Season 2 Ep 1 Page 13

- ESS Nimitz -

As the Engineering team arrived Jasmine tasked some to assess the damage to this vessel to see if the ship could be towed. Other Techs were working with Cahill on the surviving two remaining Cryo-pods. While Sheela check all other forms of communication systems and anything else that took her fancy Somers took a tour of the ship, she found very few skeletons; the ones that remained must have been volunteers who elected to remain out of stasis.

Having covered the main deck she worked her way up to the bridge, and was shocked to see extensive damage, this ship had obviously been in battle. She saw a blinking light on the console where the Science Officer would have sat. She walked over to it and activated the screen. What she saw surprised her, but it was not unexpected, she tapped her Commbadge.

- Bridge – ESS Nimitz -

=/\= Somers to Sterling =/\=

=/\= Sterling here Captain=/\=

=/\= I am on the bridge of the Nimitz and it clearly looks like they were in a battle, just checked a stored visual log and it seems this ship survived an assault from some Romulan Raptor class ships from the Earth Romulan war, is there anything in the database denoting on what happened to the Nimitz in our universe during the same period? =/\= She asked.

=/\= Nothing that I can see at present Captain =/\=

=/\= I see, okay thank you commander, I will download all data I can and return to my team, Somers out =/\= with that she closed the link and began downloading what she could to her tri-corder.

There was not much data for her to download, she looked over at the still intact Captain’s chair, and she had been close to one in the museum on earth but was never allowed to sit in the chair. In a moment of remembered childhood she walked over to the chair and sat in it. The swivel function was a little rusty, but she swivelled all the way around looking at the briefing area before facing the lifeless viewscreen again. Then sighing heavily she stood up and made her way to the emergency ladder and made the slow climb down.

- Main level – Outside Cargo Bay -

Making it safely back to the main deck she returned to her team and noticed that Cahill was ready to be beamed out; she tapped her Commbadge.

=/\= Somers to Tomcat, transport Doctor Cahill and the stasis chambers and the four engineers directly to medical, the rest of us will return to the beam in point. =/\=

=/\= Affirmative Captain, Tomcat out =/\= came the response.

Shortly after Cahill and four of the six engineering team beamed out, she turned to the remaining engineers. “Well can this ship be towed?” She asked.

The lead engineer looked at her “Yes Captain, at full Impulse it should be safe to tow” He said.

“Good, now lets get back to the beam in location and get back to the ship” She said and led Sheela, Donovan and the two engineers back to their insertion point, while en-route and without looking at the Mousian. “Sheela when we get back aboard and out of these suits I want you to sort all data and other stuff you got from the ships database and such, put it down and when complete you will brief the Senior staff on what you have found understood?” She said.

Sheela looked over at Donovan, "Iz need yooz assistance in carrying this, Major Donovan, please,"

Looking at the Mousian "Okay willing to help, not got anything else to do" She said with a smile.

Sheela could've had the two engineers to carry the black box, but she didn't want this out of her sight. This was prime data that told the history of the ship. It would take some careful work. At least trying to work with the tough Marine Major.

“Good, now let’s get back to the Tomcat” She added and not much was said during the rest of their walk back to their arrival point.

- Transporter Room – USS Tomcat –

After being beamed back to the Tomcat Jasmine stepped off the transporter Pad removing her helmet as she did the others following her actions before leaving the room to go about their tasks; she tapped her Commbadge.

=/\= Somers to Sterling =/\=

=/\= Sterling here Captain, what’s up?=/\=

=/\= All away team members are back on the ship, take the Nimitz in tow and head for Starbase 39 Sierra at full impulse, I will return to the bridge shortly. =/\=

=/\= Understood Captain will take the ship into tow=/\=

=/\= Acknowledged, Somers out =/\= when the Comms was closed Jasmine finally left to get changed out of her EVA suit and into her Uniform.

- Bridge – USS Tomcat –

As Somers stepped onto the bridge somewhat fresher and in a clean uniform she looked around.

“Commander what is the latest on the Doctors request for information and what have you found so far?” she asked.

Maia looked up at Somers “Nothing as of yet Captain.”

- Intelligence Office – USS Tomcat –

Sheela could see the interest that Donovan tried to keep hidden in the black box. "Could yooz assist me in carrying this to mez section of the ship?" Grabbing the handle and letting Donovan grab the other side.

“Not a problem, damn this thing is heavy and you are a lot stronger than you look to have carried as far as you did on the ESS Nimitz.”

"Iz gotten a call from mez handler and mez time here is short. So Iz am gonna teach yooz something about the black arts of Intelligence. And why wez do things wez do under the cover the secrecy and double dealings." Sheela began hooking up the black box to an independent computer system from the ship. Displaying a good grasp of engineering as she worked.

oO This is interesting, I wonder if Jasmine knows of her engineering abilities Oo she thought to herself. “Okay always interested to learn something new”

Sheela, as she worked, gave Donovan an inside view of the dirtier side of the Intelligence Operative from their point of view. Ending with, "...basically wez are sanctioned criminal or privateers who have no loyalty except to Starfleet and the continuance of the expanding Federation. Wez step on toes, tails, any appendages and bodies that get in our way to complete the mission and to maintain ourz cover."

"That I can understand, but this is why I am not Intel, I prefer to fight my quarry" Donovan said.

"Yooz would make an excellent operative if yooz could get over yooz morality of being a Telepath." Sheela gave Donovan a cheeky smile. "If Iz had yooz ability. It would've saved mez a lot of pain in the past."

