Another Perspective

[WxMurray 0]

Crewman Nicole Dickinson

Personal Log

Stardate 0604.12

 

I swear, Saf is a dead man. Only he would find a way to not be in engineering when we lost contact with the rest of the ship, when the Romulans and their Klingon lapdogs came and took us hostage. If we come out of this alive, I’m going to bludgeon his skull with a Maglite…and then give him a great big hug for saving us.

 

It’s a little dark in here at the moment. Someone took out the lights, not to mention the rest of the power supplied to engineering. I can tell Saf took care of that, and he did it in the fastest and most efficient way possible – frying the local power transfer conduits. Prell is going to blow a gasket when he finds out. Just what we need, to fix a gasket in addition to the rest of this.

 

The warp core is still online, though, casting a dim shadow over the immediate vicinity. Not that it’s bright enough to see anything with, but at least I know where I am in relation to it. We seem to be toward the back of engineering on the port side of the core. Nora is with me, as are seven or eight other engineers. Kairi is around here somewhere, too, but I can’t see her in the dark. Stupid darkness.

 

There must be a cease-fire at the moment. Or everyone ran out of ammo. There was Marine fire coming from in the vicinity of the pool table or Prell’s office…I think. Stupid darkness. Someone else was firing from above us next to the warp core – a phaser rifle. It has to be Saf; he was able to discretely alert me by tapping on the core. I was able to get myself and the other engineers back as best as I could so that we wouldn’t be completely in the line of fire. Of course it’d be nice to know that for sure. Stupid darkness.

 

Well, whatever they’re doing, I hope they know that the Romulans have the warp core rigged to blow. I can’t tell for sure (stupid darkness), but I think that it’s wired in such a way that it is going to be very difficult to undo it. So far, these terrorists (I guess that’s what they are – certainly seem like it to me) seem to have thought this all out with incredible detail. Having a crude explosive just wouldn’t make sense. And I’m sure they’ve got several backup plans for numerous scenarios. These people are not dumb. Any sort of plan is going to require very long, and very careful thought.

 

Ugh. I’m starting to get hungry. I’d try and sneak over to get something from the replicator, but Murray was kind enough to kill the power to engineering. Of course, getting food from the replicator would require me to actually find it. Stupid darkness.