"Idea-less"

[HyperDrive 0]

Chief Petty Officer Martin Weedman

Second-in-Command, Challenger Design Team

San Francisco, Earth

June 9, 2154

 

RECORD OF COMMUNICATION

 

This record is classified for authorized personnel only. The communication enclosed was video encoded in the office of CPO Martin Weedman, and has been edited into text narration by Petty Officer Jeremy Clemons, and authorized by Lieutenant Gerold Gray.

 

The record below contains a physical communication between CPO Martin Weedman, Second-in-Command of the Challenger Design Team, and Civilian Alberto Sanchez.

 

BEGIN

 

Civilian Alberto Sanchez walked into the office Chief Petty Officer Martin Weedman. Sanchez seated himself.

 

Sanchez reveiled a diagram. "This is what I wanted to see you about, Martin." He opened it, stood, and spread it across the desk of CPO Weedman.

 

CPO Weedman stared at the diagram for approximentally 45 seconds, and looked up to Martin, who was still standing over the desk of CPO Weedman.

 

Martin Weedman spoke. "What is this suppose to be, Al?"

 

Sanchez spoke in an excited mood. "The warp device, Martin. In the tests I have ran, it will improve efficiency in the engines."

 

Weedman glanced back down at the paper, and spoke again. "It is," he paused, "vertical." He looked again. "Are we going to turn the engines on end, too?"

 

Sanchez shook his head in a "No" fashion, and sat down again. "We can feed the core power into the engines with these." He pointed out the connector devices.

 

Weedman stared at Sanchez. "I've never seen these before," referring to the connector devices.

 

Sanchez nodded. "You won't," he paused, "because they don't exist yet. But they should be pretty simple to create. On paper, everything looks good."

 

"Of course it looks good," Weedman replied, "but this is insane! We can't reinvent the wheel here, Al. The NX core works with no flaws."

 

Alberto shook his head. "Right, but we can make the wheel better."

 

Weedman sighed. "Alberto, we're still in the NX series. We're still learning more, and dash-zero-five is going to lean more towards science. We need things to work perfectly - we've already got some brand new science crap scheduled to be put on board, and barely enough space to do it."

 

Martin paused again, and shook his head. "Besides, this design would require us to rearrange 6 decks on the ship to fit the vertical design, which probably wouldn't work anyway, and we don't have the time..." Weedman was cut off.

 

"But it will work, Martin!"

 

And a quick reply by CPO Weedman. "No, Alberto. That is final. We don't have the time. End of discussion."

 

"But..." Sanchez said.

 

"That is all," was the final word spoken, by CPO Weedman.

 

Sanchez stood, and left. He left the design plans on the desk of CPO Weedman, who filed them into his desk for long-term storage.

 

END