"Helpless"

[STSF Precip 0]

Personal Log

Lieutenant Mitar Precip

Security Officer USS Manticore

Above Proxima Centauri

 

Mitar stood at the tactical station behind the conversing officers. Science and Engineering were desperately trying to put ideas together to help stop the BioAgent...running amok on Maniticore. Two men were now dead, and Mitar had every reason to believe more fatalities would occur.  The Captain had approved of Lt. Precip's suggestion of informing Starfleet of The Manticore's plight and activation of the Quarantine beacons, so seldom used on Starships since the invention of the biofilter.

 

Yet this work of some demented Doctor's hands had slipped through the Manticore's aegis of biofilters, decontamination units and suits. Whoever engineered this bioagent, had created a killer that had the ability to circumnavigate Starfleet defenses.  And if spread to other ships or other worlds...Mitar couldn't handle the thought of the consequences.

 

At the moment the Bolian felt helpless. This was out of his league. He could fly a shuttle, fire weapons ranging from hand held phasers to the powerful arrays that equipped the Manticore. Yet Mitar found himself..utterly useless behind tactical. The answer to this attack on the Manticore wasn't phasers or shields...it would come from the minds of the Science, Medical and Engineering departments.  

 

Lt. Mitar Precip  looked at his tactical screen showing the creature below gobbling up whatever source of Sodium Chloride it could find just outside the Lincoln Outpost where this whole thing started. Mitar zoomed his viewscreen at Tactical to Maximum resolution..showing the outpost. At least what was left of it.  It was there something caught the Bolian's eye...damage to a large storage facility..from a precision orbital blast.  Mitar looked at it with keen interest..for this had to of been done ten years ago, by the Romulans. But the damage from orbit was certainly not the work of typical Romulan Disruptor bank at the time, no this building had been hit by a phaser array Mitar concluded....but why would a Federation ship fire at  it's own outpost? Something did not add up the Bolian  ...but one thing that was adding up was the body count on the Manticore.