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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 101 and 102 from 1986, as well as discuss pertinent information of that time period!
Stan Woo reflects on what it was like produce the very first Star Trek fan film to include an actor from the original series!
Get ready for the documentary Beam Me Up Sulu featuring George Takei and James Shigeta!
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Burt Bruce reports on the activities of George Takei!
Plus, Kirsty Alley, The Search for Spock Taco Bell glasses, FASA role playing games, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2025 over Thanksgiving weekend. This convention celebrates Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education. Get your tickets now!https://www.starbaseindy.org/
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this historic episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 99 and 100 from 1985, as well as discuss pertinent information of that time period!
Ryan Howe and Beth Ann Broadhurst reflect on the importance of Nichell Nichols!
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Burt Bruce reflects on the spiritual views of Gene Roddenberry!
Lawson Thompson and David Hurley discuss their Spaceship Bridge Simulators!
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Former Starlog magazine editors Daniel Dickholtz and Carr D'Angelo tell us what it was like to work on the epic one hundredth issue!
Plus, Alan Porter, and more, on our annual Destination Dragon Con episode of StarPodTrek!
The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
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We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2025 over Thanksgiving weekend. This convention celebrates Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education. Get your tickets now!https://www.starbaseindy.org/
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Monsterama 2025 with Nayr, Stephen Manley, Beverly Washburn, Mariette Hartley, and Jerry Sroka.
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this historic episode of StarPodLog, we consider science fiction, fantasy, and the pop culture of 1985, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 100, 101, and 102!
Jarod Clark gives us insight into The Ewoks animated series!
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Rich Hurley, Max Overnighter, and Lou Melograna read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and explore Enemy Mine!
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Former Starlog magazine editors Daniel Dickholtz and Carr D'Angelo tell us what it was like to work on the epic one hundredth issue!
Plus... the movies of 1985 and more on our annual Destination Dragon Con episode of StarPodLog!
Check out this book by former Starlog editor Daniel Dickholtz!WAVELENGTHS: Covering Sci Fi in EVERY Reality: Dickholtz, Daniel A: 9798860284395: Amazon.com: Books https://share.google/TuSaGTKYl82HNix1FThe Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 97 and 98 from 1985, as well as discuss pertinent information of that time period!
Ryan Howe and Beth Ann Broadhurst reflect on the importance of Sally Ride being the first American woman to go into space!
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Burt Bruce remembers the legacy of Theodore Sturgen!
Buck and Trevor consider the details of the USS Grissom!
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Members of the STARFLEET International ship, the USS Zavala, share what they enjoyed about this year's International Conference!
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John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto tell us about their new book, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – The Making of the Classic Film!
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Plus, The Search for Spock soundtrack, Star Trek books, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
https://www.dragoncon.org/
We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2025 over Thanksgiving weekend. This convention celebrates Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education. Get your tickets now!https://www.starbaseindy.org/
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this superb episode of StarPodLog, we consider science fiction, fantasy, and the pop culture of 1985, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 97, 98, and 99!
Burt Bruce compares Amazing Stories to The Twilight Zone!
Jarod Clark gives us insight into the life of Anthony Daniels and the Droids animated series!
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Shocking Jon reflects on the post apocalyptic adventure- Mad Max III: Beyond Thunderdome!
Rich Hurley and Max Overnighter go Back to the Future!
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Plus... the video games and toys of 1985, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
Check out this book by former Starlog editor Daniel Dickholtz!WAVELENGTHS: Covering Sci Fi in EVERY Reality: Dickholtz, Daniel A: 9798860284395: Amazon.com: Books https://share.google/TuSaGTKYl82HNix1FAdd this volume by John Zipperer to your library!The Starlog Compendium: Volume I, Issues 1–200, 1976–1994: Zipperer, John: 9798364630643: Amazon.com: Books https://share.google/Q0P7Z2n3v1uvrp1im
Monsterama, Atlanta’s only retro horror and sci-fi convention, August 8th-10th!
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The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this superb episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 95 and 96 from 1985, as well as discuss pertinent information of that time period!
Shocking Jon discusses the role that Merritt Butrick portrayed as David Marcus!Buck and Trevor consider the details of the refit Enterprise!Plus, the Search for Spock poster magazine, Trek actors in 1985, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!Check out this book by former Starlog editor Daniel Dickholtz!WAVELENGTHS: Covering Sci Fi in EVERY Reality: Dickholtz, Daniel A: 9798860284395: Amazon.com: Books https://share.google/TuSaGTKYl82HNix1FAdd this volume by John Zipperer to your library!The Starlog Compendium: Volume I, Issues 1–200, 1976–1994: Zipperer, John: 9798364630643: Amazon.com: Books https://share.google/Q0P7Z2n3v1uvrp1im
Monsterama, Atlanta’s only retro horror and sci-fi convention, August 8th-10th!
https://monsteramacon.com/
The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
https://www.dragoncon.org/
We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2025 over Thanksgiving weekend. This convention celebrates Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education. Get your tickets now!https://www.starbaseindy.org/
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider science fiction, fantasy, and the pop culture of 1985, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 94, 95, and 96!
Shocking Jon considers the role that Grace Jones played in the James Bond thriller- A View to a Kill!
Rich Hurley and Max Overnighter discuss the wild adventure of The Goonies!
Plus...the Wrestling scene, Ladyhawke, the music of 1985, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!Don't forget to join our StarPodLog Facebook group:
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this fantastic episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 93 and 94 from 1985, as well as discuss pertinent information of that time period!
Burt Bruce answers questions that were posed to David Gerrold!
Jen Foley considers the aftermath of the Spock and Saavik relationship by reviewing the novel The Pandora Principle!
Plus, James Doohan, the FASA Star Trek III Sourcebook ...and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!Adventure Science Center in Nashville, TN:https://www.adventuresci.org/
STARFLEET International Fan Club:https://sfi.org/
Monsterama, Atlanta’s only retro horror and sci-fi convention, August 8th-10th!
https://monsteramacon.com/
The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
https://www.dragoncon.org/
We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2025 over Thanksgiving weekend. This convention celebrates Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education. Get your tickets now!https://www.starbaseindy.org/
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the science fiction, fantasy, and pop culture of 1985, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 91, 92, and 93.
Burt Bruce considers the actress behind one of Doctor Who's most popular companions- Janet Fielding!
Mane Man Jamie discusses the comic books of 1985!
Rich & Max explore John Carpenter's Starman!
Plus...Dune, the television shows of 1985, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this fantastic episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 91 and 92 from 1985, as well as discuss pertinent information of that time period!
Stephen Manley reminisces about his role as "Pon Farr Spock"!
Joe Cepeda and Lezlie Sawyer consider the work of Walter Koenig!
Burt Bruce talks about the longevity of Star Trek from the Star Trek III Official Movie Magazine!
...and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
Join us at Stellar Fest, Atlanta's ultimate event for Sci-fi enthusiasts, April 4th-6th.
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Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo is Alabama's largest celebration of all things geek!
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Metrotham Con, June 20-22 in Dalton, Georgia. This year's theme is Trek Wars!
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Monsterama, Atlanta’s only retro horror and sci-fi convention, August 8th-10th!
https://monsteramacon.com/
The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con! Look for us in the program as professional guests!
https://www.dragoncon.org/
We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2025 over Thanksgiving weekend. This convention celebrates Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education. Get your tickets now!https://www.starbaseindy.org/
Join us in STARFLEET International. Enlist today! https://sfi.org/
Keep up with all that is going on with Randy Landers' Potempkin Pictures here:http://www.potemkinpictures.com/Follow the adventures of Joe Cepeda and Lezlie Sawyer in Natures Hunger:https://startreknatureshunger.com/
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodTrek!
On this fantastic episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 89 and 90 from 1984!
We deep dive into the John M. Ford Klingon classic, The Final Reflection!
John & Kelly slingshot back to discuss what aspects of Trek were being produced in 1964!
Check them out on the '70s Trek podcast!
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Plus... The World of Star Trek, The Search for Spock toys, games, comics, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
Join us at Stellar Fest, Atlanta's ultimate event for Sci-fi enthusiasts April 4th-6th.
Get your tickets NOW!
https://stellarfest.org/
Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo is Alabama's largest celebration of all things geek!
April 25th-27th
https://www.hsvexpo.com/
Metrotham Con June 20-22 in Dalton Georgia. This year's theme is Trek Wars!
https://metrothamcon.com/home
Monsterama, Atlanta’s only retro horror and sci-fi convention August 8th-10th!
https://monsteramacon.com/
The Labor Day weekend phenomenon returns to downtown Atlanta: Dragon Con!
https://www.dragoncon.org/
Starbase Indy: celebrating Star Trek's vision of humanitarian and STEM education on Thanksgiving weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana!
https://www.starbaseindy.org/
Join us in Starfleet Command. Enlist now!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodLog!
On this dazzling episode of StarPodLog, we consider the science fiction, fantasy, and the pop culture of 1984, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 88, 89, and 90.
Shocking Jon returns to talk about the toys of 1984!
Members of the Connecticut Ghostbusters consider the classic that started it all!
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Rich and Max discuss Gremlins!
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Mane Man Jamie reflects on the comic books of 1984!
Plus...V: The Final Battle, The Ewok Adventure, The Terminator, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!Theme music provided by Foot Pound Force. Find out more about the band here:
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodTrek!
On this epic episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 87 and 88 from 1984!
Lisa Meece, Beth Ann Broadhurst, and Mark Gaddo and talk about the awesomeness of Starbase Indy!
Join us at the convention and listen to the SBI podcast!
https://www.starbaseindy.org/podcast-and-newsletter
BioTrekkie Doctor Mohamed Noor gives us insight on the biological realities of Spock's transformation on the Genesis planet!
Find out more about him at:
https://www.biotrekkie.com/about
Joe Cepeda and Lezlie Sawyer discuss the career of DeForest Kelly!
Check out their independent Star Trek fan series, Natures Hunger!
https://startreknatureshunger.com/
Plus... The USS Athena Search for Spock viewing party, Star Trek novels, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
We will return as guest speakers at Starbase Indy 2024 over Thanksgiving weekend. Get your tickets now!
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Join us in Starfleet Command. Enlist now!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodLog!
On this fantastic episode of StarPodLog, we consider science fiction, fantasy, and the pop culture of 1984, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 85, 86, and 87.
DeWayne and Charley Todd consider The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai!
Check out DeWayne's book: The Buckaroo Banzai Collector's Compendium!
https://www.amazon.com/Buckaroo-Banzai-Collectors-Compendium-Promotional/dp/B09HG6KFPN
Mane Man Jamie reminisces about the Video Games of 1984!
The Professor Rick Del Santo and Johnny K9 talk about the wrestling scene of 1984. Follow The Professor on YouTube!
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S01 E09: Chronicles of T’Avaya:
Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Station Log. Stardate 45126.4. Chief Engineer T’Avaya reporting. I have spent the last ten years on Station Tyrellia as Chief of Engineering. I will soon be leaving that position for a new post with Starfleet Intelligence. My assistant engineer, Luruwa, will be the new chief engineer.
“It’s good to have you back. Even if it’s just for a little while,” Luruwa said. T’Avaya replied, “The familiarity of this station is quite satisfying. And it is good to see you again, Luruwa.” As they were walking down the station’s commercial strip, a juggler stepped in front of them. They stopped and admired the skill. They knew the juggler was a hologram, but it was still an impressive demonstration.
“So do you think you’ll win?” Luruwa asked T’Avaya. She was referring to the holoprogram writing competition that was now happening in Station Tyrellia. It was a yearly competition. T’avaya’s holoprogram “Votev the Bold” had been nominated. It was about a fictional daredevil who steered his ship into random spatial anomalies.
“I don’t know,” was T’Avaya’s answer. “All I can say is that writing the program was a rewarding experience.” Luruwa knew that T’Avaya had put a lot of thought into the program. And though she would never admit it, the Vulcan was proud to have been nominated.
They continued walking through the station and saw many other holographic dancers, magicians, acrobats, and numerous holographic flying objects such as birds, flies, and butterflies.
“So you’re really leaving?” Emac asked sadly.
“Starfleet Intelligence has asked me to work in their headquarters on earth. I will be one of their engineering researchers,” T’Avaya told him. “They will still allow me to work here part-time in case there are any problems with the communications array.”
“So you’re not leaving for good.”
“Not at this time. But there are always…possibilities.”
“What about us?”
T’Avaya knew that question would come up. They had been in a relationship for awhile. She was fortunate that her parents had not made her bond with another Vulcan male when she was a child, as most Vulcans do. She was allowed to choose her own mate, or no mate. She had enjoyed her time with Emac. She did not want to end the relationship, and yet, she wanted her new career in intelligence. Unfortunately, being an intelligence agent meant that she couldn’t be close to someone. Emac couldn’t know that she would actually be going on missions for Starfleet Intelligence. She told him her decision. She saw the look on the Orion’s face. His heart dropped. But he would survive.
He left her suite. She felt guilty for disappointing him. But guilt is illogical. They were both adults. He was a Starfleet officer on a starship that was assigned to this station. Even in a relationship, how often did they really get to see each other?
T’Avaya turned on her terminal and checked the station’s news feed. Miris Hoturn, the sponsor of the current holonovel contest, had passed away from an unknown illness two days before. Miris was a Denobulan of fifty-eight years of age; not very old at all. Miris had written the Latinum Crown series, the most popular series of recreational holonovels in the quadrant. At Miris’ request six years ago, T’Avaya had programmed a holosuite program upgrade for one of Miris’ stories that had become very popular. When T’Avaya had met Miris, she had thought the holonovelist to be brilliant, though arrogant and aloof. Miris’s will had been read yesterday on Denobula, and the contents of the will, at least parts of it, would be made public today.
She went on to check her personal messages. She assumed something would be there letting her know how the competition would be affected by Miris’s will. She found her message from the contest organizer. There was something new. It seemed Miris’s will provided that, upon her death, there would be a special competition, separate from the writing competition, within a holoprogram that Miris had written. The competitors would be the three finalists of the writing competition—chosen by Miris before she died--of which T’Avaya was one. In this special competition on the holosuite, the contestants would be searching for the four pieces of a latinum crown. The winner would get the rights to the Latinum Crown holonovel series. Having the rights would mean getting to continue the series by writing her own stories. With that could come a gross amount of fame and recognition. T’Avaya knew she would never have time to write more holonovels, though it would be interesting to write the series. But she would like to participate in the competition because the holonovel adventure could be exhilarating. And it would be her own way of paying homage to Miris’s last wish. If she won, she could give the prize to someone else.
Shrain, Tridara, and T’Avaya entered Holosuite 1. They were each wearing a green jumpsuit, the standard attire for visiting a Denobulan palace of the programmed time period. The holoprogram setting was fifteen hundred years ago on Denobula. It was a primitive time in the land under the rule of Kof Rixan. “Kof” was the Denobulan word for “king”. This Kof had been known to execute several of his subjects for petty offences. The three contestants were in the guise of spectators for the palace’s annual Gibarch games. As the three contestants stood before the palace, a holographic image of Miris appeared before them. Shrain and Tridara flinched at the sight of Miris. T’Avaya knew they both had a past with Miris, though she did not know the details.
The image of Miris spoke to them in an amplified, ghostly voice. “Greetings travelers. You are about to enter the palace of Kof Rixan, the most brutal ruler that ever walked the planet of Denobula. Kof Rixan is most angry at this time. The four precious stones from his latinum crown have been stolen. Rixan has executed half of his royal guards for being so careless to let this happen. However, unknown to Rixan and his guards, the stones have been hidden in various places in the palace. Your task, brave travelers, is to find the four stones of the latinum crown and assemble them in the Helmet of Nedobis. Once assembled, the stones will quell the heart of the angry Kof and be transported back to the crown where they belong. Each of you has been given a shoulder bag with a magic mirror that can transform up to three inanimate objects into another object. To use the mirror, you must cite an incantation.” She told them the incantation, then continued her instructions.
“There are four clues to find the stones. The first is ‘behind your twin’. The second is ‘where life begins’. The third clue is ‘in the warmth’. The fourth and final clue is ‘where the statue stares’. Now go, brave travelers, before the Kof executes any more of his guards. And beware the dangers of magic all around the palace.”
The holographic Miris disappeared, and the palace door opened. As soon as they walked in, they saw merriment and joy, instead of sorrow and grief. “Well so much for an angry king,” Tridara said. Tridara was a Boslic female whose holonovels usually featured swashbuckling space pirates. They were greeted by a Denobulan woman wearing a red jumpsuit. “Come,” she said. “Enjoy the music with us before the games begin!” Shrain, an Andorian male who specialized in writing Federation mystery holonovels, said, “This palace is huge. It could take awhile to search it all.”
T’Avaya noticed several brightly colored rugs that were floating vertically around the room. They were common objects in Miris’s programs. It seemed Miris had added more elements to this adventure than just the ancient Denobulan accoutrements. A small four-legged animal walked up to them. It raised up on its hind legs and spoke, “You seek the four stones of the latinum crown. They are scattered about the south wing.”
Shrain said, “Uzaveh! A talking d’lan!”
Tridara said, “Looks more like a vogid.”
“Whatever the animal looks like,” T’Avaya exclaimed, “I think we should take its advice.”
The trio walked to the south part of the palace. The first room they saw was an empty parlor. “Watch out!” Shrain yelled at Tridara. Tridara turned and saw an object floating toward her. It appeared to be a long stick with a round metal piece attached to one end. She ducked out of the way and the object flew past her toward the opposite wall. The talking animal from before—had it followed them there?--spoke again, “That is an enchanted bed warmer. Hot coals are put in the metal part, and then it is put on a bed to keep it warm during the cold nights.”
“Enchanted indeed,” said Tridara. “Why did it attack me?”
The animal did not answer.
T’Avaya said, “The stories of Miris often have random occurrences, though I have never heard of them attacking. We should all be very cautious and stay aware of our surroundings.”
Tridara said, “But it fits one of the clues: ‘In the warmth.’ “
She walked slowly over to the warmer. It was now apparently stuck to the far wall. It did not move as she approached it. She held it in her hands and examined it. The round metal part at the end had a lid. She lifted the lid. There was nothing in it. “Folo!” She said. “Empty. I was sure this would have one of the stones.”
T’Avaya noticed a fireplace along the wall. “Perhaps there,” she said, moving towards it. She examined the hearth. There was a metal grating around it. Behind the grating she found a small black box with a metal lock. She pulled on the lock. It was fastened securely. Perhaps this would be the time to use the “magic mirror”. She pulled out the holographic mirror she was given when she entered the holosuite. She held the mirror so that it reflected the metal lock. “Power activate,” she said. “Change the lock to the form of a hair pin.” The face of the mirror suddenly went blank. Then the lock seemed to ripple out of existence and was replaced with a hair pin. The mirror went back to normal. She put the mirror back in her shoulder bag and pulled the hair pin from the latch. She opened the box. There was a shiny brilliant red stone. She held it up so the others could see.
“Remarkable!” said Tridara. T’Avaya put the stone in her shoulder bag. Shrain and Tridara started looking more closely at every object in the room and touching everything they could. They found no other stones in the room. The trio decided to split up.
Shrain entered a kitchen. There was a bowl of what appeared to be large white eggs on the counter.
“ ‘Where life begins’,” he thought. He grabbed a knife, turned it so that the handle aimed downward, and smashed all the eggs with the knife handle. There was nothing but gooey mush inside the eggs. “Faas!” he cursed. He started looking around the room, touching and overturning anything and everything he could find.
Security Chief Vedarem put in a call to Station Director Tab Nilo. “I’ve had several reports of pesky holographic flies. They seem to be spreading all over the station. Even places where there are no holographic projectors.” T’Avaya and her engineering team had set up temporary holographic projectors on various parts of the station as part of the competition festivities. But having these photonic flies everywhere was getting annoying. They looked like little points of light. Bright and colorful. But they were a nuisance. And no one had found a way to “kill” them.
Nilo responded, “I’ve gotten reports too. They’re in my office. I swat them away and they just come back. Who was the brilliant programmer who brought these things anyway?” Vedarem, a Zakdorn, said he did not have an answer. He was investigating it now. “One of the guests who is here to be a judge for the competition, a Doc Zimmerman, studied the photonic flies and said they are carried on oxygen molecules. They can react with the molecules and reproduce themselves on the molecules photonic flies, not just holograms. That’s why, once they are in existence, they don’t need holoprojectors, and that’s how they have gotten all over the station.” Zimmerman was a human who was an expert on holography. He had created the Emergency Medical Hologram, a holographic medical doctor that had been implemented on most Starfleet ships and proven very useful.
“That’s just great,” said Nilo. “So we are breathing them in?”
“Apparently not,” said Vedarem. “As soon as they are caught in humanoid inhalation, they move on to another molecule. Really very clever. But it doesn’t appear to be a weapon or any kind of threat. Just annoying. And hard to get rid of, since we can’t just get rid of all the oxygen with all these humanoid lifeforms here.”
“Well find a way!”
“Yes sir!”
“One more thing,” Vedarem continued. “I was informed by the Denobulans that Miris Hoturn’s death was caused by slow poison. Murder. I have reason to believe she was murdered by someone here. I did some research, and there are three people here who have a past with her. And all three of those people are in the holosuite right now, because she specifically chose those three people as finalists in the competition to play the game, and they are now in a holonovel that she wrote.”
“So you’re saying she wrote the game with those three people in mind? One of whom is my chief engineer?” Nilo was fond of Chief Engineer T’Avaya. In fact, so was Vedarem.
“Yes sir.”
“Do you think they are in any danger?”
“Unknown sir. The holosuite safeties should be on. But even then, some holonovels have been known to trap people for a very long time.”
Tridara walked up a long staircase to the top of the south tower. She saw what looked like several prison cells with iron bars. She examined and touched the doors, bars, and locks. Nothing. In one corner, she saw a large rock. She tried to lift it. It was too heavy. She reached into her shoulder bag and retrieved her magic mirror. “Power activate. Change the rock to the form of a key to open all the cells.” The face of the mirror went blank. Then the rock seemed to ripple out of existence and there on the floor appeared a metal key. The mirror went back to normal. Apparently, there had been nothing behind or underneath the rock. She used the key to open all the locked cell doors. She found nothing in any of the cells. There was a round opening in a wall. A window. It overlooked the castle grounds. She could see where they were preparing for the outdoor games. The window had an avian nest. The nest was empty. She fingered through the twigs of the nest and felt something cold and smooth. She pulled it out. “Aha! Another stone! At last!” She put the stone in her shoulder bag and rushed back down the stairs and out of the tower.
Shrain saw a Denobulan wearing a gray uniform. It was a Denobulan guard. He was guarding the entrance to another room. Shrain asked him if he could pass and see the room. The guard did not answer; it just stared straight ahead. Shrain took out his magic mirror. “Power activate. Change the guard into the form of a statue.” Nothing happened to the mirror or the guard. “Faas!” He then remembered that the mirror only affected inanimate objects. Shrain looked back down the hallway he had just come from. He had found nothing in the rooms in the hallway. He examined a mirror on the wall in the hallway. He pulled the mirror off the wall and looked behind it. The mirror had covered a hole in the wall. Inside that hole was…Another stone! ‘Behind your twin,’ the clue had said.
Then he decided to try another tack with the Denobulan guard. He used his magic mirror on the hallway mirror. “Power activate. Change the mirror into the form of a sword.” The face of the mirror went blank. Then the large mirror seemed to ripple out of existence, and then a sword appeared. The magic mirror went back to normal. Shrain waved the sword in front of the guard. “Let me in that room, or I’ll kill you where you stand.” The guard didn’t move or react in any way to Shrain’s threat. The guard was a hologram, so Shrain had no problem wielding the sword at the guard’s chest. The sword had no effect. It went straight through the Denobulan’s chest without causing harm. “Faas!” He uttered the Andorian expletive several times as he kept uselessly stabbing at the guard.
Vedarem was reading the reports sent to him by Andorian security. Miris had told everyone that Shrain’s holonovels were written by one of his mates instead of Shrain himself. Shrain denied the accusation, but it severely hurt the popularity of his holonovels. When Vedarem looked into Tridara’s past, he saw that Tridara had interacted with Miris and her then-husband on Tandos V. So Shrain had a reason to try to kill Miris. And possibly Tridara did too.
“Are you going to keep looking at your computer or are you going to do something about these flies?!!!” yelled a Ferengi entering Vedarem’s office. “You can’t just barge in here, Mr. Quark.”
“Look,” Quark said more calmly, “I came here to judge a holoprogram competition. Not get barraged by photonic insects that light up the air like a radioactive sneezing Tellarite.” Quark, a Ferengi, had come to the station from Deep Space Nine, where he owned an establishment with several holosuites. Quark’s business had become very popular, one could even say profitable, since the end of the Dominion War.
“I’m working on it,” Vedarem said as he waved his hand to swat the barrage of flies in front of his face. A call came in just then. “Chief, we’ve got something.”
“Now if you’ll excuse me,” he told Quark.
Quark let out a breath. “You’re just like my station’s previous security chief. Always trying to get rid of me. If these flies aren’t gone soon, I’ll be back.” He left the office.
The Zakdorn security chief looked at his screen. “What is it?”
Malaka, his Vorta staff member, said, “Doc Zimmerman thinks he has a solution for the flies. He said a type of flypaper can be manufactured that attracts photons. Engineer Luruwa is working on it now.”
“Excellent. Keep me posted.”
The three contestants met in the hallway in front of the guarded room. They discussed where they had been. They agreed they had checked all of the south wing of the palace except for that one room that was guarded. Shrain said, “If we can’t get by the guard, maybe we can use one of our magic mirrors to transform the guard into something else.” T’Avaya answered, “The mirrors can only transform inanimate objects.” Tridara was looking around. “The fourth clue,” she said, “is ‘where the statue stares.’ I have not seen any statues.” “Except for our friend over there,” Shrain bellowed. “The guard,” said T’Avaya, “Stares.”
She looked in the other direction to see what the guard was looking at. It was a long hallway with a downward sloping floor and ceiling. There was a chandelier hanging from the ceiling. Because of the sloping ceiling, the chandelier was directly in the guard’s view. And because of the sloping floor, the chandelier was too high to be reached and searched for a hidden stone. Instead of trying to find something to climb to reach the chandelier, T’Avaya pulled out her mirror. “Power activate. Change the chandelier to the form of a table.” The face of the mirror went blank. Then the chandelier seemed to ripple out of existence and there on the floor appeared a table. The mirror went back to normal. Just as the table appeared out of nothingness, a colored stone dropped from mid air onto the table. It had been hidden in the chandelier and appeared when the chandelier disappeared.
“That was remarkably clever!” said Shrain. “Now that we have all the stones, we need to take them to the Helmet of Nedobis,” T’Avaya told them. “I believe I saw it. This way.” She led them to a room that had a suit of armor lying in pieces on a table. She collected the stones from the Shrain and Tridara and laid all four stones on top of the helmet. They all stood and watched with baited breath. Nothing happened. Then, out of nowhere, an arrow flew across the room and hit Shrain in the chest. He fell to the floor in pain. “Whaaat!” he tried to shout. The others ran to him. “Where did that come from?” Tridara said. T’Avaya did not know. It must have been another random act in the program. She saw blue blood slowly oozing from the Andorian’s chest. That meant the holosuite safeties had been deactivated.
T’Avaya pulled the arrow from Shrain’s chest. She got out her mirror and changed the arrow into a towel. She pressed the towel into his chest to stop as much bleeding as she could. She shouted for help. Two Denobulans came in with bandages. “So is this typical of Miris’s programs?” asked Tridara, “They keep trying to kill people? How can these programs be so popular?” T’Avaya said, “No. Something is wrong with this program. Those stones on the Helmet of Nedobis should have ended the program.” The talking animal appeared again and spoke, “That is not the Helmet of Nedobis. ‘Nedobis’ is our word for…lower torso. The Helmet of Nedobis is what YOU would call a ‘cod piece’.”
“Of course,” T’Avaya said. She picked up the stones from the helmet and laid them on the cod piece lying on the other end of the table. Then, all the objects in the room disappeared. Then the walls, then the holographic characters. Another projection of Miris materialized. It spoke. “Congratulations. You have assembled all the pieces. You, T’Avaya, as the one who moved the pieces, have won the competition. You have won the rights to continue my stories.”
T’Avaya exclaimed, “No. We all worked together. And why did your program attack Tridara and Shrain?”
“I started getting ill. My physician told me I had been poisoned. He said there was no antidote. It was a very slow acting poison. I knew I had enough time left to design this program. I know it was either Tridara or Shrain who poisioned me. The attacks were necessary to scare a confession from whichever one did it.”
Tridara looked at the image of Miris and said, “You were a horrible person. You stole the only man I ever loved. And you didn’t even love him. You divorced him after one year. Since Denobulans mate for life, he was disgraced after the divorce and wasn’t allowed to remarry or pursue another relationship. You, Miris, should be shoved up Kof Rixan’s Nedobis. Those are my feelings, but I didn’t kill you.” Tridara was a very attractive Boslick, and she could never get over the fact that she lost a lover to another female.
Still lying on his back, Shrain addressed the image of Miris. “It was me. You…,” He struggled to get the words out, “ruined my writing career with your lies. It… was only after ten years that I was able to make a comeback…You deserved your death.”
