You decide to keep Dunsel’s footage to yourselves and simply monitor your four suspects. Robespierre retires to his quarters, and the comm logs show another round of encrypted traffic going out under his diplomatic seal. In Ten Forward, Zax holds court, regaling everyone within earshot with the tale of how… Read more ⇢

Kirk apprises Councilor Robespierre of the situation, and for the first time since he came aboard, Robespierre looks genuinely happy. A legal battle is exactly his kind of fight. He comes to the bridge, steps up to the viewscreen, straightens his collar and begins.  Under the Khitomer Accords, he informs… Read more ⇢

The cruiser breaks away from the Enterprise and runs for open space, leaving its soldiers behind. It doesn’t get far. Behind it, space ripples and a Klingon Bird-of-Prey shimmers out of cloak, its wings lowering into attack position. Two torpedoes, two direct hits, and the cruiser is gone, leaving behind… Read more ⇢

The surviving strike teams act on their orders, converging on the guest deck, where Harven Zax is being held.  Surprisingly, they meet no resistance.  One squad moves toward a closed door, rifles raised.  From behind it comes a voice, rich and theatrical: “Confined like a common felon!  Herded about by… Read more ⇢

While O’Neill and Sheppard’s teams take the fight to the strike teams, Carter’s team digs in to defend the guest deck, leaving Kirk to hunt the beacon with Scotty, Teal’c, and Data.  The signal leads them to main engineering, but there’s nothing there to see.  Then Data recalibrates his tricorder,… Read more ⇢

Kirk doesn’t wait for the mystery ship to arrive.  He has teams take up positions at key points on the ship.  Kirk, Sheppard, Carter, and O’Neill each lead a team.  On emergency power, there’s no internal sensor grid to track intruders, so every team will be fighting blind. The guests,… Read more ⇢