Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- trek:solstice:recap:37_act_5 [2020/08/25 10:10] – [Jessa Meets Ssleestak's Armpit.] anagramofbrat
+++ trek:solstice:recap:37_act_5 [2021/01/07 13:37] (current) – verbena76
@@ Line 56: / Line 56: @@
 ==== The Lessons of the Federation, as Told by Ssleestak ====
-The away team hauls ass, but then Mel suddenly stops when she hears a rapid-fire pulse weapon from up ahead – and bodies hitting the ground! Zug states, "That is a Wabai repeating blaster, captain." Mel hesitates, but then a familiar voice calls out, "Captain Deline?" Mel answers cautiously in the affirmative, and [[trek:characters:galannoor|Captain Galan'noor]] steps out from a corner up ahead. Mel lowers her phaser and greets Galan'noor; the Wabai captain asks her, "Do any of your crew need medical assistance?" Mel eyes Fal and nods, so a female Wabai field medic rushes up and starts treating Fal, coordinating with Jessa to cover her unfamiliarity with Bajoran physiology.
+The away team hauls ass, but then Mel suddenly stops when she hears a rapid-fire pulse weapon from up ahead – and bodies hitting the ground! Zug states, "That is a Wabai repeating blaster, captain." Mel hesitates, but then a familiar voice calls out, "Captain Deline?" Mel answers cautiously in the affirmative, and [[trek:characters:galannaar|Captain Galan'naar]] steps out from a corner up ahead. Mel lowers her phaser and greets Galan'naar; the Wabai captain asks her, "Do any of your crew need medical assistance?" Mel eyes Fal and nods, so a female Wabai field medic rushes up and starts treating Fal, coordinating with Jessa to cover her unfamiliarity with Bajoran physiology.
-Galan'noor and eight other Wabai join the Starfleet away team, and Galan'noor admits, "After my absconding with a flotilla to help you against the Dai'Loq, the Intelligence Bureau finally had the excuse they wanted to demote me and remove me from my ship. I was assigned this espionage mission on a holo-ship, but the Solstice plowed through the illusion, revealing us to the Tizit. We did a controlled crash-landing and penetrated this ziggurat in the hopes of avoiding Tizit retribution-squads. We then detected energy weapons' fire and stumbled into a firefight with an unknown race. We heard your ship's warning about the Krenim, so we assumed that was them."
+Galan'naar and eight other Wabai join the Starfleet away team, and Galan'naar admits, "After my absconding with a flotilla to help you against the Dai'Loq, the Intelligence Bureau finally had the excuse they wanted to demote me and remove me from my ship. I was assigned this espionage mission on a holo-ship, but the Solstice plowed through the illusion, revealing us to the Tizit. We did a controlled crash-landing and penetrated this ziggurat in the hopes of avoiding Tizit retribution-squads. We then detected energy weapons' fire and stumbled into a firefight with an unknown race. We heard your ship's warning about the Krenim, so we assumed that was them."
-Mel nods as Galan'noor spots Threy'shaan's body, but he says simply, "What do you need, captain?" Mel replies firmly, "Cover." Galan'noor states, "Then you shall have it. Everyone, form up on Starfleet, escort protocol." The Wabai move to obey, but Zug glares with naked hatred at Galan'noor. Galan'noor stares right back and says flatly, "We either squabble and die separately, or work together with Starfleet and all live. Choose, boy."((One critical facet of Tizit culture: Tizit history is a living, breathing thing, laced with reincarnation beliefs. Something that happened to the Tizit collectively hundreds of years ago is considered personal history for people living today, as they were ‘there.')) Ssleestak interjects softly, "Remember what we told you of the Federation? We try to make friends where and when we can." Zug grinds his teeth but carries Threy'shaan's body without complaint. The combined team hustles down the corridor, and they pass a pile of Krenim corpses riddled with energy fire. Mel eyes them coldly for a second before dismissing them and moving on.
+Mel nods as Galan'naar spots Threy'shaan's body, but he says simply, "What do you need, captain?" Mel replies firmly, "Cover." Galan'naar states, "Then you shall have it. Everyone, form up on Starfleet, escort protocol." The Wabai move to obey, but Zug glares with naked hatred at Galan'naar. Galan'naar stares right back and says flatly, "We either squabble and die separately, or work together with Starfleet and all live. Choose, boy."((One critical facet of Tizit culture: Tizit history is a living, breathing thing, laced with reincarnation beliefs. Something that happened to the Tizit collectively hundreds of years ago is considered personal history for people living today, as they were ‘there.')) Ssleestak interjects softly, "Remember what we told you of the Federation? We try to make friends where and when we can." Zug grinds his teeth but carries Threy'shaan's body without complaint. The combined team hustles down the corridor, and they pass a pile of Krenim corpses riddled with energy fire. Mel eyes them coldly for a second before dismissing them and moving on.