“Well,” the image of Miris said, “It looks like you are also getting the death that you deserve. T’Avaya is the only one who deserves to get the rights to my stories. She beautifully brought my stories to life with her holosuite engineering programs.” Miris’s cheeks filled with air and poked out like two large balls on her face. Then, the image faded away. Shrain coughed up more blood as station medics came in to rush him to the infirmary. Station Director Nilo and Security Chief Vedarem entered the holosuite. T’Avaya told them what had happened. Vedarem apologized for not getting them out sooner. He felt he should have been able to prevent Shrain’s accident. Then, Vedarem placed Tridara under arrest. “What for?” Tridara said, “I had nothing to do with Shrain’s accident or Miris’s death or her holoprogram!”
“No,” Vedarem said. “But while you were in the holosuite, the station became inundated with holographic flies. They were considered ‘cute’ and ‘pretty’ at first, but they multiplied and became a nuisance. Any ongoing public nuisance is a violation of station laws. We traced the origin of the flies back to your station room.” Tridara was shocked. “So I’m being arrested for creating a harmless program.”
“It was hardly harmless,” said Vedarem. “The flies were right in people’s faces, causing them to trip and fall, or causing them drop things as they were swatting the flies. There were even incidents of people firing illegal phasers at the flies.”
Tridara explained that she had not intended for the flies to spread so vastly. She could have kept them under control if she hadn’t been in the holosuite for so long. Vedarem told her she could think about it while she spent a day in jail.
When T’Avaya left the holosuite, she saw what looked like several hanging ornaments around the station that had not been there before. The ornaments were cube-shaped, with each side of the cube being a different color. Director Nilo told her the cubes were a type of “flypaper” that station engineer Luruwa had made to attract and nullify all the photonic flies that had infested the station. “They seem to be working,” said Nilo.
“I’m glad Shrain will be alright,” said Admiral Grsow to T’Avaya. Grsow was finally glad to be able to converse with his friend. He had not seen T’Avaya in over a year. As one of the judges for the holoprogram competition, he had decided he shouldn’t talk to her on the station until the contest was over. Now that it was over, they could meet and catch up. He had been asked to be one of the judges because, before becoming an admiral, he was a Starfleet holodeck engineer who had designed many of the Starfleet Academy training holodeck programs. She had met Grsow at an engineering conference. He was the one who had encouraged her to write a holonovel.
“Shrain didn’t die,” T’Avaya said, “but now he will face charges for murder. But of course, there will be some leniency since he confessed.”
“I met Miris once,” Grsow said. “She visited Starfleet Academy to promote her holonovels. She was very disrespectful to the students. She was like a sun, only without the warmth.”
“And you, I hear a career change is coming,” Grsow said caringly.
T’Avaya said, “Yes. I am going to work for Starfleet Intelligence.” She looked at her Caitain friend. He purred. “Excellent. If that is what you want, then I am happy for you. And I’m sorry you didn’t win the competition. The other judges seemed to prefer the Bynars.” Since Miris had chosen the two of the three finalists based on false pretenses—and because Tridara and Shrain had been disqualified--the judges (Quark, Zimmerman, and Grsow) had named their own finalists. T’Avaya was still a finalist, but had not been chosen as the winner. She was mildly disappointed. Winning would have been a satisfying ending for her first, and probably last, holonovel. Disappointment is emotional and illogical, she told herself. What is, is.
The Bynars, 1100 and 0010, had written several historical recreations. T’Avaya thought their programs had over- exaggerated warlike characters, and stories that only pretended to be based on historical facts. But obviously, the programs suited the judges’ tastes. She also gave the Bynars the rights to Miris’s holoseries. Miris’s legal office said that T’Avaya should be the inheritor of the holoseries because the holoprogram chose her. T’Avaya felt it was only logical to give the series to the Bynars.
She would be spending one more night on Station Tyrellia before she left to work for Starfleet Intelligence on a more regular basis. She looked forward to her future. As Vulcan philosopher T’Mee’an wrote, “Instead of trying to predict the future, you should create your own future.” That is what T’Avaya set out to do.
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S01 E08: Chronicles of T’Avaya: Truth of the Raptor’s Children, Part 2T’Leth kept her eyes closed. Her facial expression betrayed her deep concentration. With her left hand on the Betazoid woman and her right hand on a spheroid receptacle, she felt her physical presence dissipating as two other minds touched her own. One, the Betazoid, Viadne. The other, the Vulcan/Romulan, S’Task. The disembodied essence of S’Task had occupied Viadne’s mind for over three months, sometimes suppressed, sometimes dominant, but never belonging there.
T’Avaya had been watching the Vulcan master T’Leth for over an hour. The process of removing the katra, the essence, from a mind and instilling it into a receptacle was a long and arduous undertaking for any Vulcan master. It was usually done when a Vulcan was close to death, the Vulcan’s own katra removed from the body. It was rare that a non-Vulcan body would contain a Vulcan’s katra. Even though Viadne was a Betazoid, and thereby had natural psionic abilities beyond many humanoid races, she had spent many years as a Borg drone, rendering her psionic abilities repressed and weak.
That the katra of S’Task had survived all this time was amazing. S’Task had been alive during the Time of Awakening, when Surak had convinced the majority of the Vulcan people to embrace logic and stoicism and to leave behind their violent ways. S’Task did not want to follow Surak’s ways, so he led eighty thousand Vulcans away from their home in search of a new home, one where they would be free to live their lives by following their passions and their warrior aggressions. S’Task and his followers were often referred to as “those who marched beneath the raptor’s wings”, and later as “the Raptor’s Children”, and even later as “Romulans”. It has been over two thousand years since that Time of Awakening. And now, somehow, S’Task’s katra had been found aboard a crashed ship and had been implanted in Viadne’s mind when she had found the ship as a Borg drone. How surprising that she was freed from the Borg more easily than she was from the katra, T’Avaya thought.
The Vulcan master suddenly opened her eyes and folded her hands in front of her. “It is done,” she said.
T’Avaya stood and asked, “Do you require assistance?”
“No. I will rest now,” T’Leth said, as she quietly left the room.
T’Avaya walked over to the bed. Viadne was still unconscious. She would be so for at least another two hours. T’Avaya turned to look at the receptacle containing the soul of S’Task. The white spherical object glowed as if it had a light inside. The glowing pulsed. She found the rhythmic pulse very soothing. She lifted the globe with great care. She placed it in a white transluscent cube-shaped box at the foot of the bed and carried it to her small scout ship. She would bring the katra with her to Gamma Volantis. There, she would work with others to examine the crashed Romulan ship where the katra had been found. She would much rather take it to the Hall of Ancient Thought on Vulcan, where it would be laid to rest with the other great minds of Vulcan’s past, but the Romulans had laid a claim on the katra. S’Task had been the first leader of the Romulans, so the Romulans claimed first rights to the katra, just as Vulcans claimed first rights as S’Task had been born a Vulcan citizen.
Would the matter even be settled on Gamma Volantis?Probably not, T’Avaya thought. It would just be a meeting of Vulcans and Romulans as both studied the ship to try to determine how it had crashed and how it had come to have S’Task’s katra. S’Task was presumed to have died on Romulus, and Romulans had never adopted the Vulcan practice of preserving katras. Indeed, the Romulans had lost their telepathic abilities in the centuries since the Time of Awakening.
Starfleet Intelligence Mission Log.Stardate 45125.7. Agent T’Avaya reporting. I have arrived with Vulcan Master T’Leth on the uninhabited planet Gamma Volantis on the outskirts of Romulan space. An ancient Romulan ship, the Ket-Cheleb, crashed here almost two millennia ago. The ship was discovered four months ago by a crashed Borg scout ship. The only surviving Borg, a Betazoid, inadvertantly uncovered the katra as it entered her mind when she connected her Borg nanoprobes to the ship. The Romulan ship and the Betazoid were later discovered by Romulans. They disconnected her from the Borg collective, and took her to Romulus for study. A telepathic Reman named Xiokir discovered that the Betazoid woman’s mind contained the katra, living soul, of S’Task. The Romulans orderd many invasive tests and procedures on the Betazoid to have the katra removed and studied, but to no avail. The Romulans do not possess such technological or telepathic capability. A Romulan nurse took pity on the Betazoid, Viadne, and helped her escape to a nonalligned world that was willing to help her. She is now living on that world, while I now have the katra in a safety receptacle.
T’Leth and I will be working with the Romulans to examine the Ket-Cheleb while trying to reach an agreement on what to do with it and the katra.
Commander Darat was tapping a computer console. It defied her touch by refusing to power on. “No power. No accessable data banks. No sign of life,” the Romulan declared.
“I saw the engine room,” said Naluk. “It was totally inoperable. This ship lost all power when it crashed two thousand years ago.”
“Any idea where the ship was headed?” Commander Darat asked. Naluk was a Romulan historian and archaeologist. He explained that the ship was meant to be a long range transport ship. But Romulans of that time were still getting settled on Romulus. There were no records of any of them leaving the planet. This ship also appears to not have had a crew. Its navigation system must have been set for a particular destination.
Suddenly, Darat and Naluk heard a strange buzzing sound. They started looking around. The ship still looked dead. They could not tell where the sound came from.
T’Avaya landed her small scout ship on Gamma Volantis several meters away from the Ket-Cheleb. The Romulan warbird orbiting the planet was a good sign that the Romulans were probably already inside the Ket-Cheleb recording their findings.
“Something is happening,” said T’Leth from behind her.
T’Avaya turned around. T’Leth had opened the box containing the katra. T’Leth said the orb had started glowing brightly inside the box. When she had opened the lid, it glowed continuously, instead of pulsing as it had done before.
“Perhaps it is reacting to a magnetic resonance field on the planet,” T’Avaya said.
T’Leth agreed it was possible. Hardly any katras were ever taken off the Vulcan homeworld, so who knew how they would react on another planet? She closed the lid, and they left the scout ship.
As the two of them walked toward the crashed Romulan ship Ket-Cheleb, T’Avaya looked at its outer hull. It had obviously been built on Romulus. But the design was very similar to that of the old Vulcan ships of that time. The name “Ket-Cheleb” was painted on the ship’s port side in the old Vulcan script. It was the name of the Vulcan god of war. The two women walked inside. They heard a strange buzzing sound. They saw two Romulans, a male and a female. The male was holding a Romulan tricorder. The Romulans looked at them as they entered. The female spoke first. “I am Commander Darat. This is historian Naluk.”
The Vulcan women introduced themselves. T’Avaya asked what the buzzing sound was. Darat said it had just started a few minutes ago. Naluk said, “My tricorder readings show microscopic electromachines in the air, too small to be seen with the eyes. There are fifty-three of them floating around us. They are making the buzzing sound.”
T’Avaya turned on her tricorder and confirmed. T’Leth and T’Avaya both said they could sense an intelligence in the micromachines. T’Avaya’s tricorder showed they were gathering around the other Vulcan. T’Leth could feel it. She said, “They sense I am the stronger telepath. They are communicating with me.” She closed her eyes for several seconds.
When she opened her eyes, she said the machines contained the memory engrams of S’Task’s personal guards. They were his Arrain, personal Centurians. They had been sent with the katra to protect it. Two thousand years ago, his most loyal followers had known he was about to be murdered by one of his enemies on Romulus, and the followers knew they would not be able to stop it. So they removed his katra right before he was murdered and secretly put it on the Ket-Cheleb. The ship’s navigational system was set for Barradas III, the home planet of the Debrune. They knew the katra would be safe there. Debrune was a planet that had been colonized by Vulcans who had left the home planet during Surak’s time, but had not traveled as far as the rest of S’Task’s people.
Naluk said the ship must have been thrown off course. Gamma Volantis was not on the spatial path from Romulus to Barradas III. T’Leth said the beings communicated that a spatial anamoly had thrown the ship off course and caused it to crash on this planet. The Arrain could sense that S’Task’s katra was nearby, and that it was active. The Arrain had been unconscious from the time the ship crashed, only becoming active now that the katra was active and in close range. As T’Leth communicated this to the others, she left out the fact that the Romulans had discovered the Arrain four months earlier when they had been aboard this ship. T’Avaya found it fascinating that the Romulans had the technology to create these microscopic machines and upload memory engrams into them. Naluk explained that there was much old technology the ancient Romulans posessed that had been lost on Romulus. Just trying to survive and tame a new planet had taken up most of their time and resources back then. But these machines did not contain actual katras, only memory ingrams and a certain level of artificial intelligence so they could adapt to some situations long enough to get the ship to to its destination.
Naluk explained that he himself was now part of a small group of followers of S’Task. They sought to honor his memory. So much of Romulan society was spent advancing the military or the careers of politicians that it was easy to forget the past. Their group had come here hoping to learn more about S’Task from this ship and from his katra. The two Vulcans had never heard of such a group existing on Romulus. Naluk said that “Federation propaganda” only told them what the Romulan military was up to, never letting them know that there were many civilian citizens who had other interests. T’Avaya had visited Romulus as a Section 31 operative and knew first hand that Naluk spoke the truth, though that was not something she could reveal at this time.
“Nor should your little group get recognition,” said Darat. “You worship S’Task as a poet and philosopher, like a weak Vulcan. S’Task’s greatness was his leadership as a soldier. He led us away from Surark’s pallid philosophy to be our own great race.”
“He was a great leader. But he was also a great person in his own right,” Naluk countered. “He had a balanced mind. He not only wanted us to be great warriors, but also great artisans who could build a solid foundation for an empire.”
“I am a member of the Barel clan,” Darat proudly proclaimed. “S’Task honored our earliest Romulan forebearer by entrusting him with his sacred staff. Because of that, my family owes much to S’Task. THAT is his legacy to the Romulan people. My family has contributed much to shape the military and the senate.”
Naluk spat at her. “The success of ONE family is an insult to the great S’Task’s legacy.”
T’Avaya mused that these two had probably had this debate before and would again. She decided it was time to change the subject. She said she wanted to study the Arrain to see how microscopic objects could successfully carry memory engrams. And since they were micromechanical, she may be able to find a way to help them communicate more easily with non-telepaths, such as Romulans. T’Leth gave her a dissatisfied look and said, “You do not trust my communication with them?”
“It is not a matter of trust,”T’Avaya said. “It would be more efficient if we could communicate with them without needing one person as a go-between. I am also interested in studying the technology of their construction. As an engineer, I find it fascinating.”
T’Leth bowed her head in agreement. T’Avaya said she would need to build an electric isomietic field generator. The machines would be able to attach themselves to it harmlessly, and it would project their thoughts through a speaker. But she would need a molecular impulse conduit. She did not have one on her ship, and there was no such thing on the Ket-Cheleb.
Commander Darat said, “You can build it from my warbird. I will have one of my engineers assist you.”
The Vulcan engineer was surprised by the Romulan commander’s willingness to help.
When the others beamed up to the warbird, T’Leth asked to stay behind a few minutes. She wanted a little more time with the Arrain. She reached out to the Arrain telepathically. As a Vulcan master, she had great mind control. Still, it required some effort to touch minds with them without letting them know her true intentions.
“You will not take us,” they said to her.
She told them they could have a resting place next to S’Task’s katra in the Hall of Ancient Thought.
“You want to use us. The others told us. We will not be used to wage wars against your enemies.”
She tried to gain their trust. She failed. Just like Romulans, she thought, so paranoid.
After T’Avaya had spent several hours working with the Romulan engineer to build the field generator, Naluk invited her to join the followers of S’Task (the Vrinsuthe, as they were called) in the Kutasia ritual. He explained that it was a meditation ritual performed weekly by the Vrinsuthe. T’Avaya found it interesting and, feeling that she had reached a point where she could use a diversion, said she would join. T’Leth had been invited, but was feeling fatigued and did not wish to participate.
T’Avaya changed into the light green robe she had been asked to wear. She entered the room with the other Vrinsuthe. They were all dressed the same as she. There were two rows of small pillows on the floor. Each person sat on a pillow. There was one Romulan standing at the front of the room. He lit two candles, then read an ancient poem in Romulan. Then everyone closed their eyes and meditated. After twenty minutes, the leader rang a bell. Everyone stood up from their pillow. They all formed a circle along the outer perimeter of the room and started walking clockwise. They were still very silent, still meditating. After another twenty minutes, everyone took the pillow they had previously sat on and moved it to the outer perimeter of the room, forming a circle, and sat back down on the pillows. Then the leader passed around an ancient tome that was written by S’Task, and each person read a line from it. Then, another bell, and everyone was dismissed.
Afterwards, Naluk asked T’Avaya what she thought of the ritual. She said she found it quite stimulating. She noticed the tome they read from, Force Will Not Avail You, was one of S’Task’s works that had been discovered on Vulcan hundreds of years ago by an archaeologist named T’Pek. How did the Vrinsuthe manage to get a copy of it? Naluk said it must have been smuggled to Romulus hundreds of years ago.
T’Avaya did not know any Romulans practiced meditation. It was a common daily exercise with Vulcans. It had only been started after Surak’s time as a way of calming the mind to keep emotions in check. So why then, did Romulans do it? Naluk said S’Task had been a student of Surak for many years before the Time of Awakening, as many knew, and that Surak had often advocated meditation as a path to calmness and inner peace. T’Avaya mentioned how this Kutasia ritual was different in some ways from the Vulcan meditation practice. Vulcans prefered to meditate in private, whereas the Romulans did it in a group. Naluk admitted that Romulans were clearly more sociable than Vulcans and that that was neither good nor bad, just a difference. T’Avaya said she was pleased to see that this was something Vulcans had in common with their distant brothers. She thought of Ambassador Spock and his reunification movement that still was ongoing on Romulus.
Mission Log. Supplemental. I have built an electric isomietic field generator to help the Arrain communicate more easily. The Arrain will be more comfortable in their own environment, so I have taken the generator to their ship. I am very impressed by the hospitality of the Romulans. They all seem amicable and helpful. It almost seems to be a ploy. But to what end? Perhaps I am being too paranoid.
The Vulcan engineer turned on the field generator. The dome on its top glowed bright blue. The computer screen on its side showed ready to receive. T’Leth said she could sense the Arrain were aware of the generator. They were coming towards it. A voice came from the generator.
“Who are you?” it said. T’Avaya explained about the crashed ship and the katra of S’Task.
The voice said, “You will not take us.” T’Avaya tried to explain that they only wanted to take the katra to its final resting place on Vulcan.
“You will not take us,” again came from the voice modulator of the field generator.
Naluk said, “It is a great honor to meet those who knew the great S’Task in person.”
The Arrain replied, “Who are you?”
“I am a loyal follower who has studied the teachings of S’Task. There are several like me who honor his memory.”
The voice said, “It is trickery. The others told us.”
“What others?” T’Avaya asked.
“The others were here before. They were our brothers. Romulans. But they sought to use us. Wanted to use us to build synthetic brain to infiltrate their enemies. Wanted to use us to build computer virus to infiltrate enemies’ computers.”
Darat said, “Their memories must be faulty. Most Romulans abhor the idea of synthetics. Or perhaps others have been here who were not Romulans.”
T’Leth said that she would like to speak to the Arrain alone. She felt that she could convice them that they were in no danger. Darat tried to protest, but T’Leth stood her ground. They reluctantly left the ship.
Once the others were gone, T’Leth knew she could speak plainly to the Arrain. She heard their plea again.
“You will not take us.”
She told them they could have a resting place next to S’Task’s katra in the Hall of Ancient Thought.
“You want to use us. The others told us. We will not be used to wage wars against your enemies.”
T’Leth reached into her pocket and pulled out a small pyramid-shaped object. She focused her thoughts through the object. In her mind, she could hear the thoughts of the Arrain. “Yes. The others were here before,” she told them. “They could not contain you, but I can.” All she had needed was the field generator that T’Avaya had built. It made the Arrain just pliable enough for her mind to overwhelm them. She urged them into the pyramid prison in her hand. They could not resist.
As T’Avaya and Commander Darat met Naluk outside the Ket-Cheleb, T’Avaya wondered just how far she could trust them. Or how much she could trust T’Leth. She had sensed something very strange when they were inside the Ket-Cheleb. The Arrain seemed fearful. And T’Leth seemed a little too confident in herself, as if she knew something about them. And she didn’t seem curious about them at all. Perhaps it was her superior telepathic powers. Still, T’Avaya felt something odd was amiss.
Naluk asked, “Would it be possible to use the field generator on the katra? I would very much like to speak with S’Task.”
T’Avaya answered, “No. The generator only works on the Arrain because they are physical machines that house engrams. The katra is not a machine and works on different principles.”
“Ah. Unfortunate.”
T’Leth came out of the ship and held up her pyramid-shaped object and said, “The Arrain are in here. They will be safe until we get to Vulcan. They will be put in the Hall of Ancient Thought next to S’Task.”
Darat drew her pistol and aimed it at T’Leth. “You will hand them over to us! You can have the katra. But the Arrain are made of technology the Tal Shiar is very interested in.”
Darat is Tal Shiar? T’Avaya thought. Then why has she been so cooperative?
Suddenly, T’Leth disappeared in a dazzling display of light. She had been beamed away. Commander Darat called her ship. They said their sensors had just picked up the transporter activity. They could not trace the source. Could it have been a cloaked ship? There was a sensor blip that had lasted a few seconds and was gone. They detected no tachyon emissions that would suggest a cloaked ship. And sensors detected no other life signs on the planet and no other ships in the area.
T’Avaya went back to her scout ship. The katra was still there. It still had the odd glow that it had when they landed on the planet, not the natural pulsing she had seen before. She felt a faint telepathic presence from it, as if the katra was dormant. She looked around to see if T’Leth had left any personal effects that may give a clue to her whereabouts. She found nothing. The other Vulcan had not brought anything with her except an extra robe. She checked the pocket of the robe. There was a hypospray. It was common for Vulcans of T’Leth’s advanced age to be on some type of regular medication. She opened it up. When she removed the middle section, she noticed it had an extra piece. It was a communicator hidden within the hypospray.
T’Avaya checked her ship’s communication logs. T’Leth had not made any personal communications. She checked the sensor logs. The hidden communicator had been set for a low epsilon e-band. She recalibrated her ship’s sensors to scan for that band. If she had access to the communications array she had built for Space Station Tyrellia, she would be able to easily track any communications on that band. She sent a communique to Luruwa, her assistant engineer who was temporarily maintaining the station array while T’Avaya was away. She told Luruwa to transmit a sensor signal from the array that would be able to detect epsilon e-band transmissions. Moments later, Luruwa sent the signal. T’Avaya was able to detect traces of an epsilon e-band wave that had come from an area of space above the planet’s south polar region. She decided she would have to trust the Romulans to help her. She called them from her scout ship and explained what she had found and asked to go back to their warbird. She took the field generator with her.
From the warbird, she and the Romulan engineer found a cloaked ship above the Gamma Volantis’ southern pole, right where T’Avaya had tracked the wave. Instead of tachyon emissions, the ship emitted inter-phasic tetryon particles that could be detected using the same frequencies that were calibrated for e-band waves. Darat ordered the warbird to move closer to the cloaked ship. As they approached, the other ship decloaked. That was much too easy, Commander Darat thought. The ship hailed them.
T’Leth appeared on the screen. “Clever that you were able to detect this ship. No matter. This ship has a quantum slipstream drive. I will be leaving this sector in five minutes, and you will not be able to follow.”
T’Avaya had recognized both T’Leth’s secret communicator and the design of T’Leth’s ship. “You are Section 31.”
“Not really hard to figure out, was it?” T’Leth answered.
“What do you want with the Arrain?” Darat asked.
“They have the potential to be weaponized in a number of ways. We can reprogram and use them like computer viruses. We will use them on whatever enemy we deem a threat to Federation security. They are perfect. Being able to travel through air, and being microscopic, they can infiltrate beings or computers. And with emotional imprints, we may also be able to use them for mind control. We may be able to use them as a model for artificial intelligence that would never become sentient, and therefore, never become a threat to its creators. Anything that gives us an advantage over our enemies.”
T’Avaya still wanted to know something else. “We just discovered these Arrain. How did you know they were here?”
“They were discovered by Commander Vemel when his crew found Viadne. But at the time, they could not contain them or study them. The Reman, Xiokir, could sense their intelligence, but could not communicate with them. However, they, apparently, could understand Vemel and Xiokir’s talk about their potential use as weapons. We needed you to come here with your engineering knowledge to build the field generator. Also, S’Task’s katra needed to be freed from Viadne’s mind to make the Arrain fully open to communication.”
Darat said, “So they were the ‘others’ that the Arrain spoke of. But there was nothing in Vemel’s report about finding these Arrain.”
T’Leth said, “Section 31 made sure that that part of the records was erased. We couldn’t let anyone know before we could come back and retrieve them.”
On the Romulan ship’s forward view screen, T’Avaya saw the pyramid that housed the Arrain had been set on a table behind T’Leth. T’Avaya increased the power on the electric isomietic field generator. She saw the small pyramid behind T’Leth begin to vibrate. Then, it started making a loud buzzing noise. T’Leth turned around and saw the pyramid rise into the air as it kept vibrating and buzzing.
“What is happening?” T’Leth gasped.
T’Avaya said, “I am using the field generator to destroy the Arrain. They will understand. They said they did not want to be used. I know they would prefer death to being manipulated.”
T’Leth watched in horror as the small pyramid began turning somersaults in the air. Then it vibrated violently. The buzzing got louder. Then it exploded into tiny fragments. The shattered pieces fell to the deck.
Darat said, “T’Leth, you will surrender yourself and your ship to us now! Or we will fire on you and destroy your ship!”
T’Leth broke the transmission. Commander Darat ordered her weapons officer to lock weapons on the Section 31 ship. Then, everyone on the warbird watched as the Section 31 ship disappeared in a flash of light. She had used the slipstream drive to get away.
“Kllhe'mnhe!!!”, Darat yelled.
T’Avaya, Commander Darat, and Naluk were in Darat’s office.
Naluk asked Darat and T’Avaya, “Did any of you know that T’Leth was Section 31?”
The two women looked at each other. No. They did not.
“And you, Darat,” T’Avaya said, “Why is the Tal Shiar here?”
“I was sent here to make sure the katra got sent to Vulcan and not Romulus. And to retrieve the Arrain for study.”
That was surprising to Naluk. He said, “Why did the Tal Shiar not want the katra?”
“As I know T’Avaya already found out from her experience with Viadne,” Darat said, “we cannot let the Romulan people find out that S’Task did not actually know the my clan, the Barel family. My family is too important. We have many members in high places in the government and military.”
Naluk was taken aback. “You did this to keep your family in power? For some kind of false birthright? There are so many poor families on Romulus; those who have little to eat, much less power or prestige. It is another reason I belong to the Vrinsuthe. We believe the original teachings of S’Task emphasized a more balanced republic.”
Darat just shook her head and smiled. “I was following orders from the Tal Shiar. It just so happned that my orders benefitted me and my family.”
“ ‘Just so happened’,” spat Naluk. “Why did you allow the Vrinsuthe aboard your ship? You knew we would want the katra.”
“You are here in case we needed someone with more historical knowledge of S’Task and the Arrain. We could easily dispose of you if you became a problem. But it is a shame the Arrain had to be destroyed,” Darat said.
Mission Log. Supplemental. I am on my way to Vulcan with S’Task’s katra. Before I left the Romulan warbird, I had one more conversation with Naluk. I told him the Arrain were not destroyed. They are inside my field generator. I had built it to contain them for their own safety. They were drawn inside the generator before T’Leth tried to coerce them into her device. I had suspected that T’Leth had some kind of ulterior motive concerning them. Why else did she insist on speaking with them in private? The field generator was able to destroy T’Leth’s device because the device was set to the same modular frequency as the generator. The Arrain will be put in the Hall of Ancient Thought with the katra. I also told Naluk there was no need to be jealous of the Barel clan. Success comes in many forms. His own spiritual enlightenment with the Vrinsuthe is proof of that. He said he would have liked to have S’Task’s katra on Romulus, but he knew it would be safer on Vulcan.
I have alerted Starfleet Intelligence that the Vulcan master T’Leth was a Section 31 operative and that she fled before she could be captured, but she did not take the Arrain. I must say that working for Starfleet Intelligence has been a challenging and rewarding experience. There were many unforeseen events. The Romulans proved much better allies than the Vulcan master. I remember that one of the writings of S’Task from “Force Will Not Avail You” was-- We are all connected, despite being worlds apart. That certainly applies to Vulcans and Romulans. Though the two races have grown apart, Naluk has shown me how they are still similar. Perhaps one day we will indeed see Spock’s dream of reunification.
-by the Honorable Kavura
Thank you for reading my Star Trek Adventures: Captain’s Log mission report. Captain’s Log is a solo roleplaying game by Modiphius Entertainment.
Mission log. Stardate 45125.0.Agent T’Avaya reporting. I have just completed several months of Starfleet Intelligence training. Though the training is still ongoing, I have been assigned by Starfleet Intelligence to investigate a possible Romulan alliance with the Kettirohm Sovereignty. Intel reports that a member of the Kettians’ ruling family has had subspace communications with the Romulans. There are also unconfirmed reports of Romulan ships going to and from Kettian space. The Kettirohm Sovereignty is made up of ten planets in one star system. They are a culture of Bajorans that left Bajor some two thousand years ago, and another race--the ruling class--that appear to be humanoid. The Kettians have been known to be isolationists. It would be a major disadvantage to the Federation if the Kettians allied with the Romulans. Kettian space has a strategic location close to Federation space.
