Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Stardate 87732.66

This is a short, but eventful log. Coming from our high over saving the space time continuum, we headed back to Earth, but on the way picked up some unusual Klingon activity.


They were mining some odd sort of asteroid, we took a sample and beamed down to the nearby planet.




We couldn't help but wonder if our trip to the past had introduced smurf DNA to the Klingons also.




And yes, Tommy has a tribble. I thought we'd gotten rid of them all, but the darn things reproduce so fast! Also I'd kept mine, so it's probably my fault. In any case, the Klingon Mushroom base seemed to be using the asteroid material to create some sort of super deadly torpedo.




And yes, Reggie has a tribble too. In any case, we beamed up the torpedo (and three others we found) and headed to starbase Earth.


Just in the nick of time! 


I'm absolutely sure this is not our fault at all, but our shavers use a small beam to get rid of facial hair. Apparently the Klingons, given one in the past somehow, *cough* had been working for decades on improving the technology and now had some sort of super weapon capable of destroying whole planets!


The torpedo weapons that we had just found appear to be super powerful also. I suggested that perhaps we use the super powerful torpedo against the Doomsday Device.


They wouldn't mount on the ship, however, so Starfleet gave us a new ship!




The U.S.S. Perseverance (NCC 93545-B). Dwight and I fitted the torpedo and then we left immediately to face the Klingon menace. But first we had to fly by Australia again.




The Admiral told me that he'd overlook some of our more "interesting" log entries if we saved the galaxy. Sounded like a fair deal to me. A fair deal of something I'm not willing to enter into the log.


Wouldn't you know it, the Klingons had chosen a red nebula to test their device. We thought upon entering the system that the Klingons had already used the machine once. Why? Reggie and Garry were getting strange tetrychronkillifier particles on their screens. Also there was a destroyed planet.




We headed over that way, battling Klingon cruisers, the Perseverance handling herself well.




Although she has less shielding power, as a much larger vessel there is more power for weapons etc.


In any case, even from a great distance the Doomsday Device was visible, like a giant ice-cream cone... of Death!




Tommy calculated that we could actually get some tetrychronkillifier particles by scooping them from the core of the destroyed planet, feed them into the Klingon torpedo blatherification matrix and regrobnit the dritnawfurcation device for an even more potent weapon. So we did.




With fully charged torpedo, we assaulted the Doomsday Device, along with a fleet of Starfleet's finest.




I apologise for the sparsity of images, as you can see in this one, the device charged up a massive amount of power and then released it in a massive cone of destruction. Moments after this image was taken the U.S.S. Perseus and U.S.S. Howitzer were both destroyed. Our weapons were useless against it!


The one weakness Anthi picked up on was after it had fired, a shot directly into the mouth of it should destroy it. The only problem with that was the short range of the super torpedo.


With the U.S.S. Mississippi and U.S.S. Sakal also destroyed we knew there was only one thing for it.


Putting all power to shields, we flew right in front of it as it charged up for another shot.




The ship was almost instantly destroyed. We lost complete shields, decks 4, 5, 9, and 15 through 21 were just gone. We launched the torpedo, then abandoned ship.




From a distance in our shuttle we watched as the torpedo detonated inside the device.




Cheering as the explosion completely ruptured the entire thing, we then noticed the massive shockwave heading our way. Anthi boosted the shuttle's rear shields while Dwight managed to coax more engine power. We watched as the shockwave hit the Perseverance. Which didn't persevere so much as disintegrate.




Shortly thereafter the shockwave caught up with us too. Now we're sitting here in a shuttle reduced to battery power. The life support system is good for another couple of days. Our tribbles are keeping us company. Yes, there are enough for one each again now. Even Garry has one.


Hopefully Starfleet will pick us up soon. 


Sparky... out.


Captain's Log: supplemental - sorry about the ship!

2 comments:

  1. your expeditions seem to require a fairly steep budget on Starfleet's part...

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  2. Yeah, but judging by the number of other ships I see around, I think they just replicate them...

    "Tea... Earl Grey... Hot...

    Oh, and a side order of Constitution class vessels with crew."

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