Asst. Engineer's Report

[Rov 0]

All investigations into the wiring failure have led to nothing, literally. If it had been simply age as suggested then the scans would have shown metal fatigue or corrosion or other aging effects. If it had been a short there would be thermal wear. If it had been physical damage then impact scars or markings. If it had been subspace fluctuations then there would be trace fracturing of the subatomic bonds. Seeing as scans have shown nothing then we are either dealing with a situation our scanners are not equipped to deal with or we have to rewrite the laws of physics. Either case is more serious then a simple annoyance.

 

As for the system failures, I am in the process of running diagnostics for the second or third time. A minor chroniton reading was detected. It was my first theory that the ship's cloaking device may also be malfunctioning seeing as chronitons are normally associated with cloaking problems. If leaking chronitons had interfered with ships systems then it is totally possible that circuitry signals could have been "cloaked", altered, blocked, or otherwise rerouted to create system failures or corrupted data loops.

 

The chief took my interest in those readings as jumping to some grand conclusion of hidden cloaking generators and conspiratorial agendas. Where he got that I've given up trying to figure out. The facts are the chroniton blips do not match the frequencies typically used by cloaking devices. While the Chief's assertion that this is simply background signals is probably true his lack of grasping the situation is leading me to run a scan of the cloaking device before ruling the theory out for myself.

 

The Chief seems to believe the system glitches are nothing but bad data from the age of the ship. Preflight diagnostics before launch, and during and after the gel pack replacements, and after the first and second system failures should have caught this at some point. But, I am running the scans again, as ordered. I am taking it upon myself to personally physically scan one bank of isolinier chips. Once I confirm no problems with it I will run a secondary diagnostic of the diagnostic's program through it. This will take longer than normal but will make sure we are not using corrupted data to look for corrupted data.

 

-end report