Ensign Goad Personal Log Stardate 0203.06

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Computer, Begin Recording

 

I’m currently in my quarters after having one of the longest duty shifts I’ve ever had. I’ve continued to study the data that was recovered from the Romulan data crystals, and trying to out figure exactly what is causing the artificial storms. So far we have been unable to find any artificial structures large enough to create these storms, other than the Romulan base the away team has been exploring.

 

Speaking of the away team, they have arrived back on the ship. I’m told they all made it through decon, except for my fellow science officer Ensign Travis Kroells. I’ve not been to sickbay, but what I’ve gathered from listening to various conversations is that he picked up some sort of bacteria on the surface. I’ve also heard that he had some trouble obeying orders down there, although I’m not sure if that is connected to his sickness or not.

 

Anyway, back to the storms. As the away team was going through decon, a new storm, identical to the one that trapped the away team, started forming on the opposite side of the planet. After requesting permission from the Captain, we moved into geosynchronous orbit over the forming storm. This, combined with recalibrating the sensors, revealed something we had not seen before with the storms. An energy beam of some sort was going directly into the storm. Because it was cloaked somehow, sensors could only pick up the beam within 5 kilometers to the storm, where it started displacing materials inside the storm.

 

After numerous attempts at recalibrating the sensors to reveal the source of the beam, it suddenly vanished. As soon as it had done that, the storm started moving in the exact same pattern several previous storms had. After some further examination LtJg. Sivuk discovered that the every storm had taken this pattern after the away team had brought some of the Romulan equipment and computers back online. This raises some very good questions, which I currently have no answer for. I’m hoping that Kroells will be well enough to help us examine this data on my next duty shift, although I know Sivuk has discovered some information that indicates that Travis’ problem could be worse than we thought.

 

Well I’d best get some rest, I doubt Sivuk would like it if I was late for duty. As I’ve said since we arrived at this planet, something just doesn’t smell right to me here. And after the recent incidents with the sensor marker, and the discovery of this storm pattern that could mean a connection to the base, I’d say it is starting to smell more and more like a Marcapian skunk than one of their famous roses…

 

Computer, End Recording.