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This has certainly been one
of the strangest missions since joining the crew of the Ares.
Initially, we were here to settle a dispute between two different
Garidian cultures, and once our presence was no longer deemed
necessary, we found a computer virus had crippled the ship, causing
mayhem with our systems. Engineering was only recently able to
eradicate it from the computer core, and thankfully no major damage was
done to the ship, or any of the crew.
While we were stuck in orbit around Relnart IV, Captain Havraha elected to keep the Garidian woman, Myca s'Gienne, aboard to assist Engineering with the virus, since the code was written in an ancient Garidian dialect. While I didn't have any doubt about her capabilities, my concern for the safety of the ship grew as it took longer and longer to remove the virus.
While the virus was being taken care of, I felt sort of useless as it was an Engineering issue, so I remained at my station on the bridge, and we received a hail from the USS Solitaire, announcing that we were receiving a new first officer. She was promptly beamed onto the bridge, and introduced herself as Commander Diell. To me, she looked like a Human with no hair, but she is apparently far more. I did some research later on, and found that she is Deltan, a humanoid race that claims to be sexually superior to Humans, and must take an oath of celibacy upon joining Starfleet. I find that contradictory, since just as easily, a Vulcan or Klingon can join Starfleet, and their physical strength is vastly superior to that of a Human's, so why don't they take an oath never to harm another crew member? Starfleet bureaucracy... Only to protect themselves.
Not too soon after Commander Diell arrived, we found a suspicious object in the Captain's ready room, which Myca s'Gienne identified as a Garidian game called Daegadt. Thus far, there hasn't been any immediate threat from it, so I don't see any cause for alarm, yet. For all we know, it could be rigged to explode upon completion of the game.
I tried to find any correlation between the computer virus and the Daegadt game, but the only thing I could think of was that they are both from Garid's ancient history. This theory has since proven to be false. Unfortunately, that still leaves us with how the virus got into our computer, but it seems safe to assume that the Daegadt game was beamed aboard after the virus infected the ship. The shields were down, and sensors couldn't even give me a proper reading of our location in space, so they were unreliable anyway.
I gave up on my search for the links between the two, and remained at my post until I was needed further. Luckily, Ensign Franklin was on the bridge, repairing the Ops station, and he requested my assistance, but when I held the hyperspanner to the junction he told me to, it exploded in my face, according to the doctors in sickbay.
After my ordeal in sickbay, I took an hour off to recuperate in my quarters, followed by returning to my post on the bridge. Shortly after my arrival, Captain Havraha asked me to join him at the interrogation of the Jem'Hadar we had previously captured, released, and recaptured. He proved uncooperative to my line of questioning. I feel like I really let the Captain down, since I'd had experience with interrogations before, but I couldn't get anything out of him. I should've known better, seeing that we were dealing with a Jem'Hadar. The Captain was able to persuade him to relinquish the necessary information, along with some further... persuasion, on my part, after seeing how Captain Havraha dealt with interrogations.
Along with some personal information about himself, the "Jem'Hadar" gave us the location of a laboratory on the planet's surface. After beaming down, we found we weren't able to enter. The door demanded a sample of some kind, which I thought to be a sample of one of the "patients", so Doctor Swan was beamed down to provide such. It proved not to be the sample the door wanted, but seemingly by coincidence, a Caitian woman approached us, and opened the door by using a simple leaf. Probably a trick to fool people that only staff would know.
We were brought to a room that looked more like an infirmary than a laboratory. When Doctor Swan experienced some more difficulties from her transformation, the Caitian finally complied to give her the "anti-treatment" necessary. While she was being dealt with, Captain Havraha, Commander Diell and I were directed to an office at the back of the laboratory, where we were told we'd find "the doctor". The man behind this entire ordeal turned out to be nothing more than an adolescent Human, claiming to be on the "smarter side" of his family. TOTALLY ABSURD!
With Doctor Swan's "anti-treatment" taking place, we returned to the ship, only to find that we picked up a stowaway just before the beam got us. The Bolian girl that laid on the bed beside Doctor Swan had held onto Captain Havraha and was beamed up with us. Commander Diell gave me the notion that the Bolian girl would be dealt with by herself, and that I was to handle Doctor Swan and return her to sickbay for more attention while she continued to revert to her original self.
I know why the Captain couldn't do anything more to "the doctor", since Starfleet doesn't have jurisdiction here, but keeping the Bolian girl? Sure, she gave him a sob story, that her parents died, but is it absolutely necessary to allow her to stay aboard the ship? We already have Miss Gienne. Are we going to start picking up every person that asks for help, or whose assistance we need?
