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(Nevin) Ship's Log, Stardate 61251.3.
(Nevin) We've been in Andromeda now for 6 weeks.
(Nevin) Besides a few skirmishes with wandering Archien battle scouts, we've avoided a lot of attention.
(Nevin) Now that we've lost our cloak however, we can't guarantee that luck will stay.
We've also had to dump several anti-matter pods that almost ruptured during the last attack.
Sensors have picked up a planet nearby that looks to be an abandoned anti-matter refinery.
(Door Open/Close) Somehow it feels too convenient.
(Raised voice) Nevin, this is the last straw!
So was the last time.
What's happened now ?
I go down to the armoury to do my regular checks on the firing chambers and the warheads
And I see T'Lorra poking her pointy ears about, looking through our database.
Mister Ro, if I have to put up with the obstructive behaviour of your second officer
(Stadi) Obstructive! Huh! (T'Lorra) any more
Coming from the same woman that wouldn't let her own mother look at the cloaking device.
The same one that could be protecting us from the Archien, if you would, just, let us, fix it.
I am not going to risk your engineer's incompetence by allowing him to attempt a repair.
(T'Lorra) He would destroy it and us in the process.
We are anything but incompetent, you green blooded..
Stop, please, my head is hurting enough as it is.
(Stadi) Nevin, you can't even think about letting her near the weaponry.
It's a classified..
Classified ? Next you'll tell me it's against regulations.
Well it is.
And for all we know you could be making notes to take back to your Tal Shia friends.
Or maybe even the Archien..
Yes. That's right, I'm selling secrets about this ship to the very enemy that would gladly see me and my home burn.
Obviously Starfleet does not give rank by intelligence.
I'm sorry, do I need to be here for this ?
This situation cannot continue as it has.
I need resources to repair the cloak and for that I need anti-matter.
(T'Lorra) Unless you want me to start pulling apart what's left of the warp core
I suggest that we go back to the planet that we detected, and let me go and get it.
Absolutely not ! If we don't keep moving we're sitting ducks.
And if we keep moving without finding resources we are dead anyway.
We cannot miss this opportunity !
Ro to Wozniak.
Alter course to the planet we detected earlier.
Best speed.
(Comm-Wozniak) Aye sir.
Sensors confirm what we originally thought.
(Wozniak) The planet's either unmanned or abandoned.
There are no life signs.
There should be no resistance then.
(Wozniak) The team will need to beam down there with transport enhancers, anti-matter's simply too dangerous to beam up.
Away team, Commander ?
Have them assembled in transporter room 3. Standard orbit Alex.
Already on it sir.
I'll be accompanying you, Lieutenant Stadi, remain here.
Like hell !
Wozniak, you take the bridge.
Stadi to Shanaar, report to transporter room 3.
(Comm-Shanaar) Aye sir.
Let's go.
(Rain)
(Thunder)
(Scanning) We'll have to spread out.
Stadi, you come with me, T'Lorra, Shanaar, check out the building across the way.
(Scanning sounds) So what was this argument with T'Lorra really about ?
I don't trust her sir.
Because she's Romulan ?
No sir, because she's a Romulan Sub-Commander on board a Federation ship.
It's probably the Empire's dream.
They have been our allies for several years.
Just permit me to be cautious sir.
Is there something on your mind Sub-Commander ?
I have an unsettled feeling about being here.
Seemingly dead planets make me feel weary.
I know what you mean.
It's uneasy walking through a place that once housed millions of people.
(Shanaar) Seeing a society now long gone, it's like walking through an old graveyard.
That is not what I meant.
Oh, what did you mean then ?
It has been my experience that a dead civilisation has usually left something alive.
(T'Lorra) Sometimes the reason why it is dead to begin with. And almost always something unpleasant.
I see, now that you mention it, it sort of makes me uneasy too..
Over here, there's anti-matter.
Not as much as I would like but it is something.
Remove this anti-locking device.
Are you sure that's a good idea Sub-Commander ?
