ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Yes, don't look a gift ship in the dilithium crystal.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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Yes, don't look a gift ship in the dilithium crystal.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
I'm pretty sure we don't want to crew it with any of our psychic crew members until we suck all the non kosher dimensional gunk out of it.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
Zara's last two personal logs didn't mention bringing the crew home alive...
They mention that some of the crew were recovered. That they are not fit to serve in Starfleet is strongly implied.
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- Location
- United States
what if we use the EC crews of some of our current explorer corps and transfer the old used EC excelsiors to the regular fleet?
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
- Pronouns
- He/Him
As for the crew...
"Less than salvageable" does not imply good things. We certainly won't be returning them to service...
"Less than salvageable" does not imply good things. We certainly won't be returning them to service...
SakSak
Unbound
- Location
- The Cold Wastes of the North
For a person to be 'less salvageable' to a society with vastly more advanced medicine, neuro-science, and actual telepaths and psychics on their payroll, I'm expecting them to be... well...
Let's just say my brain is conjuring unfriendly images of the insane asylum variety.
So, maybe, one day capable of doing something more productive than staring at walls with unseeing eyes?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Leslie:
"Welp, I'm looking over some of the material distortions on the Excalibur, and nobody has the tooling to check the tolerances and sizings on some of this crud. Going to have to tear most of the ship out and start over. I don't envy the Vulcans."
[shrugs, back to work]
Rob Henderson:
"Waaaaitaminute. He just parsed non-Euclidean geometry without a blip, but finding out ka'Athnon did something dangerous correctly caused him to have a meltdown that left him bedridden for a week."
Dizzy:
"Yes, Commodore."
Henderson:
"...That's weird."
Dizzy:
"Yes, Commodore."
"Welp, I'm looking over some of the material distortions on the Excalibur, and nobody has the tooling to check the tolerances and sizings on some of this crud. Going to have to tear most of the ship out and start over. I don't envy the Vulcans."
[shrugs, back to work]
Rob Henderson:
"Waaaaitaminute. He just parsed non-Euclidean geometry without a blip, but finding out ka'Athnon did something dangerous correctly caused him to have a meltdown that left him bedridden for a week."
Dizzy:
"Yes, Commodore."
Henderson:
"...That's weird."
Dizzy:
"Yes, Commodore."
You're right you're going to help with those dreams. Having to keep patients dead is hard on a doctor, even without alien geometries.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
So... psych leave for everyone?
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
I thought we did? Have enough EC crew that is. Also, I don't think we have 3 more extra berths when the Keplers become available.
So that's no Vulcans, Betazoids or... Indorians?
Alastor Mobius Toth
***** ***
- Location
- Neon Ghetto
Man, not going to lie, I was reading the last couple of Zara's private logs in this sort of insanely screaming voice that was shouting "BE HAPPY DAMNIT!!!" as she repeatedly punches out a mirror and cuts her hand on the glass.
....errrrr, but all's well that ends well! I guess this explains all the crazy admirals - potential contingency against assassination by random Old Ones artifact shenanigans!
....errrrr, but all's well that ends well! I guess this explains all the crazy admirals - potential contingency against assassination by random Old Ones artifact shenanigans!
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
The Indorians are less subject to generic insanity here and more subject to turning to the worship of Chaos or the ship becoming a mobile The Dunwich Horror.
So definitely no Indorians.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Hey, so the Courageous logs were really creepy. I know it wasn't in the format you wanted because of the writer's block, AKzu, but it was still really stellar work. And it technically doesn't prevent you from going back and doing what you originally planned on, if you ever feel like it. Thanks for the Smile! Be happy! 
Stupid Vulcans with their stupid logic and their stupid grumble grumble grumble...
No but really, in-universe this is totally the Vulcan'sfault saving the day through logic and reasoning. Even if it means the party won't be as big. But now we another, though smaller, party, so everyone have a logical time.
Stupid Vulcans with their stupid logic and their stupid grumble grumble grumble...
No but really, in-universe this is totally the Vulcan's
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AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Poor Excalibur, her machine spirit has probably been screaming in pair for almost three decades.
Courageous has probably been coo-ing in a calming matter to her all the way home.
I mean. If ship machine spirits were a real thing and not spacer superstition and Indorian spiritualism. > : V
ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
So see if we have enough Honorai? Any inquisitorial transfer officers of rank to at least be a bridge officer?
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Now I can't help but picture Courageous in all her busted up glory kicking ass while carrying Excalibur over her shoulder.
Beating off eldritch horrors with the butt of her rifle.
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Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
- Location
- United States
Courageous wore a British Navy Uniform at Dunkirk.
Even though Courageous at that point had been... ya know, sunk.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Excalibur:
"Hi, I'm Excalibur! I've heard so much about you! Pleasedtameetcha!"
Enterprise:
"Oh wow Exie we were SO WORRIED!"
Excalibur:
"Uh... you must be thinking of someone else, maybe. Not that I'm not flattered and all, but I'm super new to all this."
Enterprise:
"Wait, don't you remember? The Starbase Eighteen mess? The time around the black hole? The Four Year War? ...That thing with that damn control computer I'm sorry?
Excalibur:
"I'm sorry, I don't remember any of it."
Enterprise:
"Not even the '89 christening party? We were so proud of you! That wasn't even a past life!"
Excalibur:
"Wait... I've had past lives?"
Enterprise:
"..."
"Hi, I'm Excalibur! I've heard so much about you! Pleasedtameetcha!"
Enterprise:
"Oh wow Exie we were SO WORRIED!"
Excalibur:
"Uh... you must be thinking of someone else, maybe. Not that I'm not flattered and all, but I'm super new to all this."
Enterprise:
"Wait, don't you remember? The Starbase Eighteen mess? The time around the black hole? The Four Year War? ...That thing with that damn control computer I'm sorry?
Excalibur:
"I'm sorry, I don't remember any of it."
Enterprise:
"Not even the '89 christening party? We were so proud of you! That wasn't even a past life!"
Excalibur:
"Wait... I've had past lives?"
Enterprise:
"..."
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AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
This is legitimately The Saddest Thing
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Slightly edited, but... yes.
It struck me that there were a few ways to play it, and this was the most plausible one I had any desire or willingness to write.
It struck me that there were a few ways to play it, and this was the most plausible one I had any desire or willingness to write.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Slightly edited, but... yes.
It struck me that there were a few ways to play it, and this was the most plausible one I had any desire or willingness to write.
Being stuck in a hell dimension for a few decades can be rough on the soul. That we got her back at all is a miracle.