“Surak is a fool. He advocates a passionless regime. This planet will have no one left but pallid stalwarts on a grey world.“
T’Avaya stood among the crowd, listening intently. Who is this? She thought.
“We will make our own path to the stars. This is no longer our home.” The crowd screamed, “Yes! We will find our own home!” Then, a silver streak blazed through the air and swirled around the speaker like a snake. A green liquid started leaking from his eyes. The silver streak coiled around his throat. He struggled for air as he fell to the ground.
T’Avaya raised her head from the pillow. A dream. She had not dreamed such disturbing images since her childhood. She felt a wave of unwelcome emotion, then let it drop, as logic took over. The Vulcan took a few deep breaths and cleared her mind. The human concept of Ujjayi breathing allowed her to focus her mind back to reality. She looked at the chronometer. It was morning. She had just spent her first night on Baeruta, a planet in the Kettian system. She hoped there would be no more disturbing dreams. She got out of bed and got ready for her first day at her new undercover assignment.
She recalled the research she had done the previous night. She had studied the backgrounds of the government personnel who worked in the Statehouse building where she would be spending her day. She had compared Starfleet Intelligence records to the official public records of the personnel.
Starfleet Intelligence had arranged for T’Avaya to be an assistant to Tirinor Daiel. “Tirinor” was the title for the ruling governor of this planet. Each Tirinor was a member of the royal family of Kettirohm. Starfleet Intelligence knew that the members of the royal family kept close ties with each other. If Daiel was in league with the Romulans, then it was possible all of Kettirohm was involved.
T'Avaya was escorted to her desk next to Tirinor Daiel's offce. She was told the Tirinor was not yet ready to meet her. He was in a meeting now and would be back in half an hour. The Vulcan took a few minutes to look inside the Tirinor's office. Then she came out and sat at her desk. When Tirinor Daiel came from his meeting, he introduced himself briefly to the Vulcan and then went to his office. T'Avaya could see he was preoccupied with something. A young woman walked up to T'Avaya's desk. The woman had a piece of metal surrounding her left eye. T’Avaya’s Vulcan telepathic abilities sensed the woman’s mind making slight contact with hers. T’Avaya noticed the woman’s dark eyes. She was a Betazoid. And, judging by the eye piece, a liberated Borg. “I am Viadne. I am here to see the Tirinor," said the ex-Borg woman. T'Avaya looked at the computer on her desk and saw the Tirinor's appointment schedule. "You are right on time," T'Avaya told her. She called the Tirinor to let him know. He told T'Avaya to send her in. Viadne went into the Tirinor's office and closed the door.
Daiel sat behind his desk and looked across at Viadne. She sat very rigidly, staring at him. Since she had been working for Daiel, she had had some depression and some bouts of moodiness. She was born a Betazoid, but had only shown slight telepathic abilities. Daiel surmised that her time as a Borg must have stunted her telepathy and her mental state. Kettian therapists and medical doctors had examined her and provided some aid. They had given her drugs and therapy sessions. She had made some progress, but more sessions were necessary. He asked her how she felt today. She said she was better than she was a week ago. He told her he had a plan to help her recovery. But he was unable to give her any details at this time.
One hour later, Daiel was alone in his office when he got a call from his assistant T’Raikel (which was actually T'Avaya's undercover name) that the leader of his watch patrol, Jovir, needed to speak with him urgently. Once she had patched the call through, Jovir told him a Romulan warbird had decloaked in the planet's orbit, just as expected. He told his watch patrol to stand down. The freighter ships that usually made deliveries/pickups at this time had all been rescheduled so that the surrounding space would be clear at this time. Daiel made direct contact with the warbird. A Reman, Xiokir, beamed into his office. Daiel said, “Did you find the location of our prisoners of war?”
“They are in good condition,” said Xiokir.
“When can you have them returned to us?”
“They will be delivered here on a Kobheerian freighter in two days. Now turn over the Borg woman.”
“The deal was that we get our POWs first.”
T’Avaya was secretly listening to Daiel and Xiokir's conversation through a listening device she had planted in Daiel's office. The device transmitted to a small receiver under her ear.
The Dominion War, which had just ended a year ago, had spread through the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. The Kettians, much as they tried, could not remain neutral during the war, and sent some soldiers to serve in the war. Several of them died in the war. There were four, as Daiel had come to find out, who had been captured in a skirmish with the Romulans and were still being held as prisoners of war. Daiel had taken advantage of this opportunity to get them back, offering to exchange the liberated Borg for the POWs.
T'Avaya listened intently to the private conversation. The Reman said the Borg woman was Romulan property. It was Romulans who liberated her from the Borg. She had been part of the crew of a Borg scout ship with three other drones that crashed on an uninhabited planet. She was the only one that had survived the crash. The Romulans had found her and disconnected her from the hive and took her back to Romulus. She only had partial memories of her life before assimilation. She remembered that she had been a Starfleet officer who was assimilated at . . . She could not remember, but the Romulans had determined that it was Wolf 359. She recalled that her Betazoid first name was Viadne. She did have sparse memories of growing up on Betazed. And she remembered the fateful day when her Starfleet ship--though she couldn’t remember the name of the ship-- engaged the Borg. As far as she could remember, she had no family on Betazed or anywhere else. Her parents had died, leading her to join Starfleet. Xiokir, using his Reman telepathic abilities, had tried to restore her memories of her exploits as a Borg drone, but to no avail. A Romulan medic had taken pity on her and helped her escape. Daiel said he suspected that Xiokir did something else to Viadne’s mind, but he denied doing anything besides simple mind probes.
Daiel said Viadne was a free person and had been granted freedom on his planet. He would give her to the Romulans only if his POWs were returned.
T’Avaya went to find Viadne. She had a cubicle a few levels down in the Statehouse. She worked there as part of the public relations staff. T'Avaya took Viadne to a private room and told her what she knew from listening to Daiel’s conversation. Viadne let her know that she had been afraid to tell anyone except the Tirinor that she had escaped from a Romulan laboratory. She said they did some kind of experiments on her. She had latent telepathic abilities. She had felt another presence in her mind. She knew it wasn’t Xiokir or anyone she knew. She had felt it ever since she woke up in the Romulan lab.
T’Avaya said, “I may be able to help you recall what happened. Would you allow a Vulcan mind meld?”
Viadne looked confused.
The Vulcan explained, “If I can restore your memories, I may be able to determine why they want you back. It is not logical that they would come this far just for one former Borg, or that they would trade you for prisoners of war, unless you were very valuable to them.”
Viadne said softly, “I do not know how to control my mental abilities. What would I do in a Vulcan mind meld?”
“I will communicate with you through my mind and guide you. You will not be harmed,” T’Avaya promised her.
Viadne agreed to the mind meld. As the Vulcan conducted the meld, her mind saw images from Viadne’s mind. Images of the past. It was almost like a dream.
T'Avaya/Viadne saw that the Borg scout ship sensors picked up signs of a small spatial anomaly. They set their navigational course to go around it. The navigation failed. The ship was drawn into the anomaly. The Borg drones ordered a sudden stop and reversed the course of the ship. Their navigation and helm systems failed, and they crashed on an uninhabited planet. Unit 4 of 4 woke up. Her internal sensor told her she had been unconscious for five hours. The other Borg drones were dead. She stood up and scanned her surroundings. She left her scout ship and saw a larger ship three meters away. Her Borg historical archives identified it as a Vulcan design that had not been in use in two thousand years. She walked inside the ship. Following her Borg programming, she attached her nanoprobes to the ship. Then, something consumed her mind. It was another presence. The presence overwhelmed her.
Tirinor Daiel and Xiokir were still discussing Viadne. Then, they received a call from the Romulan warbird.
Daiel put on his vid screen.
The vid screen on one wall of the room snapped on. It lit up with the image of a Romulan Subcommander. “I am S'Task. Leader of the Raptor’s Children. State your business here.”
Xiokir walked up to the screen and said, “Subcommander! What are you talking about? Why have you called us? Your orders were to wait for my signal.”
The Romulan Subcommander stood his ground and said, “What insolence! You do not order me to do anything. What is your name? Answer me or I will kill you where you stand!”
“You! Centurian!” Xiokir yelled at one of the other Romulans, “Relieve this jainal Subcommander at once!”
No one moved.
“Centurian!” Xiokir yelled again, “You will follow my orders!”
The Romulan Centurian standing next to the Subcommander said, “I take orders only from the great S'Task!”
Daiel pushed a button to end the transmission. “So that was your loyal Romulan crew? They must have had too much Romulan ale,” he snapped at Xiokir. He did not like how the Romulan crew was acting. "And why would you expect them to take orders from you, a Reman? I thought your race was subsurvient to them."
The Reman decided there was no harm in telling Daiel. "I work for the Tal Shiar. I was put in command of that warbird."
"Frohhn!!” Daiel said. "Why would they let a Reman in the Tal Shiar?" Xiokir told him the Tal Shiar takes anyone who is ambitious and cunning enough. Besides, they also valued his psionic abilities.
With that, Daiel made a call back to his control room personnel. “What is the status of the Romulan warbird?”
“Holding steady, Your Highness.”
“Have they powered up weapons?” asked Daiel.
“No, Your Highness.”
“Launch two attack ships. Have them lock weapons on the Romulan warbird. But don’t fire unless I give the order.”
Daiel turned off the comm. To Xiokir he said, “Well then, Mr. Tal Shiar, you had better tell me what’s going on up there. Or your warbird gets blown out of the sky, and you get to see what our prison looks like.”
Xiokir spoke, “It is the katra of S'Task.”
Daiel, like many of his people, had studied the lore and history of many different worlds, including Vulcan and Romulus. He said, “Katra. A Vulcan soul? And S'Task: The ancient one who led the Vulcans that did not want to follow Surak’s teachings. The Vulcans who eventually became Romulans.”
Xiokir was surprised. “YOU know Vulcan history?”
“That information is readily available to anyone who wants to read it. There have been several research papers involving the katra. And some stories about Romulan history have been known ever since the Federation made the Eridam Papers public.” Eridam was an old space station that existed centuries ago. Romulans had built and occupied it until an unknown disease killed most of its inhabitants. The Romulans had abandoned the station, leaving its data banks intact. It was later discovered by a Starfleet ship. It was the first major source of any type of information about the Romulans.
Xiokir said, “Viadne has S'Task’s katra insider her mind. But why the Subcommander thinks HE is S'Task, and why the crew thinks they are S'Task’s followers, I cannot explain...Wait...”
“It must be that psionic field actuator on the warbird,” Xiokir exclaimed. “We had the actuator to increase the amplitude of Viadne’s brainwaves to enhance her telepathic abilities. We were hoping to be able to communicate with S'Task’s katra and perhaps even transfer it to a permanent receptacle and keep it open for communications. I will beam up and turn off the actuator.”
Daiel called security and said, “Find Viadne and bring her here right away!”
“Viadne! You are ordered by Tirinor Daiel to come with us!” said a guard with his energy pistol drawn.
“They are in a Vulcan mind meld. I have seen this in Starfleet records. It could be harmful to their minds to disturb them!” the other guard yelled.
The first guard ignored the other and pulled Viadne away. T’Avaya was still in position with her fingertips outstretched, but her face went flush, and her slanted eyebrows furrowed in pain. Viadne opened her eyes and screamed. The guard hurried the Betazoid woman out of the room.
“Vulcan, are you alright?” the other guard called out.
The Vulcan opened her eyes. They were glazed over. She spoke timidly. “The meld has not been broken. Viadne is a strong telepath. Her mind had been weakened by the Borg, but the meld triggered something. An ancient being from long ago. I must find her and properly sever the meld or her mind will remain unstable.”
The guard brought Viadne to Daiel. She was unconscious. The guard said he had to stun her. Xiokir, who had just beamed back down from the warbird after shutting off the field actuator, said he had a stimulant that could help her. He injected her with a hypo. Viadne woke up suddenly and stood up. She did not seem panicked or frantic. She was calm and stately. She said in a deep voice, “Where am I? Where are my followers?” Daiel and the guard looked at her in confusion. Xiokir spoke to her, “We are here, great S'Task. We are at your service.”
“No,” yelled Viadne, “I do not know you.”
She headed for the door. She got away before they could grab her or stun her. She walked through the crowded building yelling, “Where are my people? The Raptor’s Children?”
Then she saw T’Avaya, who had just entered the crowded hallway. Viadne stopped as T’Avaya walked up to her. The Vulcan was trying to remain calm as her mind was being flooded with emotions from the unbroken mind link.
“You look familiar. Are you one of the Raptor’s Children?” Viadne questioned T’Avaya.
As T’Avaya started to reply, one of the guards aimed his pistol at Viadne.
Viadne suddenly fainted. Xiokir said it was caused by the drug he had given her, combined with her over-exerted mental state.
Daiel spoke to Xiokir. “So that’s TWO people who think they are S'Task. We need to get this under control NOW!” T'Avaya said, "I must sever the mind link with her." She knelt down and placed her fingers on Viadne's face.
Xiokir said, “It is the psionic field actuator on the warbird. The actuator was turned on by Viadne’s mind when she mind melded with the Vulcan. It amplified S'Task’s psionic imprint that was in Viadne’s mind and projected it onto the Romulan crew. I have shut the actuator off now. The effects on the Romulan crew will wear off. As for Viadne, the injection I gave her should lessen the effects.”
T’Avaya asked that Viadne be taken to a hospital to recuperate. She did not think any permanent damage had been done to Viadne's mind or her own.
Xiokir opened the door. He walked into the small room and closed the door behind him. The Betazoid was alone. She was still asleep. Good, thought Xiokir. This must end here. He drew his dagger from his pocket. Viadne awakened just in time to see a dagger coming toward her. She screamed. “Hold it right there!” said a voice coming from the room’s entrance. The Reman turned around. It was a Kettian policeman with his phase pistol aimed at him. “Drop the dagger,” he said. Xiokir ran toward Viadne, raising the dagger. The policeman fired the pistol and stunned him. He fell to the floor. His dagger landed beside him.
Viadne gasped.
T’Avaya came into the room as the policeman carried Xiokir out. She walked over to Viadne’s bedside. Viadne felt exhausted, but her mind felt . . . clearer . . . than it had felt before. She asked what had happened. The Vulcan explained what she learned from Viadne’s mind.
The planet that Viadne’s Borg scout ship had crashed on had an old Vulcan ship that had landed there more than two thousand years ago. It had been a ship carrying the ‘Raptor’s Children’, Vulcans who had left their home planet because they did not want to follow Surak’s teachings of logic and unemotionalism. They had left Vulcan to make a new life for themselves and find their own planet, their own home. The katra, or spirit, of their leader, S'Task, had been left on the ship that had crashed. When Viadne connected her Borg nanoprobes to the ship, S'Task’s katra entered her mind. From there, T’Avaya could only surmise that the katra had overwhelmed Viadne because the Borg implants did not allow for such mental invasions. It left her unconscious until she had been discovered by Romulans. Through their telepathic slaves, the Remans, the Romulans discovered that Viadne had S'Task’s katra. It was a wondrous and extraordinary discovery that they couldn’t leave unexplored. They kept her prisoner while they tried to recover the katra. But because of Xiokir’s limited mental abilities, or perhaps because of the Borg’s affect on controlling her mind, the katra was never fully recovered.
T’Avaya said she was going to arrange for a Vulcan master to come and relieve Viadne of the katra and take it back to Vulcan. Through the mind meld, the katra had been subdued enough to no longer disturb Viadne. The katra of S'Task was an amazing discovery. It was a piece of history that was valuable to both Romulans and Vulcans. No one, neither the Vulcans nor the Romulans, had been aware that the katra of S'Task had been left on an abandoned ship all this time. According to recorded history, S’Task had died on Romulus. It would be a great achievement to both races to someday be able to communicate with the mind of such a great leader and learn more about both of their histories.
“But why did the Reman try to kill me?” asked Viadne.
The Vulcan explained, “He was working for the Tal Shiar. I ran his name, face, and voice print through the Starfleet Intelligence database. He was sent here by the Barel Clan. That is one of the most powerful political families on Romulus. Their power and prestige go all the way back to the time of S'Task. It is said that S'Task gave Barel, the first member of the clan, a shining gold-colored staff as a token of appreciation for his loyalty. The staff has been kept in their family for generations. It is still in the house of their matriarch. The Tal Shiar learned several years ago that the story is fiction. There is no record, verified or unverified, that the Barel family goes as far back as S'Task’s time or that they were ever connected to him in any way. Since Xiokir couldn't successfully extract the katra from your mind, he needed to kill you, thereby destroying the katra, to protect that secret. The Barel clan has given much support to the Tal Shiar and many important government leaders. If the clan were brought down, the entire Romulan government could collapse.”
Daiel spoke up from behind T’Avaya. “I’m so sorry, Viadne. You know I had no intention of turning you over to the Romulans.”
The Vulcan turned to Daiel and said, “But you made a deal with the Romulans.”
Daiel said, “I was trying to get my POWs back. They will be here in two days. I wanted to get Xiokir to come here because I heard, from the same Romulan informant who told me about our POWs, that Xiokir had the means to help Viadne with her mental state. He was the one who had studied her on Romulus. He was the one who knew how to help her. After he did that, I was going to make him leave without her. He wouldn’t have been able to take her without my permission.”
Viadne was relieved. She had always believed she could trust Daiel. T’Avaya said to Viadne, “Your mind has been disturbed for quite some time. When I first came to this planet, I had a dream about S'Task. You must have unwittingly projected it into my mind. It was your subconscious reaching for help.”
“I have also had such dreams. Dreams that seemed like memories, but not memories that I could recall. Memories that couldn’t have been mine.” Viadne said. “I am so glad it is over now.”
Lt. Gemma Albrecht was in her office on Station Tyrellia. She did not look up from her data padd. “So the deal with the Romulans was a ruse.”
“Affirmative,” said T’Avaya as she looked at Gemma on the viewscreen. “Daiel does not seem interested in having any kind of political ties with the Romulans.”
Gemma was still reading and rereading the report. As a Starfleet Intelligence officer, she did not like what she saw. A crashed Vulcan/Romulan ship. The katra of S’Task. Both the Vulcans and Romulans would like to get their hands on it.
T’Avaya continued, “Xiokir said that the Tal Shiar is still studying the ship that had contained the katra. It does not look promising. There is too much degradation in the data records after two thousand years. The ship appeared to have crashed on the planet. So far, no one has been able to determine why the katra of S'Task had been left there. Perhaps his body had been buried on the planet somewhere. I warned Xiokir that the Vulcans would also be examining the ship, now that they are aware of it. This entire incident will surely have far-reaching repercussions, with both the Romulans and Vulcans claiming rights to the ship and the katra. Daiel will continue to see that Viadne gets the medical help she needs.”
“This incident,” said Gemma, “will not be made public until we know more. Vulcan Intelligence, the V’Shar, will be sending their people to investigate the crashed ship that housed the katra.”
T’Avaya nodded in acknowledgement.
“I am sending you there as well. We need someone there representing SI.”
T’Avaya expected as much. “Do all intelligence missions take this long?”
It was the Vulcan’s first mission with SI, and Gemma, her handler, told her that nothing was certain in this line of work. When T’Avaya asked if she could stay on Baeruta long enough to meet the Vulcan master who would be retrieving the katra, Gemma complied.
T’Avaya then said, “I trust you will let Director Nilo know that my leave from Station Tyrellia will have to be extended a little longer.” Her duties as chief engineer on Station Tyrellia had been temporarily filled by her assistant engineer, Luruwa. She knew that Luruwa would be able to handle the job a little while longer.
Mission log. Supplemental. A Vulcan master will be arriving tomorrow to retrieve the katra of S’Task. After that, I will be leaving Kettian space. Daiel assured me that Viadne would be taken care of. It is my hope that someday everyone in the Romulan Empire will know the truth about the Barel Clan. Only the Tal Shiar knows the truth. Surak wrote “The truth is simply the actual state of the universe. To live at odds with the truth is to be in conflict with reality itself.” Romulans always seem to thrive on secrecy and intrigue. Truth is not one of their values.
-by the Honorable Kavura
Thank you for reading my Star Trek Adventures: Captain’s Log mission report. Captain’s Log is a solo roleplaying game by Modiphius Entertainment.
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Star Trek Adventures
The Way of D’Era (Last Unicorn Games)
FASA Star Trek Role-Playing Game
Rise of the Federation by Christopher L. Bennett
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S01 E06: Chronicles of T’Avaya:
The Quirky Vulcan
Chief Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45123.3. Doctor T’Avaya reporting. Our scientists on Space Station Tyrellia have developed a new water reclamation system that will greatly improve the quality of life on some Federation colony worlds. It will be of special use to colony planets that have a high concentration of lanithite. Planetary Administrator Nedrin, of the Urban Advancement Commission, is taking bids from various planets to be the first to test the prototype. There are currently ten planetary diplomats on the station to enter their bids and be interviewed by Nedrin. Of those ten, five will be chosen to use the prototype.
As the governmental capital for this sector, Station Tyrellia typically hosts many of these types of functions. However, this time the situation has become strained, as someone has tried to murder one of the diplomats. Extra security guards have been placed around the station. The security department is investigating the attempted murder. Most of the diplomats have become worrisome and argumentative.
Ambassador Lonada of Celor Prime was sitting on her couch in her quarters. The Zakdorn security chief, Vedarem, could tell that the Celorian was scared. He could see the wrinkles of worry in the ambassador’s almost bald head. The patch of brown hair on the crown of her head and her blue iris-less eyes were the only outward markers that separated the Celorians from humans.
“Do you know anyone who would want to kill you?” Chief Vedarem asked.
“Yes,” Lonada whispered, “It’s the Colri.”
“The Colri?”
“My rival clan on Celor Prime. They have been trying to remove me from power ever since my clan gained a majority over their’s in the senate.”
Her aide, Hosar, another Celorian, brought the ambassador a glass of water and told her, “Maybe you should go lie down, Your Excellancy. You’ve had a very trying day.”
She accepted the water. She was too exasperated to consider the irony that water was the very reason she was on the station. “Hosar, thank you. Just let me finish with the security chief.”
Chief Vedarem asked, “Are there any Colri on the station that you know of?”
“None,” she answered.
“They could be disguised as anyone,” Hosar stated. “They’re such sneaky little creatures.”
“Have any of them made any attempts on your life before?”
“No,” the ambassador said. “But they have made vague threats; saying that I should watch my back wherever I go.”
“I’ll have my people scan for any other Celorian life signs while we continue investigating. I’m also assigning an armed guard at your door and an armed escort for you on the station.”
Ambassador Lonada was grateful for the extra protection.
Chief engineer T’Avaya was about to start her station rounds to make sure all the engineering posts on the station were functioning properly. The Vulcan made the rounds only once a week. Her staff worked shifts at all the locations, so they made regular reports to her and kept her informed of any problems. Her weekly in-person visits were to see for herself that everything was functioning properly. As she was about to leave her office, she heard her door chime. “Come,” she said.
Another Vulcan woman walked in. T’Avaya recognized that it was Sileia, the new assistant to Planetary Administrator Nedrin, who was interviewing potential users for the water reclamation prototype. Sileia asked if she could accompany the engineer on her rounds. The Vulcan engineer thought it an unusual request. Why would someone from a bureaucratic office be interested in engineering functions? The assistant said she was interested in learning more about the station, and with extra security around the station, she would need to be accompanied by someone the security guards knew. T’Avaya agreed to let the Vulcan assistant accompany her.
They started with the generator grid on level 185. It was where the main power generator was located for the whole station. The generator greeted the visitors with a steady hum. The chief engineer checked the readings to make sure they were within normal parameters. The engineer saw her assistant engineer, Luruwa, and introduced her to Sileia. The two exchanged greetings. There was also a security guard present, since the station was on high alert. Neither the guard, nor the chief engineer, nor the assistant engineer noticed that Sileia stuck something under a computer console.
Next, the two Vulcan women went to the sensor array on level 180. It controlled the external and internal station’s sensors. T’Avaya explained that the sensor readings were displayed here and were also routed to the command center on level 1.
They visited the security center to check the security screens and scanners, the transporter rooms, holosuites, landing docks, science labs, med labs, and finally the command center. The computer controls and comms systems were checked at each location. There had been a security guard at each of the stations. T’Avaya had designed all the station’s systems herself and uploaded the systems once she took over as chief engineer.
Next, they took a shuttle to the apex of her designs: the external communications array. When Sileia asked why the array was external to the station and not a part of the station like other comm arrays, T’Avaya said this array was very powerful and needed its own external field sensors; plus, it had input and output modules that worked better on their own, rather than being connected to the station’s systems.
Once they were back on the station, they walked back to T’Avaya’s office. While making her rounds, the engineer had noticed the Vulcan assistant seemed rather chatty, unlike most Vulcans. At most of the places they went, Sileia would exclaim, “this looks very sturdy.” She spoke at length about how she had been on the station for one week and that her boss, Administrator Nedrin, had been very thorough about checking her reports from each application to bid on the water reclamator.
Then Sileia mentioned that she was from the Vulcan city K’rila’kar. T’Avaya said she had an aunt and uncle in that city and that her parents had taken her there several times when she was young. Sileia said that K’rila’kar was nice because it was more arid than most of Vulcan; one could go outside and feel a cool breeze. Then Sileia, in what seemed to be her usual conversational style, changed the subject.
“Have you found your work on the station to be satisfying?” asked Sileia.
“It is exactly as I had expected.”
“Ah. But no more than you expected.”
The engineer did not reply.
“Why did you choose to work on a station instead of a ship of exploration?”
T’Avaya hesitated, then related a childhood story. She said when she was ten years old, she went on a Starfleet ship with her classmates to see a nebula up close. While inside the nebula, she and some of the other children were abducted by a strange alien entity. The alien kept them all literally inside itself, trapped in darkness with no sense of sound, sight, touch, or telepathy. They were trapped for what had seemed like an eternity before finally being rescued by Starfleet officers. Since that incident, she had been very skeptical about space exploration. T’Avaya was unsure why she had told Sileia this story, as she had told very few people before.
“How long have you worked here?” Sileia asked the engineer.
“Eleven years.”
“And you have never thought of doing anything else?”
T’Avaya ruminated over the question. There were many Vulcans who chose a career change after having one successful career. “Perhaps,” she said, “but I see no need to change.”
“Rubah nam-tor wuh bolayatik torek t’ ek’ nam,” Sileia said. It was Vulcan for “Change is the essential process of existence.”
“Perhaps it is time for a change,” Sileia added.
Just then, T’Avaya got a call from the station’s command center. They needed her there immediately.
In the command center, station director Tab Nilo was standing in front of the main viewscreen, along with the station’s chief scientist, Thali Elel, and security chief Vedarem. T’Avaya entered and saw the main viewscreen. “A meteoroid,” she said.
“Not only that,” said Elel, “but it’s heading straight toward the station. Impact in fifty-seven minutes. The station’s quantum torpedoes would not have any effect on the meteoroid because of its chirvidm core. The chirvidm will also render the station’s deflector shields useless.“
Elel explained further that scanners showed the meteoroid wasn’t a natural phenomenon. The chirvidm was proof of that. Plus, if it were natural, Federation probes would have detected it long ago. This one just suddenly appeared. Its origin seemed to be the Celor system. Director Nilo ordered Cunha, the Bolian at ops, to send a message to the Celor system and ask them what they knew about the meteoroid. And he told Chief Vedarem to have his guards escort Lonada, the ambassador from Celor Prime, to the command center. Vedarem’s earlier scan had shown that Lonada and her aide were the only Celorians on the station. Then Nilo asked Elel and T’Avaya how they could keep the meteoroid from crashing into the station.
The Vulcan engineer looked at the scanner readings. She noticed there were lepton waves coming from the station. That shouldn’t be, she thought. She had just made her rounds and checked all of the station’s critical systems. There was nothing that could cause those kinds of readings. She scanned to find the source of the lepton waves. Odd . . . they were coming from all the places she had just visited: the power core, transporter rooms, holosuites, security, etc. She did an un-Vulcan-like thing--- cursed herself for getting distracted. The meteoroid was a more immediate problem. The lepton waves could wait, as they posed no danger. Wait . . . she thought. Lepton waves . . .
She should be able to emit an annular axionic beam through the station’s deflector array. With the added energy of the lepton waves, that should be enough to break the meteoroid down into smaller, harmless pieces. The trick would be to add a confinement stream to aim it correctly. She told Nilo her plan.
As the director was about to order her to start working on it, Mr. Cunha at ops said the message received back from Celor Prime stated they were unaware of any meteoroid. “Well, of course,” director Nilo said. “It would just be too easy if they knew anything about it.”
Ambassador Lonada walked in, followed by a security guard. Nilo told her about the meteoroid. She also claimed no knowledge of it. Director Nilo ordered T’Avaya to start working on the deflector array. Elel went with her to help. As the two women left the command center, the Trill director said to Vedarem and Lonada, “I’ll bet a symbiont’s lifetime that someone here or on Celor knows something about that meteoroid.”
As T’Avaya and Elel were working on the deflector assembly, Elel asked about the Vulcan assistant, Sileia. Before the attempted murder, Elel had seen her in the astrophysics lab looking around.
“I asked her if she needed anything,” Elel recounted, “and she said ‘no, I never need anything.’ What do you think that means?”