We don't have a choice, remove it.
(Electronic sparks) Errrgh.
(Siren)
(T'Lorra) T'Lorra to Ro, security system has been activated. Shanaar is dead, I need assistance.
(Theme Music)
(Caecus) I don't see what's wrong with my clothes.
They're very nice but hardly suited for someone of your stature young one.
(Vito) What you wear and how you present yourself shows position and power to those below.
What position ? What power ?
I'm a servant of the Majan.
Show me another servant of the Majan that's held in her arms the way you are.
Until then, clothes are much more important than you may think.
Thank you Vito, for everything that you do.
I feel as though you do the job of a parent.
I'm sure if your parents were here, they'd be doing this for you.
Did you know them, my parents ?
Yes, young one.
How did they.. die ?
Has our Majan Seram told you nothing ?
Just that my father was killed in a Kelvan raid.
Nothing of my mother.
Your mother, a very powerful woman among the Archien nobles, but she died the day she heard of the death of your father.
(Vito) A broken heart she could not stand, it consumed her until she was no more.
I wish I had known her.
The automated defences around the planet Cicones were activated earlier today.
(Morrigu) Someone attempted to steal some of the anti-matter pods we have stored there.
Kelvans ?
No, the Romulan ship.
If we leave now, we could have them in a few hours.
Take 3 cruisers, the automated defences should have disabled them.
(Majan Seram) Bring them back in one piece, I wish to make an example of them.
In thy name Majan.
Leave us Vito.
In their name.
My special one.
How is it that I can have so much defiance at the doorstep of our empire ?
And yet with you I can feel only joy.
I live for your service, Majan.
And serve me you do well. Make me feel alive, Caecus.
Continue phaser spread!
Helm, get us out of their weapons range! Odyssey to away team!
Odyssey, we have a man down. Beam all of us to sickbay.
We're out of transporter range at the moment, avoiding satellites trying to shoot us out of the sky.
Ro, Shanaar is still alive.
More the pity he cannot help us move these. Help me with these transport enhancers.
We don't have the time. Wozniak, get us out of here!
(T'Lorra) Just a few more minutes!
Shanaar doesn't have that time! We need to leave now.
We'll have a lot more dead if we can't get this cloak online!
He's not good. The energy surge that went through him caused a deep rupture throughout his frontal cortex.
(Vaughan) If our equipment wasn't so damaged I'd be able to do more, but as it is I've done all I can.
This is my fault, we should have been more careful.
(Stadi) No, there's no way we could have known what would happen.
The security systems, the satellites, they didn't show up on scans.
It must have been a *** trap.
I'll let you know if anything changes.
Two more minutes and I would have had the transport enhancers up. As it is, we have lost manpower and resources.
Considering he may not survive, we could have taken the time to get the anti-matter and have something to show for it.
There is no point in wasting resources on those who are lost to us.
I can't believe.. tell me you didn't just suggest letting the man die!
We cannot afford to be careless with energy and equipment on a labour that has no hope.
You'd be saying that whatever his chances.
I would appreciate you not doing this in my sickbay.
I need to concentrate.
Keep me posted doctor.
(Nevin) It's comforting, even in another galaxy there are so many familiar stellar bodies, elements, star types.
It's also further proof that all the galaxies came from..
The same place, or event.
I'm picking up what looks to be a class J nebula.
(Nevin) If my sensors are right it has a high concentration of deuterium.
I see it.
We could collect the deuterium and use it to synthesize our own anti-matter.
It's a dangerous process, but it's better than nothing.
Altering course 3-0 by 2-5-4. But I don't know how you're planning on collecting it.
Why not?
The bussard collectors are still out and
Gillen seems a little overworked down there so I don't think that we can count on them any time soon.
I guess we'll have to take a shuttle then.
Maya, this is Ro. Can you put together an away team for a shuttle mission to collect heavy deuterium?
(Comm-Stadi) Deuterium? Sure, give me a few minutes.
