Captain's Log
Posted on Tue Sep 19th, 2023 @ 2:39pm by Commodore Mardel Shayron-Connor
685 words; about a 3 minute read
Captain’s Log
Commodore Mardel Shayron-Connor
USS Aldrin
After reading through the logs that Daniel sent me from helm and stellar cartography from the Enterprise B, I have been able to put together their final days. I have to say, knowing doesn’t make it any better. I have an entire team over there that can’t return unless and until a cure can be found and administered.
The Enterprise B was on a routine check of the outposts along the Starfleet/Klingon border. You will have to remember that this is before the Klingon Federation alliance and they were still very hostile toward us. And yes, it was also after the Khitomer conference, so peace talks were underway, but still needed to have more details ironed out.
The Enterprise stopped at substation 6 along the Klingon Federation border to deliver some medical supplies it had requested to deal with an outbreak of flu. They stayed no longer than 4 hours, transporting down a team and helping to get the supplies stored and give the first doses to those stationed there. Then the ship left for Starbase 112 to drop off reports and pick up some replacement crew and more supplies. It never made it to Starbase 112, signaling they had to make a detour and didn’t give any reasons but would be there as soon as they could.
During the travel from substation 6 and starbase 112, the Enterprise passed through a space cloud that magnified the illness that appeared after their last stop at the substation. The history of the Federation and Starfleet note that substation 6 went unresponsive three days after the Enterprise visited. When the next ship came through, almost nine months later, the substation and all its buildings, even the ground it had stood on had been burned until not even rubble remained and appeared to have been scattered with salt of some kind. It was believed to have been the work of the Klingons, but they denied knowing anything about it and we could prove nothing.
The logs from the Enterprise state that the first people to get sick had been on substation 6 and they also died, all of them, within hours of each other. It appeared to be some kind of plague and since plague had wiped out many races on many planets, it was going to be a chore to nail this one down. Like most plagues, it made the victims have a rosy rash and then it blackened and their tongue and the whites of their eyes blackened and then their bodies failed and they died. It was like watching people get really beautiful and then look like some kind of demons and then they died. It was terrifying. Rumors on the ship suggest it was created by a hostile force to get rid of those along the border between the Klingons and the Federation. The problem was, if you look, the Klingons had a similar plague that resembled this at the same time and blamed it on us. So it came from neither the Klingons or the Federation, perhaps it had been Roluman in origin, but we will never know.
The crew attempted to discover the origins of the plague, but couldn’t, though they did say whatever was in that space cloud made it much worse. So they had located what they thought would help them, a nebula where that cloud might have come from, to see if they could find factors there that would help. The last entry was where they had located the nebula and set course for it, warp 7. There was nothing after that, not even in private logs or captain’s logs. So we don’t know if they were successful or not.
We are attempting to locate that nebula and go there to see what we can find. Maybe we will find answers, maybe we won’t. But we have to do something. I won’t lose the away team when we are more advanced now than we were when Enterprise B flew and I will not believe we cannot overcome this plague.
End Log
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