction without having to turn the ship to face the enemy.

The First of its kind to have subspace radio. It could send message and receive transmission while in Warp induced FTL. As distance was always a bane in communication.

If Sol had the time, USS Nimitz's Mission was to set up Subspace Communication Relay Stations about the Quadrant to even speed up transmission even faster. And it would be open to all Allied Species to facilitate communications between planetary governments. The strengthening of a fledging inter-space faring species and races amongst the stars. Also to act as an Early Warning to invasion of hostile forces against the Fledging Federation of United Planets with the interest and concerns.

It had the most advance Cryo-stasis chambers for the severely wounded. Those were carrying Plague Virus that at the time there was no cure. Give the Medics and Science time to find the cures. Since the Med bay couldn't be properly stocked and fitted with a top of line surgical suites as they had on ships nowadays.

Replication system was becoming popular on Starship’s as it would free up more room by using the replicators to replace a fully stocked Galley to prepare foods and crew mess hall. Of course they kept a small mess hall and galley for visiting Dignitaries; with a limited pantry for that. Thus increasing the crew numbers on the ships, even adding a bigger shuttle bay for more diverse collection of shuttles.

Sheela finished up her report, sent a copy to Captain Somers, Commander Sterling.

- USS Tomcat - Bridge-

With everything completed and back in her work uniform Jasmine was on the bridge, she could see the distant sun 39 Sierra orbited, they were no more than a week out at present speed, checking that everything was set, she saw the report from Lieutenant Sheela, something about it troubled her, suddenly her message board sounded, she tapped her board.

=/\= What is it Lucy? =/\=

Her Aide answered.

=/\= Lieutenant Sheela Captain, she is waiting to see you outside your office, she even pressed the buzzer =/\=

Looking up at Maia then the rest of the bridge crew =/\=okay Lucy let her in and let her know I will see her shortly, Somers out =/\= When the link was closed she looked to Sterling "I think I know what she was going to say, you have the bridge Number One" Jasmine said and left the bridge.

Sterling only shrugged neutrally.

- Outside Captain's Ready Room -

Sheela left her quarters and moved on up to the CO's Ready Room. She tapped the announcer to alert Somers she was there.

Armitage looked up too see the Mousian, she gave her a smile and pressed her Comms panel and spoke to the Captain on the bridge, after signing off Lucy opened the Read Room door and looked at Sheela "Captain says to go in and wait for her Lieutenant and that she will see you shortly."

Sheela nodded to Armitage and entered the Ready Room. She was surprised to find the office vacant. She could have fun in here, but only thing she accessed was the replicator for a drink of Orange Juice.

When the Mousian had entered Lucy returned to her duties, as the CO was not much on paper work it was down to her and so she got on with it.

Sheela left her quarters and moved on up to the CO's Ready Room. She tapped the announcer to alert Somers she was there.

- Captain's Ready Room -

Jasmine entered her Ready Room to see Sheela waiting for her, sitting behind her desk "Be seated El tee now tell me what is on your mind?" She asked, hoping for the best but expecting the worst, after all that is what she had always done since she took command of the Tomcat.

Sheela was looking at some of the awards on the wall that Somers had earned in her rise through the ranks. She turned and faced Somers as moved over to a nearby chair.

"USS Nimitz was a state of the art ship. Prototype for the next generation of ship with cutting edge technology for the time it was built. It's assigned mission was to set up a subspace radio relays stations. But the ship didn't have a chance in hell. My conclusion was that the ship was suppose to be captured by the Romulan’s. The crew had a sleeper agent aboard who sabotaged the Main Computer Core. But failed to place the pre-arranged circuit boards in their proper spot to allow the capture of the Nimitz." Sheela relaxed in her seat, looking thoughtful. "Majority of mez findings is in mez report."

Looking at Sheela "Please be seated" Jasmine said and waited for Sheela to sit, before she continued again. "Thank you for the detailed report you sent me and for this, now Starfleet Command tells me that our next mission will be in unclaimed space, I have not heard the full details, because for some reason Starfleet does nae like to speak too soon, *sigh* wise I reckon" She paused smiling.

*Lengthy Pause*

"As this new mission will be uncharted waters for this ship I will want you working on the bridge more. You will be at the Sensor/Comms station on the bridge, most likely for the bulk of the mission, but I dare say events will allow you to get some exercise, as we both know nothing ever goes to plan."

Sheela nodded as she listened to Somers.

"Excellent, now go prepare for shore leave we should be docked at Starbase 39 Sierra in two days, dismissed" Jasmine said.

Sheela stood up, nodded quickly. "Squeeee." She was looking forward to the shore leave. She scampered out from the Ready Room.

Somers watched the Mousian leave and returned to her work, suddenly realising she had a message for Commander Oda and would have to speak to her.

Sheela arrived at her den and entered. She looked over her gear and began to pack it away. She transferred a lot of information over a mobile data storage unit which she would turn in to her superiors. From her main equipment cleaned out the memory banks to start a fresh with clean blank storage. And if anyone snooped, they would find nothing of interest.

- Bridge – Two days later -

After her talk with Lieutenant Commander Oda Jasmine was back on the bridge as they handed over their towed ship to the tugs from Starbase 39 Sierra. With this extra burden off their hands, they docked with the orbital shipyard, it was a recent addition, and it only acted as a service station to do minor repairs or light maintenance. As the Tomcat docked with the shipyard she opened a Ship-wide Comms.

=/\= All hands this is the Captain, prepare ship for docking and to receive maintenance crews and as of the moment we have fully docked you are all on Shore leave until Stardate 239205.20, you will be free to disembark when the ship is safely moored with the shipyard, Bridge out =/\=

With the announcement done She watched Ensign Robert Barker her Helm Officer expertly dock with the shipyard.

"Commander Sterling make sure all is secure and then get you some much needed Shore leave, I will see you on the Twentieth of this month, I have to go meet our new ACoS/CTO, you have Command" With that she left the bridge and returned to her Ready room.

THE END