Nicke_AGM:
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Lt_G_Heinlein:
::::on bridge at OPS station ::::::

LtjgNimBer:
::monitoring aliens ships movement::

Tedi:
Hi I came by to watch

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::leaves the Captain's Ready Room::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::monitors Computer translation subroutines ::

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: AS THE GENEVEVA COMES ABOUT TO FOLLOW THE SHIP AGAIN, IT AGAIN MAKES ANOTHER TURN AND BEGINS TO HEAD TOWARD THE GENEVA

LtjgNimBer:
Ensign Youdidit: get down to stellar Cartography and keep an eye on our course

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Cdr: Mitchel it is headed for us again

Lt_Landt:
::cares for the patients with headaches from the awful noise from the unknown ship::

LtjgNimBer:
<Youdidit> Ber: Yes sir, on my way ::leaves TAC and enters TL::

LtjgNimBer:
Youdoit: Take TAC I'll handle this

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Helm: Let's avoid a collision with this thing.

LtjgNimBer:
<youdoit> Ber: yes sir, transfering control to this station

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE LARGE SHIP SEEMS TO BE PICKING UP SPEED; SENSORS CANNOT PENETRATE ITS HULL

Lt_G_Heinlein:
<Helm>XO : Starting evasives now XO

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: I need information and I need it now, Lt.

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: sensors are being reflected back

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: Is that thing hollow and does it have a breathable atmosphere?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
::::tries to Determine the meaning of the language strutcture through all know data:::

LtjgNimBer:
::lets try a phased pulse::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Counselor:  Anything?

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: trying to scan, but I'm being blocked, continuing to look for a weak spot

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : almost but the final bit seems to be eluding us

LtjgNimBer (Sound - #.wav):
Landt: Are you busy? Can you assist me at Science?

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: SENSOR READINGS ON THE EMMISSIONS THAT SURROUND THE SHIP APPEAR TO BE LIKE A SHIELD OF SOME SORT

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: Okay then, can you give me a readout on the distance?

Cmdr_Mitchell (Sound - #.wav):
DR: Doctor to the Bridge

LtjgNimBer:
XO: I million klics and closing, sir

Lt_Landt:
Lt. Ber:  I'm on my way, ::shows ensign Heel what to do and heads for the Turbolift::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: Speed and eta?

LtjgNimBer:
XO: 1/2 sub light 15 minutes

Lt_Landt:
::arrives at bridge::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: Okay, let's go to Yellow Alert again.

LtjgNimBer:
::waves at Landt:: Landt: let me show you this

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  ::walks over to Lt. Ber::  What do you need me to do?

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: Doc, can you fill in here, we're a bit shortstaffed.

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: We have a bio- hull on this object, er, ship, can you help me figure out how to penetrate it?

Lt_Landt:
Cmdr. Mitchell:  I'm going to help Lt. Ber out, sir.

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  I'll do what I can.

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : I am getting a partial translation ...but until I get more data I can't be sure of its accuracy

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: Go Doc

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: take the Tac panels, Youdoit is at SS2

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Helm: Prepare for evasive manuevers

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  ok

Lt_G_Heinlein:
<Helm>XO : Evasives Laid in XO

Lt_Landt:
::looks at tac panel, trying to remember what she was taught in the Academy::

LtjgNimBer:
::ok, lets keep looking for a weak spot and try to open it up::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::acknowledges with nod::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: Okay, whatdaya got?

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  we haven't fired on it yet, have we?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
<helm > :::busily reconfiguring new random patterns for future use :::

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: AS THE SHIP CONTINUES TOWARD THE GENEVA, THE THREE PREVIOUS SMALLER SHIPS COME AWAY FROM IT IN THREE SEPERATE DIRECTIONS

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: That thing is getting close

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: no we're just looking to open a scan in it

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  Have you tried changing the harmonics on the scanning array?

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: I'm trying to find a weak spot so I can do just that

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Counselor: Distance?

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  ok

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : approx 15000 km

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Counselor: Any deviation?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : The smaller vessels are going away from it at impulse factor 7

Lt_Landt:
::looks at the diagram of the large ship for any weakness.