(Nevin) Great. Alex, I'll be in the conference room if you need me.
Aye sir.
(Nevin) Ro to Sickbay. Vaughan, how is Shanaar doing?
He'd be doing better if we weren't so beat up I'm afraid.
(Vaughn) There isn't much I can do for him. I'll keep trying, but honestly, if I can't get him out of the woods in the next couple of hours...
Well keep trying. We've lost too many people already.
I know, but I think you should prepare yourself for having to let him go.
I can keep him breathing, but I fear the brain damage may be too severe.
What does that mean for his survival?
It means we may have to decide whether living in a non-reactive almost brain-dead state is survival at all.
(Vaughn) I'll keep you posted.
I've given Shanaar 10 CC of Zenephrin as you've said.
Still no response?
None.
Let's think of something else.
Mr. Shanaar is almost completely brain dead. He has almost zero chance of a recovering at this point.
That's a better chance than zero ensign.
If we give up now we might as well give up on all our patients out here, because there will be more of them.
We've seen too many of our crew die already, I don't want to see more die.
So while there's still a tiny chance, there's still a chance.
I suppose we could try and stimulate each part of the brain individually rather than all at the same time.
That's the spirit. Get to it.
Yes doctor.
(Stadi) Shuttle Templar to Odyssey, we're away and into the nebula now.
We should be back with full collectors in fifteen minutes.
Good. We'll see you soon.
(Stadi) As soon as we enter the nebula we won't be able to communicate, so expect a blackout.
We've lost communication with the shuttle.
Can we keep a sensor lock on them?
We should be able to track their progress from here, even if we can't hear them.
Personally I'm quite happy for the moment of peace.
It would be nice if the two of you could work together.
Perhaps if Ms. Stadi insists on any more suicide missions like this one, I won't have to.
(Alarm) Commander, on screen.
(Nevin) The shuttle!
Scanning, looks like their port nacelle ruptured.
We have to move in to get them out of there.
The explosion has set off a chain reaction inside the nebula. We can't get close enough without risking the ship.
We have to try. Wozniak.
Already on the move sir. I can take us in to tractor range, but it will take us to the outer edge of the nebula.
I must inform you Lieutenant Commander that I am opposed to this course of action.
That's fine, T'Lorra. Engineering, we're going to need a tractor beam.
I have no idea if it will work or not. Just because the computer says it's working now, doesn't mean it will when we need it to.
We're entering the nebula now, be there in ten seconds.
I'm initiating tractor beam.
Tractor beam has lost power.
I'm rerouting power... and.. now!
Got them sir! Pulling them into the shuttle bay.
(Wozniak) Setting a course out of the nebula.
We were lucky.
(Comm-Vaughn) Sickbay to Bridge, what just happened?
There was an accident on the shuttle, they're probably wounded.
Why am I not surprised? Are we trying to get our entire crew killed?
(Commm-Vaughn) I'm on my way to the shuttle bay.
(T'Lorra) As you requested, I have completed a scan on the recovered shuttle.
It seems that the build up of energy from the bussard collectors triggered an already active region of the nebula, starting a cascade plasma storm.
(T'Lorra) Next time Ms. Stadi will have to be more careful in her haste.
What are you doing?
I am reviewing Shanaar's file.
Did you know that he was a Perisis Squares champion?
I do not even know his first name.
Neither did I. I had to look it up.
It can hardly be expected that you know everyone on this ship on a first name basis. You are only the science officer.
(T'Lorra) I am returning to work. If we want to survive we need the cloak operational.
And for that we need anti-matter.
I have made some suggestions that might be some use.
Review the padd.
Is Stadi right, Commander?
Are you cold about the lives of all people? Or just Federation lives?
Just because our blood is green, Commander, it does not mean that we are without feeling.
(T'Lorra) I am not cold towards life, I am simply pragmatic.
Serving the Romulan Empire I have lost people under my authority, so I am not without understanding.
