Hours 9 – The Rescue.

The away team commanded by Lt Holland were the last to beam down to the planet and were assigned to collecting the Klingons that had been standard on this planet for god knows how long. They rematerialised with their phasers set to stun and already draw the 3 away team homes in on the Klingon lifeforms 2 klicks away on southern south by southeast heading from their beaming in the site. Because of the interference from both sons Lt Holland’s team had to beam in 2 klicks away from the Klingons, which meant they had to hike their way to them.

Lt Holland pointed at one of the security personnel to take the lead and one to follow leaving the medical staff and Lt Holland in the middle allowing Lt Holland to explain what was to happen when they arrived. 

The journey to the crash site didn’t take the team long as they knew they were short on time and still had to return to the ship before transport became impossible. Luckily they brought pattern enhancers allowing them to beam back from their current location saving them time if any complications were getting the survivors out.

Arriving at the crash site they had their phasers still drawn the Lt took point, shouting out because they had noticed from their tricorder scans that two of the Klingons were armed with one patrolling waiting for action as if they were expecting it.

“I’m Lt Holland of the Federation starship USS Gilroy, we received your distress call and were the ones that contacted you from orbit. We coming in please don’t fire.” with that the Lt and one of the security team headed in first to make sure it was ok slowly putting away their phasers so as not to startle the Klingons and make them think they were an invading force. 

“I’m Lt Holland this is one of my security officers is anyone in need of medical attention as I have a medic and another security officer waiting back there is it ok to bring them in also” With this one of the Klingons came over offering their hand out as they were familiar with earth greeting customs and said in reply “yes please we have one here injured I’ve done all I can but don’t know how long they will survive” with this the Lt double tapped her comb badge instructing the other two to come forth which also informed the security officer it was safe and to put his weapon away.

Upon arriving the medical officer went straight to work diagnosing the Klingons giving them a mild sedative and applying a dermal regenerator over some of the minor open wounds on the Klingons’ faces and hands.

Almost ten minutes passed since arriving at the camp and the two fellow security officers had managed to set out the transporter enhancement pattern rods, not that they had a lot of space to work with because of all the debris lying around from what looked like different ships that had crashed and broken up on entry. 

The Klingons were given the say-so to be moved from where they had been laying for god knows how long to the transporter site ready to be beamed straight to sickbay. All seven members stood inside the transport area and Lt Holland tapped her badge. 

“Holland to transporter room we have seven to beam up to sickbay please when you ready chief. Have the other two teams reported in yet?” then all you heard from the other end was “Yes Lt they both reported in and are back on board with their survivors.” replied the transporter chief Tadoro. And with that, the chief tapped away at the console beaming the final team back up to the ship.

It only took seconds for the away team to beam from the planet back to the ship and to appear in sickbay. Upon finishing beaming in Dr Arias was standing waiting to get the injured Klingon onto the biobed so she could assess his condition. The other two Klingons on the other hand didn’t want any treatment till their fellow Klingon was dealt with. This annoyed her which made the Dr which made her turn around to the remaining Klingons and say with a strong forceful voice while standing toe toe-to-toe with the closest Klingon.

“If you want your fellow Klingon to survive then I suggest you both take a seat over there and let my team treat you while I treat him and if I hear one objection from either of you then I will beam all three of you back down to the planet and leave you there, do you understand me”

With that, the two Klingons backed off and sat on separate beds.

“Oh and another thing I don’t want to hear any objections to who is treating you” 

With that, the Dr turned around and started scanning her patient. The room went quiet with everyone standing shocked especially the captain, as he walked in just as the last team arrived back on board. 

“So Dr can you give any updates on our patients please.” Asked the captain.

She turned to look at him while still scanning the Klingon, “I’m a bit busy captain I will get a report to you in a minute but the Romulan and human members are over there if you wanna talk to them” and With that turned her attention back to her Klingon patient. 

Meanwhile, nurse Langenhein was preparing to examine one of the Klingons while another nurse looked at the other. The Klingon that was about to be looked over by nurse Langenhein was about to kick off because he was going to be examined by a Cardassian but remembered the warning he had received moments beforehand and just sat there allowing the exam to go ahead, feeling he was being watched by the Dr treating his fellow crewmate.

Elsewhere in sickbay, you see the captain making his way over to the Romulan members that had been rescued.

“Hello, I’m Captain Stokar Telkir, commander of the USS Gilroy, if you’re up for it I like to ask how you got here and especially stranded on this planet”

The Romulans looked at each other as if to say why should we say anything apart from thank you for the rescue and when are you going to take us home, they also were thinking how was a federation vessel still intact and functioning with her crew and not stranded on the planet like they were.

One of the Romulans seemed too hesitant to talk and only seemed to answer anything with a nod even to his fellow Romulan. As for the other, he didn’t have a problem answering anything.

“I’m sub-commander Telvak and this is Corlack we thank you for the rescue, but I can I ask what is the current stardate.”

With that Captain Telkir replied “The current stardate is 240106.14 why do you ask the sub-commander” With that the captain sat against the biobed opposite the sub-commander.

“What is so important about the stardate sub-commander,” asked Telkir.

A state of shock appeared on both of the Romulan faces. The information shocked them as they knew that a long time had passed. A few minutes passed and the sub-commander replied

“Well, captain going by what you say we have been down on that planet for almost 6 weeks. The last thing I remember before then was heading back to the homeworld on board a shuttle. There were two and three others but they all died on impact when our ship crash-landed here. Second later before Telkir could ask any more questions the Dr walked over and said “Captain my patients need time to rest give them a few hours and then come back. As for the Klingons, they will all be fine I like to keep one here for observation but the other two can be assigned quarters, these two Romulans will be free to go in a few hours I like to keep an eye on them two. You want to talk with anyone. Talk with the 3 survivors over there. They were lucky enough to receive only a few minor cuts, bruises, and a broken wrist that’s been repaired.”

And with that she helped one of the two Romulans to bed, insisting that the two Romulans take a break for a bit before any more questions. 

Upon this, the captain was about to leave and one of the human survivors walked over to him and asked “Did I hear right, that you’re the captain.” Telkir turned to the human survivor and replied “Yes you heard right, what can I do for you.” with that the human survivor replied “I’m Dr Carol Mendes can you tell me where we are and did I hear you right on the stardate?” asked Dr Mendes. 

“You are on board the Starfleet vessel Gilroy we are a supply ship and we are currently in orbit around a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, as for the stardate yes you heard me correctly,” replied the captain. Dr Mendes stood back in shock because of where she was but because of how long she had been there. The news was that shocking she passed out on to the captain who luckily managed to catch her in time before hurting herself any more than she already was. The captain being quite a well-built man picked the Dr up and placed her on the biobed to which she came from. 

Looking around at Dr Arias he said “Doc looks like she needs some rest also I’m heading to my ready room inform me when all our guests are awake.