Garak enters the briefing room carrying two cups of tea, Early Grey, hot, and takes a seat across from its sole other occupant, Algernon.  Garak smiles amiably and notes: “Forgive me, I’m a tailor by trade and can’t help but notice.  That armor is magnificent.  Hand-riveted and fitted to the… Read more ⇢

The Enterprise is en route through the Klingon corridor, bound for the rendezvous. While Data works on Dunsel down in engineering, you check in on your two other guests. In the briefing room, under guard, sit the two mercs you rescued from the black hole’s event horizon. As you settle… Read more ⇢

The Enterprise is on her way, and Starfleet’s orders remain thin: deliver Harven Zax to a set of coordinates on the far side of the expanse before the deadline and hand him over to whoever is waiting there.  The orders don’t say who. With time to kill, the crew gets… Read more ⇢

The Enterprise shudders against the gravitational pull as Thor’s counter-field takes hold.  Her main deflector brightens, projecting a cone of light ahead of the ship. Inside it, the warped starlight straightens, and a corridor of calm space slowly opens, narrow and trembling at the edges. Kirk orders full impulse.  The… Read more ⇢

Over Robespierre’s protests, Jack orders everyone to fall back to the bay.  You’re abandoning ship. Once there, you’re about to board the puddle jumper, when you hear something from out in the corridor.  You throw a look to the open airlock. The ship’s battered utility robot peeks in, ducks out,… Read more ⇢

Jack eases off the throttle and noses the jumper into the debris field, following Data’s plotted course one fragment at a time.  It’s careful, painstaking flying, and by the time they clear the field without a scratch, the cruiser has drifted noticeably closer to the event horizon. You board the… Read more ⇢

The jumper leaves the shuttlebay and swings toward the cruiser. The black hole’s pull keeps dragging it off its line, and O’Neill has to keep correcting to hold course. Data informs Jack: “Colonel, I am detecting fourteen fragments of debris from the cruiser’s damaged thrusters on an intercept course.” “Shields… Read more ⇢