T’Avaya answered, “I do not know. I have noticed that Sileia has some eccentric qualities. However, she does not seem irrational.”
The Barzan scientist shook her head. “Another quirky Vulcan.”
“What do you mean ‘another’ ?” said the Vulcan engineer.
Elel smiled. “I’ve seen you stand on your head while rattling off equations.”
“Headstands are a way to calm the mind, increase blood flow, and strengthen the spine.”
Elel shook her head, smiled to herself, and went back to work.
Minutes later, in the command center, station director Nilo watched a beam of light shoot out from the station’s deflector array and go straight toward the meteoroid. It was a direct hit. The meteoroid shattered into hundreds of miniscule fragments. Everyone in the command center cheered. Well, that’s ONE crisis averted, he thought.
Nilo made a call to T’Avaya from the command center. He told her he wanted her to take a team on a runabout and go to Celor Prime to find out what had set off the meteoroid and why. He wanted to know why that threat was sent to the station. He felt that it had to have been sent intentionally and that someone on Celor would have the answers. It couldn’t be a coincidence that a threat from a planet came at the same time there were people here from that very planet, and an attempt had been made to murder one of those people.
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. Dr. T’Avaya reporting. Director Nilo has ordered me to take a runabout to Celor Prime to learn more about the origin of the meteoroid that almost hit the station. Ambassador Lonada from Celor has asked to accompany me. The Celorian aide Hosar was asked by Lonada to remain on the station to see the Urban Advancement Commission’s decision on Celor’s bid. I have asked Commander Masor-Emac, chief engineer of the USS Prophecy,to come along as well. The chief engineer is currently visiting the station on leave while the Prophecy is away on another mission.
They took the runabout Tongo Eta. It was a class J2 runabout that had a maximum speed of warp 7. They would reach Celor Prime in two point twelve hours. Minister Katah, the head of state of Celor, had already been informed they were on their way. Lonada said she still did not understand that her planet could or would somehow send a meteoroid toward the station. They were a peaceful planet, even though there were internal squabbles and rivalries and such. And they did not possess the technology to move or hurl a meteoroid. T’Avaya asked if it could have something to do with the previous attempt on Lonada’s life. The ambassador thought it possible, but still didn’t see a connection.
As they were conversing, Commander Emac, an Orion, couldn’t help but notice Lonada’s necklace. It had a silver pendant with an odd shape.
“Where did you get that necklace?” he asked her.
“My aide, Hosar, gave it to me. It was a gift.”
“It’s an Orion trinket. The pendant is shaped like a velcat, a wild animal on Orion 2.”
“Hmm. I have no idea where he got it.”
Suddenly, they received a communique from Celor Prime. There had just been an explosion on Celor’s moon, Lilchide. The resident police were investigating. Lonada said that Lilchide was owned by a member of her clan. They used the moon for mining.
Once they arrived at Celor Prime, they received permission to land in the capital city. Then T’Avaya beamed over to the moon, Lilchide, and Emac and Lonada walked to the capital building to meet the planetary leader. Minister Katah welcomed the Orion to his planet. Then he introduced Senator Thisoan to Commander Emac. Thisoan then turned to Lonada. They touched their right palms and forearms together in a ritual embrace. They were from the same clan, the Rayal clan. Katah apologized for the meteoroid and again said he knew nothing about it. He assured Emac it did not come from his planet.
T’Avaya and Emac had been sent to the system as Federation representatives investigating threats and murder. So, Emac explained, they had authority to demand to see any records pertaining to their investigation. The Orion asked to see the records of any celestial happenings in the area in the last twelve hours. The minister pulled up the records. Emac noticed a spike in radiated chirvidm in the surrounding space a few hours ago. He also noticed at the same time there was a spike in radiated chirvidm on the moon where the explosion had happened.
While on the moon, Lilchide, T’Avaya found the Celorian police investigator to be very uncooperative. But he did tell her the explosion took place inside a mining facility. There had been eight people inside. All of them had been found dead. T’Avaya asked to look through the rubbled remains. The investigator tried to stop her, but she insisted on looking. She ran her tricorder over the rubble and found an explosive device that had been detonated. She also found a strange energy signature that was out of place. Clearly, the facility had been sabotaged. She also found what must have been a large power reactor, but no mining equipment. She could see that it was not a mining facility at all. They had been building some kind of weapon. Her tricorder confirmed chirvidm at the location. This facility had been the origin of the meteoroid. They had been able to appropriate a meteoroid and instill chirvidm and launch it towards the station. The chirvidm made it almost indestructible to standard phasers and torpedoes.
She beamed over to the planet to talk to the minister and Emac. She showed her tricorder readings to the Orion. The minister seemed genuinely shocked at the news about the Lilchide facility. Senator Thisoan said that he ran the facility on Lilchide and that it was perfectly legitimate.
The Vulcan engineer took out her tricorder and started scanning the room. Based on the tricorder readings, she walked over to the senator.
“What are you doing?” he asked angrily.
She scanned the senator with her tricorder. She found the same particle trace energy signature that was in the radiation coming from the explosion on Lilchide; he had been on the moon recently.
“So you’re the one,” T’Avaya said to Thisoan. “You blew up the facility to keep us from discovering where the meteoroid had originated.”
“You, Thisoan?!” Lonada exclaimed.
“No! It’s a lie!”
But the Vulcan and the Orion told him it was useless to deny it.
Thisoan looked at Lonada as Minister Katah ordered his guards to cuff him. Thisoan said angirly to Lonada, “I could not let you be the one to win the bid for the water reclamator and save the planet’s water supply. You were always the smartest one in the family, the most renowned.”
“You fool,” said Lonada. “We are alike. Of the same clan. Is my success not your success?”
“And,” Emac said to Thisoan, “you were working with the Orions.”
“How could you know that?” Minister Katah said.
Emac explained, “T’Avaya’s tricorder readings from the moon picked up Orion energy signatures from the explosion. And Lonada is wearing an Orion necklace given to her by her aide, who was probably working for Thisoan. If you examine it closely, it is most likely embedded with a tracking and listening device.”
Lonada was totally caught by surprise. She had trusted Hosar and Thisoan for years. Thisoan told them Hosar had been bribed into turning against her and trying to kill her. And that the Orions had sold him the tools to build a meteoroid weapon on Lilchide, which he was going to sell on the black market.
When she arrived back on Station Tyrellia, Dr. T’Avaya went to see Sileia in her small office next to Administrator Nedrin’s office. Sileia looked up from her desk.
The engineer spoke. “You were the one who hid the lepton wave emitters in the station’s engineering posts.” T’Avaya had reasoned it out. Logically, there could have been no other explanation.
Sileia said simply, “Affirmative.”
“Without those emitters, we would not have been able to destroy the meteoroid.”
“Affirmative.”
“You did it before we detected the meteoroid. How did you know to plant the emitters? You have engaged myself and others in strange conversations, and you have enticed me to reveal things in my past that I have never spoken of to strangers. Who are you? What is your purpose here?”
The young Vulcan rose from her desk and walked around it to stand directly in front of the engineer. “It was all necessary,” she said enigmatically.
“Explain.”
“I am a watcher. I was sent here by another race of beings. We guard the integrity of the timeline and guide sentient beings. The meteoroid would have caused severe damage to the station. It would be so costly, in both lives and materials, that other malevolent races would have taken advantage. We could not let that happen at this time. Station Tyrellia is crucial to this sector.”
The station was at a strategic location close to the Romulan Neutral Zone and constantly on the lookout for Romulan activity. There were also dozens of thriving colony planets in the sector that the station had been assigned to protect. Not to mention, the station had the most technologically advanced communications array in the Federation.
The engineer was perplexed about the watchers. Who were these watchers? “So you are not truly a Vulcan?” she asked.
“My ancestors are from Mintaka. I was raised on another planet. Others from many different races have been recruited to be watchers. The watchers’ planet is hidden and not yet known to the Federation or any of its allies or enemies.”
Mintaka. T’Avaya had heard of it. A planet whose natives were a pre-industrial Vulcanoid species. The Federation had studied them, but not made itself known to them, due to the Prime Directive.So there is some mysterious advanced civilization that watches over us. But, T’Avaya wondered, who watches the watchers?
Sileia continued. “I was also sent here to guide you, T’Avaya. Please think about how much longer you want to stay here. I know you have made a good home here. And I know you have a relationship with Commander Emac. But you were very ‘excited’ to go on missions for Section 31. Oh, yes, I know about those missions. Perhaps you would like to work for them again. Or Starfleet Intelligence. Or the V’Shar. You may decide to stay here. Just don’t stay here simply because you are scared of the unknown. There may be more to your destiny than you know.”
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. Dr. T’Avaya reporting. Planetary Administrator Nedrin has decided not to award the water reclamation prototype to Celor Prime, stating the planet has many internal issues to settle on their own. Ambassador Lonada was disappointed, but she thanked me for my help in exposing Hosar and Thisoan.
I just completed a friendly suus mahna sparring match with assistant engineer Luruwa. Later tonight, I am having dinner with Chief Engineer Emac.
My talk with the watcher, Sileia--if that is even her real name-- has given me much to consider. She has now left the station. She did not tell Nedrin, myself, or anyone else where she was going. I can only wish her safe travels.
“ ‘Perhaps it is time for a change’,“ is what she said to me.
Masor-Emac took a bite of his grilled tilapia. He sometimes enjoyed earth dishes. They seemed exotic to him. “Hey, maybe she’s right.”
T’Avaya said, “Many Vulcans choose more than one career. Change is not exactly out of the question.”
“I’d miss you if you left the station. But, hey, you do what’s right for you. You’ve been here eleven years now. Maybe you’ve done all you can do. Only a meshatt stays in one place too long.”
The Vulcan engineer had known Masor for three years. Their friendship had been more than cordial in the last few weeks. If she ever left the station, she would miss him too. She did indeed have much to think about.
-by the Honorable Kavura
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S01 E05: Chronicles of T’Avaya:
The Royal Menagerie
Chief Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45122.2. Doctor T’Avaya reporting. I have a temporary assignment aboard the USS Prophecy, the Starfleet ship assigned to Space Station Tyrellia. The ship is installing a power systems upgrade that was designed by Professor Dialum, an Efrosion scientist who was my EPS systems professor at the Benvae Institute. Dialum’s power upgrade should greatly increase the energy output on the Prophecy. Dialum has improved this process after it was started by a human named Henry Gaskell. My assignment is to assist in installing the upgrade and to determine how to install it on Station Tyrellia.
Commander Masor-Emac, the ship’s Orion chief engineer, welcomed Dr. T’Avaya aboard. She had met most of the Prophecy’s crew in the last three years since it had been assigned as the Starfleet ship to her station. The Prophecy was a Niagara class science vessel, whose main directives were to provide aid when needed to the colony planets in the Tyrellia Sector, and to gather scientific data on the unexplored subsectors surrounding the area. Emac showed her to her quarters and reminded her of the mission briefing in one hour. It was the same quarters she always had on this ship. She hadn’t needed an escort, but Emac always liked talking to her.
He told her, “The environmental controls have already been set to Vulcan-standard, so you should be nice and comfy. No need to fuss at me again.”
T’Avaya took the jest in stride. “Thank you. The heat is most refreshing. Was your last mission to Barata difficult?”
“All in a day’s work,” the green-skinned engineer told her with a smile.
Dr. T’Avaya arrived at the briefing room to find Captain Watin, the ship’s El-Aurian commanding officer, already there. She took a seat at the table. The others arrived in short order. There was Commander Emac, the Efrosian scientist Dialum, the Malcorian Master Chief Specialist Mirasta Yale, and the human first officer--Commander Uriela Eccleshall. The captain invited Dialum to explain the new element that would increase the ship’s power. Dialum stood up and walked to the monitor at the end of the table. The graphics on the monitor showed the crystalline structure of the element--which he had named “zovedium”--and then showed how it would be installed in engineering. It would be connected to the EPS power grid, and the power to all ship’s systems would increase gradually over the next ten point four hours. No systems would need to be shut down in the process.
Commander Emac said Specialist Yale would be his chief assistant on this project. Though he had more experienced engineers, he wanted to give Yale this chance to show off her engineering talents. Mirasta Yale had come from Malcor III nine years ago. Her planet had been just about to discover warp drive when the USS Enterprise made first contact. The planet’s leader had eventually decided they were not yet ready to be part of a larger galactic governmental structure, but Yale left with the Enterprise, declaring that she was ready, even if her people weren’t. Since then, she studied engineering at the Starfleet Technical Services Academy. She was a quick study. After graduating, she enlisted in Starfleet and worked her way up through the enlisted ranks. T’Avaya knew Yale to be a competent engineer.
Commander Eccleshall, Dialum, and T’Avaya met later in the ship’s lounge. The upgrades had been installed. They had five more hours before the increased power would flow to all the systems. Once that happened, they would go to warp to see how well the upgrade worked at warp speed. Dialum was telling Eccleshall about his life growing up on Tieldar IV. His parents, who were now deceased, had been archaeologists who lived there to study the ancient ruins of the Tieldarans, a humanoid species that was native to the planet.
Eccleshall knew that T’Avaya shared a similar upbringing with parents who had also raised her on a different world than their home planet. It must have been one of the things the Vulcan and the Efrosian had bonded over. Dialum mentioned how proud he was of T’Avaya, his former student, for winning the Daltofer Award twenty years ago for her engineering design of a new power grid for the planet Bendollar IV.
Chief Engineer Emac said from engineering, “We’re ready, sir,” as Captain Watin on the bridge took his command chair. The captain told ops, “Set course for 3152 mark 5.”
“Course laid in, sir.”
“Warp 1. Go,” Watin ordered. The USS Prophecy smoothly went to warp 1.
In Engineering, T’Avaya watched the monitors. All readings were normal. Specialist Yale reported that the mains were online and working. Chief Emac looked at the warp core. “Purring like a melyat,” he said, satisfied. Dialum looked at the power readings and said, “Power at one hundred percent. EPS grid operating at seventy percent levels. Excellent!”
On the bridge, Ensign sh’Pave, the Andorian at ops said, “Captain! I just lost navigation! Readings have gone blank!”
The captain ordered an all stop. The helm officer said the ship wasn’t responding. The captain called engineering. “What the hell is going on down there?!”
“We’re reading a power surge in the matter/antimatter containment field and in the deflector array. Rerouting power now,” Emac said.
T’Avaya could feel the pulsing of the engines through the deck as she tried to reroute power from the EPS power grid. She was unable. The controls were locked.
Minutes later, the ship suddenly came to a stop. Captain Watin asked for status. Ensign sh’Pave reported that the ship was out of warp. She could not explain why. The captain called engineering. Chief Emac said the engines had just stopped. It was not caused by the actions of anyone in engineering. Emac did a systems check and reported that ship’s power had just gone down to sixty percent. And the warp core had just gone offline. Yale reported they had lost power to the intermix chamber and the warp core. T’avaya said the zovedium power source was still connected but was not energizing. Dialum checked the flow chamber to the zovedium. He said there was no flow, and he couldn’t explain why. The ship was on emergency backup.
The captain asked if navigation was back online. sh’Pave checked her console. She reported that it was working. They were in the L56 system, outside of Federation space. They were very close to the planet Sigma Oranis Minor. It was only two hours away at impulse. Captain Watin knew that was pretty damn close. They were lucky that the ship came out of warp before it had gone into the planet’s atmosphere and crashed into the planet. Watin had Commander Eccleshall pull up Starfleet records on the planet. The commander pulled up the records. She said it is a class M, uninhabited planet.
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. Doctor T’Avaya reporting. While still on the USS Prophecy, we were testing Dialum’s new rovedium energy source. During warp drive, engines and navigational control suddenly became locked. Once we regained control of the ship, we discovered we were in the L56 system, ten light years outside of Federation space. We no longer have warp drive. I am working with the other engineers to determine how this happened and how to fix it. All readings were normal before the incident.
Engineering reported that warp drive was off line and would not power up. They did have impulse power. The captain ordered a message be sent to Starfleet Command making them aware of the ship’s status. The captain decided they did not to send a distress call at this time. He trusted his crew to get them out of this predicament.
Dialum stepped onto the bridge. “Dialum,” the captain said, “You should be in engineering helping to fix the warp drive.”
“I do apologize, captain,” Dialum said. “But I saw that Starfleet records show that planet we are close to is rich in hiberite. It’s a crystalline material that is very similar to zovedium. I can use it to synthesize more zovedium to increase the ship’s power again.”
Captain Watin wasn’t fond of that idea. He thought the zovedium was what got his ship into this mess. He wanted to depend on his engineers to come up with a solution. He called his chief engineer and asked what he thought of Dialum using hiberite to synthesize more zovedium. Chief Emac said it could work. He had examined the crystal, and he thought the power could be routed through the deflector array and it may work better that way. He still had his people examining everything, but it was worth a try. Watin closed the channel.
The ensign at ops scanned the planet and found several life forms. There were eighteen different animal species spread over two continents, contained by force fields. The dominant species on the planet, according to scans, was bipedal loxodonta, or-- in earth terms-- an elephant-like species. There were only about ten of them on the whole planet. Sensors were also detecting a small shuttle craft on the planet. The craft had warp engines.
“I thought the planet was uninhabited,” Watin said.
“I guess it’s been inhabited since the last Starfleet survey,” answered Eccleshall.
“Can we hail them?” the captain asked. They opened a hailing frequency, but there was no reply. There was no one in the craft to answer, and the inhabitants most likely did not carry personal communicators.
Captain Watin sent an away team of four down to the planet: Commander Eccleshall, Professor Dialum, Dr. T’Avaya (because Dialum insisted), and security officer Maya Brody. They beamed to an unpopulated area that had some shrubbery and some uneven terrain. T’Avaya pulled out the Starfleet-issue tricorder she had been given for this away mission. She detected a high concentration of hiberite a few meters west of their location. Two of the loxodonta-like humanoids approached. They had red skin, large fan-like ears and a large trunk-- like a snout-- in the middle of their faces. They were about two meters tall. They had large bodies with thick legs and walked upright. They wore purple tunics with blue trousers. “Whoa,” one of them said. “Who are you?”
Commander Eccleshall identified the away team as representing the USS Prophecy of the United Federation of Planets. She said their ship had come by accident, and they needed the planet’s hiberite to fix their propulsion system. The two aliens looked at each other. They did not know what hiberite was. Dialum explained that it was a type of ore in the ground.
“An ore!” said one of the aliens.
“You’ve come to take our ore,” said the other.
“Should we give it to them?” They laughed at each other.
“Guess they’re going to take the planet apart.”
“Leave us nothing.” They laughed again.
Eccleshall was dismayed at their reaction. “May I ask what you are doing here?” she said.
Then, another one of the aliens walked up. This one was two centimeters taller than the others, dressed the same, but with had a purple stripe at the end of the trunk and a gold scarf on top of the head. She spoke, “I am Queen Ixoraz. We are the imminent royal family of Ginuxkar IV. We are here to feed our animals.”
Eccleshall explained again that they needed a small amount of the planet’s hiberite to fix their ship. She then asked Ixoraz if she and her people had put the force fields around the animals. Ixoraz said their home planet was about five light years away. The animals had been rescued from different planets in the sector. They were from planets that were dying and no longer had resources, or planets where the inhabitants abused the animals. They were brought here so they could roam free and be happy. The force fields were to keep the different species separated. The royal family came once a month to feed and look after them. There were a few natural things on the planet the animals could eat, but Ginuxkar was able to farm and process whatever each species of animals needed, such as berries, nuts, rodents, and so forth.
One of the small animals walked up to T’Avaya and brushed against her leg. Ixoraz said, “That is a teeteenyas, one of the gentler breeds. Some of our royal subjects have them as pets.” It had four legs, beige fur, two slits on either side of its head for ears, two noses, three very small eyes, and a small mouth. One of the other Ginuxkarans said to T’Avaya, “She likes you.” He picked up the teeteenyas, stroked its furry body, and held it toward her. T’Avaya stroked the animal and said, “Very nice.” It reminded her of the pet shaltah, like a sehlat but much smaller, that she had growing up. The teeteenyas was making a chirping sound reminiscent of a onrellian bird. Eccleshall, Brody, and Dialum looked warmly at her and the animal. T’Avaya said, “The chirping seems to have a tranquilizing effect. Fortunately, I am immune to its effect.”
Specialist Yale checked the plasma conduits around the zovedium apparatus. The conduits had been overloaded by the zovedium. Dialum’s osmotic vertion core looked empty. It should have been filled with neutrinos to help regulate the zovedium. The controls on the vertion core had been set for an isolated particle beam. She knew it should have been set for a dynamic particle beam. Could the settings have changed after the warp incident? No. This appeared to be the CAUSE of the incident. The particle beam change would have locked the ship on a certain course and speed. Had someone wanted to get the ship to this part of space? That didn’t make sense. What could someone possibly want here?
After securing the area and seeing that the Ginuxkarans had no objection to the Prophecy crew taking some of the hiberite, Watin beamed down another away team to start extracting the ore.
One of the male Ginuxkarans, --Dranlan, he said his name was-- started singing, “Starship comes to take our ore.”
Then his brother--Zhoonger--sang, “We don’t need it any more.”
“They come from space and wear strange clothes.”
“They have small ears and smaller nose.”
Eccleshall observed, “What a strange people these Ginuxkarans are.” T’Avaya agreed, but had to admire them for saving and caring for the animals. Eccleshall couldn’t argue with that. Security officer Brody, seeing there was no immediate danger, put her phaser away and said, “Maybe I should sing about them.” Then she started melodiously with, “They have laaarge truuuunks. Too big for theeeirrrr buuuunks…”
“Hey! Stop that now!” Commander Eccleshall ordered.
“Sorry, sir,”
The two Ginuxkarans had heard her, and started laughing again. One of them playfully hit Brody on the back of her head and exclaimed, “What a rogue! Why, you’re even funnier than our court jester!”
Brody almost fell over from being hit on the head. Zhoonger didn’t know his own strength. She just smiled back at him.
While this was going on, Dialum whispered to T’Avaya, “Please come with me.” He walked away. She followed. The professor walked toward a cave. She asked where they were going. He led her inside the cave. He then told her that he hadn’t been quite honest with her and the crew. She asked him to explain. He reminded her that his parents had been archeologists. His parents had found evidence of a race of beings from another dimension that had visited this galaxy decades ago. He had reason to believe they had built a base on this planet, and the entrance to the base was in this cave. They kept walking deeper into the cave as Dialum kept talking. He said he had visited this planet many years ago, when it was uninhabited, and found this cave and found part of it sealed off. They came to a large open area with a glowing light at one end. They walked over to it.
T’Avaya scanned it with her tricorder. It was some kind of energy barrier. On the other side of it there appeared to be a duranium wall. Dialum told her the dimensional aliens had built the barrier to protect their base. He brought her here because he did not have the resources to break the barrier, and he knew she could find a way in, perhaps using the ship’s power. She said Captain Watin would have to approve, and he would not be happy that Dialum had hijacked his ship. Dialum was aware of that and said he knew the risks. He begged T’Avaya to help him. This was something his parents had been looking for all their lives, and he wanted to complete their goal, and he was too close to leave now.
Her comm badge beeped. She tapped it. “T’Avaya here.” It was the captain asking her to beam back up to the ship. She told him she was with Dialum. They both were beamed up.
In the transporter room, a security guard had a phaser aimed at Dialum and said the captain ordered him confined to quarters. Neither Dialum nor T’Avaya knew what was going on, as no one had heard what they had just said inside the cave. T’Avaya was escorted to the briefing room. The captain was there, along with Chief Emac and Specialist Yale. The captain ordered Yale to tell T’Avaya what she had found. Yale told her she found that someone had programmed the zovedium controls to bring them to this planet. Then T’Avaya told them what Dialum had told her in the cave. Of course, they had already suspected that Dialum was the one who had hijacked the ship and brought them to the planet. T’Avaya told them she was as shocked as they were that Dialum would go to such lengths to achieve his ends. It was a reckless move. However, since they were here, she was as curious as Dialum about the dimensional aliens. She asked the captain if they could try to break the energy barrier to the aliens’ base.
Captain Watin made no promises, but he did send a science team to the cave to examine the barrier and its surroundings. They also did sensor scans from the ship. The sensors did not pick up any readings from inside the barrier. They could tell that the “base”, as Dialum had called it, was over twenty meters wide and ten meters deep. They could probably break through the barrier with a duodynetic plasma stream. But the question was, SHOULD they? They had no way of knowing what was inside. The unknown could be very dangerous. But then, the USS Prophecy was a science ship, dedicated to the unknown. The captain had agreed to let them do it, using extreme caution. Because T’Avaya had promised she would take responsibility for Dialum, Watin let security escort Dialum back to the cave. He had studied his parent’s notes about the aliens, so he may be able to help with whatever they found on the other side of the barrier.
Chief Science Officer Goiv, a Tellarite, came up behind them with a half-meter long tube attached to a control box. He aimed the tube at the energy barrier. “Get outta the way. Here goes nothing,” he said in his gruffy voice. He hit a button and the plasma stream hit the barrier. There was a constant stream for three seconds, then it stopped. The energy barrier glowed bright green for a second, then . . . there was nothing. T’Avaya scanned the duranium wall. She stated that the barrier was gone. She touched the wall. It seemed to turn to liquid right at the spot she touched. Then, the wall disappeared. They could see a room. It looked like a control room. Dialum started to charge in. The two security guards held him back. T’Avaya scanned the room. She said it looked safe. There were computers, but they were powered off. She walked inside and touched a computer screen. A monitor lit up. The guards motioned Dialum to go inside. He walked up next to her and looked at the monitor.
From studying his parents’ journals, he was able to read what was on the monitor. It said the aliens had posed a danger to the planet, so they had to seal off this base and go back to their dimension. Dialum did not understand what the aliens had meant about posing a danger. Then, they suddenly heard what sounded like a large thunder clap. Goiv’s comm badge signaled that he was getting a call from the ship. Prophecy’s sensors had picked up atmospheric and seismic activity distortions on the planet that started right when they cleared the energy barrier. The room was giving off vega radiation, which the barrier had been protecting them from. The planet was going to explode in six minutes.
“We must find a way to reactivate the energy barrier. There’s no way we can get the Ginuxkarans and animals off the planet in time,” T’Avaya said. She looked at Dialum. He was shocked, frozen in place. She placed her hands on his shoulders and shook him. “Professor, can you work these computers? Can you reactivate the barrier?”
An alarm sounded. A computerized voice filled the room. It sounded like it was giving a countdown in whatever language the aliens had spoken. There were flashing lights on all the computers. Dialum heard the alien countdown and yelled, “That one!” He pointed at a computer across the room. He and T’Avaya ran over to it. He worked one control, and told her how to work the other one. He was setting it to reactivate the barrier in ten seconds. Suddenly, teeteenyas ran into the room, followed by Dranlan and Zhoonger.
“The animals just ran in. We couldn’t stop them,” Zhoonger said.
He was blowing into an instrument that looked like a flute. T’Avaya was strapped for time, but she asked what he was doing. He said the instrument made a sound that was pleasant to the animals. They would usually follow it, but it didn’t seem to be working. They were too scared. T’Avaya had a thought. If they responded to sound, maybe there was another way to get them out. She and Dialum finished with the controls. She told him and everyone else to get out. As she headed out of the room, she started making a loud, screeching sound from the back of her throat. It was the sound of an onrellian hawk. The teeteenyas reacted. They started running out of the room in fear. She kept making the sound and ran after them. Then she turned around and saw the duranium wall and the energy barrier were back in place.
It was over. The disaster had been averted. And everyone was safe.
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. Professor Dialum has been confined to quarters. He will be transported to Starbase 147 to stand trial for hijacking and endangering a starship. Captain Watin ordered us to seal the cave entrance leading to the aliens’ base, and to leave a warning buoy outside the cave so no one would try to enter. The captain decided to let the Ginuxkarans keep their claim to Sigma Oranis Minor for their royal animal menagerie. The Ginuxkarans were appreciative and invited us to someday visit their home planet. We were able to use the hiberite combined with zovedium to power the ship’s warp drive. Chief Engineer Emac has ordered further study for the use of the zovedium power source before it can be installed on another ship. We are on a course back to Station Tyrellia. The zovedium upgrades will be uninstalled once we get back to the station.
Chief Engineer Emac and Vulcan engineer T’Avaya were in her quarters on the USS Prophecy drinking coffee. “Sorry about your friend,” Emac said.
“Though he feels remorse for putting all of us in danger, he still thinks the effort was worth it. I regret that he could not have found another way, especially since the dimensional aliens he was searching for were gone.”
She mentioned that Specialist Yale did a good job researching and discovering that Dialum had sabotaged the controls. Emac agreed that Yale was a good engineer.
“She had to prove herself when she came here,” Emac said. “No one believed she knew anything, coming from a less advanced world. Just like I had to prove myself to Starfleet.” Emac had always faced intolerance of his Orion heritage, assumptions that he was nothing more than a brutal slave trader with no morals. But he had proven himself to be intelligent and willing and able to uphold the very best of Starfleet ideals. He came from a poor family, one that never owned slaves and had barely escaped slavery themselves.
“I read your report,” he told her. “Very interesting. I didn’t know you could make hawk sounds. Was that something you learned for another Vulcan ritual?”
T’Avaya smiled inwardly. “When I was a child, I taught myself to mimic several animal sounds. It was one of the ways I amused myself.”