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : that is it at its closest point relative

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE THREE SMALLER SHIPS GO OFF AND CLOAK....

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Counselor:  Take us to Red Alert

Cmdr_Mitchell (Sound - alert.wav):

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Readies ships systems for Red alert :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Counselor: Weapons and sheild status?

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION:  THE SMALLER SHIPS COME AROUND AND SURROUND THE GENEVA OUT OF WEAPONS RANGE

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::looks :::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Shields are 100 % and the weapons are at 95%

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  Lt maybe we should be trying to scan the smaller ships instead

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: on sector 7, there is a distortion of the shield, lets concentrate on that spot

Cmdr_Mitchell (Sound - #.wav):
Engineering:  I want that 5 % on Weapons status and I need it NOW

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  right,  focuses the scan to penetrate the weakest part of that spot::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::looks at readouts ...note weapons coming to full power :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: Are we still sending Freindship Messages?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : The weapons are now up to full strength and readiness

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: yes adjusting thoron wavelength, I'm at the hull, thats the bio-coporial readings i was getting before

Nicke_AGM:
<ENG> #Capt.: we're giving her all she's got sir

LtjgNimBer:
<coporial>

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: this hull is like living tissue, regenerating itself constantly, interesting.......

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: Anything on the inside of that thing yet?  and what about any atmosphere?

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  I think we're in, I'm getting all sorts of strange readings, I'm transfering them over to you.

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE GIANT SHIP STOPS JUST OUTSIDE OF WEAPONS RANGE AND BEGINS EMITTING WHAT APPEARS TO BE GASEOUS WAVE....IT SOON SURROUNDS THE GENEVA

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  I'm reading a breathable atmosphere...it looks like we may be able to send an away team in

LtjgNimBer:
::hmmm, lifeforms..... hmmmmmm non human. almost like.........::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: Okay folks, Now what is that?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::looks at gas cloud with wonder and then looks to see Nim's reaction :::

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: We're in, but, the life forms are not in a solid state, I'm checking the data  banks for a similiar file

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::Studies limited readings from ops console:::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: Okay, We signed on to investigate strange new lifeforms, so let's go investigate.....

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE BRIDGE LIGHTS BEGIN TO FLICKER; SENSORS PICK UP SMALL POWER DISRUPTIONS THROUGHOUT THE SHIP

Lt_Landt:
::thinks, the Dominion?::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::Struggles to reroute power to needed systems :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::senses the Doc's concern...::

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: we're being scanned at a high band frequency width, it's distorting our power signatures

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: Your thoughts?

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  Darn!  My consol went dead!

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : I am afraid we must give up a few decks to maintain life support and weapons

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE SHIP SHAKES SLIGHTLY AS IT SEEMS TO BE IN THE GRIPS OF SOME SORT OF "HOLD" 

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: mine too, let me go under and take a look see::

Lt_Landt:
Mitchell:  Sir, it may be a new sort of dominion ship...they do not usually like to take the solid form as Ber read by his scans

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Nim : pressor and tractor beams ?

LtjgNimBer:
Landt :::while under the console rerouting optics:: these life forms are more gaseous than gelatneous

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: If this is Dominion, then it sure is acting strangely.

LtjgNimBer:
Landt : more like the tholians

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: and what do you have on that atmosphere, can we breate it?

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  ::sees the consol go back online:: That's good Ber, I think it's fixed.

Lt_G_Heinlein:
::Continues re- routing power :::

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: Their atmosphere, at least the last reading we had has more amonia than ours, but it breathable, just going to leave a little taste in our mouths

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: In short, is there a window for an away team to investigate or not?

LtjgNimBer:
::gets up from under console, sucking on finger::

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: you turned it on a bit too soon, the power optic cable bit me

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  What's wrong?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Nim : Would a charge to the hull break us free ?