=/\= END LOG =/\=
While we were stuck in orbit around Relnart IV, Captain Havraha elected to keep the Garidian woman, Myca s'Gienne, aboard to assist Engineering with the virus, since the code was written in an ancient Garidian dialect. While I didn't have any doubt about her capabilities, my concern for the safety of the ship grew as it took longer and longer to remove the virus.
While the virus was being taken care of, I felt sort of useless as it was an Engineering issue, so I remained at my station on the bridge, and we received a hail from the USS Solitaire, announcing that we were receiving a new first officer. She was promptly beamed onto the bridge, and introduced herself as Commander Diell. To me, she looked like a Human with no hair, but she is apparently far more. I did some research later on, and found that she is Deltan, a humanoid race that claims to be sexually superior to Humans, and must take an oath of celibacy upon joining Starfleet. I find that contradictory, since just as easily, a Vulcan or Klingon can join Starfleet, and their physical strength is vastly superior to that of a Human's, so why don't they take an oath never to harm another crew member? Starfleet bureaucracy... Only to protect themselves.
Not too soon after Commander Diell arrived, we found a suspicious object in the Captain's ready room, which Myca s'Gienne identified as a Garidian game called Daegadt. Thus far, there hasn't been any immediate threat from it, so I don't see any cause for alarm, yet. For all we know, it could be rigged to explode upon completion of the game.
I tried to find any correlation between the computer virus and the Daegadt game, but the only thing I could think of was that they are both from Garid's ancient history. This theory has since proven to be false. Unfortunately, that still leaves us with how the virus got into our computer, but it seems safe to assume that the Daegadt game was beamed aboard after the virus infected the ship. The shields were down, and sensors couldn't even give me a proper reading of our location in space, so they were unreliable anyway.
I gave up on my search for the links between the two, and remained at my post until I was needed further. Luckily, Ensign Franklin was on the bridge, repairing the Ops station, and he requested my assistance, but when I held the hyperspanner to the junction he told me to, it exploded in my face, according to the doctors in sickbay.
After my ordeal in sickbay, I took an hour off to recuperate in my quarters, followed by returning to my post on the bridge. Shortly after my arrival, Captain Havraha asked me to join him at the interrogation of the Jem'Hadar we had previously captured, released, and recaptured. He proved uncooperative to my line of questioning. I feel like I really let the Captain down, since I'd had experience with interrogations before, but I couldn't get anything out of him. I should've known better, seeing that we were dealing with a Jem'Hadar. The Captain was able to persuade him to relinquish the necessary information, along with some further... persuasion, on my part, after seeing how Captain Havraha dealt with interrogations.
Along with some personal information about himself, the "Jem'Hadar" gave us the location of a laboratory on the planet's surface. After beaming down, we found we weren't able to enter. The door demanded a sample of some kind, which I thought to be a sample of one of the "patients", so Doctor Swan was beamed down to provide such. It proved not to be the sample the door wanted, but seemingly by coincidence, a Caitian woman approached us, and opened the door by using a simple leaf. Probably a trick to fool people that only staff would know.
We were brought to a room that looked more like an infirmary than a laboratory. When Doctor Swan experienced some more difficulties from her transformation, the Caitian finally complied to give her the "anti-treatment" necessary. While she was being dealt with, Captain Havraha, Commander Diell and I were directed to an office at the back of the laboratory, where we were told we'd find "the doctor". The man behind this entire ordeal turned out to be nothing more than an adolescent Human, claiming to be on the "smarter side" of his family. TOTALLY ABSURD!
With Doctor Swan's "anti-treatment" taking place, we returned to the ship, only to find that we picked up a stowaway just before the beam got us. The Bolian girl that laid on the bed beside Doctor Swan had held onto Captain Havraha and was beamed up with us. Commander Diell gave me the notion that the Bolian girl would be dealt with by herself, and that I was to handle Doctor Swan and return her to sickbay for more attention while she continued to revert to her original self.
I know why the Captain couldn't do anything more to "the doctor", since Starfleet doesn't have jurisdiction here, but keeping the Bolian girl? Sure, she gave him a sob story, that her parents died, but is it absolutely necessary to allow her to stay aboard the ship? We already have Miss Gienne. Are we going to start picking up every person that asks for help, or whose assistance we need?
=/\= END LOG =/\=
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Rydekk Lhidan
Security and Tactical
USS Ares
Lieutenant Junior Grade Rydekk Lhidan
Security and Tactical
USS Ares