Smiling back "Unfortunately it took me time to place up mental barriers against the thoughts of the Tomcats crew that they send out constantly, it would take me a lot longer to do your job, but I can understand your point El tee" Donovan responded.

Sheela was surprised at the lack of security on the black box, but also glad. It seamed that the whole CC Database was zipped filed. Audio and video logs were turned into text before being zipped filed and stored.

"Squeeeeeee-aah!" Sheela spoke softly as both Donovan and her crowed together before the monitor that the data scrolled rapidly from top to bottom, each slowing the data down when something caught their interest, then sped it up again; both being patient with each other as the information was being expanded into full text files as it was transferred to a new data storage format.

"Well, well were you as interested by that as I was Sheela?" Donovan asked.

"Squeee... Very interesting. But alot of files are either been deleted or corrupted. It seamed that this didn't go to well with this ship. Sol-3, Romulan? War? Sheela was puzzled and confused with Donovan for her input.

"Yes so was I, a reality that resembled our own so closely during the time of the Earth Romulan War, but what brought this ship to this reality and... So many questions about this data, you will need to get this info to the Captain when it’s collated" Donovan said.

"Wasn't it Vulcan’s made first contact?" Sheela scrolling back to that particular section. "Here it says that Romulan’s boosted Sol-3 capabilities in warp technology. Favoured European Hemisphere over the Merican Two Hemisphere; ship was launched covertly from Antarctica...."

"I got no idea either, but if I am reading these logs correctly then their Earth/Romulan War ended badly for them and the Federation was never formed. But why let this badly damaged ship drift in space, they had to suspect that scavengers would pick it clean. That is also another curiosity" She paused.

"Why didn’t the scavs pick it clean, I mean there was a lot of vintage stuff that could have sold on a Black Market for good prices, yet we found it here drifting in deep space. I do not know about you Sheela but I do not like unanswered questions, I can only wonder what else we do not know" She said.

"I'd say turn it over to science, cause right here.." Sheela pointed out to a new section, "They got caught in an unsuspected hole in space that flung them into a new sector of space... Rift?" Sheela worked through the data presented, muttering in soft squeaks. "Not many space faring species could pick up the transmission. Nor used to Sol-3 ancient dialect unless born of the species that knew the history. Languages evolves just as Sentient Species do. By integration of words, ideas, tech. This is pure Sol-3 language. Wherez Humans have bastardize words from other space faring species integrated into their language. These people didn't have that luxury the humanz have now. Or should say in this time line."

"I shall leave you to finish collating all this data, also Sheela for the record I could never read your mind clearly, the Mousian brain is significantly to make anything I hear from your Species very quiet, those times I caught you doing things you should not have been doing was just you being predictable. I shall leave you to it I need to get changed and freshened up before I speak to the Captain" Donovan said with a nod and smile and left Sheela's lab.

S’arila left the Mousian to her duties as she headed directly for her quarters. She had to enter a turbolift and go up three levels and across one before the lift opened for her, she stepped out and walked a short distance down to her quarters and entered.

Sheela nodded with a wave of her tail to acknowledge Donovan's departure. Getting immersed into the information presented. Who ever put this black box together, knew their jobs very well. It stored information very well and tons of it. "Practice and always think of thing other than whot you plan to do when species with telepaths around. Or go into a meditative state of mind that prevents projection of thought." Looking at Donovan. "Yooz don't need to be a minder reader. 90% of knowing what a person is gonna do, it telegraphed by pre-body language before they act. And what theyz thinking."

Glancing at Donovan's back as Donovan left her section. Looking back at the information. Really getting into reading the data and taking notes.

- Donovan’s Quarters -

“Computer begin duty log”

“Ready” Was all the computer responded with.

“Bravo Unit Commanding Officers Duty Log Stardate 239201.07 just returned from a curious mission to a derelict NX class Starship, the ship was pretty beaten up, what is more the Quantum signature was not of this reality and the fact that is was ESS Nimitz and not just the Nimitz was another tell tale factor. We located two working stasis tubes, both had living personnel perfectly preserved, how they will adapt to being in the future is up for debate. The Black Boxes from the ship yielded interesting information, the ship was in fact from another reality and one that seemed to have lost the Earth/Romulan War, but what puzzled me the most and I voiced my concerns to Lieutenant Sheela.” Pause.

"She was also puzzled, but the main questions that stand are One: What actually happened, Two: Why did the Romulan’s not totally destroy the ship, Three: Why did the Scavengers not pick the ship clean during the ships deep space drifting. Unlike some I do not enjoy mysteries, End Log" She finished and walked into her sleeping area and stripped before stepping into the sonic shower.

- Medical – USS Tomcat –

Once back on the Tomcat we moved the chambers to the treatment room that was setup for them. A security team was standing by. Dr Cahill said to them "Only authorized personnel are permitted in this room."

They acknowledged her order and took up position on each side of the door. She went in and watched a Engineering hooked the stasis units into the main power systems. They also hooked up the Bio-bed monitors to the stasis units as well this allowed her to better see what was going on. They were both stable but it was still going to be a challenge to bring them both out alive.

Dr Cahill and her team were working like bees in a hive making honey. They had run and re run them over and over. She looks at the others and the officers join her in a corner. It is agreed upon that they are ready to make an attempt to open one of the chambers.

They went back over and look at each other, and they smiled, she tapped her communications badge.

=/\= Captain we are ready to try to open the first of the chambers. We plan to open them one at a time and revive the occupants and handle any problems we may run into at a time. This way we have the best chance to save at least one of them and maybe both.=/\=

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