Lt_Landt:
Ber: sorry

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE POWER FLUCTUATIONS BEGIN AGAIN 

LtjgNimBer:
heiny: we don't know whats holding us yet, lets take a look at it

Lt_G_Heinlein:
All; Grrrrrrrrrrrrr :::begins re-routing power again :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: Since it isn't really acting hostile, perhaps we could get more by acting like honey than poison.

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE THREE SMALLER SHIPS BEGIN TO MOVE IN...THEIR WEAPONS POWERED

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: But I want to know if we can get outa here if we have to.

LtjgNimBer:
::reroutes plasma to console and couples it to the optic lines to prevent further power loss

Lt_Landt:
Hein:  Ber is still re-routing the power.  I'll try it though

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : the three "satellite "ships are comning in weapons powered up

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: ok, that should work

LtjgNimBer:
::reroutes more power to TAC and OPS::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heinlein:  Okay, target them and let 'em know we're ready to fight if we have to.

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::Routes power to shields :::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
::::Takes aim with the forward and aft Lasers :::

Lt_Landt:
Hein : ::programs  the hull to let off a charge::  tell me when

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: I'd really like to get this First Contact off on the right foot, and without a fight

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: their scans are on a wavelength similiar to our power transfer to our optics, so, i changed the parameters of our power signature, should be ok now

Nicke_AGM:
<SMALL SHIP>COMM: Federation....surrender your ship or they will destroy you

LtjgNimBer:
::they????::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: They may be as afraid of us as ......

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Hailing us Sir

LtjgNimBer:
~heiny~: they?? are they different??~

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: You remember the Corbomite Manuver?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Nim : I know nothing to indicate it either way

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::starts to think..... we may just have to blow this thing...::

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: yes sir, having the replicators make a "batch" of it up. :w:

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO: we can charge the hull or fire on your command

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::starts trying to remember the AutoDestruct Sequence, just in case...::

Lt_Landt:
Cmdr. Mitchell:  I can let off a charge from the hull, maybe that'll get the gas away.

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE GENEVA CONTINUES TO HAVE FLUCTUATING POWER DRAINS

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR:  Okay, Make it so....

Lt_Landt:
::charges hull::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Nim : What do you read of the smaller ship type of construction ?

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: they are fluctuating their scans to disrupt our power, i have an idea though...........

Lt_Landt:
::looks for any change in the gas::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Ber: And...?

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE CHARGE TEMPORARILY DISRUPTS THE "HOLD" BUT SOON IS IN FULL FORCE AGAIN....THE SMALLER SHIPS BEGIN FIRING

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Ber: Let's play this out.......

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Sheilds are holding but down a bit in field strength

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heinlein: Damage report?

Lt_Landt:
Ber:  wait.  Are they firing at us or the large ship?

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: Let's try that charge in increasing force and interval

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : no damage so far but Field strength to 98 %

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: we can t ryto use our deflector dish as a, kind of push and pull "arm" by emmitting a tachyon-thoron pulse through it, I will push us awayfrom them and startle them for a minute or two, give us time to think

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: I really don't want to end it this way.....

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Ber: Make it so.....

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : permission to fire ( on the small vessels ) ?

Lt_Landt:
Mitchell:  Yes sir ::charges hull at different intervals::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heilein:  You got your targets.... prepare to fire...

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Ready

LtjgNimBer:
::engages deflector dish::, aims it at smaller ship #2::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: Any change on their apparently foul attitude?

LtjgNimBer:
::totally disrupts the ship, goes spinning out of control into space::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::Now that should get their attention::

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: seems to work on the smaller ships, no damage to them

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION:  THE SURROUNDING GASEOUS HOLD BEGINS TO FLUCTUAT AND WEAKEN..ONE OF THE SMALLER SHIPS IS BLOWN AWAY

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Ber: Okay then, Heinlein, take out the other two

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: should I do another, or you gonna try comm again?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::Fires  Phasers :::

Lt_G_Heinlein (Sound - phasers.wav):

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE OTHER TWO SHIPS CLOAK AND MOVE OUT OF WEAPONS RANGE

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heinlein: Belay that

LtjgNimBer:
::engages beam at position of ship#1 ::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Aye Sir

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: Maybe they'd like to talk now?