(T'Lorra) But if I allow every loss to distract me or unsettle me I would have lost many more.
Knowing when I can save my officers, more importantly knowing when I cannot, has saved others in the process.
I haven't had that responsibility before.
To be able to look at the big picture, to write off one thing so others can survive.
You must. It is your duty and responsibility now.
As much as it pains me to say it you are the captain despite your rank.
Learn to move on and to accept loss, otherwise risk killing us all in your hesitance.
T'Lorra I understand what you said, I do.
But maybe I can take a look at the big picture, without being so quick to write off what isn't easy, or safe.
We would have lost Stadi and the team back there, if we hadn't taken a risk.
But we took a chance, and it worked.
I mean, isn't that the better choice? To take a risk?
Perhaps you too should take the risk. We know there is anti-matter back there and without it, we might as well be dead.
Take us back and allow us to retrieve the stores that we need.
A raid? On what is probably an Archein stronghold? That's foolish.
It's a risk. And may I remind you, Ro Nevin, that without antimatter we are without a and without a warp core.
Without a warp core we have no power and without power we are dead. No replicators, no sensors and eventually no life support.
Take the risk. Isn't that what a Captain is supposed to do?
Engineering.
Halt.
Sickbay.
Subcommander T'Lorra! You aren't often down in these parts. Is your ocular implant giving you trouble again?
Yes, it seems that I am more prone to headaches from being on this ship.
I have something that should make you feel better.
(T'Lorra) How is Shanaar?
He's not good I'm afraid.
I've done all I can for the moment.
We should know either way soon, however I'm not holding out hope.
That was quite a heated conversation you and Stadi were having.
She is a rather, aggravating person to work with.
She's stubborn.
I imagine she's having a difficult time at the moment. Being lost in another galaxy, it must give her déjà vu.
She's been lost in Andromeda before?
No, she hasn't. Her sister was on the Voyager mission.
She was killed quite soon after they were lost. She probably thinks her name is cursed.
Perhaps she is.
I didn't think the Romulan Star Empire to be much for superstition.
We have a saying. If the talons fit, the claw must be responsible.
Logical.
(Vaughan) Do you play chess, subcommander?
Occasionally.
Great! I've been looking for a challenge.
Perhaps if you have a free moment.
Perhaps another time.
Doctor Vaughan, you said you were stationed on Federation Starbase Three-Nine-Five.
Yes, that's how I knew about your ocular implant.
Is that also the reason why you are attempting to accept me as a shipmate?
(T'Lorra) Romulans do not easily garner trust and acceptance from humans.
I got to know some Romulans during my work there.
(Vaughn) I suppose that having had that experience may make me more comfortable around you than my other Starfleet colleagues.
I see. I must return to work.
(Vaughn) Jolan True, Subcommander!
(Alarm)
Oh no, what's that alarm now?! (Computer) Danger, approaching safety limits of engine containment field.
(Computer) Anti-matter containment positive, warp drive within normal parameters.
Captain! Thank you.
Don't worry, Josh, I'm just making the rounds.
I'm sorry sir, I don't even know where to begin.
I'm feel like I'm lost down here, every time I try to fix something, something else breaks!
I repair one EPS conduit, and start a cascade failure of the whole main grid.
Don't try to fix everything all at once.
A good engineer knows that things will fail.
Prioritise.
The Chief would have known what to do in an instant.
If we are going to make it through this, we all need to pull together, dig deep, find our strengths, rise above our limitations.
(Nevin) You can do this.
I know. But you need the ship ready now.
Not at the expense of my Chief Engineer.
These are your people. Take a step back and look at the big picture.
You have the skills.
All I've ever wanted to do was experimental engineering.
Building new technologies, I even dreamt about being a part of the MIDAS project.
My family didn't understood that, my father was a big Starfleet man.
“Go out and see the stars, not just draw 'em”
I'd be content sitting at home at Thunder Bay, and going fishing on the weekends skipping stones across the lake.
That does sound nice right about now.