 ==== Mel Loses Her Chief Engineer ====
@@ Line 67: / Line 67: @@
 Unlike other Iconian gates, this one remains fixed to one location, an apparent mirror of the room they're standing in. Fal mumbles, "That's obscene," and Jessa retorts, "Fal, I need you to keep your thinky-thoughts on the inside, ok?" Thal'tirian scans the station with her tricorder and then says hoarsely, "Captain, the gate is showing this very room – one hundred and fifty thousand years in the past!" Mel groans and Thal'tirian adds, "I think it wants us to go into the past to repair it." Ssleestak shrugs, and then steps through the gate! He stumbles out into the same room, but empty, and the gate closes behind him.
-Fal calls out, "Ssleestak! I figured out the loophole!" Mel curses as her chief engineer has vanished, but in the distant past Ssleestak shrugs and heads to the panel that will be damaged in the future. He recalls the sequence Meridian passed along – blue, blue, green – and taps that into the panel. He notices the little dish on top of the control panel and drops his combadge into it. He then hears people behind him, and he turns to see the red-skinned natives staring at him, spears pointed at his chest. He points to the sky and hollers, "Krenim!" The natives look at him blankly, so he lets loose a massive roar! Most of the natives scurry backwards, except for one small woman who stands her ground, looks up at him, and roars back! Although her roar was tiny in comparison, Ssleestak grins widely and parts her on the head with affection. He then starts talking slowly, trying to establish basic communication.
+Fal calls out, "Ssleestak! I figured out the loophole!" Mel curses as her chief engineer has vanished, but in the distant past Ssleestak shrugs and heads to the panel that will be damaged in the future. He recalls the sequence [[trek:characters:meridian|Meridian]] passed along – blue, blue, green – and taps that into the panel. He notices the little dish on top of the control panel and drops his combadge into it. He then hears people behind him, and he turns to see the red-skinned natives staring at him, spears pointed at his chest. He points to the sky and hollers, "Krenim!" The natives look at him blankly, so he lets loose a massive roar! Most of the natives scurry backwards, except for one small woman who stands her ground, looks up at him, and roars back! Although her roar was tiny in comparison, Ssleestak grins widely and parts her on the head with affection. He then starts talking slowly, trying to establish basic communication.
 ==== Starfleet Assistance ====
 Back in the present, the damaged panel ripples and then is repaired, with the sequence already lit up! Jessa passes the tricorder over the gate, but it remains inert. Mel curses again but heads to one of the other panels. K'tral claims the third panel and Jessa scoots over to the fourth one. They enter the desired sequence and then Mel plucks her combadge from her uniform. To her horror, she finds Ssleestak's badly corroded combadge in the dish, but she places hers next to his. There is a faint hum as the gate powers up, and then another combadge appears in the dish! This one is from a few years ago, and then the right-side gate partially clears!
-Although it's like looking through a pane of very dirty glass, the away team spots several Starfleet officers on the other side, wearing the previous iterations of their uniforms. One of them, a tall man in command red, reaches out and touches the glass. Mel steps in front of him and the figure seems to recognize her, although she can't make anything definitive out.((Captain [[trek:characters:englyss|Aaron Englyss]])) Fal slurs, "Is that [[trek:characters:elias|Elias Vaughn]]? Wait, where's Ssleestak?" Mel winces as she realizes her chief engineer is trapped in the distant past, but then a fourth combadge appears in the dish! This one is the same style as Mel's, although when the left-side gate partially clears, the crew on the other side is definitely wearing different uniforms – they're all black, with gray shoulders and colored undershirts. Mel glances over as a short female in command-red steps to the gate and peers through to them; with a start Mel realizes this is Captain [[trek:characters:stadi|Marena Stadi]] of the //USS Stargazer-A//!
+Although it's like looking through a pane of very dirty glass, the away team spots several Starfleet officers on the other side, wearing the previous iterations of their uniforms. One of them, a tall man in command red, reaches out and touches the glass. Mel steps in front of him and the figure seems to recognize her, although she can't make anything definitive out.((Captain [[trek:characters:aaron|Aaron Englyss]])) Fal slurs, "Is that [[trek:characters:vaughn|Elias Vaughn]]? Wait, where's Ssleestak?" Mel winces as she realizes her chief engineer is trapped in the distant past, but then a fourth combadge appears in the dish! This one is the same style as Mel's, although when the left-side gate partially clears, the crew on the other side is definitely wearing different uniforms – they're all black, with gray shoulders and colored undershirts. Mel glances over as a short female in command-red steps to the gate and peers through to them; with a start Mel realizes this is Captain [[trek:characters:stadi|Marena Stadi]] of the //USS Stargazer-A//!
