"The Enigma"

[Zack Yuuko-Chen 0]

LtJg Zack Chen

Duty Log Entry

SD 0505.07

 

 

 

Zack was on the bridge, at the science consoles, he was feeling proud of himself and of Crispin Xavier and Brian Graham. Together they've cracked the enigma that is a dominion transmission from a source, a dangerous one, that starfleet has code named the one hundred of course they called themselves that any way so it was all good. Zack had to admit that the hundred sure know how to send a heavily fragmented and encrypted message to another, the transmission itself was first inversed, fragmented, deformed at the end section and then looped back to the beginning and then finally for the finishing touches the translation protocols were used to encrypt it in a language that only dominion soldiers could read, or another shapeshifter or vorta. The whole transmission process and encoding process was quite simple to identify but when it actually came down to decoding it, it was hell.

 

As Crispin said that Zack remembered from a moment or two ago. "Who translated this? It's full of grammatical and spelling errors - oh right I did, I guess that’s what I get for choosing a dead language." Ergo ... translation equalled to hell. Zack couldn't have more of a hellish description - a fleet of more than 200 Romulan warships. A fleet this size could have made Picard wet his pants aboard the Enterprise. Zack mused around this thought then focused on the task at hand. The message sent by the dominion are crucial and the technology at present aboard the small norway class vessel hangs in the balance of two major powers, one side will gain an advantage if they get a hold of the ship and one side will gain back the advantage. This was as worse as chess, Zack noted. He always have and will hate chess.

 

He looked at the sensors displaying more than 200 Romulan vessels ... Ouch Zack thought, what did that Romulan Ambassador think about when she mobilized this big a fleet? War? The madness never ends. The enigma was never solved in the first place, it just grew twice as big while they were trying to solve it. Zack guessed that was what people get when they try to solve harder things than they could bite off ... hm... wrong analogy.

Edited May 7, 2005 by Zack Yuuko-Chen