Joining of Minds

Posted on Tue Nov 23rd, 2010 @ 12:09am by Lieutenant JG John Crichton

Mission: Shadows Fall
Location: USS Iapetus - John's Quarters/Science Lab
Timeline: MM2 MD27 2328hrs

John was sat on his bed and had just finished a log entry. He wanted to do something to assist in the investigation and decided to get help from one of the other Intelligence Officers. “Computer, locate Chief Petty Officer Exaine Roeings for me” John called as he left the room. “Chief Petty Officer Exaine Roeings is currently in Science Lab 1” responded the computer. “Tank you” John said as he headed for the turbo lift. “Deck 4” He called as the doors shut. Although his knowledge of the ship was limited, he had made a mental note of where all the major parts of the ship were. Besides which, it was only one deck lower than Archer’s office.

He looked at the doors as he walked down the corridor, eventually finding the right door. Walking in, the lights were on, but no one could be seen. John walked over to a console in the centre of the room and leaned on it. It beeped back to him. All of a sudden, someone appeared from underneath the console. They had a few days worth of beard growth and seamed not to have bathed for sometime. “What on earth are doing” He said as he looked at the console. “Great, you deleted three days worth of work. SarghHom joH. be'nal” Said the unclean man. “I believe its pronounced SoH SarghHom joH. be'nal.” John replied. The man seamed genuinely shocked. A light bulb seamed to have come on. “Lieutenant Crichton, sorry. I wasn’t expecting you.” The man said. “Chief Roeings I presume?” John replied.

Roeings just nodded. “What you working on?” John asked. “Although we most likely wont need it in the Delta Quadrant, the Romulans seam to be using a new cipher for their messages. I’ve been working on away around it.” Replied the Chief. ‘For some time by the looks and smell of it.’ John thought to himself. “Very good, but we have more pressing matters. TheMarconi, the ship we have diverted to has been destroyed. I thought we could work together to try and establish what happened.” John told him. “Yes certainly sir.” Exaine replied, wiping his hands on his trousers. John took the Chief over to another console and they revived the footage and sensor data.

“Internal detonation?” Roeings asked. “I believe so. Were there any signs of a transporter beam or the likes?” John said. Moving along the console, Roeings looked at the data. “I’m not picking anything up, but I might just have to look deeper or it could have been beamed aboard at an earlier time. I couldn’t say at this time. Spy perhaps?” Roeings replied. “Could be, but they would be killed along with it. Is it worth it?” John replied. “True. I’ll start checking for any communication signals.” Roeings said while looking down at the console. “But if you were going destroy a Starfleet vessel, would you allow your communications to be detected?” Roeings added with a smile to the Lieutenant. John gave a slight smirk as he continued to work.

[OOC: Had an idea for a post and ran with it. Thought it would be too long for the JP so did it separate.]