“Really!”, his thoughts raced. “How about you make some of those animal sounds for me right now.”
She smirked at him--at least, as much as a Vulcan could smirk. But he knew the look. He got it a lot from her. The two of them had cautiously begun pursuing a relationship less than two weeks ago.
“How about later tonight,” he said slyly. If I had only known sooner that this would amuse him, she thought.
-by the Honorable Kavura
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S01 E04: Chronicles of T’Avaya: The Suffering of Others
The Vulcan engineer brushed the low hanging leaves out of her way and stepped over the fallen branch. The Bolian engineer followed, her blue skin almost blending in with the scenery. Their two human comrades had gone up ahead and were standing at the bank of a river.
“Look at this,” said Lisa, a bioresearch scientist. “There’s obsidian rock in the river. The colors from the light refraction are sooooo beautiful!”
Regan, an attorney, marveled as well, “The river flows, and my heart grows!”
The Vulcan engineer, T’Avaya, caught up to them. “It is much like my home planet.” Her friends knew that she had grown up on a colony world, not Vulcan itself. “I used to go rafting in a river like this. It was exhilarating, to say the least.”
The Bolian, Luruwa, exclaimed loudly, “Oh. Yeah. We should go rafting some time. Everyone should see this. The red river is like the blood rushing to my heart. I just wanna jump in!”
Regan and Lisa laughed at Luruwa, the excitable one of the group. The four women had several hiking holodeck programs they enjoyed. This one was a forest on Revendar 3. It was one of the more colorful planets, with its red water and blue shrubbery. They continued their hike as they walked along the bank, and then up a steep hill, and then down a steep ravine.
Norab stuck the magnetic scrambler to the door. He pushed a button, and the door opened. Easy as stealing from a mastag, the Lurian thought to himself. He removed the scrambler and walked into the office. He sat behind the computer terminal. He turned it on and inserted a codeword bypass disc and started searching. He knew the chief engineer would not return to her office for at least an hour. Let’s see, he thought. He kept searching, and searching, and searching, and . . . Ah, Blashtat! He said out loud. Norab had found what he was looking for.
Chief Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45121.2. Doctor T’Avaya reporting. Space Station Tyrellia’s communications array has just intercepted a message from Romulan space, on the other side of the Neutral Zone. The message was received by a Lurian trader named Norab. The Lurian is currently in interrogation with Security Guard Malaka, a Vorta female who defected during the Dominion War, and is now part of the station’s security team. Station Director Tab Nilo has ordered more security at the station’s most sensitive locations. Because Tyrellia is a civilian station, he does not want to alarm any of the station’s many guests. Starfleet Command has been alerted to the situation.
T’Avaya sat in her office drinking coffee as she looked over the records from the station’s external communications array. The signal that was picked up was weak. It was sent in a low band phasing spatial burst, instead of subspace. The station’s comm array was the only comm unit in the Federation that would have been able to pick up the signal without actively looking for such a low band. As she looked through more logs from the comm array, she noticed something odd. Her computer showed that it had been accessed during the time she was on the holodeck with her friends. Someone had used her terminal in her absence.
The door to the office chimed. T’Avaya said, “Come.” The Chief of Security, a Zakdorn named Vedarem, walked in. Zakdorns were known for being great military strategists, but sometimes they held other positions within the United Federation of Planets. Vedarem had done very well as the station’s security chief. He was carrying two objects into the engineer’s office-- one small, and one rather large. The small object, T’Avaya thought, must have been the Lurian’s communicator. She asked him what the larger object was. He told her it was found by Security Guard Malaka on Norab’s freighter ship. He wanted T’Avaya to examine both objects and let him know her findings. She agreed to examine them. Norab was now in the station’s holding cell. Vedarem also told the Vulcan he would like her to examine the Lurian’s ship to see if she could find anything the security team might have overlooked. She told him she would visit the ship.
Then the Vulcan told him what she had just found on her computer terminal. Someone had accessed her computer. He used his tricorder to scan her computer for traces of non-Vulcan DNA. It picked up trace amounts of Vorta DNA. Malaka was the only Vorta on the station. T’Avaya said she had not known of any time recently that Malaka had been in her office. Vedarem said he would look into it. Both of them had known Malaka for several years and had come to trust her.
After Vedarem left, T’Avaya took the items to her engineering lab. She took apart the small communicator. She didn’t see anything noteworthy. She removed the data chip from inside and inserted it into her computer terminal. She downloaded the contents of the chip. There were two recent transmissions: the one from Romulan space that the comm array had already picked up, and one that was sent from a location on the station to another location elsewhere on the station. The Vulcan narrowed the location field search and cross referenced with the station communications that had been recorded by the array. The transmission had been received in one of the visitor quarters on the station. She recorded the room number for the quarters and immediately messaged it to Security Chief Vedarem. Next, she started examining the object found on Norab’s ship. She determined that it was a subspace field modulator. It could possibly be used to scramble sensor readings to make a ship difficult to detect. The engineer decided it was time to see Norab’s ship.
T’Avaya found where the Lurian’s freighter had been docked. It was under guard, as ordered by Chief Vedarem. The guards let her inside. The freighter ship was small, except for a large empty cargo bay. It was a Federation issue Type-AK class freighter, with a few random modifications. She ran a tricorder scan. There were no unusual radiation or energy readings. She found the engine room and saw a standard warp 2 engine. She went to the cockpit. Her scans found nothing out of the ordinary. She turned on the communications console. She looked at the screen and saw the comm logs. It showed the ship had been cleared to land at several other docking ports in the last month. As she scrolled through the logs, she saw some encoded computer data that wasn’t part of the log. She downloaded the code to a data rod and took it back to her engineering lab.
Later, T’Avaya inserted the data rod into her diagnostic computer. Her computer indicated that it would take several hours to comb through the data. She left it running. Then, she was called to a meeting by the station director.
She sat at the meeting room table and waited patiently for Director Tab Nilo to begin. Nilo was at the head of the table, and she sat to his left. To Nilo’s right was Security Chief Vedarem. To T’Avaya’s left was the Starfleet Intelligence officer assigned to the station, Lt. Gemma Albrecht. Nilo spoke up, “Our Lurian visitor, Norab, received a transmission from inside Romulan space. The Romulans have been very quiet since the end of the Dominion War one year ago. Gemma, do you know of any other Romulan activity in the sector?”
The blue-eyed human intelligence officer answered, “No. Intelligence reports have not noted any recent activity from the Romulans. They have gone silent since the Dominion War ended. It could have been some kind of stray comm signal. But our Lurian friend DOES seem to be hiding something.” She continued, “Because of the station’s close proximity to the Neutral Zone, the Romulans think we built the comm array to spy on them. But we can’t be implicated in this case because THEY are the ones who sent a transmission to someone on this station.”
Then Vedarem spoke up, “Norab said he was just stopping here to pick up a shipment of diastux to take to the Corswell system. He said he’s never had any contact with Romulans, and that the transmission we traced to him must have been a stray blip.”
The Trill director asked T’Avaya what she found when examining Norab’s personal communicator. She told him it was standard issue and that she found nothing unusual. She also mentioned that the other object Vedarem had given her was a subspace field modulator.”
“Something to scramble sensor readings,” Vedarem said. He made the common Zakdorn humming sound, “Hmm, mm.”
“So you didn’t find that he was smuggling anything when you searched his ship?” Nilo asked Vedarem.
“Initial scans and visual search turned up nothing, but we are still looking,” Vedarem stated.
T’Avaya told them about the encoded data she found in the ship’s comm logs and that she had her computer working to decrypt the data. They all looked at her. That was an interesting find, indeed. “Any idea what the code is?” Nilo queried. No one answered immediately.
Lt. Albrecht said, “It could be an encrypted message from the Romulans.”
Nilo said, “Let’s not jump to any conclusions just yet. What did you find out about the second transmission T’Avaya found on his communicator?”
“We traced it to the quarters of a human named Louis Grasso,” the Zakdorn chief said. “He’s from colony planet Hodu 4 in this sector. He’s a farmer who just checked in yesterday. My people are questioning him as we speak.”
“And what are our orders from Starfleet Command, Gemma?” Nilo said as he looked firmly at the officer.
She replied, “To keep investigating and await further orders. We are not to make any aggressive moves toward the Neutral Zone.”
“Mmm, mm. We can’t hold Norab for long without solid evidence,” Vedarem said.
“Then let’s get to work on getting that evidence,” Nilo ordered.
The director dismissed everyone back to their duties.
Malaka sat at the table across from Louis Grasso. She had been working in station security for three years now and had learned to read some human expressions. She knew this human looked nervous about something. She questioned him about why he was on the station and what his connection was to Norab. He told her he had brought a shipment of diastux, a wheat that he harvested on his farm on Hodu 4. Norab had found a buyer for the diastux. Station Tyrellia was a common place for commerce and trade, so that made sense. She asked how he had met Norab. Grasso said Norab had brought a shipment of foodstuffs to his planet. When the Vorta asked Grasso where Norab was taking the wheat, he squirmed and said he didn’t know; he didn’t care as long as he was selling it. Malaka knew that not many species ate diastux food products. Most humans found it indigestible, and many other species found it unpalatable. She asked him why he grew such an unpopular wheat. He said it was one of the few things he could grow on his land. He grew other crops, but diastux seemed to be the one that his soil was most compatible with. Malaka knew that many of the colonies in Tyrellia sector, like Hodu, wanted to be self-sustaining. Part of that included growing their own foodstuffs instead of depending on food replicators. To humans, part of the satisfaction of starting a colony was seeing how much they could get from the native land. She dismissed Grasso, but told him to not leave the station until further notice.
T’Avaya went back to her lab and saw that the computer was still busy decrypting the data from Norab’s ship. Just then, she was alerted by Chief Vedarem that another phasing spatial transmission from Romulan space had been detected. The exact point of origin could not be determined. The transmission had ended, and he could not determine whom it was being sent to. Vedarem surmised that because Norab’s communicator had been taken apart, there was no receiver for the transmission, so it dissipated. He asked if there was any way she could increase the power of the array in case another transmission was received. T’Avaya considered it. The array was already working at maximum efficiency, and -- even though the Romulans believed otherwise-- it had not been intended to receive transmissions from the Romulans. But she did know a way to temporarily increase the power.
T’Avaya added Nilo to the call so she could let both Nilo and Vedarem know her plan. In order to fill Vedarem’s request for more power to the array, she wanted to create a gravimetric distortion around the array. She assured them the distortion would be small enough that it would not endanger any beings or ships in the vicinity. They both expressed concerns for any unknowns that might happen. She assured them she could control the size and intensity of the distortion. And she would also install a cutoff for it that she could activate at any time. They agreed to let her do it, since it would only be temporary, and they needed something to be done quickly.
She went to the shuttle bay to take the shuttlecraft Kal-toh Xi over to the array, since beaming over was sometimes hazardous due to the combination of gravity waves in the area and the station’s graviton emissions. As she was about to board the shuttlecraft, she saw a human male staring at her. Or rather, he was staring at the Kal-toh Xi.
“Can I help you?” she said to the human.
“I was just looking at your shuttle.” He saw the name on the side. “Why is it named after a Vulcan game?”
T’Avaya had wondered the same thing when she was first assigned to the station. She told the human that Tyrellia’s docking manager went to an annual gaming festival. He named each of the shuttles and runabouts after a game that was played at the festival, and a Greek letter that corresponded to the order of the tournaments for each game.
“That’s funny,” he said. “Your docking manager must be a lot of fun.”
“He often has private gaming parties on the station.”
“Oh. I wish I could go to parties. It seems all I do is work on my farm.”
“You are a farmer?”
“Yeah. Name’s Louis Grasso,” the human said, offering the Vulcan salute instead of a handshake. She recognized his name. He was the one Norab had contacted on the station. She saluted him back.
“T’Avaya”, she said. “My father was a farmer.”
“Really? I don’t see many farmers who aren’t from my home planet.”
They spoke for a few minutes. He said he was in the shuttle bay to check on his shipment of wheat, diastux, that was still in his freighter craft. He was supposed to transfer it to Norab, but now that Norab was in custody, he wasn’t sure what he was going to do.
He asked her more about her father. She said he was still on her home world, the frontier colony planet Sa’idi III. She had always been close to him, though they hadn’t spoken in over a year. He asked about her mother, and she said her mother had died. She found that Grasso was very well-educated. He spoke four languages. He had some engineering skills, as he had learned to repair and maintain much of his farm equipment. She said farmers were well-respected where she was from. And the station’s five-star chef preferred farm-fresh foods instead of replicated; replicated food was never as flavorful as natural. Grasso agreed with her on that. The pleasant conversation ended as T’Avaya excused herself to complete her next task.
Malaka brought Norab back to the interrogation room to question him about the code that was found in his ship’s logs. She had looked at his criminal records. He had been convicted and served time for a few petty crimes. She also saw in his records that he had lost his family in the Dominion War. Malaka -- being a Vorta-- was a clone, and had no family. But she had learned the importance of families to most humanoid species. She often wondered what it would be like to have that sense of belonging and unconditional acceptance that families seemed to have.
Norab claimed he knew nothing about any code in his ship’s logs. Malaka wished she could use the more extreme and effective Dominion tactics of questioning, but she respected the ways of the United Federation of Planets. Now that she was their citizen, she owed them her freedom, and she would respect their ways.
She asked him about his communication with Louis Grasso. He repeated his story from earlier, that he was picking up a shipment of wheat from Grasso to take to the Corswell system. She asked him about the subspace field modulator that was found on his ship. Again, he claimed to not know anything about it. Lurians were known for talking a lot. This one didn’t seem to have much to say. Just then, Security Chief Vedarem came into the room. The large Zakdorn thought maybe he would be more intimidating to the Lurian.
Vedarem bluffed, “We know you had the modulator because you were taking an illegal shipment into Romulan space.”
Norab said calmly, “I don’t have a modulator. Your Vorta here probably planted it on my ship.”
Malaka gave Vedarem a slight smile. She had worked for him long enough that he trusted her. She had defected from the Dominion because she could not longer stand their treachery and lust for power. They would consider her defective. Perhaps she was. But she knew this Lurian was lying.
The control center of the communications array was unoccupied most of the time. T’Avaya could handle most of the maintenance from the station. But this enhancement she could only do from inside the array’s control center. The array was constructed to make communication through gravity waves more effective. Tyrellia sector had been bombarded with class 3 gravitational waves ever since a star in Sector 2152B went supernova three years ago. The waves did not affect travel through the sector, since most ships were able to compensate.
T’Avaya rerouted the main power coupling and installed a shunt that would create a small gravimetric distortion around the array. The distortion would be too small to be a danger, but it would be just the right size to increase the array’s effectiveness. The array had been built to process gravity waves, so it was well equipped to handle a single, small gravimetric distortion. With the increase in effectiveness, it should be able to detect any more transmissions to or from Romulan space with greater accuracy as to the points of origin and destination. She could only leave the modification in place for a few hours. After that, the gravimetric distortion would start to increase in size. She installed a self-terminating program for the shunt that would activate after an allotted time, and she also had a failsafe power termination code she could send directly from the station, if she needed to use it.
Back on the station, T’Avaya saw that the modification on the array was working well. She monitored the gravimetric distortion and saw that it was within acceptable parameters. She let the station Director and the Security Chief know. Her computer would let her know if there was a change in the readings. The computer was also still working on the encrypted code from Norab’s ship.
While the Vulcan engineer was waiting in her lab, she decided to do her yoga practice. Her mother, a somewhat unorthodox Vulcan, had taught her the earth practice of yoga, instead of the more traditional Vulcan relaxation practice of simple meditation. T’Avaya preferred yoga as it kept her body strong and limber while also clearing and centering her mind.
Louis Grasso was told he had VIP quarters. Of course, he knew that all the quarters on Station Tyrellia were considered VIP quarters. He stepped through the side door of the living room and into a small room with two chairs, a table, a couch, and a railing. He sat on the couch. Beyond the railing, he had a full view of the space outside the station. It was a holoprogram that he could change to any view he wanted, but he preferred the open space. He recognized the constellations. There’s Masraya, he thought, and Cabelkon. He loved having a “balcony” in his room on the station. He might as well enjoy the free time while he was away from home. As he sat back to enjoy the view, he heard his door chime. He got up and went back through the living room to the door. It was a blonde human woman he had never seen before.
“Hello. Louis Grasso? I’m Lisa. T’Avaya sent me.”
Then Louis remembered. “Oh, yes. Come in. She told me you were doing some genome research.”
Lisa was working on a genome that would make some foods more digestible for people who did not have the sufficient enzymes to digest certain nutrients. T’Avaya had asked her if she would test the genome on Grasso’s diastux. Louis handed her a vial. “Here’s a sample for you to test. Sure hope it works.”
Lisa smiled and said, “I’m happy to help.”
She started to leave, and Louis said, “Hey, uh, that T’Avaya. She is… a really nice Vulcan.”
Lisa tilted her head and replied, “Yes. She is nice, isn’t she?”
“Yeah. Nice. And pretty. And smart too.”
Lisa smiled and said, “And she’s the only Vulcan I know who only uses the word ‘logical’ once a week, instead of once every ten minutes.”
They both laughed.
During T’Avaya’s yoga session, her friend Lisa from the station’s science department called. She pulled up her vid screen. Lisa had called to check on her, because she knew the Vulcan had been working long hours. T’Avaya said she was still working on the investigation. Lisa said she would call back later, but T’Avaya said she was free to talk for a few minutes. Lisa remarked that she had just picked up a wheat sample from Louis, and that Louis had mentioned her by name. T’Avaya raised an eyebrow. “What did he say about me?”
“That you were nice and pretty and smart.”
Her parents had not set her up with a mate, as many Vulcan parents did for their offspring. Louis seemed intelligent and charming. And even handsome for a human. But T’Avaya was not interested in a romantic relationship. Her friends had tried to set her up before, quite unsuccessfully.
T’Avaya said, “We had a nice conversation. But that’s all it was.”
“Sure.” Lisa knew her friend too well to push it.
They spoke a few more minutes, and then Lisa signed off and the Vulcan went back to her yoga. Then, T’Avaya’s computer beeped. She walked over to the terminal. It had finished decrypting the code. She looked at her computer screen, then immediately called Director Nilo.
Nilo came to T’Avaya’s engineering lab and looked at her computer screen. “It looks like schematics,” he said.
“Yes, it is,” T’Avaya replied. It was schematics for the communications array. Nilo asked how Norab could have gotten this. She remembered the unauthorized access to her computer. She told Nilo about it and the fact that Vedarem had not yet found the culprit.
T’Avaya’s computer beeped again. This time, it was alerting her that the array had just picked up two more spatial burst transmissions, nine point eight seconds apart. Instead of coming FROM Romulan space, the first transmission was sent from Norab’s ship and was directed TO Romulan space. It must have been an automated transmission. With Norab in custody, no one was on his ship. The second transmission came from within Romulan space. She checked the readings from the array. With the help of the gravimetric distortion, she found that the transmission from Norab’s ship was sent to a planet in Romulan space called Psi D. Federation records showed it was uninhabited. Psi D was also the source of the follow up transmission that was just received. From the enhanced strength of the array, she could read the contents of the messages. They were in Romulan, which her computer quickly translated. The message to Psi D said, “I have acquired it.” The reply message that came from Psi D, unlike previous messages, was on a hard-to-read low epsilon e-band. It was a set of coordinates. She looked up the coordinates. It was a location deep inside Romulan space. They must have a ship at those coordinates that was waiting to receive the encoded schematics.
Her thoughts were interrupted when the floor beneath her started to shake. She and Nilo almost fell. Nilo said, “What the hell was that?”
He then called security and asked if sensors showed what had caused the shaking. Vedarem ran a sensor scan and said he detected a class 2 gravimetric distortion coming from the array. It had caused the entire station to tremble. The Vulcan engineer knew the distortion should not be that strong. Somehow the distortion had enlarged. She hit the program failsafe to dissipate the gravimetric distortion. But her readings showed it had no effect. She quickly ran a diagnostic. She could not find a reason the failsafe didn’t work. Then she traced it back to the array’s matrix. She saw something strange there. That transmission from Norab’s ship had been an automated transmission that was sent on a Theta band. That wouldn’t normally be a problem, but the Theta band caused the gravimetric distortion to suddenly increase. She knew then that the distortion could not be terminated from the station. She estimated she had barely enough time to take the Kal-toh Xi back to the array. T’Avaya left her engineering lab and raced to the shuttle bay.
Once she was on the array, the Vulcan engineer deftly rerouted the main power coupling back to the main power source and reset the program. Then she removed the shunt and adjusted the controls back to the default settings. She checked the readings and saw that the gravimetric distortion was slowly beginning to shrink. The engineer let out a breath that she hadn’t realized she had been holding. She gradually decreased the flow to the power relays to keep the distortion field steady. She touched the panel to decrease the flow a little more. And a little more. And a little more. After a few minutes, the gravimetric distortion was gone. She called Vedarem on the station and asked for the status. He told her everything was secure. Sensors no longer detected the distortion and the station was no longer in danger.
Malaka once again questioned Norab in the interrogation room.
“We found this hidden in your station quarters,” she said to him as she held up a small device. It was a genetic marking tool that had been set for Vorta DNA. He had used it to leave Vorta DNA on T’Avaya’s computer. “We also found the magnetic scrambler you used to break into T’Avaya’s office. You stole the schematics for the comm array and tried to frame ME for it. And you pretended to want Grasso’s wheat so you would have an excuse to come to the station.”
Norab kept his eyes down. There was no more use in denying anything. She told him they had intercepted the message from Romulan space and gotten the coordinates where he was to transmit the encrypted data schematics. When asked how he came to be involved with the Romulans, he stated he had come into contact with them during the Dominion War when the Romulans were allied with the Federation. He had met a Romulan who was sympathetic to him losing his family to the Jem’Hadar. Norab thought the Federation was weak. He hated it for allowing his family to die, and now, for having given this enemy Vorta a home.
Malaka asked Norab why he had used a Theta band transmission and not a standard frequency transmission. He stated that the Theta band had a tighter beam and a longer range. He had no way of knowing that it would put the station in physical danger. She asked him where he got all the devices he had used: the data encryption device, the magnetic scrambler, the genetic marking tool, the codeword bypass, and the field modulator. He said he had obtained them from different underground sources over many years. All of his devices had been confiscated. She knew the devices had helped him with his petty thievery in the past. But now he had upped his criminal activity to selling to the enemy, i.e., treason. He would be going to prison for a very long time.
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. The Lurian, Norab, has been arrested and is in prison awaiting trial. I am aware that he lost his family in the Dominion War. That is regrettable. I only hope that he will someday find peace. Starfleet Intelligence has determined that this incident may be a prelude to more Romulan activity. The Federation has increased the security around the station and the array.
Louis Grasso felt dejected upon finding out Norab never actually had a buyer for his wheat. However, Lisa Kingsley, a scientist in the station’s research department, has done promising research on food genomes that may help. The station’s chef has offered to take the rest of the diastux that Louis brought to the station. He wants to try new recipes with it. He said he enjoys a challenge.
I have been pondering whether it was a good idea to instill a gravimetric distortion around the array. It allowed us greater clarity with communications, but at the same time, the Theta band transmission, combined with the distortion, put the station and all the lives aboard it in grave jeopardy. I still do not believe there was another solution at the time, but I think I will be more cautious in the future. This is a civilian station, and the residents’ and visitors’ lives should not be put in danger. As the Vulcan philosopher T’Mee’an said, “You may have deep motivations for your actions, but you should not cause the suffering of others.” This is something Norab does not understand.
As for now, I have agreed to join Louis for his final dinner on the station before he returns home to Hodu 4. I would be interested to learn if he likes to talk about philosophy.
-by the Honorable Kavura
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S01 E03: Chronicles of T’Avaya: The Unintended Guest
[The Investigation]
Chief Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45120.2. While patrolling the distant sector 785J, the USS Prophecy found a derelict ship of unknown alien origin. They have towed the ship to Station Tyrellia by tractor beam and left it here while they go on to their next mission. My orders are to investigate the ship, try to find its origins, and get its engines working.
Space Station Tyrellia’s chief engineer Dr. T’Avaya and her assistant engineer Luruwa donned their Federation-issued space suits and beamed over to the derelict ship. It was a small ship. They estimated it could hold one hundred fifty humanoids, if it had a humanoid crew.
Dr. T’Avaya did a tricorder scan and stated, “No lifesigns detected. Air has trace amounts hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and an unknown gas.”
Luruwa added, “It looks abandoned. No signs of struggle. And I didn’t see any structural damage outside the ship.”
They looked around and saw several computer consoles and screens, none of which were powered on.
As they continued scanning, T’Avaya asked, “How was the hiking with Regan and Lisa last night?”
Luruwa responded, “Wonderful! It’s a great holoprogram.”
“As I suspected. Sorry I had to miss it.” T’Avaya had been working on equations for more upgrades to the communications array last night.
Luruwa teased, “You really do work too much.”
T’Avaya knew her friend was joking. The station director had asked her to work on the upgrades, and Luruwa knew how much T’Avaya had wanted to experience the program.
They decided to split up and explore different parts of the ship. T’Avaya found what must have been sickbay. She saw several beds connected to nonworking computer scanners that were probably bodily function scanners. She touched a computer console, and it immediately lit up. Only the one computer came on, not the whole system. There was a screen that had some type of data scrolling across it. She recorded it all with her tricorder. She would take it back to the station and run a computer analysis.
Luruwa found what appeared to be the command center. She touched one computer screen, and it lit up and started chirping. She saw data scrolling across the screen, and she started recording it with her tricorder.
Next, T’Avaya walked down a corridor and found what appeared to be the engineering section. Her scans showed that it ran on a multi-spatial resonance infuser. Ingenious, she thought. They must have been very advanced. Again, she touched a console, and it lit up, and data started scrolling across a screen. She recorded the data.
[The Mediation]
Chief Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. We have several VIPs arriving today. Commissioner Charick, a Benzite Federation negotiator, will be mediating a dispute between two Federation worlds: the Enoli and the Drandenot. They both claim to have rights to the same planet. The Enoli discovered the uninhabited planet a year ago, but left it untouched because they were embroiled in an internal political struggle on their home planet. The Drandenot discovered the planet on their own one month ago and immediately started bringing mining equipment to the planet. The disputed planet is rich in kerubium and trenbium, both excellent for use in building structures and for trade with other Federation worlds. Of course, the two species have been rivals for centuries, and do not want to share the planet. They have agreed to have their dispute mediated on Space Station Tyrellia because it is neutral ground. The leaders of both worlds have come here. The station is hosting a VIP reception tonight to welcome our three guests.
Even though I am still continuing my assignment to investigate the derelict ship, I will be attending the reception. As a part of the senior staff, I am required to attend all station dignitary and diplomatic functions.
Luruwa and T’Avaya arrived at the reception together. Luruwa was fond of these receptions. She was a Bolian, so she loved any chance to make small talk. T’Avaya, unlike other Vulcans, didn’t mind socializing, but did have other duties she preferred to attend to. Nevertheless, T’Avaya tried to look elegant in her long blue dress and upswept hair. She carried her Vulcan dignity with calm and grace.
She saw Commissioner Charick standing in a corner talking to station director Tab Nilo. T’Avaya spotted Presider Foheiv, the Drandenot, chatting up one of the station merchant traders. As Luruwa got pulled away by another friend, Presider Lavess, the Enoli leader, approached T’Avaya and said, “You look as out of place here as I feel.” T’Avaya turned to Lavess. T’Avaya put on an air of openness. She told Lavess that she was fine; just looking for anyone she knew. Lavess told her she hated social functions, especially right now. The Vulcan looked at her questioningly, and Lavess told her that her daughter was ill with a serious viral infection. There was no known cure. Lavess had not wanted to come to the station at all, but her daughter had insisted. T’Avaya offered her sympathies.
Meanwhile, in a dimly lit corner of the room, Commissioner Charick said to Director Nilo, “I brought that artifact you wanted. I will have it sent to you in the morning.” Charick tried to smile as she inhaled from her Benzite breathing apparatus.
“Why, thank you so much!” the director replied.
Nilo collected rare artifacts. Charick had brought him an arrowhead from a Benzite archaeological site that had just been discovered. Several of the artifacts had been given to Charick by a friend who was a museum curator, so she didn’t mind giving one to Nilo. He had told her about his collection of rare artifacts. She hoped the gift would help her gain favor with him, in case anything went wrong with her secret plan.
The next day, Charick looked across the round table at two leaders from two horribly disagreeable worlds. First, there was Presider Lavess of the Enoli. She had an orange face and a large, bald head and orange fur on the backs of her hands. Then there was Presider Foheiv of the Drandenot. He had deep red, scaly skin and long black, wiry hair. The planet in dispute was designated Iota Mu Secundis by the Federation. They used that designation for now, because the two factions also disagreed about what they wanted to name the planet. Charick pulled up the case info on her PADD. “First of all,” she began, “at warp five, this planet is fifteen days away for the Enoli, and twenty-one days for the Drandenot. That’s farther than most want to travel to a mining world, unless you intend to colonize. Do you?”
The two Presiders looked at each other. Foheiv said, “The planet has conditions favorable to us. Colonization is not out of the question.”
Lavess retorted, “We may colonize at a future date.”
