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--- trek:venerable:recap:1_act_4 [2021/07/19 16:23] – [Boarding the Deathtrap] verbena76
+++ trek:venerable:recap:1_act_4 [2021/07/19 16:34] (current) – [T'kora knows her ship.] verbena76
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 ==== Meeting Gort ====
-A hapless Pakled who was standing by the cargo bay door suddenly hits Kimball but luckily, his magnetized boots means he’s not going anywhere. He grabs the scrabbling Pakled while Quin hurriedly sets up a portable force filed generator. The generator kicks on and provides a bubble of atmosphere. The Pakled falls to the ground as Kimball lets go to try to get out of the way. The Starfleet officers slip through the cargo bay doors but Kray steps on the Pakled deliberately. Kimball drags the Pakled into the corridor. He scans the Pakled and finds evidence of depressurization trauma – and extensive radiation poisoning.
+A hapless Pakled who was standing by the cargo bay door suddenly hits Kimball but luckily, his magnetized boots mean he’s not going anywhere. He grabs the scrabbling Pakled while Quin hurriedly sets up a portable force filed generator. The generator kicks on and provides a bubble of atmosphere. The Pakled falls to the ground as Kimball lets go to try to get out of the way. The Starfleet officers slip through the cargo bay doors but Kray steps on the Pakled deliberately. Kimball drags the Pakled into the corridor. He scans the Pakled and finds evidence of depressurization trauma – and extensive radiation poisoning.
 The Pakled gets to his feet and laments, “I am [[trek:characters:gort|Gort]]. That was not smart.” Kimball replies, “No, it wasn’t. Why were you standing right by a depressurized cargo bay?” Gort replies, “I was told to bring you to the captain.” He then sets off, and the Starfleet officers reluctantly follow. As they walk, they see clear evidence of the original Orion architecture – wide corridors, high ceilings, and pearlescent, smooth bulkheads – and the desecration inflicted by the Pakleds – filth and grime, Klingon components taped wherever they would fit, and torn tapestries.
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 Kimball decides to leave three of his security team here in main engineering while he takes the remaining three to find the Pakleds. T’kora and Shil’vala agree, and T’kora starts issuing orders to her engineers; Quin ends up mapping the warp core and EPS grid. Captain Slorrod remains in engineering while Kimball, Kray, and the other two security officers follow Gort out to the rest of the Pakeld crew. As Gort leads them, they all spot the necrotizing tissue on the back of his head. Kimball decides to try and find anti-rad inoculations to inject the Pakled crew. They reach the Orion sickbay, which has been converted into a crew mess. The room is a mess in a literal sense, and the Starfleet crew sees Pakleds sleeping on biobeds or playing fizzbin; no one seems to care about the newcomers.
-One of the biobeds is still working and beeping frantically. Gort reveals that one is Captain Slorrod’s personal bed, because he likes the beeping noises. Kimball heads over to the biobed and finds it shrieking radiation warnings – and apparently swearing in Orion. He can commiserate, so he and his team set up another portable generator to diminish the radiation, and then he finds anti-rad inoculations in the functioning biobed. Realizing the sickbay computer is an independent machine unconnected to the rest of the Pakled “upgrades” – and pretty sure the computer just did the binary equivalent of, “Oh thank God, it’s Starfleet” – Kimball starts passing out the injectable medicines and instructs his crew to start injecting the Pakleds. He allows, “They probably won’t feel a thing,” and Kray grumbles, “Challenge accepted.”
+One of the biobeds is still working but beeping frantically. Gort reveals that one is Captain Slorrod’s personal bed because he likes the beeping noises. Kimball heads over to the biobed and finds it shrieking radiation warnings – and apparently swearing in Orion. He can commiserate, so he and his team set up another portable generator to diminish the radiation, and then he finds anti-rad inoculations in the functioning biobed. Realizing the sickbay computer is an independent machine unconnected to the rest of the Pakled “upgrades” – and pretty sure the computer just did the binary equivalent of, “Oh thank God, it’s Starfleet” – Kimball starts passing out the injectable medicines and instructs his crew to start injecting the Pakleds. He allows, “They probably won’t feel a thing,” and Kray grumbles, “Challenge accepted.”
