Hour 7 & 8 – Contact

“It’s been 2 hours till we set course for home, and the captain gave a speech of purpose and inspiration, something like that, of which Captain Janeway probably gave her crew all them years ago. Since then I have had a few crew members drop in voicing their concern on the captain’s decision not to take us the route of the Delta Quadrant. I picked this course also even if I didn’t give the order but after chatting to some of my fellow crew mates, I get the feeling maybe I should have insisted that we set course via the delta quadrant at least that way we would have known what we were getting into and my fellow crew mates would feel better and more assured that we will make it home. Computer end log.” with that Lt Allen made his way to bed.

Moments later on the bridge the night shift team led by LT Willa Holland was completing scans of nearby sectors when tactical pointed out that they had received a distress call from a nearby system on the second planet in that system a type M class orbiting a pair of suns. At further scans, the two solar systems slightly merged and the suns were only 9.000 light years apart. noticing that the planet they have received the distress call from will be in the middle of both suns making it almost impossible to mount a rescue of whoever is putting out that distress call. 

“Helm get us within coms range, Lt Hill can you make out what the distress call is saying” while turning around to look at him. Then again turning back to the view screen and saying “LT(JG) Batootil can u determine where on the planet the distress call is coming from”  said Lt Holland. With that, the Lt sat back in the command chair and waited to call the senior staff because they had only been off shift awhile. A few moments passed and the ship was in range of the distress call. “Lt open hailing frequency please and opps can you determine where on the planet they are, and can you detect how many life forms?”

“This is the USS Gilroy to whoever is down on the planet soon to be in between 2 orbiting suns, I am  Lt Willa Holland how can we help, what is the emergency?” but the Lt got no reply from whoever had sent out the call.

“Lt I’m reading 3 different lifeforms down on the planet on different continents also. If the sensors are reading this right I’m picking up 3 Human life signs, 2 Klingons and 2 Romulasn. I can’t tell how badly they are injured due to the increasing interference from both suns as the planet gets closer to the centre.”

Looking at the young Lt(JG) Batootil and nodding while saying thank you to him, he also tapped a button on the panel of the command chair and said “Sickbay this is Lt Holland on the bridge we received a distress call and will be hopefully beaming up some Klingons, Romulans and humans so prepare to for their arrival.” tapping the button to close the channel and tapping it again she says “Commander danvers this is the bridge.”

Moments later the commander replied “Go ahead bridge, can’t you run a night shift without me holding your hand” replied the commander. “Very funny commander, actually I’m calling you as we have discovered a distress call on a nearby planet, that life signs of Klingons, Romans and humans all spread out the planet’s surface.” in response to that the commander said I will be up soon, I want you in the ready room to inform me what has happened. Danvers out” and with that the comms went quiet.

Moments later the commander arrived on the bridge and walked straight to the ready room looking at the Lt as she walked onto the bridge. Seconds later the Lt got up from the command chair and followed into the ready room. As the doors shut behind them and the commander takes a seat at the desk you see Lt Commander Holland sitting down on the sofa that was across from the desk picking up a pad to relay the information that had come across in the last 20 minutes. 

“Well, commander about 35 minutes ago we detected a distress call coming from a new M-class planet. So I ordered us to investigate. Upon arrival and performing scans into the sector, we discovered that the planet was en route to enter between two neighbouring suns 9,000 light years apart. It looks like it’s a due system that’s merged partly within each other. Upon scans of the planet, we found 3 types of life forms scattered throughout the planet. They are 3 humans, 2 Klingons and 2 Romulans. We have tried to make contact but there is no way as either they are not receiving our transmissions their equipment is damaged or the interference from both sons is blocking the signal. I’ve also informed sickbay to be ready for our visitors informing them who we have coming up and then contacted your commander” With that the young Lt put her pad to her side awaiting a response from the commander.

“OK understood Lt how long till we are in the range of the planet to send down away teams to assess the situation and for us to start beaming anyone up,” asked Commander Danvers,

“We will be in range on them in about 20 minutes commander, are we going to inform the captain of the situation” asked the Lt. 

Looking out at the window wondering how other humans, Klingons and Romulans got stranded on the planet, the commander replied finally 

“I will inform the captain of the situation and let him know what course of action has been put in place and we will go from there” replied the commander. 

And with that, the Lt got up and left the commander to it. He was returning to the bridge to resume his post till he was relieved. In contrast, the commander was still tired and had not had the chance to relax after his shift went to the replicator and ordered a white coffee 1 sugar hot and strong to try to wake him up. Upon sitting back at the desk and overgoing the sensor logs for the last half an hour Commander Danvers finally tapped the console to open a channel to the captain’s quarters. Seconds later the captain answered the comms and said “Telkir here” and in replied the commander then said “Captain we have a situation that I can deal with but I think you might want to be ready for when we bring our possible guests on board” and with that the commander went into debriefing the captain. A short time later the ship arrived at the planet in a high orbit, centred between both the suns.

“Lt status please where are we with the rescue mission,” said Commander Danvers as she walked onto the bridge. The Lt stood from the command chair and said “I had the ship put into a high orbit until we know the conditions of the planet and what we walking into I didn’t want the solar rays interfering with the ship’s systems. We are about to try and locate the survivors on the planet and see if we can get a single to them being closer to the planet now. I’ve heard from Sickbay they are ready for the arrivals and I have security posted down there outside the room just in case.” replied the Lt.

Taking the command seat and the Lt taking the first officer seat the commander said “Lt Hill open a channel see if we can contact the people down there.” with that the Lt opened a channel. “This is Commander Danvers of the USS Gilroy answering the distress call we have received can anyone hear me.” giving it a few seconds to see if they got a reply the commander turned around and looked at Lt Hill and asked “Is Our signal getting down there, try to boost the signal just in case they having interference on their end.” and with this, the young Lt tapped away on his console and replied, “signal is going out Commander and I’ve enhanced the signal as much as I can with all the interference we getting from both suns.”

Again the commander said, “This is Commander Danvers of the USS Gilroy answering the distress call we have received can anyone hear me? If you receiving the signal but have no way to reply, try changing your distress call to a different message” again giving the people on the planet a chance to adapt their signal to acknowledge they are hearing the ship.

A few minutes later the signal frequency started to modulate on a different bandwidth and with the message “help we need” the message stopped. With that, the commander ordered the ship into a lower orbit. I want 3 four-man away teams ready to go each with a medic all to beam down to the separate sites. Lt Hill and Lt Holland you two lead two of the teams the third team leader Lt Holland you set who you want to run the third team. I will contact medical and get 3 members sent down to transporter room 2”

A few moments passed and the transporter room soon filled up with 12 additional crew members ready to beam down in 3 teams of 4 people. Lt Holland was the last to enter the transporter room walking straight to the transport chief. “Chief do you have the 3 locations to beam down to.” the transporter chief replied “Yes I do, Lt all programmed and ready” ok send the first team to the Romulans, the second team to the humans and my teams to the Klingons.”