My father's the one who wanted me to be in the fleet.
And after a while I guess I came around to the idea.
Now look where I am.
You know someone once said, that a ship is only as good as the engineer who takes care of her.
You can do this.
Be the engineer that I know you can be. You'll get home, Josh.
We'll all get home.
I guess I shouldn't complain, you've become captain now.
I'm not sure I could take on the responsibility for the whole ship.
Engineering is bad enough!.
We are approaching Cicones, it won't be long before we are engaged in battle General.
And do you know with whom we'll be engaged?
The alien vessel from the Romulan galaxy.
And what of the ship itself? What are her specifications? Her weaponry?
What is her name, young one?
I do not know sir.
To defeat our enemy you must get to know them.
Keep them as close as possible.
Get to know their secrets, their desires, their needs.
They've attempted to steal a power source we've left dormant since our great war.
This tells me they're low on supplies.
(Morrigu) If their ships are like ours, they'll be dependant on anti-matter.
They'll be weak.
But they will do everything possible to survive, as the self-destruction of their engine core has already demonstrated.
You've learned all this?
From observation.
And in the remote chance that we don't defeat them today, we'll at least have learnt more about them.
Of course General.
There's also a message sent from Majan Seram. She wishes for you to update her on your status.
Yes. She is of course clever and wise. I shall attend to it immediately.
In their name.
Clever.. and wise.
Shouldn't you be in sickbay Lieutenant?
Vaughan released me when I wouldn't co-operate. I'm reporting for duty sir.
Good.
We are returning to the mining planet. They have stores of processed anti-matter. We need those stores.
No way! We'll get blown out of the sky as soon as we get close.
I have a plan.
This is her idea isn't it? Sir it's insane.
Do you have any other ideas Lieutenant?
No sir.
I know I don't want to die on that rock though.
Like I said, I have a plan.
Gillen, report to astrometrics. I'll meet you there.
Maya, T'Lorra, come with me please.
Maybe it's not too late to be confined to sickbay.
(Nevin) OK. We know the planet has anti-matter stores we can use to refuel the Warp Core.
We can't beam it up from orbit and we can't get the shuttles past the satellites. So our original plan is still sound.
We beam down with our pattern enhancers, collect as much as we can and beam up.
Like I said, blown out of the sky.
Sir, she's right, I don't see how we can get close enough to the surface to beam down an away team without being blown up.
That will be where you and T'Lorra come in.
(Nevin) We drop out of warp, as close as we can to the planet.
(Nevin) Which means we'll need to complete a near-warp beam in before we jump to warp again.
(Nevin) Alex will take care of the warp jump and the transport.
(Nevin) As soon as you beam down, find a console, and Ensign Gillen, you'll need to access the satellite controls
(Nevin) and send us their command codes so that we can deactivate them from here once we warp back.
(Nevin) You will only have a few minutes, so once you've collected as many pods as you can signal us to return.
(Nevin) We will warp back in, beam the team and the pods back to the ship and deactivate the satellites from here.
Let's do it.
Gillen to Odyssey, I have the command code for the satellite. Transmitting to you now.
We have them! T'Lorra, start transmitting as soon as we get back into range.
Alex, get us back to that planet.
(Alarm) Commander we have a problem. Archein ships bearing down on us, they must have known we were here.
(Explosion)
Shields hit.
Evasive action helm!
We're not going to be able to get close enough to the planet to beam up our team and the supplies, even if we take out the satellites.
Then perhaps we should leave the satellites operational.
So we can die in half the time?
(Explosion)
Your sarcasm is most unpleasant Lieutenant.
The boy is down there on the planet with access to the satellite's programming.
He may not be able to deactivate it from there, but he can change the target.
So the satellites target the Archein ships.
Now that sounds more like it!
Odyssey to Gillen, do you think you can get to the satellite control system and reprogram them to target the Archein ships firing at us?
If I had an instruction manual and a programming team then maybe.
Sorry Ensign, you only have a few minutes.