Lt_Landt:
Cmdr:  The gas is almost completly gone.

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: I'

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE LARGER SHIP BEGINS TRANSMITTING THE SAME LOUD SCREECH IT DID ON THEIR FIRST ENCOUNTER

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::covers ears::

Lt_Landt:
::covers her ears::

LtjgNimBer:
m detecting we got a piece of ship#1, no damage, but its spinning too

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::turns down volume :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO:  Can you do something about that?

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: engineering is trying to boost shield harmonics to tryand help

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::feeds new signal through universal translator :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heinlein: Let's stand down and see if they do the same...

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::getting tired of this cat and mouse game::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Aye Sir ::: stands down weapons :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heinlein: BUT, keep them targeted...

LtjgNimBer:
:: stores another burst in the deflector shield::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Aye

Lt_Landt:
Mitchell:  Sir, the gas is  dissipated

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : weapons status on active standby

LtjgNimBer:
::aims deflector at sector 7 of large ship::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: Acknowledged..

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Crew: We seem to be at a stalemate, any thoughts?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : we might look to see if there is any change in the message they have sent us

Cmdr_Mitchell:
CSO: You and the Doc?

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: the last message we got was::brings up download"humans, humans" maybe they weren't talking to us, maybe they were talking to eachother and we got a piece of their communications

Lt_Landt:
Mitchell:  We could go over to the large ship and snoop around.

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: I sure would like an invite first....

LtjgNimBer:
Cmdr: maybe we should send a reverse signal, to indicate what we think they look like, and see if theyrespond to that

Cmdr_Mitchell:
DR: I really don't want their encounter with us to start off like a war

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::remembers lessons of other First Contacts, gone sour::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::looks to the Counselor quizzically::

LtjgNimBer:
::looks over to Heiny::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::Studies new signal :::

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Counselor: Surely, you gotta have a sense of something, Counselor?

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION:  SENSORS PICK UP ANOTHER LARGE VESSEL COMING FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NZ

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : i sense one thing and see another ..but it may be due to the fact that they are alien lifeforms

LtjgNimBer:
Heiny: the only telepathical thoughts I'm getting is one of wonderment, uh, what to do next, kind of thinking

Cmdr_Mitchell:
::starts rethinking the Auto Destruct might be the only way out::

Lt_Landt:
Mitchell:  Sir, It looks like the large ship has called for some of his friends.

Lt_G_Heinlein:
XO : Directing the translation from the UT to your Console

LtjgNimBer:
Landt: Yes, I'm getting that reading too, another identical one heading this way

Cmdr_Mitchell (Sound - #.wav):
Alien vessel, we would like to open discussion, peacable if possible, but we are prepared to defend ourselves, in necessary....

LtjgNimBer:
*Youdidit*: Are you picking up that other ship. Where is it's point of origin?

Lt_G_Heinlein:
~Nim : why dont you prepare that image file you spoke of ?~

Nicke_AGM:
<SHIP>COM:  ::Screeching sounds::

Cmdr_Mitchell (Sound - #.wav):
to Alien vessel....  We are prepared to end this ... one way or another

Lt_G_Heinlein:
:::runs through UT ::

Lt_G_Heinlein:
Directs to CO Chair :::

LtjgNimBer:
~heiny: I'm trying to send what we see them as, but, working on two other things, are you receiveing the picture i'm thinking of, ?? Send it if you can.~

Lt_G_Heinlein:
~Nim: Need XO 's approval first~

LtjgNimBer:
<Youdidit> Ber: Sir that ship is coming from the Delta quadrant, trying to find its point of origin right now, but it seems to be from beyond even that

Cmdr_Mitchell:
Heinlein: Make it so.....

Nicke_AGM:
ACTION: THE LARGE SHIP POWERS UP AND SUDDENLY MOVES OFF TOWARD THE NZ AND THE OTHER SHIP, LEAVING THE GENEVA TO WONDER........AFTER A FEW MOMENTS BOTH DISAPEAR OFF OF SENSORS

Nicke_AGM:
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