 ==== Everything Goes to Shit - Literally ====
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 Back in sickbay, the Starfleet crew inoculates the Pakleds, and Kray jabs Gort in the neck. Gort snivels and wails, “What was that for?” Irritated beyond measure, Kray reaches up and jabs Gort in the necrotizing tissue and snarls, “It hurts so that these will stop hurting!” Gort starts shrieking in pain and crying, and all the other Pakleds turn to look. The Starfleet team freezes, but one of the Pakleds guffaws and yells, “Gort screams like a Ferengi!” The Pakled crew laughs, while Gort continues to wail. Kimball jokes, “You should give him a hug.” Kray responds, “Is that an order, sir?” Kimball thinks better of it and says, “No.”
-Once the Orion warp core stabilizes, T’kora decrees that their mission is a success, and the rest of the engineering hazards are the Pakleds’ problem. It’s been over two hours when the engineers start cleanup and T’kora informs Shil’vala and Kimball. The away team finishes cleanup, which takes another thirty minutes before everyone – including Captain Slorrod – regroups at the cargo bay. Slorrod is holding an Orion treasure box, which he hands to Kimball and says, “For A-ron.” Wary of a booby-trap, Kimball opens the box to find a fist-sized fire ruby, and he immediately realizes that the gem is incalculably valuable – and is likely stolen! Kimball accepts the gift, but realizes Slorrod hasn’t received an inoculation. T’kora whips out an Orion hypospray and jabs the Pakled captain violently in the neck.
+Once the Orion warp core stabilizes, T’kora decrees that their mission is a success, and the rest of the engineering hazards are the Pakleds’ problem. It’s been over two hours when the engineers start cleanup and T’kora informs Shil’vala and Kimball. The away team finishes cleanup, which takes another thirty minutes before everyone – including Captain Slorrod – regroups at the cargo bay. Slorrod is holding an Orion treasure box, which he hands to Kimball and says, “For A-ron.” Wary of a booby-trap, Kimball opens the box to find a fist-sized fire ruby, and he immediately realizes that the gem is incalculably valuable – and is likely stolen! Kimball accepts the gift but realizes Slorrod hasn’t received an inoculation. T’kora whips out an Orion hypospray and jabs the Pakled captain violently in the neck.
-Kimball compliments her form before trying to explain to Slorrod the medical needs of his crew, but the Pakled captain just nods vacantly. Realizing they are not going to get anywhere, the Starfleet crew shoos him away and reenters the cargo bay. They disconnect the portable force field generator and tromp back into the //Cambridge//. Kimball de-helms and heads into the cockpit; Ensign Okumbo looks up and asks, “Do I want to know?” Kimball shakes his head while Quin growls, “Just get us out of here.” Okumbo shrugs and powers up the //Cambridge//. She maneuvers out of the cargo bay and into open space. She dodges irradiated waste and lands safely in shuttlebay two. As soon as the //Cambridge// touches down, Aaron orders the //Boston// to go to maximum warp; Eleven immediately complies.
+Kimball compliments her form before trying to explain to Slorrod the medical needs of his crew, but the Pakled captain just nods vacantly. Realizing they are not going to get anywhere the Starfleet crew shoos him away and reenters the cargo bay. They disconnect the portable force field generator and tromp back into the //Cambridge//. Kimball de-helms and heads into the cockpit; Ensign Okumbo looks up and asks, “Do I want to know?” Kimball shakes his head while Quin growls, “Just get us out of here.” Okumbo shrugs and powers up the //Cambridge//. She maneuvers out of the cargo bay and into open space. She dodges irradiated waste and lands safely in shuttlebay two. As soon as the //Cambridge// touches down, Aaron orders the //Boston// to go to maximum warp; Eleven immediately complies.
 ==== Disturbing Discoveries ====
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 T’kora meets Kelly in main engineering, at the master systems table. They start with the grenade, and swiftly realize it is a weaponized EMP blast. This grenade will scramble every system on a starship – and potentially kill Ten and Eleven if they’re within twenty meters. They halt their work to put the grenade behind a level ten force field. They then examine the data rod and find it’s transmitting from a //Galor//-class warship that’s part of a pair and powered down to avoid detection. Both ships are lurking near a de-powered Federation spy probe, while the //Prakesh// is scanning LV-397 for Bajoran life signs – and specifically hunting one [[trek:characters:darrah|Darrah Mace]].
