Captain's Log, Stardate 10303.10

[Cptn Moose 0]

Captain's Log, Stardate 10303.10

 

"This is a Vogart ship."  Even as the words escaped his lips, the conclusion seemed natural and inevitable.

 

Their adventure had started with a mission to meet the Vogarts.

 

The hyper-tacheyon particle accelerator was invented to parallel Vogart technology.

 

The Arcadia had been hurled into a timeless dimension trying to retrace their journey and return to Vogart space.

 

Hawkins and Zel had successfully reconfigured the warp chamber, The matter/antimatter reaction was now focused through a shard from a Bajoran Orb of the Prophets.  The orb wasn't as refractively perfect as a dilithium crystal, but the dilithium had all turned to dust during the dimensional shift.

 

Once the power had been engaged, their universe transformed.  No longer were they trapped in a dark, lifeless void.  Instead, they were surrounded by portals through time and space; 2000 points of light connecting the galaxy.  By focusing their combined mental energy on Lo'Ami and Stardust, the crew was transported through a portal and reunited with their missing crewmates.

 

With the danger past and spirits lightened, it was only natural to look for closure.  But no matter how many suggestions of Earth or Risa or Alpha Centauri were voiced, everyone knew subliminally that there would be no closure without Vogarts.  Moose was not as surprised by his location as he was by the fact that he didn't see it coming.

 

He looked around.  Dana Quest was with him, as was one of her officers.  The rest of the crew was elsewhere.  In spite of that, Moose knew they were onboard somewhere.  It was unlikely that he and Dana were the only ones here, where ever that was.

 

They were in a small room filled with machinery.  Most of it was inert or shut down, but here or there a small console blinked a silent message while it waited patiently for attention.  It could have been and engineering station or small science lab, but it looked as attended to as a maintenance closet.  Perhaps this deck was uninhabited, or abandoned for some reason?  Or could it simply be a redundant control center like their own battle bridge?

 

"Clear your mind," he ordered.  "Concentrate on the others."  They were had control over the orbs power while on the planet with Lo'Ami and Ziggy.  Perhaps they could control it now?  He emptied his mind of thought, as he was taught so many years ago by the Vulcan, T'Cher.  Dacotah, Marx, Telano ... he conjured up specific images of all of them to no avail.  Maybe there was some background noise disturbing their concentration?  Or were they simply too far away to tap into the orb?  That didn't make sense, the orb sent them here.  It had to be near enough to pick them up again.  They would have to regroup the old fashioned way, and hope that their combined will power would succeed where individually they were probably all failing.

 

"Our first priority is to find the others, and to remain undetected," said Moose.  "I'm surprised that the Vogarts haven't already come to greet us," he added.

 

As if on cue, one of the machines lit up.  A pulsing green glow emitted from it's display.  A rhythmic thumping accompanied the light.  There was no mistaking it's meaning.  It was an intruder alert.

 

Cptn Moose

USS Arcadia, NCC-1742-E