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NE Navs spoke up, “…Err sir? The planet you’re indicating is only 900,000 km away we could get there on full impulse in a few moments. Plus warping in system if I may remind the Captain is dangerous, and really I’ve never done it much beyond the simulator in emergency training runs..” he said.

‘’Just inform the engineering dept about the orders ‘’ Cross chirped in before her hand went up to cover her big mouth,as she remembered the last time the doctor sat in the Captain’s chair supposedly taking care of the ship.She did wonder whether her actions then were the result of them being here now…what if Cross had ordered to fire back at the Serpent’s ship and send it into oblivious ?.

“Really? It looked further away before,” replied Glen. “I’d better make an appointment with the Ship’s Optician… …Just take us there at full impulse then.”

That was it, Glen thought. Kord was spending too much time on these weapons and totally neglecting his role in human resources.

=/\= Glen to Kord. Kord, I’m still waiting for you to send me a new Helm officer. Also, isn’t about time we promoted someone to Chief Engineer? That business with the Boron Particle shows how vital it is for us to have a Chief Engineer in place. Please make a decision and get them in place immediately. Your weapons project is important for us to defeat the ‘Dark Serpents’ but you cannot let it be responsible for you neglecting your other duties. Glen out! =/\=

OOC: Dang Glen is savage! :P LOL

He then looked to the Comm station where Bre would normally rule supreme, which now had Yeoman Hopkins as temporary cover.

“Please open a secure channel to Starfleet Command. Code factor 1.” Glen announced.

After a moment Hopkins spoke “..Subspace encoded channel open to Starfleet Command sir..” they said. “..Audio only for now until the video uplink catches up..”

=/\= Admiral Riles here Captain, how are things going out there?=/\= He said.

Glen replied to the Admiral. =/\= Good progress made, I think, although I have to say that if we hadn’t already experience time travel, some of the revelations might be mind blowing. We have made contact with the 24th Century ship and had a meeting where we shared information on the ‘Dark Serpents’. It appears that while the threat is much larger in the future, they are more vulnerable to attack in the here and now. We are also preparing a weapon that should be effective against them and halt their advances. We have experienced some sub-space anomalies that I can only describe as ‘ghosts’ but have been instructed on how to counteract those. We also found a hidden ‘Boron Particle’, something akin to an ‘Omega Particle’ which the 24th Century engineers dealt with for us. I think that may have been an attempted attack upon us. It seems that these 24th Century officers deal with a good many things on a frequent basis that we would find almost fantastical. The Captain of the ship is the daughter of the Romulan Commander Andon, who I have liaised with on several occasions. So, there are Romulans in Starfleet, as well as talking antelopes. There has been a lot to take in. Our next mission is to investigate the third planet of a local system, a planet that has disappeared in the future. The idea is that the disappearance must be significant to this mission. Also sir, apparently as regards time travel, the Merrimack has some special property of protection… I admit I don’t understand the science behind it… but as a result of our earlier time travelling we have been charmed and are immune to some attacks. =/\=

Willam turned around in his swivel chair. The future was an intimidating place for sure. He wondered if he had any ancestors there, children of his own or if his family line dies with him. He truly wasn’t getting any younger.

=/\= I heard from the station commander about the scans possibly showing that anomaly. It’s something we’re looking right now see if we can replicate it but right now the egg heads here at HQ and Memory Alpha all are stumped on ideas so probably isnt something we’ll see happen anytime soon. As for the rest of what you said, not sure how I feel bout the idea of the Rommies being in Starfleet in whatever future your friends are coming from, just doesn’t seem right if you ask me given all the problems we’ve had since the get go..=/\= Trailing of for a moment, he shook his head then obviously putting aside his personal feelings, =/\= In either case good to hear you’re in one piece still, the folks behind the scenes coordinating this with some egg head from further in the future here at HQ says ‘things are on track’ whatever that means, he keeps spouting off some nonsense about some ‘temporal prime directive’ bunch of hog wash if you ask me. In either case since we cant send you any ships to help fight this ‘dimensional/time hopping snakes’ or whatever you’ll have to do what you can on your own with your future friends, again this further future guy here at HQ says it’ll all work out but its damn annoying not having more information to give you or advice.=/\= He commented.

=/\= It does appear that they are very tied to their ‘Temporal Time Directive’, when it suits them to be, Sir! =/\=

=/\= In either case keep us appraised if you can, despite our future friend here at HQ telling me not too I’m sending the USS Portsmouth and USS Brans both Miranda class cruisers out your way with several Larson class destroyers. I know they won’t be of much help but they should be there in another hour or two regardless. If you find a use for them in some way get in touch with Captain Sturpets of the Portsmouth he’s got overall tactical command of that squadron..=/\= He said.

=/\= Anything else?=/\=

=/\= I appreciate the gesture Admiral, but as I just outlined, the reason the Merrimack is fighting capable here, is due to the temporal hiccup we got during our time with the Elders and Ancients, that also effected our weapons. No heroics here, Sir, but Captain Sturpets’ squadron do not have that protection or upgrade, and they would be heavily disadvantaged in any fight against the Dark Serpents. I think that it is better that they assemble somewhere nearby and wait for the present time, making a show of force. If we get into a battle, once the tide has turned in our favour, we can call in the cavalry to finish off. With all due respect, Sir, if it doesn’t turn in our favour, then it would be pointless to throw more ships, and weaker ships, into an unwinnable frontal assault. =/\=

Glen, Merrimack, CO