-T’kora hails Aaron and tells him, //“You need to see this, captain.”// Shil’vala offers, “I’ll take the conn, just fill me in later?” Aaron nods gratefully, and they separate. Kimball follows Aaron to engineering while Shil’vala heads to the bridge. Once they reach engineering, T’kora and Kelly show Aaron and Kimball everything. Aaron frowns but has no idea who Darrah Mace is. He checks the main computer, and learns Darrah Mace was a lawman in the city of Korto back in 2318, when the Bajorans made formal first contact with the Cardassian Union. Darrah continued serving through the growing Cardassian chokehold until he fled in 2328 when the Cardassians formally occupied and annexed Bajor. His last known location was the Bajoran refugee colony on Valo II, but he does have an SI tag on his file.
+T’kora hails Aaron and tells him, //“You need to see this, captain.”// In the shuttlebay, Shil’vala offers, “I’ll take the conn, just fill me in later?” Aaron nods gratefully, and they separate. Kimball follows Aaron to engineering while Shil’vala heads to the bridge. Once they reach engineering, T’kora and Kelly show Aaron and Kimball everything. Aaron frowns but has no idea who Darrah Mace is. He checks the main computer and learns Darrah Mace was a lawman in the city of Korto back in 2318, when the Bajorans made formal first contact with the Cardassian Union. Darrah continued serving through the growing Cardassian chokehold until he fled in 2328 when the Cardassians formally occupied and annexed Bajor. His last known location was the Bajoran refugee colony on Valo II, but he does have an SI tag on his file.
-Aaron shows the others Darrah Mace’s file and Kimball jokes, “LV-397 has certainly gotten a lot of tourists since I was there.” To everyone’s surprise, T’kora deadpans, “Then perhaps you should not have built a theme park.” Aaron smirks and then hails the bridge. He asks Shil’vala their estimated time of arrival to the probe; Shil’vala replies, “At current speed, four hours. If we drop back to warp eight, approximately eight hours.” Aaron orders a reduction in speed, and for her to get a secure channel to Lieutenant Commander Bjornson on Starbase 211 routed to the war room.
+Aaron shows the others Darrah Mace’s file and Kimball jokes, “LV-397 has certainly gotten a lot of tourists since I was there.” To everyone’s surprise, T’kora deadpans, “Then perhaps you should not have built a theme park.” Aaron smirks and then hails the bridge. He asks Shil’vala their estimated time of arrival to the probe; Shil’vala replies, “At current speed, four hours. If we drop back to warp eight, approximately eight hours.” Aaron orders a reduction in speed, and for her to get a secure channel to Lieutenant Commander Bjornson on Starbase 211 routed to the strategy room.
 ==== T'kora knows her ship. ====
-The //Boston// slows down and the officers in main engineering see the immediate difference. They discuss theories about how the Pakleds got this information, and Kelly opines, “This stinks. This is a set up.” T’kora asks, “In what way?” Kelly insists this is a Cardassian trap, set by the Obsidian Order. T’kora admits that may be possible, but argues that it is more logical that the Pakleds are an SI asset. Aaron counsels, “Let’s not lean too far into this yet,” and then Shil’vala hails Aaron and reports, //“I have Commander [[trek:characters:bjornson|Bjornson]] on the line.”// Aaron changes his mind and says, “Just route it down here,” and a second later, the Federation symbol appears as the channel encrypts and then they see Bjornson.
+The //Boston// slows down and the officers in main engineering see the immediate difference. They discuss theories about how the Pakleds got this information, and Kelly opines, “This stinks. This is a set up.” T’kora asks, “In what way?” Kelly insists this is a Cardassian trap, set by the Obsidian Order. T’kora admits that may be possible but argues that it is more logical that the Pakleds are an SI asset. Aaron counsels, “Let’s not lean too far into this yet,” and then Shil’vala hails Aaron and reports, //“I have Commander [[trek:characters:bjornson|Bjornson]] on the line.”// Aaron changes his mind and says, “Just route it down here,” and a second later, the Federation symbol appears as the channel encrypts and then they see Bjornson.
 Bjornson greets Aaron and Aaron gives him an update on their Pakled situation and the Cardassian data rod. Bjornson nods and replies glibly, //“Ah, the //Moban//.”// Aaron growls, “Wait, you know that ship? Also, T’kora, put a warning out so no one else gets within a parsec of that damned thing.” Bjornson snorts and inadvertently repeats T’kora when he says, //“This is what happens when your tactical officer builds a theme park somewhere.”// Kimball mumbles, “It was a solar distillery, actually.”

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