STAR TREK: A Long Road (Voyager Fix It Quest)

DragonCobolt · May 8, 2022

The Dragon: Once per episode, at the beginning of combat place an Advantage on the field representing a cunning tactic or strategy devised by Danara Pel.

NAME	USS Voyager	PROF.	MULTIROLE
CLASS	Sovereign Class Heavy Exploration Vessel	CONST	2371
SHIELDS	13/13	RESISTANCE	6	SCALE	6
POWER	13/13	CREW SUPPORT	6	SMALL CRAFT	5

		COMMS	ENGINES	STRUCTURE	COMPUTERS	SENSORS	WEAPONS
BREACHES		0/6	0/6	0/6	0/6	0/6	0/6
		9	11	10	11	9	10
COMMAND	3	12	14	13	14	12	13
CONNING	2	12	14	13	14	12	13
ENGINEERING	2	11	13	12	13	11	12
SECURITY	3	13	15	14	16	13	14
SCIENCE	2	11	13	12	13	11	12
MEDICINE	2	11	13	12	13	11	12

TALENTS	Command Ship: Can give advantages using Command within range to Away Missions or to supporting ships. EMH: Has an EMH! Improved Warp Drive: When going to warp, roll 1cd on an effect, regain the power point. Quantum Torpedoes: Can use Quantum Torpedoes! (60 total) Secondary Reactors: +5 to Power High Resolution Sensors: +1 momentum to out of combat sensor checks.
TRAITS	Federation Starship – A highly sophisticated and advanced vessel, with holodecks, replicators, and similar comforts, primarily designed to handle multiple operations. Highly sensitive and requiring constant maintenance, the vehicle is less rugged than other interstellar craft Maquis Crew - a good chunk of the crew are former Maquis troublemakers. Expect discipline problems and unorthodox plans.
WEAPONS	Phaser Arrays Power Cost: 1-3 \| Range: Medium \| Damage: 9cd [+1 per extra power spent] Can Use Spread: Hit +1 time at ½ damage per effect OR Area: hit +1 ship per effect within close range. Versatile 2: Gain 2 bonus momentum with a successful hit Photon Torpedoes Power Cost: 0 \| Range: Long \| Damage: 6cd High Yield: If it causes 1 breach, it causes +1 breach Quantum Torpedoes Power Cost: 0 \| Range: Long \| Damage: 7cd (Vicious 1 - +1 damage on effects) High Yield: If it causes 1 breach, it causes +1 breach Calibrations: Requires 1 minor action to calibrate Tractor Beam (Strength 5) Power Cost: 0 \| Range: Close \| Damage: None Effect: If successfully established, enemies face a diff 5 check to escape.

CREW COMPLIMENT (Base Stat: 9 | Base Skill: 2)
CO: Captain Katheryn Janeway (Skilled: Command, Science | Weakness: Combat)

SPECIAL ABILITY: "We Can Be Better" - if you succeed on any diplomatic check with Janeway, Get +1 momentum

XO: Commander D-91 (Skilled: Command | Weakness: Socialization)
HELM: Lt. Tom Paris (Skilled: Conn | Weakness: Not Being A Fucking Up)
TACTICAL: Ensign Harry Kimm (Skilled: Gunnery | Weakness: Harry Kim)
SECURITY: Lt. JG Amy Strong (Skilled: Personal Combat | Weakness: Lying)

MAQUIS HEADBREAKER: C'nola (Skilled: Combat, Sneaking and Scheming | Weakness: Emotional Wreck)

SCIENCE: Tuvok (Skilled: Science | Weakness: Emotionless)
COMMS: Lt. Bian T'are (Skilled: Communications | Weakness: Combat)
MEDICAL: The EMH (Skilled: Doctor | Weakness: Kind of a Dick)
ENGINEER: B'lanna Torres (Skilled: Engineering | Weakness: Also a dick)

SECONDARY CHARACTERS
Ensign Steve (Useless Security Goon)
Ensign Becky (plural fighter jock)
Petty Officer Third Class Jessie (Hard working engineer)
Crewman Billingsly (Dude, Billingsly!)
Crewman Chandra (Concerned Crewman)
Bifurcate (bidimensional robot girlfriend of Harry Kim)
Princess Lyan Positron (runaway daughter of magician most foul and girlfriend of Harry Kim)
Soria Flyte (Pegasus girl and girlfriend of Harry Kim)
Mirror Universe Trevor (he's fine!)

NAME	MRSS Val Jean	PROF.	TACOPS
CLASS	Keldon Class Heavy Cruiser	CONST	2370
SHIELDS	12/12	RESISTANCE	5	SCALE	4
POWER	7/7	CREW SUPPORT	4	SMALL CRAFT	3

		COMMS	ENGINES	STRUCTURE	COMPUTERS	SENSORS	WEAPONS
BREACHES		0/4	0/4	0/4	0/4	0/4	0/4
		9	9	9	8	7	10
COMMAND	3	12	12	12	11	10	13
CONNING	2	11	11	11	10	9	12
ENGINEERING	2	11	11	11	10	9	12
SECURITY	3	12	12	12	11	10	13
SCIENCE	1	10	10	10	9	8	11
MEDICINE	2	11	11	11	10	9	12

TALENTS	Electronic Warfare Suite: Whenever making a Jamming or Intercept communications check, can spend 2 momentum to select +1 target (repeatable.) Fast Targeting Systems: No +1 diff for called shots Improved Hull Integrity: +1 Resistance Cloaking Device: Spend 3 power, and make a Control+Engineering + Engines + Security check with a diff of 2. If successful, gain the Cloaked Trait (impossible to detect, cannot attack, shields are down.) It takes a minor action to decloak.
TRAITS	Cardassian Ship – Durable, uncomfortable, close, cramped and cheap. Thinks creature comforts are for other people and technical sophistication is for people who haven't spent decades starving to death. The fact that the starving could have been avoided if the government were less...you know, monstrous doesn't seem to have occurred to that many of them. Okampan Crew – the crew are bright, perky, cheerful, and incredibly psychically powerful. Individually, they're all better than Vulcans, and as a gestalt? Who knows!
WEAPONS	Phaser Arrays Power Cost: 1-3 \| Range: Medium \| Damage: 7-9cd (Spread: Hit +1 time at ½ damage per effect OR Area) Versatile 2: Gain X bonus momentum with a successful hit Disruptor Banks Range: Medium \| Damage: 8-10cd (Vicious 1: Each effect adds +1 damage) Tractor Beam (Strength 3)

CREW COMPLIMENT (Base Stat: 8 | Base Skill: 1)
CO: Lt. Commander Brian Wacoche (Skilled: Commando Tactics | Weakness: Independent)
TACTICAL: Seska (Skilled: Being Seska | Weakness: Everything Else)
CONN: R'lash skilled: Piloting | Weakness: Romulan Fuckup)
ESPIONAGE: Kes (Skilled: Commando Tactics | Weakness: Naive)

Crewman Stadi - Age 23, Betazoid, born Beta Colony-5 to Zani and Talwyn of the House of Riis, survived by her sisters Tari and Batri.
R'mor - age 182, Vulcan, burn on Romulus to R'tan and Leslali, survived by his twelve nieces and nephews across the Empire

shepsquared · Jun 9, 2022

[x] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[x] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures
[x] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!
[X] D-91 and The Doctor star in: HOLODECK HORROR!
[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion

ILurk · Jun 9, 2022

[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

I DESIRE ROM-COM AND RELATABLE WORKPLACE SUFFERING

KRISF · Jun 9, 2022

[x] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[x] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures
[x] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold

First ones title is too perfect more catra is yes and I wanna do something with a gorn

JNewbold54 · Jun 9, 2022

[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[X] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

pheonix89 · Jun 9, 2022

[x] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[x] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

Zampano · Jun 9, 2022

[ ] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
[ ] Neelix and the Case of the Stolen Spatula
[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[ ] D-91 and The Doctor star in: HOLODECK HORROR!
[ ] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!
[X] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

[ ] Write In (I will reject anything that isn't just an excuse for hardcore pornography)

Got a few too many negatives in there, chief. "Will reject anything that isn't just an excuse...

Astro Ambulance · Jun 9, 2022

[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

Skippy · Jun 9, 2022

DragonCobolt said:
"Why don't you two play holodeck games like normal people?" Harry asked, setting his fork down.

"Holodecks require you to actually run around," Tom said, shaking his head. "That's way too much work."

how many unpainted models do you have sitting in your quarters right now, Tom

look at me while I'm asking questions

DragonCobolt said:
What's that!? It's...a HYJINX EPSIODE!? The main plot of this episode, like, come on, you already know the nebula is self aware and they can't actually mine it. Anyone can tell that. The REAL plot of this episode a set of interlocking vignettes! Vote for all your faves, and the top three win!

I love this so much.

Happy with the bandwagon plan, tbh, but I'm just going to vote for the two I definitely want to see and leave the third blank:
[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

Zampano said:
Got a few too many negatives in there, chief. "Will reject anything that isn't just an excuse...

Why are you assuming that wasn't the intended reading? 😉

DracoDracul · Jun 9, 2022

Zampano said:
Got a few too many negatives in there, chief. "Will reject anything that isn't just an excuse...

No, I think that's the right amount. Dragon's main job is writing erotic fiction.

bigking321 · Jun 9, 2022

[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[X] D-91 and The Doctor star in: HOLODECK HORROR!
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!

Spart117MC · Jun 9, 2022

DragonCobolt said:
Oh, my responses

1) There are literally no rules for drones because...at the end of the day, Star Trek: Adventures is just preposterously true to the fiction (right down to where it's dumb.) However, there is a mechanic that I've been kind of ignoring because it makes WAY more sense in the tabletop format called "crew support." Basically, at any time, you can spawn a "secondary character" (less powerful than a main character, but specialized towards a situation) by spending a crew support option. Technically, I should be using this whenever the non-MCs are bringing folks along (like, it'd have taken 4 crew support for Adora's boarding team on the Pod, because it was her and C'nola - MCs - and then 4 extra dudes.)

With the right narrative justification, those support characters can be drones instead. Which I will treat as WAY more specialized - but also, if they die, whoooooo gives a shit.

That's perfect! It makes sense too given Star Trek's insane computers that any halfway intelligent drones would have to be hyper specialized to prevent them from growing to the point where they become people. Also, damn, despite being a fervent XCOM fan it took me until now to realize the Gremlin would be a prime, less skully, example of the kind of drones Starfleet would want.

Fool, don't you know good humans are at humanizing things? There's going to be at least one crewman that names their drone and treats it like a pet.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfp5IUI9Opc

DragonCobolt said:
2) Personal armor!

You can actually send out troops with personal force fields, which provide 4 soak (which is x2 as much as the flack vests the Vidiians wore, which you can also use.) Its just an escalation, like whipping out grenades, phaser rifles, and photon torpedoes. And, like, don't get...too focused on personal armor, it never really scales up to let you tank. Especially with phasers, which can just...ignore soak when they want (by using Pierce.) THe best it will ever do is turn wounds into less bad wounds. Which IS good, but the best way to avoid wounds is to avoid getting into combat in the first place.

B-but snazzy armors...

Can we at least invest in some lightweight gear to protect people from exploding consoles? Oh what about armored flight suits for pilots? It wouldn't have saved Stadi but how many times have we seen in Trek the pilot of a shuttle get knocked out because something inside the cabin exploded or nonsense like energy flowing through the hull and into the operator?

On the topic of personal force fields, do the life support belts from The Animated Series exist in this continuity? If they do can we develop them further into emergency devices that activate in case of sudden decompression and distribute them as part of the standard uniform?

DragonCobolt said:
3) Delta Flier + Delta Escort +MIssion Pod

These are good ideas! Though, they'd take a lot of material, time, infrastructure and effort. Oh, also, fighters get a lot less effective when, like, arrays are involved. So don't deploy them against people with arrays! The area effect is just UTTERLY devestating against strike craft, just swats them out of space.

Woo! Now just to figure out which needs what and how we might get it. Excluding development time how long could we expect some of these projects to take? Weeks as in the case of Voyager's repairs or much longer? You mentioned Voyager could technically piece together a runabout with her existing facilities, so how long would it take her to do the same for say the canon Delta Flyer?

Finally and most importantly does Voyager have the schematics for Earth's Enterprise era starships and if so would it be possible to take the designs for the old Warp Delta and create a Delta Escort in the Delta Quadrant that is Delta shaped?

[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
[X] Neelix and the Case of the Stolen Spatula
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!
[X] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!

Episode conventions state that the characters that we follow during the opening are the ones we end up following for the rest of said episode. Also the Gorn because they're a Gorn.

RvengefuLobster · Jun 9, 2022

[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!
[X] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!

My only regret is we won't get to see all of these. But this crew deserves some quality hijinks after all the stress of the last couple adventures.

Parzival95 · Jun 9, 2022

[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

Talkos · Jun 10, 2022

[x] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!
[X] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!
[x] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

jwolfe_beta · Jun 10, 2022

[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures

Spart117MC · Jun 10, 2022

DragonCobolt said:
A massive bug. In a golden uniform, with a...weapon.

A bug.

A walking bug.

A massive walking bug. Who was speaking, in quite understandable Gantela: "Are you sure, Doctor?"

I just noticed, Danara's talking about an Xindi-Insectoid. That's really freaking neat!

DragonCobolt said:
She thrust herself back, over the table, away from them, scrabbling. "Get it off me!" She shouted, tugging at the uniform. "Get this fucking thing off me!" She yanked desperately, and the straw haired alien - Strong, apparently - hurried to her side.

"Calm down, ma'am," she said, while the bug hurried to the door. "Computer, privacy screen, print uh, some...some clothes."

"Please state clothing preference-"

Danara ignored her. The shirt came off easily enough, then the leggings. She was left wearing her underwear and a small necklace she had never seen before in her life. But then the Doctor was beside her, his voice calm and authoritative. "Miss, you seem to be undergoing psychological stress." He knelt down. "Would you prefer a mild sedative?"

"No!" Danara snapped.

"Very good, the clothing," the Doctor said, reaching out and snatching the clothing seemingly from thin air. It was a beige jumpsuit, which Danara got on as quickly as she could. She panted, then, relaxing slightly - but seeing the pile of uniform on the ground made her want to curl up. The Doctor, seeing her reaction, took it away.

Strong's voice was shockingly gentle. "Are you going to be okay?"

Danara's reaction is heartbreaking but I love the way the Doc and Amy move in to help. There's something comforting about watching professionals that know what to do and how to help.

DragonCobolt said:
The meeting room began to empty and Janeway allowed herself a tiny little bit of a second to relax. She closed her eyes, rolled her head back, and sighed.

In the quiet of her room, she said: "Next time, lets try to not need luck, eh?"

That is a beautiful moment of vulnerability.

DragonCobolt said:
Danara nodded again. "That's...sad, is all. I was stuck...in one place for a long time. In my head. And I don't like the idea that the man that saved me is trapped too." She turned back, and met his eyes. "Want to visit in the holodeck sometime?"

It's interesting. Danara's situation here is almost an inverse of what it was in canon. Where in the quest Danara had a healthy body her mind was locked away, in canon she was trapped in a body dying to the Phage and became overjoyed when she got to exist as a construct of the mind.

Canon Danara eventually left Voyager and the Doctor, no longer dying but still suffering from the Phage. Quest Danara is staying and has been cured of her ills, albeit still haunted by her memories.

DragonCobolt said:
Then the door to the sample closet burst open and Kes sprang out, her hands grabbing onto the Doctor's arm. "SHE ASKD YOU ON A DATE!"

Every person should have their own closet Kes.

DragonCobolt said:
"Yeah, this isn't Bolt Action, this is Konflict 47," Tom said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "It's an alt history take on Bolt Action-"

"Which has mech walkers," Harry said, slowly.

"Yeah," Tom said.

"And this is...a...different game from Mechwarrior?" Harry asked.

"No, Harry, Mechwarrior is the simulation game run on computers, Battletech is the tabletop game, which uses the figurines. And they also have mechs, but they're a lot smaller."

"And the Gundam..."

"Is from an entirely different franchise," Tom said, shaking his head slowly.

"...right..." Harry paused, then scooped some of his own noodles into his mouth, chewing as he did so.

Glad to hear the Federation isn't suffering the same cultural stagnation that mainline Trek implies that they are. I wonder if GW is still around. I'm not bitter but I wouldn't mind hearing that replicators did them in either.

No, wait that'd be pretty 4th dimensional warp fucky if they did exist wouldn't it? She-Ra 2018 wasn't a show here either, right?

I imagine the messages of any post-Federation installments of Gundam would be somewhat different with the post-scarcity nature of Federation society and the general lack of major conflicts. Damn this is making me want to see what manga based on everyday observations are popular in the Federation.

DragonCobolt said:
"So, pow pow pow, lucky rolling took out half of one of her advancing squads. Morale check, but she was Imperial Japan..."

Talk about playing to type. Of Seska would pick the faction with the national trait that is all about unceasing loyalty to the state.

I bet she's a Capellan player.

DragonCobolt said:
"Why don't you two play holodeck games like normal people?" Harry asked, setting his fork down.

"Holodecks require you to actually run around," Tom said, shaking his head. "That's way too much work."

Tom's got a point. VR can be fun but sometimes you want to sit down and relax. It's odder to think that the holodeck is the default form of entertainment when people's hobbies are so varied nowadays. Could it perhaps be related to shipboard life?

In retrospect its weird how for all the "respectable" forms of art Trek liked to associate itself with such as music, books, and opera, it didn't do all that much with film.

DragonCobolt said:
As the two of them chatted, D-91 and Janeway were enjoying their windowside view of the nebula that the USS Voyager was gently cruising beside.

So, what is it that D-91 actually looks like?

I know Janeway describes his shell as resembling what a 20th century human would have come up with but the 20th century spans from the 1900s to the 1990s. The aesthetics of robots shifted rather drastically over the course of that century.

Would you say D-91 is closer to what would come out of a Captain Proton holoprogram or could he mistaken for a cousin of ASIMO?

DragonCobolt said:
"Three, the week before that," T'are said, grinning as she leaned in to snuggle against Torres. "You know, you are cute when you're angry."

"Masker," Torres said, absently. "...actually, you know what? Keep it at that level."

"Yay!" T'are said, her eyes flickering, while Kes' eyes widened.

I never knew an interaction involving sexy pheromones could be anything other than obscenely horny and instead be cute.

DragonCobolt said:
"Wait, really?" she asked. "I thought...I thought..." She stammered, while Torres pulled an ice tea out of the replicator, holding it in her hands. "I thought you guys didn't! Like, that's why the masker!?"

Insert the "But That's Forbidden Love" meme here–

DragonCobolt said:
[ ] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)

–and proceed to trash it immediately.

Torgamous · Jun 10, 2022

Spart117MC said:
Tom's got a point. VR can be fun but sometimes you want to sit down and relax. It's odder to think that the holodeck is the default form of entertainment when people's hobbies are so varied nowadays. Could it perhaps be related to shipboard life?

It's also weird that it only ever seems to be used for reality-that-is-virtual. I don't think they ever use the holodeck to play cards as God and Kaiba intended.

RvengefuLobster · Jun 10, 2022

Spart117MC said:
So, what is it that D-91 actually looks like?

I know Janeway describes his shell as resembling what a 20th century human would have come up with but the 20th century spans from the 1900s to the 1990s. The aesthetics of robots shifted rather drastically over the course of that century.

Would you say D-91 is closer to what would come out of a Captain Proton holoprogram or could he mistaken for a cousin of ASIMO?

I know it may not the intended description but I've been imagining D-91 as having a TV screen face for some reason. Like, imagine a highly expressive pixel board on a mostly humanoid body.

Unless I miss my mark, D-91 seems like a mix of liberated Moriarty and how *Lt. Commander* Data should have behaved given his rank. So he physically looks like a relatively attractive dude from an action movie rather than a vaguely creepy.

Night_stalker · Jun 10, 2022

[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures
[X] D-91 and The Doctor star in: HOLODECK HORROR!
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!

DragonCobolt · Jun 10, 2022

D-91, in my head, looks like this now (sans guns), as a present to @open_sketch

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Jun 10, 2022 at 10:07 AM, finished with 37 posts and 31 votes.

24 people have voted
[X] Katheryn Janeway's Terrible No Good Awful Duty Shift That Never Ends
- Scrivener
- buli-buli
- SteelWriter77
- Eater
- Torgamous
- BeepSmile
- hyrushoten
- slybrarian
- DracoDracul
- ThatGazzer
- CyberFemme
- KRISF
- JNewbold54
- Zampano
- samdamandias
- bigking321
- open_sketch
- QueenPally
- shepsquared
- ILurk
- pheonix89
- Skippy
- Astro Ambulance
- RvengefuLobster
21 people have voted
[X] "Help! My Girlfriend has become a Golden Retriever!" and other C'nola misadventures
- Scrivener
- SteelWriter77
- Eater
- Torgamous
- 10ebbor10
- Night_stalker
- slybrarian
- DracoDracul
- ThatGazzer
- CyberFemme
- KRISF
- JNewbold54
- Zampano
- shepsquared
- ILurk
- pheonix89
- Skippy
- Astro Ambulance
- Parzival95
- Talkos
- jwolfe_beta
17 people have voted
[X] Brian Wacoche and his Gorn Attaché get stuck in a cargo hold!
- buli-buli
- SteelWriter77
- Eater
- BeepSmile
- slybrarian
- DracoDracul
- ThatGazzer
- CyberFemme
- KRISF
- JNewbold54
- Zampano
- Spoit
- QueenPally
- shepsquared
- Spart117MC
- RvengefuLobster
- Talkos
13 people have voted
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!
- SteelWriter77
- Eater
- Torgamous
- 10ebbor10
- Night_stalker
- BeepSmile
- hyrushoten
- samdamandias
- bigking321
- Astro Ambulance
- Spart117MC
- RvengefuLobster
- Talkos
8 people have voted
[X] D-91 and The Doctor star in: HOLODECK HORROR!
- Scrivener
- 10ebbor10
- Night_stalker
- hyrushoten
- samdamandias
- bigking321
- Spoit
- shepsquared
6 people have voted
[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)
3 people have voted
[X] Neelix and the Case of the Stolen Spatula
2 people have voted
[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion
- hyrushoten
- shepsquared
1 people have voted
[X] Adora and Catra seek out New Horizons in an old video game.
- QueenPally

Things you've missed out on...

[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!

Seska and Tom's hilariously stupid first kiss. Also, Seska explodes a watermelon.

[X] D-91 and The Doctor star in: HOLODECK HORROR!

The Doctor and D-91 answers a housecall when Ensign Ricky Martinez, following through on a bet, plays THEY CAME FROM CAMP BLOODMURDER (a popular slasher holodeck simulation) and suffers from an intense panic attack. The episode's events causes the holodeck to malfunction and lose safeties...but sine the Doctor and D-91 are immune to stabbing, the slasher is still completely ineffectual.

[X] Kes and the Delany Twins - Terrible Dating Advice from an Orion (Guest appearnce by Bian T'are)

The Delany twins are boys. (Kes kisses both)

[X] Neelix and the Case of the Stolen Spatula

I didn't actually have a plot in mind, but someone would get laid.

[X] Adora and Catra seek out New Horizons in an old video game.

This is a write in! I guess we'd fight robot dinosaurs?

bigking321 · Jun 10, 2022

DragonCobolt said:
[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!

Seska and Tom's hilariously stupid first kiss. Also, Seska explodes a watermelon.

My disappointment is immeasurable.

Torgamous · Jun 10, 2022

DragonCobolt said:
Things you've missed out on...

[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!

Seska and Tom's hilariously stupid first kiss. Also, Seska explodes a watermelon.

You are cruel.

hcvquizibo · Jun 10, 2022

[X] Seska has Replicated an M1 Garand...and her target? TOM PARIS!

Skippy · Jun 10, 2022

DragonCobolt said:
The Doctor and D-91 answers a housecall when Ensign Ricky Martinez, following through on a bet, plays THEY CAME FROM CAMP BLOODMURDER (a popular slasher holodeck simulation) and suffers from an intense panic attack. The episode's events causes the holodeck to malfunction and lose safeties...but sine the Doctor and D-91 are immune to stabbing, the slasher is still completely ineffectual.

Oh man, that sounds amazing. 😅

DragonCobolt · Jun 10, 2022

Janeway, leaving D-91 at his table, started towards the bridge. As she walked down the corridor, she felt a momentary twinge of anxiety - one coming from somewhere deep and to the left of where it normally did. That meant that she...really needed a break. The past few weeks had been stressful for everyone, but everyone else had a chance to take some off shifts.

She hadn't managed to grab more than one...or...two here and there.

And nothing with the holodeck.

Janeway nodded and thought to herself: I promise you, I will get some time in the holodeck. Just one more duty shift.

She stepped into the turbolift and turned to face the wall. "Bridge," she said and the doors hissed shut.

How hard can it be?

***

Brian Wacoche was heading for Cargo Bay 2A on the Val Jean when Seska marched past him carrying a primitive kinetic firearm made of wood and metal. She slapped the bullets into the magazine via a small stripper clip, using her thumb to shove the shining brass down into the weapon. Once she had done so, she worked the bolt and it clacked to deadly life.

Brian turned around, opening his mouth to speak, but Seska went around the bend of the narrow, dim corridor before he could say anything - it looked as if she was heading for transporter room 1A. And before Brian could think of what to even say to that, he heard a low growling voice behind him.

"Brian."

Brian sighed, then turned around to face V'orak. The tall Gorn was dressed in a long, flowing set of robes, leaving all but the narrow tip of a green snout visible. Brian felt a flush crawling up his cheeks as he knew what this was about.

"V'orak," Brian said.

"We need to talk-"

"We've talked," Brian said, quickly, starting past V'orak, who turned to follow him. The Gorn's long legs make it nearly impossible to escape without Brian breaking into a run. "We've come to a very health, very respectable decision."

"That was before we were stuck in the Delta Quadrant, Brian."

Brian reached the turbolift. As he stepped into it, V'orak darted forward, tail snapping in moments before the door shut with worrying quickness. The Cardassians didn't build their doors with as many sensors as the Federation mandated - it made tailed species and people with long legs have to jerk body parts out of the way with worrying regularity. V'orak turned to face him. "When I realized I was going to spend at least a third of my life out here, without any other Gorn around, I could...reevaluate some things I said in the past."

"I'm your Captain now," Brian said, his cheeks heating more.

"Brian...I'm not your crew, I'm an attaché from the Gorn Hegemony. If you gave me an order, I'd rip your arm off."

Brian bit his lip to not say what leaped into his head at that. Instead, he said: "That's changed now." He lookd at V'orak. "You're going to need to work so closely with the crew it's basically the same thing. Listen...Rak..." He gently put his hand out, taking V'orak's hand, squeezing gently. "It...was nice. But-"

"Nice!?" V'orak sounded almost more offended at that.

"Fine, it was great!"

"I was hoping for rocked your galaxy."

Brian choked back a laugh, letting go of the scaled hand. "Fine! Rocked my galaxy. Though-" The turbolift opened and he stepped out. "I remember you saying that it was all the estrus."

"Ahem." V'orak coughed. "I...needed a justification to...for...with a mammal. To give to Fleet Intelligence."

"You didn't have to report it!" Brian said, walking into the cargo bay. He had come here to check on their replacement stores for the disruptor focusing crystals. He knew in some militaries, captains delegated this kind of thing - but being one of the most veteran officers on a ship by such wide margin, combined with the fact that Starfleet tended more towards egalitarianism meant that...well, okay, to be honest, he was mostly here to try and avoid V'orak because the conversation was just as awkward as he had thought it would be.

"My duty is my duty, Brian."

"Then why are you here?" Brian said, turning to look at the tall Gorn, who looked aside. "I...Rak, I'm sorry, I really am. But I can't. I'm your captain now. What happened on Aquatain...can't happen again." His stomach tightened and his heart thudded in his chest - the words tasted like bile.

"I..." V'orak looked aside. "I see. Well."

"Captain," Tess, the ensign on duty at the conn, spoke over the combadge.

Brian, wishing that he could be beamed directly into space, tapped the combadge. "Yes?" he asked.

"Voyager has sent us the basic rundown on how we're going to be entering the nebula, it involves modulating our cloaking device to make a...a wibbly bibbly...cloaky...make field go away...field."

"Got it, Ensign," Brian said, chuckling. "Well, the eggheads on Voyager have the better labs, so you better implement."

"Aye, Captain!"

Brian, who was looking at the disruptor focusing lenses, racked on their quiet rows, as if they might answer some deep question, started when a green scaled hand reached out, then yanked one free. "This has been misplaced - it's a C-Type, not a B-type," V'orak rumbled quietly. Brian smiled up-

And then the entire ship rocked, hard, to port. He stumbled against the racks, then oofed as V'orak stumbled against him as well - weight crashing into him as the racks shuddered and clattered as their crash restraints were put to the test. Sparks flew from the ceiling and the door slammed shut with a crash! When the lights flickered back on, Brian was on his side, groaning - and he sat up, then blinked as he gaped at V'orak, becuase the Gorn's cloak had been cast aside...

And...

"Well, that's new," Brian said, quietly.

V'orak's nares turned a dark blue as blood rushed to her face, her body having changed completely from the last time Brian had seen him without the concealing robes that the Gorn preferred when about in polite company. Her red top now clung tight to breasts that were sized for a seven foot tall quasi-reptile, meaning that they were nearly as big as Brian's head, and her belly was a sleek expanse of scaled muscle so sharp that Brian could cut his palm on it, while her hips curved outwards in an hourglass shape. Her long tail tapered to a feathered tip, twitching from side to side, while her once bald head now had a plumage of overlapping, rainbow hued scales that set off her dark green skin brightly. Her compound eyes glittered as she rubbed the back of her neck.

"I can explain," she said. "We Gorn, uh, we're actually several different subspecies and...well, uh..."

"Right," Brian said, shaking his head. "Listen, we have to make sure the ship's okay." He sprang to his feet, tapped his combadge. "Captain to bridge."

"...h-hey captain!" Tes said. "Uh...so the nebula entering thing worked pretty well. The only thing is, um...a lot of thingies are sticking into our ship. We're, uh, surrounded by a...uh...it's kinda like...you know how pincer-sponges in the deep sea reefs impale fish from all angles and then, like, interface with their nervous system to use them as replacement organs?"

"No, but I get the idea," Brian said.

"Worse, a bunch of programs have kicked on and we don't know where from - they're all in Cardassian."