Charick looked annoyed. She took a breath from her Benzite breathing apparatus attached to the front of her tunic. She continued by stating that both Presider’s worlds were in economic slumps, and she didn’t see how they could afford to expend resources on another world. Both Presiders responded that expanding was just what they needed to fix an economic slump. Charick went on about how the mining would be slow to yield results; how storing and transporting the kerubium and trenbium to their homeworlds or to other worlds for trading would be difficult. The two Presiders would not be deterred. Charick closed the session for the day and left the room in a huff.
T’Avaya was eating dinner in the station’s dining room and reading one of her philosophy books on her PADD. Station Tyrellia had a five-star chef whose repertoire consisted of cuisine from ten different alien cultures. T’Avaya had sampled many different foods on many different worlds since leaving her home on frontier colony Sa’idi III, and she considered this station’s food to be some of the best. She was eating Bajoran cuja beans, Edosian mushrooms with Idanian chanta sauce, and Kutari white bread. It was always nice to be able to find filling vegetarian meals. One of the many purposes of the station was to receive dignitaries. In that vein, Tyrellia had many luxuries that T’Avaya thought superfluous. But because food was sustenance, she indulged in this one advantage to living on the station.
She took another bite of food and turned the page on her PADD. She had always been enthralled by the writings of T’Mee’an. She found them deeply spiritual and universally relevant. Presider Foheiv approached her and asked, “May I ask what you are reading?”
“The writings of T’Mee’an.”
“Ah,” Foheiv said, “The Vulcan philosopher. And a very poetic one.”
Dr. T’Avaya was impressed. She said, “Yes. Very much so.”
“You are the station’s engineer?” he asked.
She told him yes. He asked her to examine a small machine he had obtained by trading with a station merchant. He held up an object that was approximately half a meter in length. He had not been able to get it to work. It was a personal heating device. It was an old, outdated model. In proper working condition, it would create only a small amount of heat. It was made for beings who worked around other species who were more comfortable in a slightly different climate. The devices were not as effective as more modern machines. She told him so. He told her he would still like to be able to use it. T’Avaya agreed to take it and try to get it working, right after she examined the data from the derelict ship.
[The Investigation]
The next day, in the station’s engineering lab, T’Avaya and Luruwa uploaded the data they had collected from the derelict ship into the station’s computer. The computer started analyzing. T’Avaya worked the controls on her console. She had to work the controls manually instead of by verbal command because she had disconnected the computer voice in her engineering lab. Director Nilo had ordered the station’s computer voice to be that of a female Melowan. He found the voice pleasant, but T’Avaya found the voice to be screechingly unpleasant, like the sound of an attacking lematya.
Luruwa inserted a data chip she had taken from the ship. The computer analysis showed the chip contained the captain’s log. The ship had encountered an ion storm that knocked out their life support system. The computer could not interpret any data that let them know what happened to the crew. Maybe the crew had escaped. The two engineers did not see any escape pods when they were on the ship. Analysis determined that the ship was around two hundred years old and that it had been abandoned for sixty of those years. T’Avaya recalled that it had been found in a newly explored sector, and records showed there were no nearby star systems.
Just then, the director called them via the intra station comms. T’Avaya turned on the vid screen.
“Director Nilo,” she said.
The Trill director said, “Hello doctor. What did you find out about the ship?”
T’Avaya told him what they had discovered. He asked if they would be able to power it up. She said the ship was powered by a multi-spatial resonance infuser, and that she may be able to turn the power on by connecting a beryllium infuser. He told her she had two weeks to get it working. If there were no results by then, the ship would be taken to a shipyard and used for scrap. She understood. She told Nilo she would continue her investigation of the ship, and he left her to it.
Luruwa excused herself to go run her daily diagnostic of the station’s external communications array. T’Avaya examined Foheiv’s heating machine. It was standard Federation technology. She recognized the brand logo on the side that showed the company that made it, Tremen Corporation. She knew their products were average quality. This one looked like it had stopped working because the inside parts had simply worn out due to over use. Just then, the machine lit up internally and she saw something appear on the control screen. It was the word “Veninu”. T’Avaya did not recognize that word. She plugged the machine into her engineering diagnostic computer. The computer showed there was no power in the machine. Then where did the internal light come from, she wondered. Then she saw more words appear on the machine’s small control screen, “I Veninu. Help.”
Then T’Avaya looked at her diagnostic screen and saw bytes and bytes of quickly changing code. She ran the code through her computer database. She determined that it was some kind of binary intelligence. The heating machine was inhabited by an artificial intelligence! Using her diagnostic computer, she typed a message to the intelligence. “What are you?” The computer translated a reply on the screen, “I am Veninu. Trapped. Must go ship.” T’Avaya did not know what ship Veninu was referring to, but she did know that this was some type of living intelligence and that she must try to help it.
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. I have discovered an artificial intelligence that has somehow survived inside of Presider Foheiv’s old heating machine. The AI seems to be in distress. I am attempting to communicate with it. Furthermore, I am still trying to determine the origin of the derelict ship that I have been assigned to analyze and restore power to.
As the intelligence grew more familiar with its surroundings, it was able to travel from the heating machine to T’Avaya’s diagnostic computer, which contained data from the derelict ship. T’Avaya saw her computer screen light up with more binary data. She could tell the intelligence was there in her diagnostic computer. It flashed the word “Aradeye” on the screen. She typed into the computer, “What is Aradeye?” Veninu answered that it was the name of the race that had built the ship. She asked if it knew the race. It did not, but it was able to interpret much from the data in T’Avaya’s computer. She asked Veninu if it could tell what happened to the crew. It told her they had taken the escape pods. She was thankful for that. It was good to know that the crew, even though she had never known them or their race, had at least survived that one disaster.
Then, T’Avaya had an idea.
[The Mediation]
Foheiv knocked on Lavess’s door. When she opened the door, she was more than surprised to see him. He asked if he could come in. She wanted to say no, but she did not feel like arguing. He came in and asked her what she thought of Commissioner Charick. As it turned out, they both thought the same thing, that Charick did not seem interested in mediating an agreement between them. Foheiv said that he actually did not have a problem with sharing the planet. He was sure he could get his people to agree. Lavess looked shocked. He tried to tell her it would be beneficial to both sides. Then she started looking very sad. She said that maybe he was right. Why should they fight over a planet when there were other problems to deal with? Lavess confessed that ever since her daughter took ill to a serious viral infection ten days ago, she had not really been interested in arguing with anyone any more. What’s the point of keeping up old grudges? Foheiv told her he was deeply sorry about her daughter and wished the best for her. The two of them decided to tell Charick they had reached an agreement about the planet.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Charick was enjoying the accommodations of her luxury suite. Station Tyrellia was known for having the best VIP suites in the Beta Quadrant. She had just taken a nice bubble bath. She had been introduced to bubble baths by a human friend in the Diplomatic Corp. In the wake of modern sonic showers, very few stations had bathtubs and bath oils and such, so she was determined to get the most out of it. She put on a night shirt and a thick bathrobe and sat on the nice, comfy couch.
“Computer,” she ordered, “release aroma 15.”
“Aroma 15 released,” the computer intoned it its high-pitched female voice.
The commissioner picked up her PADD. In about five minutes, she started smelling the sweet scent of tecideron blossoms. Now it was time for her favorite feature of the suite.
“Computer, activate holodeck scenery. Planet Siwara V. Time of day: Dusk.”
“Scenery activated,” the computer voice said.
Then Charick was suddenly sitting on a couch on the distant planet Siwara V with the red sun setting in the distance. The sky was a dark velvety red. The ground was stoney and blue with a few scattered plants and some native crystals that glowed on the ground.
“Perfect,” she said softly.
On her PADD, she pulled up pictures of Iota Mu Secundis. She had ordered a secret survey of the planet in hopes to have more data to use in the mediation. But when she viewed the survey results before coming to the station, she had found something that changed everything. As she was viewing the pictures, she heard her door chime. She softly cursed and ordered the holoscenery off. Setting her PADD down on the couch, she walked to the door. It was Foheiv and Lavess. Surprised and shocked, she nervously invited them in. They apologized for intruding at such a late hour. They said they had reached an agreement to share the planet. Charick was less than happy.
“What!-- you, you…can’t,” she sputtered.
Foheiv asked, “Why not? You should be pleased. Your assignment is over. And it’s successful.” Just then, Lavess saw Charick’s PADD on the couch. “The Hiparee!” Lavess screamed and ran over to pick up the PADD. Charick dashed after her, but Lavess got there first.
Foheiv and Lavess could tell by the landscape and flora that the PADD showed a picture from a part of Iota Mu Secundis that they had never seen before. Above the shrubbery, painted on stone, was the symbol of the Hiparee Empire, a once powerful empire that had long since vanished. But the empire had left behind great weapons, if anyone could find them. Remnants of the empire and their weapons had been found in different parts of the galaxy. “So. You were going to keep this to yourself,” Lavess said to Charick. Now that Lavess and Foheiv knew about this, they would have to tell the Federation. Then the Federation would take control of the planet. Neither the Enoli, nor the Drandenot, nor Charick would get control of it. If the Federation explored and found no weapons, then maybe they would let others mine the planet, but only after a thorough search and survey, which could take months.
[The Investigation]
Dr. T’Avaya hooked up a beryllium infuser to the ship’s resonance infuser. Then she inserted a data rod into a computer console. She then heard many beeps and chirps aboard the derelict ship, as its computer systems finally came to life. It was Veninu. She had brought him via the data rod. She remembered Veninu telling her that it wanted to be back on a ship. Now that it was here, inside the ship’s computers, it was able to power up the ship, with the help of her beryllium infuser.
It spoke to her in a deep male voice through the ship’s comm system,“Power! Surging through me! It feels woooonderfuuuuuuulll!”
Dr. T’Avaya was pleased. She told Veninu, “I have brought you to the Aradeye ship. Are you able to access and translate its records?”
Veninu answered, “Yes. The crew was humanoid. Carbon-based. Bipedal. Hairless. Their skin was light orange. They had large eyes and long, pointed noses. Their mission was to take medicine and medical aid to a world that was ravaged by disease. I can give you the coordinates of their homeworld and the planet they were delivering aid to.”
T’Avaya remembered seeing the advanced sickbay on the ship. She thought how horrible it was that they never delivered the medicine. The ion storm had interfered with their mission.
Veninu said, “Thank you for bringing me here. May I stay? I was originally on a ship, and then the ship was taken by pirates. My program was downloaded into that damn heating machine. The machine was passed from person to person. I would have gone mad if I stayed there much longer.” When asked, Veninu didn’t seem to remember from where or from what ship it originated.
T’Avaya told Veninu it could stay in the ship for now. Even though they were still recovering from the Dominion War and could use another ship, Starfleet would want to return the ship to the Aradeye homeworld. If the Aradeye were still there, they would want their ship back. She said if they didn’t want Veninu, then the Federation would find another home for it. The AI happily agreed.
Then the Vulcan engineer said she needed to do one more thing. She went to see the station’s chief physician. Not because she was sick, but because she had a favor to ask.
[Conclusion]
Engineer’s Log. Supplemental. Dr. T’Avaya reporting. The station’s chief physician, Dr. Getty, examined the medical records for Lavess’s daughter, with Lavess’s consent. Then Dr. Getty examined several vaccines from the Aradeye ship, and did testing to confirm that the ship did indeed carry a vaccine that should cure Lavess’s daughter. Lavess was beyond excited and immediately took a transport home to deliver the vaccine.
Foheiv was pleased that I fixed his heating machine. More than that, he was happy to have finally made peace with his long-time enemies. Commissioner Charick, as I was told by Nilo, has been arrested for withholding dangerous information with the intent to usurp power. Nilo also said the discovery of a new location of the ancient Hiparee Empire was something the Federation was very interested in.
Veninu seems to be adjusting well to his new home inside the ship. Perhaps I will volunteer to go on the mission to return the ship to the Aradeye homeworld. I would like to meet the Aradeye, the race that saved the life of Lavess’s daughter, and essentially, saved the life of my new friend, Veninu.
-by the Honorable Kavura
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S01 E02: Chronicles of T’Avaya: Friends and Foes
Section 31 Log. Stardate 45118.2. Agent T’Avaya reporting. I am on the Romulan colony planet Deitobakar on an undercover mission for Section 31. My orders are to locate a Section 31 informant, Niparam, who ceased reporting one month ago. I am to retrieve her at any cost. I have arranged transportation to the city of Alkez, Niparam’s last known location. This is my second mission for the covert organization Section 31. I am confident I can complete the mission successfully, as I did my first mission two years ago. I do not always believe in Section 31’s methods, but they do occasionally have worthy goals.
T’Avaya got off the public transport with the rest of the traveling Alkez citizens. She looked around. Alkez was a beautiful city. Deitobakar was one of the more well-off Romulan colony planets. The people had enjoyed fine art and culture ever since the colony was founded fifty years ago.
T’Avaya headed to the facility where Niparam worked as a neuroresearch scientist. She asked to speak to the facility manager. She told the manager she was Niparam’s landlord who has not seen her in a month. The manager looked suspicious of her. He told her that Niparam quit working there three weeks ago. Niparam had told him she had found another job in a neighboring city. He did not know what city or what job.
As T’Avaya was leaving, another Romulan walked over and whispered to her. “Why are you interested in Niparam?”
“I am her landlord. She is late on her rent, and I am concerned for her. She seems to have disappeared.”
The stranger said, “I think she was kidnapped. She was the leader on a secret project. After her disappearance, the project was canceled.”
T’Avaya asked the stranger to show her where Niparam had worked. The stranger, Melurov, led her to a nearby building. He said he had been Niparam’s assistant. The building was locked but Melurov had a key. She asked him to show her on a computer terminal what Niparam had been working on. T’Avaya had always been interested in Romulan culture and was fluent in both speaking and reading in Romulan. T’Avaya saw that Niparam had been working on a neurogenic drug to help restore memories in people who had memory loss due to traumatic shock. There were also notes that the drug could be used as a truth serum. Then she saw that Niparam’s last entry was “must go to Ecarad.” T’Avaya knew that “Ecarad” was Section 31’s code word for the Romulan homeworld.
Section 31 Log. Supplementary. Agent T’Avaya reporting. I have followed the trail of Niparam to the Romulan homeworld. I am in the capital city Ki Baratan. I need to make contact with Reneel, a Tal Shiar double agent that my handler told me to contact if I ever found myself on Romulus. Reneel should be able to help me find Niparam. The citizens of Romulus are very different than the citizens of Deitobakar. The colony planet had people who were happy, who had fled the homeworld for a better life. On Romulus, the people tend to keep their heads down, and they have a beaten, depressed look in their eyes.
T’Avaya walked behind a building to a deserted area and transmitted an encoded signal to Reneel using a Section 31-issued subharmonic communicator. She went back to a crowded sidewalk and started walking, waiting on Reneel’s return call. A man in a hood and cloak walked up to her. She immediately put her hand in a position to pull out her disruptor. Then the man pulled down his hood and smiled. It was Kamrak, the Romulan Section 31 agent who had worked with her on her previous mission. “Hello, Dorva.” He knew to use her secret identity name instead of her Vulcan name. “Kamrak. It is agreeable to see you. How did you know I was here?”
“Our friend Mr. Medgett asked me to keep an eye on you. I followed you from Deitobakar.”
“Why didn’t you make contact there?”
“I was staying low in case I was being followed. But here it’s so crowded that I would have lost any follower I had.” He invited her to his home.
Kamrak and T’Avaya talked and drank tea. Then Kamrak said, “I want to give you something.” He handed her a small talisman. “A doleti,” T’Avaya said. It was a small figurine in the shape of an old-style Romulan god, representing the fallen gods. The relic held sentimental value, reminding Romulans of their past. “I am honored,” T’Avaya said. He replied, “You were invaluable in the mission to investigate the explosion here on Romulus two years ago. Just a thank you gift.”
Then T’Avaya got a call from Reneel. She spoke to Reneel over her subharmonic communicator. “Reneel, this is Dorva,” T’Avaya said, using her assumed name. “I was sent here by Agent Oliver Medgett to find Niparam, a citizen of the colony planet Deitobakar. I have reason to believe she is here on Romulus. She was working on a project to create a neurogenic drug. Both she and the drug have disappeared.” Reneel said, “I heard that a bioscientist was taken to the secluded Tal Shiar compound outside the city of Giwana’el. The compound is closely guarded.”
“Can you get me inside?” asked T’Avaya.
Reneel said, “Yes. Meet me in front of the city park Branchel in two hours.”
Kamrak escorted T’Avaya to the park. They were approached by a woman carrying a small satchel. She motioned for them to follow her. She walked to a secluded area behind a cluster of trees.
“Dorva, I have arranged a cover for you to get into the Tal Shiar compound. You will be a new clerk assisting Commander Ruvin. He is ruthless and cunning. Watch yourself. I have learned that he has kidnapped Niparam and stolen the neurogenic drug.”
“Do you know why he wants the drug?” T’Avaya asked.
“My sources tell me he has also captured a human scientist, and he is using the drug to extract information. What kind of information I do not know,” Reneel said as she handed T’Avaya an identicard and a data rod. “Use this card to get into the compound. The data rod has the location. I must leave now.” T’Avaya took the objects and watched Reneel scramble off. She then exchanged farewells with Kamrak.
“Live long and prosper, Kamrak.”
“Peace and long life, Dorva.”
Kamrak, a native of this world, did not mind sharing the traditional Vulcan goodbyes with her.
Section 31 Log. Supplemental. Agent T’Avaya reporting. I have arrived at the secret Tal Shiar compound near Giwana’el. I had no problems with my identicard or with the guards letting me in. Reneel has been thorough in creating my cover. Now I must find not only Niparam, but also the human scientist, and get them out of Tal Shiar custody. I am one of the few Vulcans who has had Section 31 training in how to show emotions, rather than suppress them, for the purpose of undercover missions to Romulus. I will need to use that training so the Tal Shiar will not get suspicious and realize my cover.
As soon as she went into the building, she was escorted to a room with four computer consoles, three of which had a Romulan so busy at work that they didn’t bother looking up at her. The escort showed her to the one empty desk with a console. “This is your station.” T’Avaya sat down while her escort left the room. T’Avaya turned on the desk computer. It had a list of deliveries such as food, uniforms, chairs, tables, etc. She did a search to see if anything else useful was on her computer. She found a list of rooms in the building. Among the list, she saw “Commander’s Office” and “Interrogation Room”. She found a map of the building and quickly memorized it. She was wondering what the rules were about leaving her station, when her escort from before came back for her and said, “You are needed by the commander.”
She was taken to the interrogation room. She saw Niparam standing behind a human male. Niparam was holding a Romulan hypospray. The human was sitting in a chair with his hands tied behind him. He had been drugged. Ruvin was sitting behind a table in front of the human. Ruvin looked at T’Avaya. “Ah, you must be Dorva.” He waved his hand for the escort to leave. Then, addressing Dorva, he said, “I need you to record this session. Insert special tags on any scientific procedures. Then take the recording to Telak in the lab.” T’Avaya saw a computer console with a recorder. She sat down at the console. She turned it on.
Ruvin started with the human. “What is your name?” The human looked weak and appeared to be only partway conscious.
“Henry Gaskell,” he said.
“What was the project you were working on for Starfleet?”
“Creating a new element that would increase starship energy output by thirty-eight percent with only four percent particle loss.”
“And how did you create this new element?”
Gaskell began spouting a complex molecular structure. T’Avaya had a background in quantum mechanics and engineering, so she understood much of the structure and inwardly marveled at the power it could create. Ruvin’s next inquiry was, “And how did you create this element?”
Gaskell described a nanofabricator that could rearrange molecules.
Then, Gaskell suddenly stopped talking. He tilted his head back. His eyes were open, staring straight at the ceiling. Niparam said, “The drug is starting to wear off now.” Ruvin was not satisfied. “I need more specifics about how to create it. How can we make a nanofabricator?” Niparam did not know the answer, but she knew the human would say no more at this time.
She asked Ruvin, “Can I take the human back to his cell now?”
“Yes, yes, go.”
Niparam called for a guard and someone came in and untied the human and carried him away. Niparam left the room.
T’Avaya stopped the recorder. Ruvin told her, “Well, what are you sitting there for? Take it to the lab.” T’Avaya obeyed. She removed a data rod from the computer and took it to the room next door. She saw the Romulan Telak there. She handed him the data rod. He took it and motioned her out. She asked him what he was working on. He said he was trying to recreate Henry Gaskell’s elemental energy source. Ruvin had had two previous sessions with Gaskell, and he had not revealed enough to recreate a working elemental prototype. T’Avaya was glad to know that. Maybe she could rescue Gaskell before he revealed too much. She tried to gain this Romulan scientist’s trust.
“Humans. They are so weak,” she said.
“Yes. That Romulan lady scientist, though. She is something.”
T’Avaya asked, “What do you mean?”
“Her uncle is Senator Endain. He was caught trading political secrets with the Cardassians and sent to prison. Did you know that? Niparam thinks she can use this neurogenic break through drug to convince the Tal Shiar to restore her uncle’s position in the senate.”
That night, T’Avaya went to her assigned quarters inside the compound. When she turned on the lights, she saw a human male sitting on her couch. It was Oliver Medgett, her Section 31 contact. She was at a loss as to how he could so easily get to Romulus and then sneak inside a secret Tal Shiar compound.
T’Avaya told him, “I found Niparam. She seems to be here of her own free will. She wants to use the drug to restore her uncle’s position in the senate.”
“Let her try,” Medgett said. “I don’t think the Tal Shiar is very interested in the drug. It seems to have limited effectiveness.”
T’Avaya’s eyebrows raised. “Did you know she didn’t need rescuing?”
Medgett nodded.
“Then why am I here?”
“We needed you to spy on Ruvin for us.”
“Ruvin? Why?”
“We think he is a double agent for the Orion Syndicate.”
T’Avaya raised her eyebrows again. “That seems highly unlikely. He is a high ranking official in the Tal Shiar. They screen their members thoroughly.”
“Nevertheless, just keep an eye on him for now.”
“You do want me to rescue the human, don’t you?”
Medgett walked across the room and stood in front of the door. “Of course.”
T’Avaya took this opportunity to tell Medgett, “There was no need to have Kamrak follow me. I know how to watch my back.”
Medgett glared at her. “Kamrak? I haven’t spoken to him since your mission two years ago.”
Then, a dark shadow came over his whole body, and he was gone.
Section 31 Log. Supplemental. Agent T’Avaya reporting. Section 31 has changed my mission directive. Instead of rescuing Niparam, they want me to rescue the human Henry Gaskell and spy on Tal Shiar Commander Ruvin. Ruvin has scheduled another drug-induced interrogation for the human today. I don’t know if Gaskell will make it through in his weakened state. Section 31 is also concerned that Ruvin is involved in the Orion Syndicate. I have seen nothing to support that theory.
T’Avaya was back in the interrogation room with Ruvin, Niparam, and Gaskell. She was sitting behind the recording console, apprehensive. Gaskell was in the same chair as yesterday with his hands tied behind his back. Niparam held the hypospray, but had not yet administered the drug. She walked over to stand next to Ruvin behind the table. She told him, “I’m going to adjust the amount. I don’t think he needs as much in his weakened state.” “Fine--”, Ruvin started to say.
Then suddenly, Niparam pushed the hypospray into Ruvin’s neck. He struggled, reached to put his hands around her neck, then his hands and head fell limp. T’Avaya stood up and ran towards Niparam.
“What have you done?!” T’Avaya yelled.
Niparam dropped the hypospray and said, “He’s the one who exposed my uncle to the authorities. He must pay!” She pulled a dagger from under her lab coat. She hadn’t planned on killing Ruvin, but the rage had been building up inside her. T’Avaya grabbed Niparam’s arm.
Just then, Agent Medgett ran into the room, holding a disruptor. “Hold it right there. Both of you!”
Both women turned around and faced Medgett, startled.
“Drop the dagger,” he told Niparam. She dropped it on the floor. “Who are you?” she queried, aghast.
“Agent Medgett.” T’Avaya turned back around and faced Ruvin, for it was HE who had called Medgett’s name.
“Jolan tru,” said Ruvin, smiling in his drug-induced state.
“Jolan tru, old friend,” said Medgett as he pointed the disruptor at Niparam. “I think we caught our target.”
Ruvin said to Niparam, “You thought we would reward you for the drug by putting your uncle back in power. But the drug is too limited for our use as a truth serum. I am sending the human, Gaskell, back to Federation space with Dorva. You, Niparam, are under arrest for being an informant for Section 31 and the Federation. You, your uncle, and your entire family name will be disgraced.” Ruvin was still smiling.
“But I can expose you,” exclaimed Niparam. “You’ve been working with the Federation too.” “After my many years with the Tal Shiar, who would believe you? I am a trusted Tal Shiar agent. You are nothing more than a disgruntled worker.”
T’Avaya knew Ruvin was right. Romulan justice was always in favor of the state. Then T’Avaya interjected, “So my whole mission was to expose Niparam, not rescue her.”
“That’s right,” said Medgett. “As an erstwhile informant, she had become a liability. This way, the Romulan justice system will take care of her for us.”
T’Avaya made one more trip to her quarters to get her overnight bag for the trip back to Space Station Tyrellia. All she could think about was how she had been duped by Section 31. She pulled out the doleti that Kamrak had given her. Speaking of being duped, she suspiciously broke it open, and found a tiny silver chip inside. Of course, the thought, a listening device.
“Have a safe trip home.” She looked up and saw Kamrak standing in front of her.
“Kamrak. What was your part in this?”
He laughed. “Well, I was sent here by another branch of Section 31 that was looking for Henry Gaskell. It seems our organization is so secretive that it even keeps secrets from itself.”
“But you didn’t have to give me the bugged doleti. I could have assisted you in your mission.”
“I do apologize for that. I always use whatever resources I have. And you were a resource.”
“You used me.”
“Well, my dear, isn’t that what Section 31 does? Uses people to their own ends? After all, the mission comes first; even before friends. Though I hope we can still be friends.”
T’Avaya did not reply. She picked up her bag and left, leaving the broken doleti behind.
Personal Log. Supplemental. Dr. T’Avaya reporting. I am back on Space Station Tyrellia. Henry Gaskell was taken to Starbase 234 where he will be nursed back to health and returned home. As far as Section 31 is concerned, the mission was a success. I find it ironic how many Romulans are working with Section 31. It seems a perfect pairing. I feel a certain anguish toward Kamrak. When I first met him two years ago, I thought he understood friendship in the way Vulcans do; that friends trust each other and never have false pretenses toward one another. It is disappointing to realize that I was wrong. Some Romulans cannot overcome their heritage, it seems.
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-by the Honorable Kavura
Station Tyrellia: Episode 1: Captain’s Bounty
Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45113.5. Chief Engineer Dr. T’Avaya reporting. I am leading the engineering team on a project to install an upgrade to Space Station Tyrellia’s external communications array, using specs that I designed myself. The array was built to enhance communication through the class 3 gravitational waves that are prominent in this sector due to a class G star that went supernova three years ago. The upgrade will increase our ability to send and receive subspace communications by fourteen percent. The upgrade is complex and must be done in three stages. We implement stage 1 today. Even though this is a civilian station, it is in Federation territory, and the Federation has taken considerable interest in the outcome of this project.
Chief engineer Dr. T’Avaya was at the communications array with her team. She took the shuttlecraft Kal-toh Xi directly to the array’s command center on the outer edge of the array. The Vulcan was thankful that the array was built with a small docking port, since gravimetric interference may sometimes render beaming over to be impossible. She exited the shuttlecraft and entered the command center. Other team members were outside in space suits installing external modulators to the array. T’Avaya, for her part, worked quickly and efficiently. She had been planning this for months. It would take three hours to install her new harmonic shift modulator and program the main computer to accept the changes.
Upon finishing, she was about to take the shuttlecraft back to the station to run tests on the array, when the console beeped. T’Avaya checked the readings on the console. There was a message from an unknown source. She ran the new harmonizer and buffered out the gravimetric interference. Then she saw that the message came from subsector 142, the uninhabited side of the sector. She played the message. “This is the merchant ship Captain’s Bounty. We are trapped in a plasma eddy. We are on a collision course with a nearby star. Need help. Repeat we are on a collision course. Need help immediately!” T’Avaya immediately hailed them. “This is Dr. T’Avaya of the Space Station Tyrellia to the Captain’s Bounty. Do you read me?”
“Yes. We read you Tyrellia.”
“What is your status?”
“We are stuck in a plasma eddy. Our propulsion drive won’t come online. Impulse drive is also down. We are on a direct collision course with a class F star. We will be in the star’s gravity well in 18 hours.”
“Stand by. We will try to send assistance.”
Dr. T’Avaya relayed the message back to her station. She sent it as urgent, so that it would be routed directly to the station director, Tab Nilo. The director looked grave. The station’s assigned starship, the science ship USS Prophecy, was too far away, delivering a vaccine to a colony planet in subsector 547. The station didn’t have another ship they could send to help the Captain’s Bounty. T’Avaya offered to take a runabout to the ship in distress. She convinced Nilo she could use her engineering skills to get their propulsion system back online and steer them out of the eddy and away from the star. She sent a message to the merchant ship letting them know she was on her way. She took her assistant engineer with her, a Bolian female named Luruwa Layin.
