God works in mysterious ways *********************************************** Space and time and thought arent the separate things they appear to be Wesley Crusher, Star Trek NG episode 106 Where no one has gone before 14:55 - 15:01 ************************************************************************************************* “Contagion” Star Trek NG ******************************** Have we nailed down our little hiccup yet…the odd reading? It’s like the ship suddenly decided to fall apart. I know what you are thinking…what the hell am I doing here. Donald, that was quite a risk to run to satisfy archeological curiosity. The risk would be allowing the Romulans to locate Iconia. Enough technology remains to give the Romulans an edge… More than a thousand people have been lost. Enough. I want answers not conjecture. A staff meeting in one hour. Wait, that’s not possible. Yes sir it is, but a highly unlikely set of circumstances has to take place for such a set of circumstances to occur. However it happened, the Yamato did it to herself. Theorize, What could have caused such a catastrophic malfunction. It’s the most sophisticated piece of machinery ever built. Something could have been overlooked. Knowing where the flaw is located can you isolate the problem and solve it. A galactic Rosetta Stone. Should this advanced technology fall into the hands of the Romulans we might as well dock our ships and defend ourselves with sticks. The Iconian probe scan…was it an attempt at communication? Maddening systems failures…infuriating to be stopped at the threshold of a dream by one’s own ship Picard…I must convince him to continue this exploration. The future well-being of the Federation may well depend on it. A probe that scanned the Yamato…put it on main viewer…What the Devil is that? It appears to be a scanner possibly a transmitter. Transmitting what? Unknown. When the Yamato was probed, where was she? ETA at warp factor 8. Sir, that would put us substantially closer to the Romulan side of the Neutral Zone. That can’t be helped. We are going to assume the Yamato’s mission. And risk a war? Perhaps prevent one. China was thought to be a myth until Marco Polo travelled there. No, the Iconians are certainly real. We know that three systems within this sector had a number of cultural similarities – similarities that could only be explained by there being a single unifying influence. So they colonized those worlds? Probably conquered. Ancient texts did speak of demons of air and darkness. Legend has it that they travelled without the benefit of spaceships merely appearing out of thin air on distant planets. Sounds like magic. Well, we would be magical to stone age people. How did you find all this out? Archeology has been a hobby of mine since Academy days It’s the Yamato, captain. I can’t stop thinking about her. All those people…dead. I don’t know how you…handle it so easily. Oh no, not easily. We handle it because we are trained to as you will be. Whenever the time comes when the death of a single individual fails to move us…(flower appears) didn’t you order tea, sir? Now that should have not happened. As happened with our sister ship, the Enterprise is beginning to experience a series of system failures. So far they are random but I fear they could be early symptoms of what happened to the Yamato. I can eliminate one worry. It is not a design flaw. I think the alien probe may have had something to do with her problems. Mr. Laforge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance. No life readings, sir. All major cities have been heavily damaged and the pattern of destruction is consistent with large scale orbital bombardment. How long ago? Approximately 200,000 years, sir. There is an energy source in the mountains of the smaller continent. Is that Iconia? A probe has been launched from the planet. I am going to capture it. Destroy the probe, quickly. Lock on phasers. Fire. If that thing had managed to scan us, we never would have had any chance of saving the Enterprise. That probe was a transmitter sending an alien computer program, the same program that is currently aboard the Enterprise trying to rewrite our software in its own image. We have two completely incompatible computer systems trying to interact. The Iconian program is so sophisticated I may never understand it. This program has entered an alien database, ours, and in less than 7 hours has managed to not only learn our systems but has begun to reprogram our computer. How did this thing get aboard the Enterprise? We downloaded the Yamato log and it contained the program. We’re sitting on a bomb that could go off any second or maybe never. The biobeds aren’t working. The ship is falling apart. I’ve had 35 emergency calls scattered across 12 decks It’s so far beyond us we have no hope of rewriting it let alone controlling it. The probe was launched from Iconia, probably from an automated system. There may be records near the launch site that could help us find a solution. Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise. Lock phasers on the Romulans and hold your fire. I have claimed this planet for the Romulan Empire. This is the Neutral Zone – no one can claim anything. We have found what appears to be a control center which appears to have remained intact. Judging by the severity of the bombardment I doubt any Iconians survived. The tension on the ship is very high. Give everyone on the ship something to do – something to focus their attention. Evacuation to the planet… Iconian is the parent tongue of a language family which consists of Icabar, Dewan and Denasian. That was not manual override. Demons of air and darkness indeed. If it is not an illusion this gate would seem to take us beyond the confines of this planet. Is this how the Iconians travelled, crossing light years as easily as we would cross a room? Those places could be on worlds in distant corners of the galaxy. I think the Iconians might have outfoxed their enemies. Maybe they didn’t all die in the bombardment. Some of them could have passed through this. … The Romulans could use this technology as a weapon. The probe was hostile. We can’t make that assumption. The effect on the Yamato was devastating but what if it was by accident not by design? What I am about to say may sound unscientific but standing on this soil breathing in this air my instincts tell me we may have gotten this wrong. The victors invariably rewrite the history to their own advantage. There is an unfortunate tendency in many cultures to fear what they do not understand. It’s possible their enemies, confronted by this technology, were driven to attack the Iconians out of fear. Captain, there is a vast underground power source which is controlled by this console. I believe my triggering of the gateway has caused a dramatic upsurge in the power level. I am damaged. The Iconian program is attempting to rewrite my software. Physical manifestations: blindness, motor Sir, without him we have no hope in deciphering the program. The next time the Enterprise appears, go through it with Data. How long? I’m running out of time. We all are. He’s gone. Data! What the hell? The self-correcting mechanism. The solution was a shutdown and a total wipe of all affected memory. (reboot) So what’s been happening here? Same old routine, I suppose? https://youtube/watch?v=nWpoHrbCAh4
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:09:19 +0000
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