 ==== "This Time, Everybody Lives." ====
@@ Line 79: / Line 79: @@
 Mel's combadge beeps and she retrieves it from the dish before tapping it. Meridian's voice echoes through the chamber, //"Congratulations, Captain Deline. You just saved an entire planet's history."// Mel says softly, "I don't understand. This time, everybody lives?" They can hear Meridian's smile in her voice as she replies, //"Yes, captain. This time, everybody lives, although your// Solstice //is heavily damaged. But you were successful, and the Timefleet came back and destroyed the Krenim cruisers and the weapon ship. This partially reset the timeline, and we managed to lock on to Ssleestak with our temporal transporters. Figured you'd want him back."// Mel agrees enthusiastically as Ssleestak nods furiously, and Meridian chuckles and replies, //"It's time for us to depart, captain. Be seeing you."// The channel then cuts out.
-Mel immediately hails her //Solstice//, and Saval replies a moment later, sounding a bit confused. She reports, //"The Krenim are… gone, captain. We've taken heavy damage and have sustained casualties, but no fatalities."// Mel whispers, "Our record continues." Saval replies, //"Yes, but barely. Captain, deck one took a direct hit."// Mel immediately demands, "Is everyone alight?" Saval replies, //"Yes, thanks to the emergency force fields. I hope Ssleestak doesn't have any plans, however. He's going to be very busy."// Ssleestak hisses sadly, but nods in acceptance. Saval continues, //"Unfortunately, captain, we can't lock on to you to beam you out, there's too much radiation. You need to exit the structure."// Mel states, "We're on our way." She ends the hail and Galan'noor announces firmly, "I vote we go wherever the alcohol is." Mel agrees wholeheartedly.
+Mel immediately hails her //Solstice//, and Saval replies a moment later, sounding a bit confused. She reports, //"The Krenim are… gone, captain. We've taken heavy damage and have sustained casualties, but no fatalities."// Mel whispers, "Our record continues." Saval replies, //"Yes, but barely. Captain, deck one took a direct hit."// Mel immediately demands, "Is everyone alight?" Saval replies, //"Yes, thanks to the emergency force fields. I hope Ssleestak doesn't have any plans, however. He's going to be very busy."// Ssleestak hisses sadly, but nods in acceptance. Saval continues, //"Unfortunately, captain, we can't lock on to you to beam you out, there's too much radiation. You need to exit the structure."// Mel states, "We're on our way." She ends the hail and Galan'naar announces firmly, "I vote we go wherever the alcohol is." Mel agrees wholeheartedly.
+<WRAP hide>
+=====Summary=====
+Zug brings the away team quickly to his ‘dropper,’ a repurposed maintenance vehicle. Phillip copilots as the pod plunges to the ziggurat below, but they manage to exit safely – if not gracefully – and communicate with the native red-skinned… Orions? They head into the ziggurat and Ssleestak triggers a Matruse Device; thankfully, Phillip recognizes it. They find shorn Wabai body parts and have to dismantle a second Matruse Device before they are ambushed by the Krenim. Threy’shaan is killed and Fal’s leg is blown off before they manage to kill the Krenim. They keep going and find Captain Galan’noor, the commander of the downed Wabai holo-ship; he and his team join them after a confrontation with Zug. They reach the Iconian hub and Ssleestak jumps into a portal that deposits him one hundred and fifty thousand years into the past so he can repair the device. Two other Starfleet teams – the //U.S.S. Boston// downtime and the //U.S.S. Stargazer-A// uptime – activate Iconian Gates, giving the 29<sup>th</sup> century Timefleet the signals they need to emerge in orbit of Kordikar and destroy the Krenim – which partially resets the timeline. Threy’shaan is alive and Fal whole, and the Timefleet uses their temporal transporters to return Ssleestak safe and sound – and confused.
+===== =====
+</WRAP>
 ----
 <WRAP group>
 <WRAP half column leftalign>
-[[trek:characters:|{}trek:solstice:recap:37_act_4|<= Act 4]]
+[[{}trek:solstice:recap:37_act_4|<= Act 4]]
 </WRAP>
 <WRAP half column rightalign>
-[[trek:characters:|{}trek:solstice:recap:37_act_6|Act 6 =>]]
+[[{}trek:solstice:recap:37_act_6|Act 6 =>]]
 </WRAP>
 </WRAP>
+{{tag>star_trek solstice recap}}

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools