Might also be against the rules.
Certainly would be for a pre-warp planet. No way Seska wouldn't be a walking prime directive breach.
But foisting your criminals on sufficiently advanced bystanders is pretty sketchy too.
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Certainly would be for a pre-warp planet. No way Seska wouldn't be a walking prime directive breach.
But foisting your criminals on sufficiently advanced bystanders is pretty sketchy too.
Gelasin
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Yeah, but it's less sketchy than dumping them on a random planet.
Depends whose fate you are more concerned with, and for Starfleet I would say the choice is obvious.
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Depends... The ones with the... unfortunate senses of humor may zip themselves into a shoggoth suit...
There is something you should do first. Give her a really thorough medical exam, to ensure she 'doesn't have any hidden health problems'. Why? Because there might be some Obsidian Order 'gotchas' in her, which would be very bad for her health. They might even be controlling/influencing her mind.
Has Seska got a hidden transmitter, using a very obscure subspace signal, that the Kazon are tracking? As an implant? The Obsidian Order might have wanted a way to track her...
Personally, I strongly suspect a deep cover agent would have some sort of really well-hidden implant(s). And, if it turned-out her mind was controlled, removing/disabling that might give 'Voyager' someone more reasonable, who could be negotiated with. Even, trusted?
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KillerFish
Grumpy Owl, Bird Lawyer
The best lie I ever told someone was "I'm not good at lying to people."
Granted, I was doing it to get a friend out of scrutiny for tattling to a teacher by taking the blame upon myself.
Stumbled into this video today, and considering I'm in law school this really hits home. I wonder if there's a lawyer aboard voyager for seska predicament and is just being ignored.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_J_4F_nIM
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_J_4F_nIM
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Lol
Probably not; Voyager was only half crewed by those who happened to be at the initial launch, or they were one of the crew that did not survive the initial events.
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I mean, no, the story very specifically states they were running basically Skeleton Crew due to the perceived low-risk of the duties being performed, and the rest of the crew was going to be picked up afterwards.
Presumably, some type of Counselor/Lawyer type was at the secondary pickup.
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That's what I said? The crew were the crew that were present at the launch, since they never met with the second wave before heading out and hence getting abducted.
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Might just be me, but, do you think there might be a lawyer aboard the Val Jean???
(Might be a trainee one? On something like a 'gap year'?)
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The Maquis are a paramilitary group of outlaw rebels. I doubt they have lawyers as a high value member. I mean, if you are willing to stand up and can shoot a phaser they will likely take you, but "Law Degree" is not a thing they would be looking for.
Ace Dreamer
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'Looking for', no, 'Have', due to some being there for personal reasons, or who had useful influence... Maybe?
Jordisk
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Even then, the Maquis are more than just the ship that the Voyager goes after. They probably would be on a larger ship or any home base they have.
I mean, technically you are correct. However doing so would still expose spys, because those paranoid Cardassian would also go "where's that damn spy who smuggled this giant fire breathing dragon" (shoots coworker who they didn't like) "I got a spy!"
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I rested on the edge of the cliff, the grasslands studded with trees stretching out towards the horizon below.
I felt at peace.
Above the golden sun blazed, casting an almost dawn like light across the landscape from an deep azure sky, dotted with streaks of clouds turned into gold from the light from above.
There was a call in the distance and I raised my head to look.
A rival? Prey?
A herd of Borg Cubes was startled below, jumping high over the tall grass on their spindly legs, letting out yelps of fear as they fled before me.
Awoo.
Awoo.
I blinked my eyes open in the darkness in my cabin, red light glowing as I tried to understand what the racket was.
Luckily, my body knew better than I did and I was on my paws and halfway to the door before I realized it was the red alert alarm.
"Huginn, visor!" I ordered, not slowing down.
The drone caught up with me a dozen meters later as I waited for the turbolift and slipped it into place. I quickly checked out the status. We were... fine.
I opened a channel, "Zephyr to Bridge, what's going on?"
Janeway's voice came back to me, "We don't know, Lieutenant, but the Val Jean just lost all power and is drifting. We're circling around to her now."
"Seska. She had a deadman's switch installed."
"That's our suspicion too. They're not answering to hails."
"They might not be able to," I answered as I squeezed into the lift, "Main Engineering," and left Huginn and Muninn to find their own way there, "If all power is out or if the computer is hard locked, their comms may be down."
"Agreed. We'll know more soon. Janeway out."
I bounded down the corridor, sliding to a halt as I reached the entry to engineering before I entered, "Report."
Carey looked like he had just woken up, his uniform jacket unbuttoned, "The Val Jean is not responding at all, I'm not detecting any energy signatures. And there is this," he said and motioned towards a console.
I spared it a glance.
Sensor contacts, closing fast. They'll be here in less than ten minutes. They must have been waiting under a sensor damping field to be able to get that close without getting spotted.
About a doz-
13
Fuck off!
Ambush. A planned ambush.
Disable the Val Jean and make us choose. Stay and save her and try to fight a dozen Kazon vessels or leave her to the Kazon.
If they were so down they couldn't even get our signals, we couldn't even tell them to get in the escape pods.
"Bridge to Engineering."
"Zephyr here."
"We have an incoming Kazon taskforce," Janeway said, "Any idea how to get a message to the Val Jean? Can we tractor them?"
I shook my head, "Not according to my numbers. If we try, we'll be stuck at less than warp five, they'll catch us. We'll buy a couple of minutes at best."
"Any chance of getting the Val Jean moving?"
I snorted, "While what I do might seem like magic, Captain, it's not actually magic. if I knew exactly what she did and was over there, then a big maybe. But unless we developed teleportation since last I looked at the technical manual, then no. Either we fight those Kazon or we get the Maquis to jump ship."
"I have an idea," another voice said and I recognized Harry's voice, "We can't message them, but what if we use the deflector and send a pulse of force against their hull, modulated to make it vibrate?"
"Good idea, Harry!" Janeway said and closed the channel.
Sure, go for it.
I put it out of my mind and got to work. There was a slight vibration in the deckplates beneath my paws and I brought up the logs in my visor.
A section of the ship had gone red from damage, and-
The brig.
"Computer, locate Seska."
"Unknown."
"Zephyr to Navari."
"Navari here," she answered, "I know! We're on it! Navari out!"
Alrighty then. I'll leave that problem to her, I had issues of my own. Whatever had happened in the area of the brig had caused some damage to our port shield emitters. Damage control teams were responding and we were diverting to backups, but we were having power fluctuations.
Some EPS conduits had to have taken damage as well.
Shit, it's like somebody set off a bomb.
"Navari to Zephyr."
I opened the channel, "Zephyr here."
"Seska is missing, somebody set off some sort of explosive in the Jefferies tubes next to the brig, it did a lot of damage. I have a crewman down and the forcefields of the brig failed."
We had not installed the metal bars yet. It had not been critical enough to get bumped up on the schedule.
Forcefields could hold Cardassians just fine, so what was the rush?
Well, there it was. That was the rush.
"I have people on the way to assess the damage, I think it messed with the EPS conduits in that area. Good hunting. Zephyr out."
I glanced at the sensor readings. A dozen smaller dots next to the Val Jean as well as a pair of shuttles had left the smaller vessel.
Kim must have gotten his message through. Which was good as the Kazon was less than five minutes away.
This being a coordinated assault meant that... Seska had been working with them after all. Good liar that one.
I bared my teeth slightly as I kept one eye on the sensor readings for a couple of seconds. It looked annoyingly familiar from the academy. Then I dismissed it and got back to work, I had my own things to worry about.
In this case, if there been any more bombs planted. It didn't show up on our standard sensor sweeps, but there were dozens- 27- shut up! ways of doing that off the top of my head.
But they might show up on an internal tachyon sweep.
I had to know if we were about to lose more systems or the fight with the Kazon may get real interesting, real fast.
There was a slight vibration, barely audible.
Somebody just fired a photon torpedo from the rear tubes. The Val Jean disappeared from the sensors.
Stop wasting my torpedoes damn it, we're down to hal- 21.
Kazons were 43 seconds away when the Val Jean detonated and we jumped into warp. I stared at the console, watching the Kazon slowly start to lose ground on us as we climbed up the warp factors.
Damn it.
"Computer, have any escape pods launched from the ship?"
"Negative."
"Computer, run a diagnostic of escape pod systems," I continued.
"Diagnostics complete. No issues found."
"Have any escape pods launched from the ship?"
"Negative."
I considered that for a second before I snorted in annoyance, "Computer, how many escape pods does the ship have."
"Voyager is equipped with forty one escape pods."
And there it is.
That should have been a nice round forty two. So she did manage to sneak something past me after all.
Son of a bitch.
I felt at peace.
Above the golden sun blazed, casting an almost dawn like light across the landscape from an deep azure sky, dotted with streaks of clouds turned into gold from the light from above.
There was a call in the distance and I raised my head to look.
A rival? Prey?
A herd of Borg Cubes was startled below, jumping high over the tall grass on their spindly legs, letting out yelps of fear as they fled before me.
Awoo.
Awoo.
I blinked my eyes open in the darkness in my cabin, red light glowing as I tried to understand what the racket was.
Luckily, my body knew better than I did and I was on my paws and halfway to the door before I realized it was the red alert alarm.
"Huginn, visor!" I ordered, not slowing down.
The drone caught up with me a dozen meters later as I waited for the turbolift and slipped it into place. I quickly checked out the status. We were... fine.
I opened a channel, "Zephyr to Bridge, what's going on?"
Janeway's voice came back to me, "We don't know, Lieutenant, but the Val Jean just lost all power and is drifting. We're circling around to her now."
"Seska. She had a deadman's switch installed."
"That's our suspicion too. They're not answering to hails."
"They might not be able to," I answered as I squeezed into the lift, "Main Engineering," and left Huginn and Muninn to find their own way there, "If all power is out or if the computer is hard locked, their comms may be down."
"Agreed. We'll know more soon. Janeway out."
I bounded down the corridor, sliding to a halt as I reached the entry to engineering before I entered, "Report."
Carey looked like he had just woken up, his uniform jacket unbuttoned, "The Val Jean is not responding at all, I'm not detecting any energy signatures. And there is this," he said and motioned towards a console.
I spared it a glance.
Sensor contacts, closing fast. They'll be here in less than ten minutes. They must have been waiting under a sensor damping field to be able to get that close without getting spotted.
About a doz-
13
Fuck off!
Ambush. A planned ambush.
Disable the Val Jean and make us choose. Stay and save her and try to fight a dozen Kazon vessels or leave her to the Kazon.
If they were so down they couldn't even get our signals, we couldn't even tell them to get in the escape pods.
"Bridge to Engineering."
"Zephyr here."
"We have an incoming Kazon taskforce," Janeway said, "Any idea how to get a message to the Val Jean? Can we tractor them?"
I shook my head, "Not according to my numbers. If we try, we'll be stuck at less than warp five, they'll catch us. We'll buy a couple of minutes at best."
"Any chance of getting the Val Jean moving?"
I snorted, "While what I do might seem like magic, Captain, it's not actually magic. if I knew exactly what she did and was over there, then a big maybe. But unless we developed teleportation since last I looked at the technical manual, then no. Either we fight those Kazon or we get the Maquis to jump ship."
"I have an idea," another voice said and I recognized Harry's voice, "We can't message them, but what if we use the deflector and send a pulse of force against their hull, modulated to make it vibrate?"
"Good idea, Harry!" Janeway said and closed the channel.
Sure, go for it.
I put it out of my mind and got to work. There was a slight vibration in the deckplates beneath my paws and I brought up the logs in my visor.
A section of the ship had gone red from damage, and-
The brig.
"Computer, locate Seska."
"Unknown."
"Zephyr to Navari."
"Navari here," she answered, "I know! We're on it! Navari out!"
Alrighty then. I'll leave that problem to her, I had issues of my own. Whatever had happened in the area of the brig had caused some damage to our port shield emitters. Damage control teams were responding and we were diverting to backups, but we were having power fluctuations.
Some EPS conduits had to have taken damage as well.
Shit, it's like somebody set off a bomb.
"Navari to Zephyr."
I opened the channel, "Zephyr here."
"Seska is missing, somebody set off some sort of explosive in the Jefferies tubes next to the brig, it did a lot of damage. I have a crewman down and the forcefields of the brig failed."
We had not installed the metal bars yet. It had not been critical enough to get bumped up on the schedule.
Forcefields could hold Cardassians just fine, so what was the rush?
Well, there it was. That was the rush.
"I have people on the way to assess the damage, I think it messed with the EPS conduits in that area. Good hunting. Zephyr out."
I glanced at the sensor readings. A dozen smaller dots next to the Val Jean as well as a pair of shuttles had left the smaller vessel.
Kim must have gotten his message through. Which was good as the Kazon was less than five minutes away.
This being a coordinated assault meant that... Seska had been working with them after all. Good liar that one.
I bared my teeth slightly as I kept one eye on the sensor readings for a couple of seconds. It looked annoyingly familiar from the academy. Then I dismissed it and got back to work, I had my own things to worry about.
In this case, if there been any more bombs planted. It didn't show up on our standard sensor sweeps, but there were dozens- 27- shut up! ways of doing that off the top of my head.
But they might show up on an internal tachyon sweep.
I had to know if we were about to lose more systems or the fight with the Kazon may get real interesting, real fast.
There was a slight vibration, barely audible.
Somebody just fired a photon torpedo from the rear tubes. The Val Jean disappeared from the sensors.
Stop wasting my torpedoes damn it, we're down to hal- 21.
Kazons were 43 seconds away when the Val Jean detonated and we jumped into warp. I stared at the console, watching the Kazon slowly start to lose ground on us as we climbed up the warp factors.
Damn it.
"Computer, have any escape pods launched from the ship?"
"Negative."
"Computer, run a diagnostic of escape pod systems," I continued.
"Diagnostics complete. No issues found."
"Have any escape pods launched from the ship?"
"Negative."
I considered that for a second before I snorted in annoyance, "Computer, how many escape pods does the ship have."
"Voyager is equipped with forty one escape pods."
And there it is.
That should have been a nice round forty two. So she did manage to sneak something past me after all.
Son of a bitch.
The federation uses tricorder scans instead of pat downs or strip searches. Cavity searches are unheard of, barbaric, and have been abandoned for centuries.
She's going to be insufferably smug the next time they meet.
Right until she remembers that she'd probably taste better than Kazon.
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Most catastrophes do, right up until the author reveals how it was done and we realize the clues that were in previous chapters. I trust Hiver knows what's what and we'll see behind the curtain soon enough - either after Zephyr has time to investigate, or we get a Seska chapter.
Mostly though, I'm confused about what happened to those shuttles and escape pods that were detected having launched from the Val Jean. Did we just lose Chakotay, Torres, et al.? I'm hoping they made it aboard in the 4 minutes and 17 second between when Zephyr noticed them on the sensors, and when the torpedo fired, and that torpedo was Janeway denying Starfleet tech to the Kazons, not Seska giving one last 'fuck you' before she left.
I admit that does seem more likely - anything that messed with the weapons systems is probably at the very top of the list of things they'd double and triple check for, along with life support, engines, and shields. Still, concern!