From:		Jorith
Date:		14 January 1996 17:54
To:		U.S.S. Lafayette (BBS)
Subject:		RE: USS Lafayette - Main Engineering

} [Lt. Cmdr Kindle - Main Engineering]

	As all the new reports started coming in, Chandy's brain worked furiously to keep up. She was unsure if this plan was going to work before, but now trying to get the rest of the crew back onboard seemed to be an obstacle to big to overcome.
	"Zahn! Get a hold of the StarBase and have them get all our crew in extravehicular garments and waiting in the airlock hatch where the Lafayette is docked. After you do that, get yourself up to the bridge....and hurry!"
	"Mortimer, this is Kindle. Here's the deal. The bomb on the station will go off if there is any interaction between the station itself and any of the ships docked there. The only way that could be accomplished is through the umbilical support. Any activity that we do here is sensed through the umbilical and thus to the bomb. We can just drop the support either, as that will set off the bomb also. But the terrorists didn't take one thing into consideration - this ship. The Lafayette has one capability that the umbilicals are not designed to sense...the stealth mode. While still docked, we switch to stealth which causes a few small gaps to temporarily appear in the hull. A small team could be waiting near one of those gaps. When the saucer section retracts, the area the team is in decompresses and shoot them out like a 20th century Earth pez dispenser."
	"Once out, the team would have to act quickly and fire a magnetic grapnel to stop their 'fall.' Then moving to the umbilical, they would make a few delicate adjustments which, in theory, would allow the Lafayette to detatch and float free." Chandy takes a big breath as she continues, "Now, the crew on the StarBase would be waiting at the airlock. As soon as the Lafayette floated free, that room would decompress, shooting them all out. We then beam everyone onboard and off we go."
	"It's got a lot of risk involved, but I think it is our only chance to get out quickly."
	Chandy got up from her desk and walked quickly to the turbolift. "Detrick," she pointed to one of her more experienced enlisted engineers, "come with me. Lund, you got control down here. When Ensign Zahn gets to the bridge, coordinate with him so we can pull this off smoothly and quickly."