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We leave the hiveship behind and follow the Defiant to meet the Na’khul.
“Here they come.”
You know how this goes, right?
We take a pounding, but they all blow up.
“Do all Connies come with miracle workers as their chief engineers? Get her on it, and we’ll keep the Na’kuhl off your backs.”
More ships warp in. We explode them.
But one of the ships is a battleship. It’s ignoring us and pouring fire into the hiveship. And oh yeah, the Defiant’s still leaking plasma like crazy.
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“Wait, what?”
“No. No!”
We get one last message from the Defiant before the shockwave hits them.
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“Report. Report!”
“Scanning…I can’t tell if there are life forms over there or not, Mel.” “What the fuck does that mean, Tarsi?” “The Defiant seems to be phasing in and out of local spacetime.”
“If I may, Captain?” “Go ahead, T’Met.” “The interaction of Na’kuhl chronal energies with the local protonebula has made this areas of space very unstable and prone to rifts into other dimensions. We might be able to get a lock onto their crew with the computer’s assistance and perform an emergency beam-out, if we act quickly.” “Do it.”
“What the fuck are you talking about, Daniels? There are four hundred people on the Defiant. There has to be something we can do to try and save them.”aka @acousticrob#2239
“…you’re just trying to piss me off now.”
“That’s cold fucking comfort to them and their loved ones.”
“Mel….” “Shut up. If we’re not going to be allowed to help, then get us the fuck out of here.”
Postlude:
“Jonathan Archer? Of the first Enterprise? But that was a hundred and twenty–that’s right, time travel.” “Well, I don’t know what kind of agreement you and Archer came to, but if shit like that–leaving the Defiant behind without even trying to save them–is normal for you guys then I’m out. The next time you send me back in time, we’d goddamn better be saving some lives.”aka @acousticrob#2239
Been a busy week but let’s get back to it. Our next episode is:
“Klingons. I hate those guys. On our way, Admiral.”
It’s a long flight to the Caleb system. Mostly because the Patti Smith can only hit a maximum speed of about warp 5 1/2. Which means that by the time we reach Caleb IV, most of the task force is already in place.
And so are the Klingons.
“If he keeps doing that his face is going to freeze that way. Tarsi, go to yellow alert and monitor the Klingons.” “Yellow alert, Mel.”It isn’t too long before the Klingons decide to up the stakes.
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“The Klingons are making an attack run on the subspace relays, ma’am.” “Admiral Garrett has signaled weapons free, Mel.” “Well, you heard the man. Close to phaser range and open fire.”
The task force unloads on the few Klingons in the system.
With predictable results.
The Klingons pretty much get the snot kicked out of them, so the last battlecruiser does the sensible thing and runs for the edge of the system.
It’s chased by pretty much the entire task force. But when it reaches the edge of the system it does something unexpected.
It turns and faces us.
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“We’ve just walked into a fucking trap, haven’t we?”
Yup.
“Since when did the Klingons have fucking cloaking devices, anyway?”That’s a really good question, actually, since they didn’t use them in the original series. The wiki says this was the first battle where they used cloaking devices on a large scale. I always assumed they got them as some kind of technology exchange with the Romulans, since they were using Klingon-style ships in later seasons of the original series. But I gather the Klingons in Discovery use cloaking devices (J’Ula certainly does) so who knows anymore?
I’m guessing battle plan sigma-4 isn’t “Get the shit kicked out of us,” but that’s what happens.
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“Shit! This is a fucking shooting gallery. Tarsi, get us the fuck out of here!”
“Good, that gives us some room to maneuver. Come around on my mark and target the–”
“Mel! They have us in a tractor beam!” “Isn’t there some way out of that? Demagnetize the hull plating or something?” “I’m sorry, Mel.”
“We’re not going anywhere.”aka @acousticrob#2239
“Kor.”Oh, hey! Guess that was foreshadowing after all.
“Shut up. Getting soft, Kor? I thought you Klingons didn’t take prisoners.”
“Get blown up here or die slowly in a Klingon penal colony? Some fucking choice.”
“Of course they are. Well, as long as we’re stuck in this tractor beam, we ain’t doing jack.”
“It’s a better plan then waiting here for Kor to get bored and start using us for target practice.”
“Let’s do some damage.”aka @acousticrob#2239
We materialize inside a…bedroom?
“Good thinking. Let’s blow this place the fuck up.”
“These look exactly like the Patti Smith’s hallways, only with red lighting. And a big Klingon insignia on the wall.”Imagine that.
Our first stop is the engine room.
“Good place for a bomb.”
We hit ’em hard and we hit ’em fast, and then we plant the first bomb.
“Where are you carrying these things anyway, Tarsi? These uniforms don’t exactly have roomy pockets.” “Don’t ask me any questions, Captain, and I won’t tell you any lies.”aka @acousticrob#2239
We plant another bomb in a sensor room.
And the third in a mess hall.
“There’s a power conduit behind that wall over there. When this goes off it should cut power to the tractor beam. And without engines or sensors, they’ll be dead in the water and blind.”
“But before we blow this joint, there’s one more thing I gotta do.”
(Just ignore the fact that all of a sudden we’re carrying TNG-style phasers.)
Kor doesn’t like taking orders.
Not exactly sure what Mister Shadow’s talking about here. Did he give the Klingons cloaking technology? They haven’t used any superweapons or advanced shields or anything like that.
Kor is unimpressed.
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And he teleports out.
Something about those teleporter effects reminds me of the silver age Lex Luthor.
“Well, fuck. Who failed their Stealth check? Skarvin? It was you, wasn’t it?”
“The Na’kuhl are using you, Kor. But you don’t care, do you?”
“I guess we’re doing this, then….”
Fight scene.
The Klingon mooks go down easy, but Kor’s a tougher fight.
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Much tougher.
We’re fucked, aren’t we?
“Nope!”
Because that’s when the charges start going off.
“Kor’s…kind of a nut, isn’t he?”Yup.
Out in space Kor’s ship is rocked with explosions.
And we’re free.
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“Hot damn, Tarsi, that worked!”
“Let’s do some more damage.”
“You got it. Engineering, get warp back online. Tarsi, charge up the phaser capacitors. We’re gonna blow some Klingons to hell.”
“We’ll start with the frigate holding the Pioneer in place.”
“Yes, you do. Now to free the Ranger.”aka @acousticrob#2239
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