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Chuss and Crewman Brock transported to Govall before the Kestrel warped away chasing the errant commercial liner. Their task was to find the passengers who had disembarked there and interview them. It wasn't difficult. Renata Ste Marie, human female from New Paris Station in the Deshotel System, on twenty-four month…
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Chuss preferred to stand his watches at the navigation console rather than at the conn. This afternoon he was paying very little attention to his console. Instead, he was reviewing several years worth of transport manifests, analyzing patterns of materiels shipments in an attempt to recreate the web of procurements and…
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Brock sat in the port-side forward booth of The Skylight Lounge reading a nursing text on the psychological impact of nursing on the trauma patient. It wasn't an easy text to absorb, and his mind wasn't focused on the task, but it was a part of his continuing education requirement. He leaned back and sighed, looking up as…
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Tarsis began his training as a host candidate with dreams and fables, unlearning them day by day until all that remained was nostalgic romanticism. The assigned field docent found it amusing. The Symbiosis Evaluation Board noted it in his record. In the end he was selected for joining. Memories that were not his began to…
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Garsin was winning, and he was enjoying it. "I raise twelve quatloos!" he said in a gloating tone. David only had twelve, and a weak hand, but Karen was grinning, watching him. Fold and he might not have enough to buy into the next hand. If he won this hand he was back in the game. Was Garsin frowning in his eyes? "All…
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"There's one more port of call before Morning Glory reaches the end of its route," Lee said to the image of his Senior Marshal in his wall. "If it hasn't dropped the cargo by then we'll have an uncoded message sent to David under the letterhead of his employer saying that funding for their data system has been withdrawn,…
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It was easy to fall into shipboard routine. Workout then breakfast, time to study the sensor training guides the Lieutenant had given him, then lunch. An afternoon playing games in the lounge or reading in his room followed by a semi-formal dinner. Karen had shown him the gym the first day out, and coincidentally they both…
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Chuss ducked through the door to Lee's quarters, his normally fluid movement hampered by the back brace he wore. "The kid was right," he said as he stepped over to Lee's replicator. "Shreem," he said. He took what appeared to be a metal flagon from it and stepped beyond the desk to the lounge area where the higher ceiling…
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Her eyes were gold. Almost yellow in the center, with pale brown and green radial flecks merging into a hazel ring. Jaguar eyes. They captured his attention, compelled him to gaze into them. Muted his other senses until his only awareness was of their depths. He was a trained observer, and sitting on the edge of his bed he…
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Lucky boarded the Morning Glory through it's passenger airlock. He noticed that its quarterdeck was clean and smelled of perfume, presumably provided by the deep blue flowers on the plants arranged on the trellis around the airlock hatch. He noticed their pale cream-colored centers around a small yellow ovary, and then…
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"You have a task for me," Chuss said, "And you have a task for Lee. Why do I get the feeling you have already selected a task for yourself?" "Because you are a keen observer of human behavior," Lee said. "David?" "I propose that my skills are best suited to the legwork portion of this investigation. I've instructed Mr.…
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> @vetteguy904 said: > I'd love to see the franz Joseph designs in game. one thing that always bugged me since the D did the saucer seper, If the stardrive gets destroyed, the saucer is well screwed. It would need at least a minimal warp engine to get to friendly space I thought the saucer section traveled to Farpoint at…
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"A Mr. Mors Akhim of Vargent Industries Ag. is a customer service representative. In a routine follow-up call to a client, Dagmar Biomedical Research Laboratories, which had placed an order for twenty-four biomedical stasis chambers, he was informed by Ms. Tana D'Sil, Senior Vice Administrator of Procurement for Dagmar…
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Lee and David were seated as Chuss entered. Behind him was the doctor. "Are you feeling discomfort without the brace?" He asked. "Stiffness more than discomfort. I want to stretch." "Not without the brace, for a few more days. And don't sleep without it." "I will not disrespect you, Doctor." Chuss said. "I know you won't,"…
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I would love the old version of the Jupiter. The one that looks like the Love Boat. Make it a command/miracle worker and give it Centaur or Sao Paulo pets. I prefer Centaurs. It would really be cool if one of the Centaur missions could be to follow and extend shields for an ally vessel.