No pressure then.
Maya, continue firing. We need to bide some time.
Alex keep them weaving around us.
They're firing their weapons at us, but they're in no danger of penetrating our hull.
They know this, and yet they still remain.
Why don't they flee?
They haven't got what they came for.
Perhaps, and perhaps they know something we don't.
Be wary. This fight may not be as easy as we first thought.
Odyssey to Gillen, how's it coming?
(Gillen) I think I have it, and I'm changing the targeting procedures now.
I can't guarantee it'll work, but you'll know in about thirty seconds.
(Explosion) No change yet. Our shields are at 40%.
Wait. The satellites have stopped firing.
Confirmed. The satellites have stopped, and are changing direction, towards the Archein ships.
They are charging weapons and about to fire on the Archeins.
You did it Gillen! Wozniak, take us in.
We're going to need to initiate transport and go straight to warp.
Aye sir. Changing course.
The alien vessel is leaving the system. General, I don't know how this happened.
They were desperate, they used everything they had. And it worked.
You sound almost admiring General.
And I am. One ship should have been an easy enough target.
But we've learned two things from this encounter.
Yes General?
We've learned that they're extremelly resourceful and I was wrong to underestimate them.
I shall not make that mistake again.
Majan Seram will not be pleased.
I shall prepare the report myself.
Yes General. And what was the second thing we learned?
The ship's name young one.
It is the Odyssey.
(Bleep)
Mistress Seram, I beg you not to be
(Slap) Ahh!
Oh Caecus.
My special one, they have made fools of us, of Archeina.
No more, we shall have their remains spread across our space as a warning to all who would oppose us.
They will beg for mercy before I am through with them.
(Sobbing)
(Door)
(T'Lorra) I need the pods for the cloaking device.
(Stadi) There are other things that are far more important than your cloaking...
(Nevin - Clears throat)
Is everything alright sir?
I haven't stepped foot in this room since T'lek was sitting in that chair.
But he's not here now.
No sir, he isn't.
It's technically my chair. I don't want it, yet it's meant for me to sit there.
Then why don't you sit in it?
(Comm-Vaughan) Vaughan to Ro, please report to sickbay.
On my way.
Look I'm going to need the two of you to work together as best you can.
I'm going to need to rely on both of you. I can't do that if you're constantly fighting.
Understood sir. I'll try my best.
You asked to see me doctor.
I've done all I can for Shanaar, but at this point, Sir, I can barely keep him breathing.
If we had a fully functioning sickbay there may be a chance, but out here.
Shanaar was assigned to Odyssey at Bixx's request from Deep Space 11.
Shanaar saved his life in a Tholian attack a few years back, and Bixx had been watching him ever since.
(Nevin) Could have made Commander in a few years easily.
Is this going to happen a lot?
Us losing good people because we're stuck?
(Vaughan) I wish I could promise that I'll be able to save everyone. I'll certainly do the best I can. I can promise you that much.
I'm sorry Crewman.
Thank you Doctor.
I suppose you can organise the funeral arrangements?
I'll take care of it Commander.
Captain on the bridge!
Status of the cloak?
The cloak is operational again.
That quickly? Good work, Subcommander.
(Stadi) It might be worth pointing out that the work was sped up thanks to Ensign Gillen and his team.
Their assistance was not unwelcome considering we had to get the cloak operational as quickly as possible.
That's good to hear.
Wozniak, set a course for the nearest habitable system.
Aye sir.
(Nevin) Captain's log, Stardate 61273.8.
(Nevin) This is my first entry as acting Captain.
(Nevin) The cloak is working again, for now.
(Nevin) We have to remember that our resources are finite and that while we have enough for now we can't sustain our power levels indefinitely.
(Nevin) I also need to record the death of Lieutenant Junior Grade Shanaar Tel'es, who died during the attempt to recover our supplies.
(Nevin) I have to hope that this will get easier. But right now, I can't see how it can.
English Subtitles : Michael Hudson
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