On the runabout Tongo Eta, T’Avaya and Luruwa made it to the vicinity of Captain’s Bounty in one hour. Luruwa said, “Scanning ship. It is a retired Starfleet ship, Oberth class. Standard Starfleet crew complement, 180. Scanners show the ship currently has twenty lifeforms.” T’Avaya knew that merchant ships typically had much smaller crews than Starfleet ships, so there was no need to assume at this point that the ship had had any casualties. They both noticed the colorful designs on the outside hull of the ship. Surely Starfleet doesn’t use such garish outward designs. They had obviously been added by a post-Starfleet owner of the ship. T’Avaya asked Luruwa, “Can we beam over to the ship?” “Negative. Too much interference from the plasma eddy. And it would not be wise to try to beam into a moving ship.” T’Avaya determined that the merchant ship was being carried by the eddy at a speed that was slow enough that they should be able to land the runabout in the ship’s shuttlebay. She hailed the ship and asked them to lock a tractor beam on the Tongo Eta. Both engineers felt the tractor beam would be safer than trying to manually land on a moving ship.
Once they were in the merchant ship’s shuttlebay, the two women exited the runabout and were met by a Bolian who introduced himself as Captain Opam Ovbe. He was wearing lavish bright blue iridescent robes and a red feathered hat. Not the way you would picture a ship captain. But then, perhaps it did somewhat match the painted design of the ship’s outer hull. The captain and Luruwa both flinched at each other. “I don’t believe it,” said Captain Ovbe. “YOU have come to rescue ME? I think I’d rather die in space.” Luruwa addressed T’Avaya and said, “We grew up on the same colony. I haven’t see him it eight years. Apparently, he hasn’t changed.” T’Avaya dismissed them both. “We don’t have much time,” she told the captain. “Please escort us to engineering.”
Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45113.8. Luruwa and I are aboard the merchant ship Captain’s Bounty. The ship’s captain seems to be a man of lavish tastes. Also, he seems to have some kind of quarrel with Luruwa. I am at a loss to explain this, as Luruwa has always shown herself to be friendly and well-adjusted. As for the situation on the ship, I am optimistic that when I see the engine room, I will be able to fix the engines in minimal time. There are twenty lives on this ship who are depending on me.
The captain bowed his head and led the way. As they were walking, he explained that they had an engine failure that generated the plasma eddy and sucked the ship into it. In engineering, Ovbe introduced them to his engineer, an Andorian named Th’Thanetelali. “Call me ‘Netel’ “, the Andorian said as Ovbe excused himself to go to the bridge. T’Avaya asked Netel to explain exactly what had caused the plasma eddy. He seemed reluctant to talk. “There was an…imbalance in our…propulsion system.” “What kind of imbalance?” The Andorian turned to what would normally be a warp core on a Starfleet ship, but it was not a warp core. T’Avaya recognized it immediately. “That is a Romulan propulsion system.” Netel did not volunteer any information on the Romulan system. He told them the EPS conduits had ruptured. Both T’Avaya and Luruwa knew that it was very odd to use EPS conduits with a Romulan quantum singularity drive, but somehow Netel had connected them and made it work…at least until recently. Luruwa examined the contraption. The Romulan drive system was connected to a plasma manifold, which had EPS conduits connected to the ship’s power systems. “I think we can replace these conduits with the spare EPS conduits we brought on the runabout. It looks like there were loose connections that caused a plasma leak.” The two station engineers excused themselves to make a quick trip back to the Tongo Eta.
On the way, T’Avaya told Luruwa, “Whatever your history is with the captain, I trust you can put it behind you; at least until the danger has passed.” “It won’t be easy.” Luruwa stated. “We both started working at Tremen Blue Corporation at the same time, both of us as apprentice engineers. When I got promoted after one year and he didn’t, he simply couldn’t take it. He left the corporation, and quit the engineering field. I still think he’s doing pretty well for himself, being captain of this ship and all. But he still can’t get over being jealous of me. He always has to be the one with it all.” T’Avaya started to reply, but then they both saw something in the corridor. It was some type of mosaic of colored lights. At first glance, they thought it might be some concoction of the captain’s, showing off his taste for bright colors. But then T’Avaya pulled out her tricorder and ran a scan. “The tricorder reads chroniton energy. The area around the anomaly is fluctuating. The energy is going in and out of time and space.”
All of a sudden, T’Avaya was home, on the frontier colony planet Sa’idi 3. Her mother, a long-time politician, looked at her with those probing eyes that T’Avaya would never forget, and uttered the words she would always remember, “True success comes from being compassionate.” T’Avaya stared in wonder. Her mother had died of the Vulcan disease Husimza ten years ago. “Have you seen this before?” T’Avaya turned around, and she was back in a corridor on the Captain’s Bounty with Luruwa and someone else of an alien species she had never seen before. The unknown alien introduced himself as the ship’s pilot, Ginsa. He softly said, “No” in response to Luruwa’s question about the bright chroniton energy mass. Then they saw the energy mass disappear into the bulkhead. T’Avaya regained her composure and continued to the shuttlebay, as time was of the essence. As Luruwa and Ginsa followed her, she asked Ginsa if there was a scientist aboard the ship that might know something about the energy mass, and Ginsa again said no.
When T’Avaya and Luruwa returned to engineering with the spare conduits, they saw the energy mass again. Ginsa and Ovbe were also present. T’Avaya walked to the engine console, and the energy mass seemed to follow her. T’Avaya froze. Luruwa recognized the look on the Vulcan’s face and stated, “She’s sensing something telepathically.” T’Avaya let out a gasp of emotion: “The energy mass is a living being, and it is trying to communicate with me. The only thing I can sense is that it is frightened.” The captain pulled out a phaser and started to shoot at the energy mass. Ginsa dived for the phaser and screamed, “No! Firing a phaser in engineering could kill us all!” Ginsa gripped Ovbe’s arm. Ovbe tried to pull his arm away as T’Avaya went behind Ovbe and neatly applied a Vulcan neck pinch. Ovbe was out cold.
As the two space station engineers set about to replace the EPS conduits, Ginsa went to the bridge so he could be at the helm once the engines were back in working order. The engineers finished their task and rerouted the main power coupling. Finally, Ginsa was able to slow the ship down and steer her out of the plasma eddy.
Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45114.1. Doctor T’Avaya reporting. We were able to repair the engines so the ship could be steered out of the plasma eddy. We are taking the ship to Space Station Tyrellia. I do not know why the entity made me have a vision of my deceased mother. I do not know how it got here, and I have yet to determine if it is ill-intentioned. There is also the strange pilot named Ginsa. He is of an unknown alien race. Though he acts friendly, my instincts tell me that he is hiding something.
Now out of danger,and the captain locked in his quarters, T’Avaya and Luruwa went to the bridge. Ginsa told them the truth: “Ovbe made Netel install the Romulan artificial quantum singularity drive, even though Netel knew it could be disastrous installing on a ship that wasn’t designed for it. Some of the crew mutinied, but the captain had enough followers to put the mutineers in the brig. He kept Netel because he needed an engineer and me because he needed a pilot.” “Why did he want the Romulan device?” asked Luruwa. “Because he was smuggling rudathite to the Romulans. That’s why we were so close to the Neutral Zone. He thought the drive system would make us harder to identify by Romulan sensors in until we could make contact with our buyers. He bought it from a Pakled trader in the Hobar system. And a cloaking device would have been too expensive.” Rudathite is a rare metal that is used in Romulan weapons. Luruwa was shocked, “So this ship is a smuggling vessel?” Ginsa shook his head. “I’ve only been here a week, but from what I’ve heard, most of their operations are legal. This was just a deal too good to pass up.”
The energy mass appeared and started expanding and moving toward T’Avaya again. Then, Ginsa took a device out of his pocket. It was round and silver, with a silver ring on tip. He rotated the top part of the device, and the energy being started to get brighter. Now T’Avaya was able to telepathically sense words in her mind from the chroniton energy being. “It calls itself Umeri. It is in pain.” T’Avaya glanced at Ginsa. “Your device is causing it pain. Stop!” Ginsa slowly held up his palm. “I am only trying to help it. It is stuck in space and time. This device helps to mobilize the space time continuum in Umeri’s immediate vicinity. The pain is only temporary.” He is my friend, T’Avaya heard Umeri speak to her in her mind. Luruwa looked back and forth between Ginsa and T’Avaya, confused. T’Avaya finally spoke up, “Yes. Umeri knows Ginsa. Umeri got stuck on the ship when they activated the quantum singularity drive. It just happened to be at that space and time when the drive was activated. Ginsa is a time traveler, and he knew this creature would be trapped on this ship because he had seen the future. He came to set it free. He couldn’t do anything until the ship was out of the plasma eddy.” Ginsa replied, ”Something is wrong. My time space mobilizer should allow Umeri to go back into its own time and space, but it’s still here.” T’Avaya knew he spoke the truth. She could sense Umeri becoming tense again.
As Ginsa tried to figure out what to do about Umeri, he continued to pilot the ship to Space Station Tyrellia. He knew the captain would face charges for using an illegal Romulan device and for smuggling and endangering the lives of his crew, and the rest of the crew would be charged with aiding and abetting. The crew did not resist being taken to the station. After having been trapped in the plasma eddy, they were just glad to be alive. They knew they had to suffer the consequences of their actions. The singularity drive and the rudathite in the cargo holds would be turned over to the proper authorities.
On Space Station Tyrellia, the Vulcan engineer obtained her quantum scanner, which was more powerful than a common tricorder, and went with Luruwa back to the Captain’s Bounty. Umeri was still there, unable to leave the ship. T’Avaya ran the quantum scanner over the entity. “I am reading some strange quantum filaments. The being is made of chroniton energy, but these quantum filaments have a different particle feedback than the chroniton energy. I think the quantum filaments are not a natural part of the entity.” Then she realized it. “My upgrades to the comm array caused a small amount of quantum filaments to be emitted into the subspace field. It should not be harmful to any beings that we know of.” Then Luruwa picked up on it. “Except that this being is different.” “My upgrades caused this,” T’Avaya said regretfully. Luruwa tried to console her friend. “In all the years I’ve known you, you have always tried to treat all life forms with compassion. You couldn’t have known about this.” T’Avaya whispered, “True success comes from being compassionate.” T’Avaya thought about it. It was what her mother had always told her.
Chief Engineer’s Log. Stardate 45115.7. My team and I have uninstalled all of the upgrades on the comm array. The array was taken offline and then rebooted. Umeri has now gone back to its home. Before leaving, it communicated to me that it considered me a friend. I am very grateful. I asked why it made me see my mother. It said that it did not make me, but rather, that is where my mind wanted to go. I was fortunate that as a telepath, the entity was able to reach out to me and make me realize that my mother had always been my true guiding force in life. I will now be more careful with my engineering designs. Ginsa also thanked me before he left. I still do not know what species he is or where he is from, but I wished him safe travels. I assured director Nilo that I could make a new design that would not emit quantum filaments. It should be a matter of readjusting a few modulators. Estimated time to completion is one month at most. I am now going to my weekly Suus Mahna sparring session with Luruwa. She has always been a worthy sparring opponent. I value her friendship.
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-by the Honorable Kavura
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By The Honorable Kavura
The book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier, edited by Amy H. Sturgis and Emily Strand and published in 2023 by Vernon Press, was a diverse collection of essays that mostly covered the Star Trek television shows up to 2005 and the Star Trek 2009 movie. The book started with an excellent forward by one of the most popular Star Trek novelists, Una McCormack. She confessed that she didn’t like Star Trek at first. Well, lucky for us fans that she likes it now! The book’s essays (chapters) were divided into three sections: “Exploring the Series and Films”, “Exploring the Ideas”, and “Exploring the Multimedia Storytelling”. While I do not have the space here to go into each essay individually, I will say that all ten of them had their own unique take, and I found all of them to be compelling indeed. The book provided many fresh ideas on Star Trek and its different series and movies, while showing how Star Trek reflects our culture and vice versa. It was both informative and fun to read. Each essay had been thoroughly researched, and the essays cited not only Star Trek reference books, such as The Making of Star Trek, but other books concerning history, culture, philosophy, and many other intellectual pursuits. The authors were scholars with diverse credentials, often writing in their field of specialty, such as Daniel Unruh who had a degree in Ancient Greek History, who wrote a fascinating essay about Greece and Rome in Star Trek.
Edward Guimont’s contribution was “The Truth is Out There (Specifically, the Delta Quadrant): Star Trek: Voyager as 1990s Conspiracy Culture”. It was a very different take on Voyager as a series. Voyager is mostly, if taken broadly, known for its similarity to Battlestar: Galactica or Lost in Space as a show about getting back home to earth. Guimont describes Voyager as being influenced by the The X-Files and other paranormal stories that were unusually popular in media at the time. It was fascinating to learn that a show touted as science fiction embodied so many paranormal and pseudoscience tropes. It definitely challenged the reader to think of Voyager in a different way.
The book’s co-editor Amy H. Sturgis wrote “Beyond the Wilds and the Waves: Reevaluating Archer, the Armory, and Enterprise”, which analyzed Captain Archer as a representation of the United States of America and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed as a representation of England. Sturgis also gave great exposition on Horatio Hornblower, a British character who was one of Gene Roddenberry’s early inspirations for Captain Kirk. Roddenberry had also viewed Star Trek as “Wagon Train to the Stars”. Sturgis deftly examined the integration of both the British Hornblower and the American “Wagon Train” into Enterprise as a beautiful blending of cultures.
“Darmok and Jalad on the Internet: The Importance of Metaphors in Natural Languages and Natural Language Processing” by Kristina Sekrst focused on “Darmok”, one of the most popular episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. How wonderful to learn that this episode has been used by teachers to help explain different types of languages and communication and that metaphorical imagery is actually a “thing” that is used to study language. This was my favorite part of the book. I loved the discussion of language as a study of psychology and culture. And it was a hoot to learn some “colorful metaphors” used in other languages and what they mean.
The two essays in the third section were more research than analysis. They provided very intriguing information on the evolution and development of Trek in books, fanzines, and comics. Here we found that Gene Roddenberry’s influence unsurprisingly extended from the television shows and movies into the other media.
Andrew Higgins wrote “Dif-Tor heh Smusma,” “Jolan tru,” “NuqNeh”: Exploring the Glossopoesis of the Star Trek Universe”. Die-hard Trekkers can easily recognize the Vulcan, Romulan, and Klingon words in that title. I must say that I recognized all three of those alien phrases, but had to google the meaning of “glossopoesis”. (It means “construction of an artificial language”, in case you didn’t know.) Many of the beloved Trek alien languages were documented in Star Trek fanzines long before there was an official Klingon dictionary. Higgins mentioned a lot of behind-the-scenes stories about alien languages being in the the show’s scripts but then being cut out of the final draft. The essay was an enlightening read just for the amount of info on the background development of original Trek and the Trek alien languages of fans in fanzines and Star Trek novels.
“Expanding Universes: Star Trek and Rise of Multimedia Narratives” by John Jackson Miller (who has written several Trek novels) presented a detailed history of Star Trek media tie-in writing. It was a great read for anyone who wants to know the evolution of published Trek from the first book in 1967 to today’s novels -- from James Blish’s early episode adaptations, which caused Gene Roddenberry to forbid writers from using early copies of scripts, to the freedom of writing novels when there were no more Trek shows or movies in production to constantly have to sync with. Miller interviewed fellow Trek scribe David Mack, who also provided valuable insight on the state of Trek books. Miller also discussed the current streaming environment of Trek shows and how it affected, and still affects, the tie-in novels.
These are just some of the highlights. I found each essay to be extremely informative and thought-provoking, much in the spirit of Star Trek itself. Star Trek has always provided a rich ground of topics to be discussed in casual conversation by laymen and by scholars alike. This is the type of book that celebrates the best of what Star Trek has to offer: compelling issues about people, history, and culture. The authors of the essays were clearly Trek fans, and provided just the right touch of their own humor, ideas, and style. I leave you with this quote from the infamous Q in the TNG episode “Q Who”. He was describing the universe, but it also applies to Star Trek and this collection -- “It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid.” Live long and prosper.
Kavura is the co-host of StarPodTrek, the podcast that explores Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future.
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On this spectacular episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 63 and 64, from 1982.
Doctor Trek, Larry Nemecek, relates what it was like to attend The Ultimate Fantasy convention in Houston, Texas, also known as THE CON OF WRATH!
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On this special fan club episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 61 and 62 from 1982.
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Both Videogame Player of the Century Billy Martin and Metal Jesus Rocks consider the breakthrough movie Tron!
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On this explosive episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 59 and 60, from 1982.
Bob Turner and Kelly Casto consider Bjo Trimble's role in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!
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Burt Bruce reflects on Cat People!
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On this great episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 57 and 58, from 1982.
Bob Turner and Kelly Casto consider how Trekkers are doers, not just dreamers.
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Burt Bruce comments about the rumors of Spock dying in The Wrath of Khan.
Phil, Deane, and Joseph join in on the conversation as we rewatch Space Seed via The Roddenberry Vault DVD set.
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On this great episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 55 and 55, from 1982.
Author John Jackson Miller discusses how he handles writer's block. Check out his work on Faraway Press: https://farawaypress.com/startrek/
Sean Witty reflects on what it was like to play Star Fleet Battles in the early '80s
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On this supurb episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1982 in issues 55 and 56.
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On this festive episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 53 and 54 from 1981.
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Bob Turner and Kelly Casto review the Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith.
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Mark Adam & Brenda Miller discuss what Gene Roddenberry was up to. Follow their adventures on the USS Hephaestus: https://m.facebook.com/104543106269305/
Bruce Bert talks about astronaut and artist Alan Bean.
Lou, Max, and Rich consider the career of William Shatner. Join the Mego Like Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/533274100662813/
Plus...TMP on videocassette, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
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If you grew up in the 60's, 70's, or 80's, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1981 in issues 51 and 52.
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Lou, Max, and Rich, consider Batman: The Movie. Join the Mego Like Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/533274100662813/
Burt Bruce reminices about the Powers of Mathew Starr.
G-Man discusses the art of H.R. Giger in The Museum of the Surreal & Fantastique.
Find out more about the incredible Aliens Legacy club here: http://forum.alienslegacy.com/index.php
Plus: Clash of the Titans, the TV shows of 1981, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 49 and 50, from 1981.
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Lou, Max, and Rich, consider the Motion Picture Ben Cooper Halloween costumes!Join the Mego Like Facebook Group:
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MarkAdam and Brenda Miller discuss the details about producing fanzines. Find out more about the USS Hephaestus here:https://m.facebook.com/104543106269305/
Areospace engineer Andy Dykes considers the real world launch of Space Shuttle Columbia.
Plus...costuming at conventions and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
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If you grew up in the 60's, 70's, or 80's, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1981 in issues 49 and 50.
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https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-049/mode/2up
Matt Sherman fills us in on the latest James Bond epic- For Your Eyes Only!
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Bryan Ramsdale discusses how George Lucas developed the Star Wars saga.
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Bert Bruce considers John Carpenter's latest project- Escape From New York!
Michael and Andrea Havens fill us in on what Jeremy Bulloch was up to while filming The Empire Strikes Back.
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From the other side of the pond, Anthony Rooney tells us about ITC!
Plus: the Heavy Metal animated movie, video games, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this adventurous episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 47 and 48, from 1981.
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https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-047/mode/2up
Alec Peters considers the exciting hobby of prop collecting. Check out his Axanar production!
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Lou, Max, and Rich discuss the life and career of George Takei.
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Burt Bruce talks about the phenomenon of Hallley's Comet.
Bobby Nash considers the connection between real world shuttles and the ones we see in movies. Follow him at https://bobby-nash-news.blogspot.com/?m=1
Plus...Star Trek: The Motion Picture newspaper strips, the Make-Your-Own costume book, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
We will attending Music City Multicon October 28th-30th. https://musiccitymulticon.com/
Join us at ShadowCon January 6-8!
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Star Trek: Missions by Wizkids is an awesome card game! Find out more about it here:
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If you grew up in the 60's, 70's, or 80's, you will love StarPodLog!
On this adventurous episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1981 in issues 47 and 48.
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https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-047/mode/2up
Mark Newbold talks about the Star Wars radio play. https://www.fanthatracks.com/
Paul Mount gives us the lowdown on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator, Douglas Adams.
Kirby Barlett-Sloan helps us to catch up on Doctor Who.
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Main Man Jamie discusses comics of the early 80s!
Shocking Jon reminices about the toys that were released in 1981. Follow him on the Shocking Things podcast:
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Bert Bruce considers the amazing work of John Carpenter.Joe Mulinaro fills us in on what George Lucas was up to on the Skywalker ranch. Check out the Rule the Galaxy podcast!
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Plus: Superman's Sarah Douglas, Raiders of the Lost Ark, boardgames, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this super episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 45 and 46 from 1981.
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https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-045/mode/2up
Preston Neal Jones, the author of Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek - The Motion Picture, reports on what it was like to be on the TMP set.
Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss Star Trek fan letters.
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William Barton gives us the details about the Motion Picture model kits that were available in the early '80s.
Star Trek- A Comics History author Alan J. Porter joins us to discuss Trek comics from the '60s! Find out more about his work at http://alanjporter.com/
Anthony Leopard and Gregory Franklin reminisce about Alan Asherman's Star Trek Compendium and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
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Looking for a Star Trek social club? Join us in STARFLEET International! https://sfi.org/On this electrifying episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 43 and 44 from 1981.
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If it’s the middle of the week and you want to do something fun after work, why not try gaming? Tabletops Hobbies & Games is a game store in Nashville, TN that hosts a board game night every Tuesday. It’s always well-attended, and people bring lots of games. You can always see several tables filled with all kinds of tabletop games and friendly gamers. My husband Nayr and I took our group, Tennessee Star Trek Fans, to Tabletops to play Star Trek: Missions. Several players joined in, whether they had played the game or not. Nayr is always great at explaining how to play. Missions is a card game, similar to Fluxx, in which players follow the instructions on the cards and try to acquire different cards for various points. It is based on Star Trek: The Next Generation. You don’t have to be familiar with the show, but it helps! It’s a hoot that you get points for Riker and Troi together, or that you have a damaged ship and you get points for each engineer. The cards have actual pictures from the show: characters, sets, props, etc. The art work on the cards is top notch. So next time you have an exhausted crew that needs to de-stress, or you’re looking for a bold new adventure, and a holodeck isn’t available, Star Trek: Missions is a great way to explore the final frontier of gaming.-by the Honorable Kavura
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If you grew up in the 60's, 70's, or 80's, you will love StarPodLog!
On this super episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1981 in issues 45 and 46.
Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-045/mode/2up
Shocking Jon gives us the lowdown on Thom Christopher as Hawk, and on collecting props from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Follow him on the Shocking Things podcast! https://anchor.fm/shockingthings
Burt Bruce provides info on Outland!
Kirby Bartlett- Sloan describes what it was like to watch Doctor Who on PBS. Follow Kirby on the 20MB podcast to hear more Doctor Who goodness!https://the20mbdoctorwhopodcast.podbean.com/ Edward German tells us how science fiction was represented in comic books of the '50s! Find out more about this era by listening to:
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Main Man Jamie joins in to talk about how science fiction influenced comics of the '60s & '70s!
Lou, Max, and Rich discuss details about The Planet of the Apes TV series!
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Steve Younis and Michael Bailey consider the awesomeness of Superman II!
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...and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this electrifying episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 43 and 44 from 1981.
Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-043/mode/2up
Shocking Jon joins us to reminisce about the Motion Picture trading cards. Check out his Shocking Things podcast for more awesome content!
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Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss David Gerrold's commentary about Trekkers at conventions.
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Anthony Rooney tells us what it was like to see the Motion Picture in England, and Andrew McLaughlin describes it from his vantage point in Scotland ...and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
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Lou, Max, and Rich reminisce what it was like to collect trading cards when they were kids.
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Tony Barletta and Rodney Rodis discuss the Popeye musical.
Shocking Jon gives us the lowdown on Scanners. Follow him on the Shocking Things podcast! https://anchor.fm/shockingthings
Burt Bruce provides info on Altered States!
Mark Newbold talks about the accomplishments of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz. Check out Fanthatracks!
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FLynn Hendrix presents the professional wrestling highlights of 1981. Follow him on his I Know You Hear Me podcast at: https://open.spotify.com/show/5t3zFOxxozmIjzttKnIDME
Cliff Easley and Aubrey Stephens tell us about the Society for Creative Anachronism and, the fantastic convention that celebrates the SCA- ShadowCon!
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Steve Younis and Michael Bailey discuss the impact that Superman made on comic books in the 1940s. Find the Superman Homepage on YouTube! https://youtube.com/c/SupermanHomepageVideos
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 41 and 42 from 1980.
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https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-041/mode/2up
Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss David Gerrold's commentary about Star Trek fans overtaking Science Fiction conventions. Check out the '70s Trek podcast!
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Conceptual designer and concept artist Daren Dochterman relates what it was like to work on Star Trek the Motion Picture 4K Director's Edition.
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Joe Motes of Vulkon Entertainment tells us what it is like to run a Star Trek convention. You can purchase Star Trek autographs from him here:
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Klingon Assault Group members Adam, Mike, and Chris consider how Mark Lenard portrayed the first Imperial Klingon we see in the Motion Picture.
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Plus, The Making of Star Trek the Motion Picture memoir by Susan Sackett and Gene Roddenberry, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this terrific episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1980 in issues 41 and 42.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
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Tony Barletta and Rodney Rodis discuss the hero that saved every one of us: Flash Gordon!
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Matthew Kresal informs us what it is like to run a convention. Follow him on social media and check out his work:
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Burt Bruce provides info on The UFO Chronicles!
Comic Collector Geek gives us a history of the platinum age of Science Fiction comics.
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The Elvis Trooper Ken Tarleton tells us about the incredible hobby of patch collecting!
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Billy Hogan of the Superman Fan podcast helps us to appreciate the impact that The Man of Steel made on comics in the late 1930's.
https://thesupermanfanpodcast.blogspot.com/?m=1
Paul Mount shares insight on two actors who portrayed Doctor Who companions: Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter!
Plus: Neil Norman's Cosmic Orchestra and more on this episode of StarPodLog!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 39 and 40 from 1980.
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Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss Bjo Trimble's commentary about women in fandom. Check out the '70s Trek podcast!
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Dan Shahin and Larry Young reflect on the career of Fred Freiberger. Check out Dantron's YouTube channel and show, Serious Star Trek:
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Mark McCray fills us in on what was going on with Saturday Morning cartoons. Check out his podcast and buy his book, The Best Saturday's of our Lives here:
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Lou Melograna, Doctor Durrant, and Max Overnyter consider not only the show, but also the toys and merchandising of the era, and all aspects of The Incredible Hulk!
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Edward German enlightens us on the on the classic sci-fi series, Tom Corbett- Space Cadet. Follow his show, The 1950s Podcast:
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Our UK correspondent, Anthony Rooney, gives us The British Report, and lets us know what was happening on the other side of the pond!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek content of Starlog magazine in sissues 37 and 38 from 1980.
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https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-037Bob Turner and Kelly Casto of '70s Trek discuss Star Trek fandom in Los Angeles.
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Teras Cassidy reminisces on what it was like to see The Motion Picture when it premiered in Canada. Check out Geek Nation Tours!
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David Cheng and Bill Victor Arucan give us the details on what it was like to create the Motion Picture era fan film- The Human Adventure.
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https://youtu.be/iRsbEqpWF4sStar Trek costumer Tom reflects on the Enterprise's Deltan navigator Ilia, as portrayed by Persis Khambatta.
Joyce Stanfield joins in on the conversation about the return of DeForest Kelly and his role as Doctor McCoy.
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
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Mike Jones fills us in on actor Harrison Ford as he returns to portray Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back! Mike and his wife Kyleigh costume as Han and Leia in The Rebel Legion:
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Kevin Lentz tells us about the fun hobby of collecting movie soundtracks and story books on vinyl. Listen to the record that Nayr mistakingly bought here:
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Dave Kaufman enlightens us on the resurgence of interest in Space Music. Find out more about ambient electronic music from Horizon Music:
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Paul Mount gives us a history about Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks. Paul's new book, Krynoids: The Root of All Evil, is available here: https://bbvproductions.co.uk/products/The-Root-of-All-Evil-Novelisation-NON-UK-ONLY-POCKET-BOOK-p454965104
Flynn Hendrix reports on the wrestling highlights from 1980. Find out more about Flynn at: http://theflynnhendrix.com/
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I make pancakes for my wife every Sunday morning and serve them to her in bed. It’s my way of saying thank you for all the hard work she does during the week. I Walk Alone into the kitchen and try to make them different each time so that she gets to enjoy different flavors and textures. I was so happy to discover Bruce Kulick’s website for pancakes https://www.kulickspancakerecipes.com/. It has so many delicious new ideas. My wife really likes the pancakes with oat milk recipe because it’s healthy and yummy. They are light, fluffy, and Rise To It. Are there only recipes for pancakes? No, No, No! I also like Kulick’s french toast website https: www.kulicksfrenchtoastrecipes.com/.
French toast is fun and easy to make. I like making it with brioche bread for extra thickness and flavor. Bruce Kulick’s favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe looks like another winner https://www.kulickscookierecipes.com/. I can’t wait to try this. Chocolate chip cookies are another favorite in my house. And for another classic dessert, Bruce has an apple pie recipe https://www.kulickspierecipes.com/. My wife and I love apple pie with ice cream. Any Way You Slice It, with summer coming up, it’s the perfect time for this! Bruce Kulick has always been a great guitarist, but who knew he could make delicious recipes too?