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The Pakled Marauder: Forward mine launchers and aft DHCs, with synergy bonus for having no two weapons of the same energy type. Jokes aside, I have always wanted 'broadside weapons slots' for the dreadnoughts and heavy cruisers/battlecruisers. This would be an ideal fix for single cannons. It would give them a place on…
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The captain of the science vessel was so cruel, he often disciplined his crewmen by making them walk the Planck.
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When all of the Star Trek creatures were playing Follow The Leader, who was in front? The Pak lead.
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Mr. Chuss pulled the starboard Conn control board across his lap. "Helm, two points positive, Navigator, plot the target's reaction." "Two degrees dorsal, aye," Sibley said from the Helm station. "Target compensated. One point eight second delay, overcompensated and corrected by two point six. Target one-eight-oh by…
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"Come in, David," Lee said, standing up from his wall-desk and stretching. "Grab something from the replicator if you like." "Coffee, black," he said. "Want something, Skipper?" "No thanks. I'm nursing my tea." Lee stepped over to the couch and sat down. "Croaker tells me you are ready to return to full duty." "So I'm…
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I was prepared to be underwhelmed, so Lower Decks surpassed my expectations. I personally found it overall to be much better, both as a stand-alone series and as a part of the franchise, to Discovery. And so far it appears to have avoided the new Trek compulsion to rewrite history. (This last is my biggest issue with new…
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Season 1, Episode 17 The troops of MACO 3rd Light Infantry Battalion, D Company were in formation facing the closed bay door. 256 troops in eight columns, all in zero-g combat armor with a red chess piece on their right pauldron and the UFP pennant on the left. To the right of the formation was a platoon of Combat…
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I'd have loved a new series about Andorians, or Tellarites for that matter. But so far I have been badly disappointed by New Trek's obsession with retconing the past rather than using it as if it was immutable history and going forward. Example: the gorn in Strange New Worlds. Ignore that Kirk's was the first encounter…
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Thanks. I plan to revisit the old Federation Space story soon. I need to connect with a mod to avoid a thread necromancy charge. Meanwhile, there is so much catching up to do!
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Mirra sat in the big chair on the Kestrel's empty bridge once again. It was the midwatch and Crewman Aktay had just wandered out on her rounds after bringing her a berry tart Bennie had made for tomorrow's breakfast. The Pakled woman was a marvel, to have so quickly adapted to a culture and technology so alien to that of…
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Chuss entered the Sickbay where Mirra lay on the biobed he had so recently occupied, though she, at least, was able to lie on her back. "I am glad to see the Doctor was able to treat the poison," he said. "Thanks for coming," the Lieutenant said. "I wanted to ask you something." He stepped over to the bed and waited as she…
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The debriefing with the local constabulary was exhausting. By comparison, the debriefing with Starfleet was short and concise. Lee hoped the trend would continue when he got back to the Kestrel and made his report to the Senior Marshal. But there was one more task to be done first. "Madam Minister," he called to the…
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The suite was clear, though the beds had been ransacked for their sheets. Those were now in the elevator shaft with the unconscious attackers. Lucky returned to the comm panel and keyed it for the receptionist. "Hi, it's me again," Lucky said. "I'll stay on the line this time until the police arrive. I want to talk to the…
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Chief Petty Officer Voght saw a vessel on the scanner moving toward the planet at high warp. It had no transponder signal and it made no attempt to communicate with the planet or the Kestrel. She hit the Red Alert icon on the tactical console then linked to Communications and triggered the Emergency: Crew Recall switch.…
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That last line should be, "...actually forget to call the police." I sit in a Lowes parking lot using a borrowed laptop and borrowed wifi to make this post. There is a long, sad story to explain this state of affairs, the gist of which is that you should never allow a hackberry tree to live. They grow dying, and fall down,…