The crews of different timezones begin trying to cooperate to solve their common temporal puzzle, but each also has its own issues to attend to, as energy parasites plague the ship in the early twenty-fifth century, and aliens in 2392 are persuaded the crew are gods... And members of the crew have to deal with the emotions brought about by a glimpse into the future and hints as to their own fate...
The Calhoun's temporal cohesion has been restored. Talaxian Ambassador Aqoran has warned the crew of the temporal-distortion barrier that marks the boundary of Tojesian space, which is now officially recognised as off-limits by the Federation.
And the crew have just received a visit from a Starfleet admiral, the bearer of some unpleasant news...
With a bold plan involving a distraction on the bridge, a team working in the science lab, and a mind meld with one of the affected klingons, the crew of the Odyssey managed to overcome the brainwashing affects of the probe and save the Klingon ship that initially sent the distress call from the same effects.
The crew is now celebrating the Captain's birthday, though it is a rather somber celebration considering all that has happened.
The Odyssey has received its new assignment-they are to go to the world of Pabloias Prime to negotiate the end to a civil war. The Paloyans, a recently new Federation member, is looking to mine a relatively new metal called Gyranzite-a metal with some intriguing properties that Starfleet hopes to take advantage of, but they are being held back by a rebel faction, who took the first negotiating team that was sent by the Federation prisoner.
Captain Bennek beamed down to the planet with Counsellor Sellser-Talchan and Lieutenant Byrne, in an attempt to negotiate an end to this dispute and to negotiate the release of the Federation prisoners. Unfortunately, upon their beaming down they were captured as well-supposedly by the rebel movement, aiming to gain a voice for their cause.
It is up to the remaining crew of the Odyssey to end this crisis and ensure the safe return of all the prisoners, while securing Gyranzite mining rights for the Federation.
While patrolling the Romulan Neutral Zone, the USS Valkyrie discovered a Borg Icosahedron vessel. Clearly damaged, and apparently lacking a cohesive collective, several independent drones of various races sent out distress signals. When the Valkyrie caught up to the vessel near an uninhabited moon, a Romulan science vessel soon decloaked, and began attacking the icosahedron. The Valkyrie was not quick enough in it's attempt to end the battle. In a final attempt to destroy their enemy, the Romulan vessel rammed the icosahedron. The two vessels, locked together from the collision, began to plummet towards the surface of the moon. As the icosahedron entered the atmosphere, the Valkyrie received a transmission from Ender Durron, the ship's former Chief of Security, who had been assimilated two months earlier.
The Borg and Romulan vessels crashed on an uninhabited M-Class planet. Their surviving crew are still locked in battle. The Valkyrie has sent an away team to the crashed vessels to prevent the situation from escalating, and render aid. So far, the only life form they've encountered is an enraged Romulan chef. Meanwhile, on the Valkyrie, Tir is greeting the newly arrived Tyksonian Ambassador.
On the planet Tollaxana, the away team, consisting of Captain Janssens, Commander Essar, Ensigns Ja'al, Jalando, Murdock and Russet, and some security crewmen, went down the cave, using the Tollaxan's elevator. After a ride of about 10 minutes, the party arrived and found some 1500 stasis pods. All filled with Tollaxans. The team decided that they wouldn't open those pods, until they knew exactly how, and why these Tollaxans were here in stasis. But not all went as planned. Suddenly, the first stasis pod in the row started to open... revealing an elder Tollaxan. Captain Janssens saw that this Tollaxan was having trouble breathing. He contacted the Solstice, and let the Tollaxan being beamed to sickbay. The Captain too beamed back to the Solstice to see how the Tollaxan was doing and maybe get some information.
After the Captain had beamed away, the rest of the away team went on, to search for answers in the cave. But all they found was more mysteries. The 2 science officers found a few murals, displaying an alien race. One of those murals seemed to be very important. It also seemed to be slandered because it had some sort of paint all over it.
The elderly Tollaxan was called Zertok Li-En. He told the Captain that there were about 10.000 Tollaxans, still in stasis, back on the planet. Luckily, they wouldn't need any medical help, when they would awaken.
Apparently, the Tollaxans had encountered an alien race, the Naimlessians, who at first, acted friendly: sharing technologies, etc.
But when their true intentions were made clear, the Tollaxans were powerless to stop them. The Naimlessians wanted a very valuable mineral from Tollaxana, so they started a war... When that war was finally over, the Naimlessians retreated, and poisoned the Tollaxan's atmosphere... forcing the Tollaxans to go into stasis.
Commander Essar told Captain Janssens that he would leave soon: his new ship, the USS Atlantis, was waiting for him. Knowing that he would loose his First Officer sooner then was planned, Captain Janssens told Essar he could take the transwarpshuttle, so that the Atlantis wouldn't depart without it's captain...
The Solstice will stay for another week, before more Starfleet vessels will arrive. We will then be returning to Pandora Station.
CO Janssens's double from a parallel universe has returned and warned him that the Federation from that other universe is going to steal the Epimetheus. Can the Pandora crew trust this 'Other' Janssens?
The last place the crew of the Atlantis would want to be, is the place they are now... in orbit of Draysius Prime. None aboard had any faith left in any success of this so-called diplomatic mission. Ambassador Von Klinkerhoffen, her attaché Demetrius and Commander Gerard had beamed down to the surface for a meeting with the Draysian diplomats. Though, seeing how they handled their
disputes with other races, they started to wonder if there actually were any friendly feelings beneath their stubborn and arrogant appearance.
Waking up in the middle of the night is never a joyous occasion, especially if the reason in murder. CPO Bodriz discovered a young crewman, strangled to death on C deck. The STC, James Raynor, was at the scene rapidly and shortly after informed the CO, who in his turn called the CEO to the spot. Now the trio stand amidst a difficult situation, with the Draysian government and the hostile stowaway on one side and the tired, confused crew of the USS Atlantis on the other side. The investigation is now well on the way, lead by the STC, and the CEO is checking the sections for probable sabotage.
Little do they know of the threat lurking behind the second moon of Draysius prime. A small fleet waiting for their chance to engage the Atlantis, with a short-fused and ill-tempered high commander in charge.
The murder investigation was well on the way on the Atlantis and soon the intruder had been found. Together with the STC and a few security crewman, CO Essar apprehended the Draysian intruder. Unfortunately the chance of interrogation was not present, the Draysian bit through a suicide cap and was dead within the second.
But some other strange things were happening as well. The diplomatic away team on the surface was now cut off from the Atlantis by a forcefield and signals were picked up, indicating a cloaked fleet near the second moon of Draysius Prime. The Captain quickly called a meeting to investigate the possibilities. Soon the decision was made to prepare a shuttlecraft for implementing the scatter grid and using the shuttle as a magnifying glass for the transporter.
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