I Just Wanna.... make pancakes!
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Chase Masterson, Kavura, NayrOn this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 35 and 36 from 1980.
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Tom, a cosplayer known for portraying Uhura, discusses the impact that Nichelle Nichols had on him.
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Nayr and his brother Jon reminisce on what it was like to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture as children.
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Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo is an expo in Huntsville, Alabama that has comics and pop culture stuff. LOL! The name is a mouthful, but at least it’s appropriate. Now in its seventh year, this convention, or “con” as we like to call it, has pop culture celebrities, gaming, and vendors. It is very family-friendly. Huntsville is a beautiful city that also has the US Space & Rocket Center, if you needed even more reason to visit. Lea Thompson, of Back to the Future fame, was there signing autographs, doing photo-ops, and doing a Q&A panel. Her photo-ops were in front of a DeLorean that looked just like the one from the Back to the Future movies! She recently directed two episodes of Star Trek: Picard and did a cameo in one episode. We were so happy to see her at her first con as part of the Star Trek family! We spoke to her at her autograph table and during her panel, and she said it was a wonderful experience working on Star Trek. She admitted to being a longtime Trek fan!
Other guests were Lou Ferrigno from The Incredible Hulk, Tom Arnold from Roseanne, Erik Estrada from CHiPs, and wrestlers Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes. Nayr and I went to Lou Ferrigno’s panel and spoke to him at his autograph table. He’s a super nice guy. Kevin Eastman, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame, had an autograph line that went all the way to Memphis. And that was just a few on the con’s long list of guests.
The con also had a video game room with vintage video games. There were several rooms for tabletop gaming. The vendors’ room was huge with lots of stuff from comic books to anime toys to fan artwork and crafts. The room was pretty crowded. It was great seeing so many people out enjoying their fandoms and geekery! There were also plenty of cosplayers: Captain America, Transformers, and Princess Leia, to name a few. We saw some miscellaneous tables, such as one for the local rocket center. Their table had a neat photograph area where you could take pictures of yourself in astronaut getup. Another area of the con had a Bill and Ted phone booth photograph area. These things add so much to the con experience. The 501st and Rebel Legion were also on hand with a photo area and fun cosplayers. Kudos to all the staff and volunteers who made it a totally awesome con!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this adventurous episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1980 in issues 35 and 36.
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Shocking Jon fills us in on actor Billy Dee Williams as he portrays Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back!
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Michael Cortez tells us about what Toys and action figures were popular in 1980.
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The city of Memphis, TN is widely known for ribs and Graceland. What other reason would you go there? If you’re a sci-fi/fantasy fan, you would go there for MidSouthCon. It’s the longest running fan-run multi-genre convention in the midsouth. They just had their 38th after taking two years off for Covid. They came back with a blast! March 25-27, 2022. Nayr and I were thrilled to attend. We started out by visiting the vendors’ room. A few of the guests were there signing autographs, while were a variety of vendors filled the room. You could get all the anime memorabilia you wanted, or get some medieval jewelry, or anything else in between. There was a vendor selling CDs of space music that was out of this world. We listened to some samples and bought a couple of them.
There was an art show that had spectacular fantasy paintings. Celtic and fantasy musician Marc Gunn, known for attending many cons in the southeast, did a wonderful concert. He had great songs, and was just as funny and friendly as ever. There was a huge gaming area that was open all night. They had a large collection of table top games, some of them quite rare. We stopped in and played a few games. Nayr even signed up for one of the RPGs. The masquerade contest was a sheer delight. There was a con suite where you could cool off and get some goodies. The con suite had soft drinks and juice and water, and a few snacks like cookies, chips, and crackers.
The Toastmaster was writer John Jackson Miller. He was the person we most wanted to see, as he has written both Star Trek and Star Wars novels. He was very friendly both at panels and in casual conversations. The con had panels on many subjects. There were sometimes five panels going on at one time! Panel subjects were things like cosplay, podcasting, science, movies, comics, or any nerdy thing you could want. Scientist Don Lincoln gave a panel on the theory of everything, which was very intriguing and informative. It even reminded me of the TV show Big Bang Theory, having used some of the same science buzz words.
It was a pretty laid back con. We did some roaming around and just meeting random people. It was a fun fan-run con, and there were probably more people there in the hallways than anticipated by the show runners. They may need more space next time. But that’s a great problem to have. All the folks were friendly. As always, we ran into old friends and made some new friends. We even met some people who started a Star Trek fan club in Memphis in the ‘70s. This was most definitely a con we would like to attend again!
-by The Honorable Kavura
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On this terrific episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and contents of Starlog magazine in issues 33 and 34 from 1980.
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Bob Turner and Kelly Casto introduce Starlog's newest colluminist, Bjo Trimble.
Leslie Sawyer and Rob Ruskowski consider David Gerold's take on The Motion Picture.
The Poetic Engineer, Lauren White gives us insight on Star Trek's Wormhole. Follow her on social media! https://thepoeticengineer.com
Rex Wood and James Coree discuss the Harlan Ellison review of The Motion Picture.
Jim Shooter reminisces about Marvel Comics.
Also, Kavura relates what it was like to be a ten year old seeing The Motion Picture on opening weekend, Walter Koeneg in Alien, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!
The official Star Trek Mission Chicago is April 8th-10th and we will be there. Tickets are still available for this incredible con!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!On this terrific episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1980 in issues 33 and 34.
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Michael Cortez fills us in on actor Maximilian Schell, and also talks about The Black Hole action figures by Mego. Get all of your vintage toy needs taken care of at Billy Galaxy!
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Comic Collector Geek fills us in on what comic books were popular in 1980. Check out his YouTube channel! https://youtube.com/c/ComicCollectorGeek
Anthony Rooney visits the Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker, and Shane Poole reports on the first American Doctor Who convention!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!
On this electric episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 31 and 32 from 1980.
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Join us at the Nashville Comic & Toy Days on March 19th & 20th, 2022 at the Fairgrounds in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Star Trek Motion Picture phenomenon from the pages of Future Life magazine. Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon!
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Also, Walter Koeneg's new book "Chekov's Enterprise", Andy Probert, Maurice Zuberano, and more!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!On this electric episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1980 in issues 31 and 32.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-031
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Mark Newbold of Star Wars Insider magazine discusses theories and rumors surrounding The Empire Strikes Back!
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Jon of the Shocking Things podcast gives us insight on the Disney classic 20,000 Leagus Under the Sea.
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Plus: The Black Hole, Buck Rogers and more!
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Meet Flash Gordon, Sam J. Jones, at Rick's Comic City on March 13th!
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On this epic episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 29 and 30 from 1979.
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On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Susan Sackett penned Star Trek Report. What happens next? Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon!
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Star Trek fan film producer Joe Cepeda informs us on what it is like to make your own movie. Check out the Nature's Hunger series to see what Joe has been up to!
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Rex Wood chimes in to talk about TMP Director Robert Wise.
Starfleet Command is the oldest Star Trek fan orginazion in the world. Join us!
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Scott Brown and Roberta Vincent discuss the Star Trek toys and merchandise of 1979 & 1980.
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Marty Abrams, "Doctor Mego" Paul Clarke, and Frank Wojo offer more insight on the Motion Picture action figures. Look out for more Mego products in the future! https://megofigures.com/
Long time fan Bob Vosseller considers excerpts from Walter Koeneg's new book: Chekov's Enterprise.
Also, Designer Harold Michaelson, The Questor Tapes, and more!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 29 and 30.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
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On this episode:
Scott Brown and Roberta Vincent discuss Science Fiction toys and merchandise of 1979 & 1980.
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Plus: Erin Gray and Buster Crabbe from Buck Rogers, the stunt women of Wonder Woman and sci -fi television, and more!
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On this spectacular episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 27 and 28.On this wonderful episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 27 and 28 from 1979.
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Join us at ShadowCon on January 7th and 8th in Memphis, Tennessee!
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On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Susan Sackett penned Star Trek Report. What happens next? Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon!
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Star Trek fan film producer Joe Cepeda explores the model making skills of Jim Dow. Check out the Nature's Hunger series to see what Joe has been up to!
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Long time fan Bob Vosseller considers the Trek Report leading up to the Motion Picture.
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Plus, Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time, Don Post Studios masks, the connection between Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek!
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On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 27 and 28.
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On this wonderful episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 27 and 28.
Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-027On this episode:
A plethora of content regarding Battlestar Galactica. The TV series, toys, Marvel comic books, novels, and memorabilia including sleeping bags!
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Author of the book "The Best Saturdays of Our Lives", Mark McCray, fills us in on cartoons with Filmation's "Adventures in Outer Space".
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Do you remember the BSG attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood? They were giving Disneyland a run for their money! Shocker Jon reminisces about the Battle of Galactica.
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On this spectacular episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 25 and 26.
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Starbase Indy is the fan-run Star Trek and Science convention held each year on Thanksgiving weekend. Its mission: to celebrate Star Trek's vision of the future by promoting humanitarianism and STEM education. John Schuck will be the special guest this year. Join us! https://www.starbaseindy.org/
On this amazing episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 25 and 26 from 1979.
Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-025
On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture. What was it like to anticipate the new movie in 1979? Tune in to find out. Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon!
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No one will disagree that the refitted Enterprise is a thing of beauty. Joe Cepeda reflects on the illustrations of Mike Minor and his contributions to Trek. Check out the Nature's Hunger series to see what Joe has been up to!
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Long- time fan Bob Vosseller considers the Susan Sackett-penned Trek Report. Will the film live up to fans' expectations?
Also: Star Trek Pinball, David Gerrold, and more!
Starfleet Command is the oldest Star Trek fan orginazion in the world. Join us!
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The Klingon Assault Group is an international club that focuses on Klingon culture. Enlist now! https://www.starfleet-command.com/
Remember the Star Trek Mego dolls in the '70s? The Mego corporation is back and currently produces all new 8" and 14" figures!
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If you grew up in the 60's, 70's, or 80's, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 25 and 26.
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On this episode:
Brent and Whitney reflect on how pinball machines of the 1970's changed by the end of the decade. Listen to them talk about arcade games and pinball on the Broken Token podcast at: https://brokentoken.com/
John Shoberg gives us insight on the life and legacy of Ray Bradbury.
Shane Poole fills us in on the Gerry Anderson Space Report.
Michael and Andrea Havens consider the Steven Sansweet-penned article about collecting robot and space toys and how this led to Star Wars Mania!
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If you grew up in the 60's, 70's, or 80's, you will love StarPodLog!
On this spectacular episode of StarPodLog, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 23 and 24.
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Gallatin Comic Con is being hosted by Towne Square Records & Comics and is being held on November 13th at the EPIC Events Center in Gallatin, Tennessee.
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Starbase Indy is the fan-run Star Trek and Science convention held each year on Thanksgiving weekend. Its mission: to celebrate Star Trek's vision of the future by promoting humanitarianism and STEM education. https://www.starbaseindy.org/
On this episode:
Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture.
Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon!
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Eddie Hines reflects on the impact of Blacks in Star Trek the Original Series. View his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Eddieh32
Bob Vosseller considers the Susan Sackett penned Trek Report. Join us in STARFLEET International! https://sfi.org/
The Poetic Engineer, Lauren White, brings us on a voyage to Jupiter's mini solar system. Follow her on social media!
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Also, an article with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy discussing life outside of Trek, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Starlog celebrates three years of publication, and more!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog! On this explosive episode, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 23 and 24.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-023
Music City Multi Con is October 29th-31st in Lebanon, Tennessee. We will be there!
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Gallatin Comic Con is being hosted by Towne Square Records & Comics and is being held on November 13th at the EPIC Events Center in Gallatin, Tennessee.
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On this episode:
Alan Siler consideres how Doctor Who invaded American television. Check out his work at Kozmic press! https://kozmicpress.com/
Marcus and Lisa discuss the acting career of David Prowse. They are proud members of the 501st Legion: https://www.501st.com/
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On this amazing episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science content of Starlog magazine in issues 21 and 22 from 1979.
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Starbase Indy is the fan-run Star Trek convention held each year on Thanksgiving weekend. Its mission: to celebrate Star Trek's vision of the future by promoting humanitarianism and STEM education. https://www.starbaseindy.org/
On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Susan Sackett penned Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture. Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon! https://m.facebook.com/UnofficialTrek/
Drew Maeurer reflects on Venus: The Cloudy Planet
Keith Johnson, Alan Siler, Charles Kelso, and Veronica Dashiell discuss the Hugo Awards. Check out their awesome Earth Station Trek podcast on the ESO Network!https://esonetwork.com/category/earth-station-trek/
Bob Vosseller and Steven Lance consider the Trek Report, including what it was like to be an extra in the Motion Picture. Join us in STARFLEET International! https://sfi.org/
Also, how the Enterprise influenced the Battlestar Galactica bridge, the Dragon Con 2021 Trek Track report, the Lost in Space / Star Trek connection, and more!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog! On this explosive episode, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 21 and 22.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here: https://archive.org/details/starlog_m...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get ready for NashvilleCon, September 25th, downtown Nashville, Tennessee: http://www.thenashvillecon.com-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We will be attending Tennessee Game Days in Franklin, Tennessee October 1-3. https://tngamedays.com/fallindex.html-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clarksville Con is right around the corner on October 23rd! http://www.clarksvillecon.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Music City Multi-Con is October 29th-31st in Lebanon, Tennessee. We will be there! https://musiccitymulticon.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode contains coverage of the Wonder Woman TV episode "Spaced Out", Star Wars' Mark Hamil, Gil Gerard in Buck Rogers, the 2021 Dragon Con report, Battlestar: Galactica's Lorne Green, Anthony Rooney fills us in on Gerry Anderson's Space: 1999 Report, James Bond in Moonraker, Alien, and more movie previews of 1979! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Topics:
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On this amazing episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 19 and 20 from 1979.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto discuss the Susan Sackett penned Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture.
Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon!
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Lauren White reflects on the NASA Spacesuit Propulsion Unit.
Bob Vosseller considers the Trek Report, including his memories, and more news about the Motion Picture.
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Also, Lenoard Nimoy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Star Trek Las Vegas 55 Year Mission convention report, The Mork & Mindy Star Trek connection, and more!
Remember the Star Trek Mego dolls in the 70's? The Mego corporation is back and currently produces all new 8" and 14" figures!
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog! On this electrifying episode, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1979 in issues 19 and 20.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here: https://archive.org/details/starlog_m...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will be attending and presenting at the grandest of them all- DRAGON CON! Join us! https://www.dragoncon.org/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Music City Multi Con is October 29th-31st. We will be there! https://musiccitymulticon.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Special guests and subjects this episode include: Derrick Threex fills us in on how Maren Jensen feels about portraying Athena on Battlestar Galactica. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Scott Alan Evens reminisces about the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings animated movie. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mark Newbold considers the Star Wars Holiday Special. Check him out at Fantha Tracks: https://www.fanthatracks.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Shane Poole fills us in on Gerry Anderson's Space 1999 Report. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Billy Hogan gets us ready for the new Superman Movie! Listen to his Superman Fan podcast at: https://thesupermanfanpodcast.blogspo...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Steve Younis & Michael Bailey of the Superman Homepage discuss Superman: The Movie! Long time Superman fan Hamish describes what it was like to watch the movie at a young age. Find out more about the Man of Steel on the Superman Homepage website and YouTube channel: https://www.supermanhomepage.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------All this, plus Buck Rogers, Han Solo's Kessel Run, and more!
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On this amazing episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 17 and 18 from 1978. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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55 Year Mission, the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas!
Also, the grandest of them all- DRAGON CON! We will be involved in multiple panels on the Trek Track. Tickets are still available!
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto consider the Susan Sackett penned Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture. Stay tuned for their new podcast coming soon! https://m.facebook.com/UnofficialTrek/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Joe Cepeda from Nature's Huger Studios considers Gene Roddenberry's views on Star Trek The Motion Picture. View Nature's Hunger independent films at: https://youtube.com/user/Peanutman1954 Bob Turner & Kelly Casto continue to discuss the Trek Report, including more news about the widescreen Motion Picture. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Doctor Mego" Paul Clarke reminisces about what it was like to order Star Trek items through the mail years ago. He also discusses getting ready for 55 Year Mission! Find out more about Mego at: https://megofigures.com/ http://www.megomuseum.com/ Joe Haldeman, Ralph McQuarrie, NASA news, convention reports and more! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bob Turner & Kelly Casto continuetheir discussion of the Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy hearing about the cookout that Steve Parmly put on this year? STARFLEET International is an awesome fan club! Join us at the next one! https://sfi.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Don't forget to join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/starp... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When in Tennessee, check out Command Flight Adventure! https://www.arizonaartemis.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Love Starlog magazine? Join the Facebook group: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Feel free to explore other great podcasts on the Holosuite Media Podcast Network! https://holosuitemedia.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter and Instagram: @StarPodLog ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reddit: u/StarPodTrek Visit us on Blogger at https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/ or iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to fine podcasts----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog! On this electrifying episode, we consider the contents of Starlog magazine from 1978 in issues 17 and 18.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here: https://archive.org/details/starlog_m... We will be attending SUPERMAN CELEBRATION. Join us: https://www.supermancelebration.net/ The ROCK-N-POD EXPO is an incredible con! https://nashvillerocknpodexpo.com/ We will be attending and presenting at the greatest of them all- DRAGON CON! https://www.dragoncon.org/ Special guests and subjects this episode include: 8:33 Joe Crowe & Gary Mitchel from the Dragon Con American Sci-fi Classics track discuss the '78 Fall TV shows! https://m.facebook.com/groups/2428144... 55:06 Tony Barletta from the Dragon Con Comic Book track discusses Superhero shows including Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Doctor Strange! https://www.dragoncon.org/things-to-d... 1:05:58 Paul Mount fills us in on Gerry Anderson's Space 1999 Report. Follow him on his Starburst TV Zone podcast: https://www.starburstmagazine.com/pod... 1:22:27 Rebel Legion members Mike & Kyleigh consider the article Gary Kurtz: The Empire Strikes Back. The Star Wars producer talks about continuing the series! https://rebellegion.com/ 1:41:02 "Doctor Mego" Paul Clarke reminisces on what it was like to mail away for items as we discuss the Starlog Merchandise Guide! https://megofigures.com/http://www.megomuseum.com/ All this, plus Steven Spielberg, Battlestar Galactica, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, and more!
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On this stupendous episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 15 and 16 from 1978.
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55 Year Mission, the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas!
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On this episode, Bob Turner & Kelly Casto consider the Susan Sackett penned Trek Report, including the latest news about the widescreen Motion Picture.
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Antonio Porras Valverde takes us on a trip through our galaxy in Interplanetary Excursions.
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Topics: Star Trek, Starlog Magazine, fan films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alan Dean Foster, Star Trek Logs, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Twilight Zone
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Publication date-Stardate 2021.07.09------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Starlog magazine issues 15 and 16 from 1978. Star Wars, Superman, Twilight Zone, Supermarionation, Invaders, and more!
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Special guests and subjects include: Billy Hogan gives us a behind the scenes look at the new Superman movie. Check out his Superman Fan podcast at: https://thesupermanfanpodcast.blogspot.com----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Jeff Thompson discusses Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. You can purchase Dan's books at: http://ideasintobooks.net/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paul Mount fills us in on Gerry Anderson's Space 1999 Report. Follow him on his Starburst TV Zone podcast at: https://www.starburstmagazine.com/podcasts/tv-zone-plus-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yehuda Kleinman and Ron Salvatore discuss the merchandising of Star Wars. This is an incredible resource for collectors: http://theswca.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Edward German reminisces about the 1955 classic sci-fi film This Island Earth. Find out more on his 1950s Science Fiction podcast at: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-1950s-science-fiction-podcast-edward-u6zfsKjVIGS/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mark O'Connell gives us the full story if the television classic The Invaders. Follow him on his Far Fetched podcast at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/far-fetched/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anthony Rooney recalls the details about the fantastic puppetry work of Gerry Anderson 's Supermarionation! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Check out Command Flight Adventure in Clarksville, Tennessee! https://m.facebook.com/TSNCygnus/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Michael Havens and Philip Browne consider the implications in Star Wars. Find out more about the Imperial Commissary and the ICCC at: https://www.imperialcommissary.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------All this, plus Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and more!
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On this incredible episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek and science contents of Starlog magazine in issues 13 and 14 from 1978.
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Check us out at KAG Kon, the free online convention of the Klingon Assault Group.
We will be presenting the panel: Vulcan History and Culture.
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Metrotham Con was an awesome multi-genre convention where we presented the panel "Star Trek on Paramount+"
https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/2021/05/can-you-say-metrotham-con.html
The Romulan War is an outstanding independent Star Trek fan production! View it here:
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On this episode, Nathan Allan takes us on trip throughout our galaxy in Interplanetary Excursions.
Bob Turner & Kelly Casto consider the Susan Sackett penned Trek Report, including the latest news about how Star Trek Phase II became The Motion Picture.
Check them out on 70's Trek!
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The Scotch Trekker Dan Leckie and Mike Schilling fill us in about the new movie that Leonard Nimoy will be featured in: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Remember when John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, and the cast of Saturday Night Live spoofed the Star Trek? Starlog magazine provided the script to the show for those of us that didn't have a Betamax recorder. Listen to The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise!
Star Trek blueprints, Gene Roddenberry and Fredrick Pohl consider what the future holds for science fiction and more!
Topics: Star Trek, Starlog Magazine, fan films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek Phase II, Gene Roddenberry, Saturday Night Live
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Publication date-Stardate 2021.06.03------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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On this exciting episode of StarPodLog, we consider the sci-fi contents of Starlog magazine from 1978 in issues 13 and 14.
Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:
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We will be attending Superman Celebration. Join us:
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ICCCon was an incredible Star Wars convention that we attended recently. Make plans to attend next year with us!
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501st Legion member BJ Savage considers the article David Prowse: The Man Behind The Mask.
He also describes what it is like to costume as Darth Vader!
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Joey Pittman discusses Walt Disney's Space Shows of the Fifties.
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Listen how horror superfan Derek Martin had the opportunity to meet Forrest J. Ackerman at the Ackermansion!
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Artist Kevin B. Cleveland discusses the ingenuity that painter Matthew Yuricich used in the movies.
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Kevin Lentz describes the niche hobby of collecting Science Fiction records.
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Artist Jeremiah Pantoja admires the work of Star Wars matte painter P.S. Ellenshaw.
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All this, plus Logan's Run, Project UFO, Capricorn One and more!
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On this exciting episode of StarPodTrek, we and our guests discuss the content of Starlog magazine issues 11 & 12 from 1978, including Star Trek Phase II, Susan Sackett's interview with Gene Roddenberry, and special guest Larry Nemecek brings his vast knowledge of Trek!
Follow along with us by pulling out your copy of Starlog, or read it free online at: https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-009/page/n11/mode/2up
Larry "Dr. Trek" Nemecek and Dan "The Scotch Trekker" Leckie discuss the Star Trek Report.Check them out at:https://m.facebook.com/thescotchtrekker/https://larrynemecek.com-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Computer guru John Lotshaw considers the digital age of the 1970's by reviewing the article: The Computer's Game.Subscribe to his YouTube channel!https://youtube.com/channel/UC23BFGfUDfX_wg5sg2kchZg-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Galtrol joins us again to talk about the connection between Sputnik and Star Trek.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Star Trek fan film producer David Miller reports on what fans were looking forward to in Star Trek Phase II.Here's how to support his latest project!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidmillerstudios/star-trek-amazons?fbclid=IwAR3rvO0tibDHb40xMi144ATZlx_dsFSjyemUyr0NIC5tsrBrVGKD1_1dNpk-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------All this, plus Susan Sackett's interview with Gene Roddenberry, Richard Mathenson's Incredible Shrinking Man, and more!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Star Trek, Starlog Magazine, fan films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek Phase II, Sputnik, Gene Roddenberry
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Publication date-Stardate 2021.05.12------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Metrotham Con was a fan-run, multi-fandom convention in Chattanooga, TN. What a cool name for a con, combining “Metropolis” and “Gotham”! In honoring their theme for 2021, “Oh The Horror”, they had guest actors from movies like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. It was a small con, but there were plenty of things going on. Besides the usual vendors’ room, gaming room, and costume contest, there were special “After Dark” panels, karaoke, an adult vendor hall, and a dating game, plus much, much more. There were numerous panels all day long for all three days, plus celebs signing autographs and doing photo ops, and cosplayers roaming the halls. We were happy to be delivering two panels: “StarPodTrek Presents Star Trek on Paramount Plus” and “StarPodLog Presents Starlog- The Worlds Greatest Sci-Fi & Fantasy Magazine”. We were grateful for the friendly staff that helped us get set up with a projector and screen for our panels. One small disappointment was that we somehow missed Star Trek guest, Lisa Wilcox, who played Yuta on the TNG episode “The Vengeance Factor” (and was also in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4). After the con, we visited the River Valley Sculpture Garden in Chattanooga. We loved the exquisite metal sculptures and landscaping.
By The Honorable Kavura
On this exciting episode of StarPodLog, we discuss the content of Starlog magazine issues 11 & 12 from 1978, including discussions about Logan's Run, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, Superman, and more!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Follow along with us by pulling out your copy of Starlog, or read it free online at: https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-009/page/n11/mode/2up
Meet us at these upcoming conventions!
Methrotham Con: https://metrothamcon.com/
Anthony Rooney will examine tv's most controversial sci-fi series - The Prisoner!
https://youtu.be/DJIluC7TjIw
Paul Haber tells us what went wrong with the Logan's Run TV Series though the eyes of David Gerrold.
Billy Hogan chronicles the activities of Superman: The Movie producer Ilya Salkind.
https://thesupermanfanpodcast.blogspot.com/?m=1
Did Star Wars save Marvel in the 70s?
Former Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Jim Shooter discusses the connection between Science Fiction and Comic Books. We interviewed him at the Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo.
https://www.shooterswork.com/
https://www.hsvexpo.com/
Nathan Allan covers the amazing computer vector animation that Larry Cuba used in creating the Death Star!
Kevin Packard is joined by Grant Baciocco to discuss the Superhero shows of the 1970s.
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http://www.doctorfloyd.com/
All this, plus Close Encounters of the Third Kind, UFOs. Makeup Artists Stewart Freeborn, Rick Baker, Dan Striepeke, Dick Smith. The Pressman Movie & TV Makeup Kit and more!
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Publication date-Stardate 2021.04.28
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The Imperial Commissary Collectors Convention, aka ICCC, is a Star Wars focused event that is held annually in Nashville, Tennessee. It was held most recently on April 16-18, 2021 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. More that just a convention, this has turned out to be an international family reunion with people coming from all over the globe. Showrunners Michael and Andrea Havens were gracious hosts that greeted everyone at the entrance. There were so many attendees this year that the line to get in wrapped around the building! The vendors’ room was filled to capacity with rare, high-end toys and collectibles from around the world, including Model Trem, Lili Ledy, Palitoy, and more, thus demonstrating for the third time in a row why this con is THE place to be for Star Wars collectors. Cosplayers were also in full force with brilliant costumes representing everything from Star Wars to Star Trek to GI Joe. The model-makers with their remote controlled droids were a huge hit!
Many actors, artists, movie, toy, and gaming industry professionals were in attendance to mingle with fans, sign autographs, take pictures, and present panels. Dungeons and Dragons writer Jeff “Duck” Leason was a really nice and funny guy. Angie Mayhew was also in attendance with The Peter Mayhew Foundation to discuss this charity origination.
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Given the choice to attend the next Star Wars Celebration or ICCCon, we would definitly choose ICCC!
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-by the Noble Nayr and the Honorable Kavura
This was our third trip to Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo in Huntsville, AL. On the drive down from Nashville, TN, there were several huge model rockets along the roadside to welcome us to the city nicknamed Rocket City. The city earned its moniker by being home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. We attended the con sporting our replicas of NASA uniforms worn by the crew of Enterprise, the first space shuttle, which takes its name from the famous spaceship from our beloved Star Trek. We always enjoy this con for its laid back atmosphere and its great location at the Von Braun Center. Huntsville is also the hometown of our STARFLEET Internation ship, the USS Wernher von Braun. One of our shipmates, Laura, is a yearly vendor at the con, greeting everyone with a smile, and always being the most Trek-stocked vendor out of the huge vendors’ room.This is one of the best cons for comic book collectors, having comic book guests and loads of vendors selling comic books of all kinds from all eras. We even did an interview with comic book writer Jim Shooter. Star Wars was represented by fan tables by the 501st Legion and the Rebel Legion. Both groups are there every year trouping in costume and happily taking pictures with fans.
We presented two panels this year. The first was “Star Trek 101”, a primer on all the Star Trek TV shows and movies for anyone new to Star Trek or anyone who just needs a review of this classic show that has endured over fifty years and has so much content that only the truest of fans can keep up. Our next panel was “Starlog: The World’s Greatest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Magazine”, covering all the things that were great about this magazine that kept us informed of all things geeky before there was an internet. We had a great time at our panels, receiving positive and enthusiastic feedback from the audiences. Next year’s expo has been scheduled for April 22-24, 2022. We plan to be there in costume and making a boom in Rocket City!
-by the Honorable Kavura