"Uh, Bri?" V'orak said.

Brian glanced at her...him...he'd have to get the pronouns straight later. Of course, glancing at V'orak meant that, well...due to sizes and posture, well...

Oh lord, how is their ass still so fucking hot? Brian thought, a bit distracted, as V'orak turned to face him. He banished the fleeting thought with an irritated jerkof his head.

"The door won't open," V'orak said. "Whatever the nebula did just kicked on the residual counter-mutineer programs."

"Great," Brian said, quietly.

"Well. Look at the bright side, Bri," V'orak said, nodding. "Torres yanked the nerve gas and jettisoned it into space!"

As she spoke that, vents began to hiss - spraying cool, non-nerve gas laced air into the hold. Brian and V'orak both watched the vents, quietly. Brian nodded.

"Yeah, I am pretty happy about that, Rak, now that you mention it..."

***

C'nola and Amy were both lounging in their quarters, in their offshift. C'nola was on the bed, watching the Val Jean as it adjusted its modular phasic shielding, a shimmer of blue-white light glowing at the very tip of it. "Hey, Amy, I'm bored," she said.

"That's nice, Catra," Amy said, distracted, her nose in a PADD.

C'nola wriggled around, then laid on her side, watching the other girl with narrowed eyes. One of her ears twitched. She smirked slightly. "Hey, Amy, I'm thinking of leaving you to live full time in the Orion's cell."

"That's nice, Catra," Amy said, turning the page.

"Hey, Amy, the...Val Jean has been eaten by a space monster!" C'nola grinned, wickedly.

"That's nice, Catra," Amy murmured, leaning close, her eyes narrowing. "Huh."

C'nola glanced back through the window again, then did a double take: "Holy shit!" she exclaimed. "The Val Jean really did just get fucking eaten!"

The Val Jean was just barely visible under the skin of the nebula, surrounded by a thin hazy cloud of stabbing tendrils, like veins running into a complex organ. They made contact points at every phaser bank, disurptor coil emitter, warp-nacelle contact point and RCS thruster, piercing into the ship with the delicacy of an acupuncturists needle - and with just as many of them too.

"That's nice," Amy said, then whistled. "Wow, Catra, did-"

"Adora!"

Amy lifted her head. "Huh?" she blinked as C'nola yanked her head up. "Holy shit! The Val-"

"I know!" C'nola said, scowling at her.

"Well," Amy said.

Then she turned into a golden retriever.

C'nola stood there, looking at the confused, befuddled, adorable expression of her girlfriend sitting on her chair, her PADD quietly hitting the carpeted floor, smoke still rising from her fur in the aftermath of her Change.

"...you gotta be fucking kidding me," C'nola muttered. She knelt down. "Okay, Amy, turn back."

Amy blinked at her.

"...tuuuuuuurn back!" C'nola prodded her nose.

Amy licked her finger.

"Shit," C'nola said.

***

"Good news!" T'are said from her console. "I've figured it out! The nebula is a life form - that's why no one has mined it, it has defenses. Fortunately, we haven't triggered any - it just thinks the Val Jean is food. Since it can't digest it, Val Jean will slip right out in, uh, a few standard hours. I'm working up a way to communicate with it, if it's sentient. I also have worked out an idea on how we can safely and humanely harvest a reasonable amount of dilithium byproduct - it passes some as...uh..." She coughed. "Waste. Gross, but still useful for us!"

"Well!" Janeway said, having expected at least a few hours of hard work to figure that out. "Good work, T'are."

"To be fair, it's...pretty similar to other creatures we've found - just unique in that its made of dilithium," T'are said. "It's really neat."

Janeway chuckled, then smiled. "Well, let me make a log on it," she said, then picked up her PADD. She tapped in the authorization code for her personal log. The screen jumbled with letters.

ERROR: LOG NOT FOUND.

Janeway sighed, quietly.

"Easy fix," she said, nodding to herself.

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Rules aren't going to be used for this hijinx episode! Vote for one of each, use plan vote.
JANEWAY
[ ] Pff. Janeway's been programming computers since she was a science officer. She can fix a PADD.
[ ] Find Torres.
[ ] Write in

BRIAN
[ ] Since we're stuck here, we can talk about our feelings, I guess.
[ ] ...so, uh...what subspecies of Gorn are you, exactly, Rak?
[ ] Write In

C'NOLA
[ ] To the Doctor, I guess? It's a medical thing? Right?
[ ] This is pskyer bullshit. Kess is a psyker. Find Kess!
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