You’ve decided to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter broadcasting an emergency beacon.
O’Neill shuttles the rest of the away team – Daniel Jackson, Rommie, and Rodney McKay – to the ghost ship, threading the jumper into the open bay and setting down inside. “Just like riding a bike,”he says with some satisfaction. “A twenty-six-foot-long, fifteen-and-a-half-foot-wide bike with forward-mounted drone launchers and a cloak.”
But you quickly realize there’s a problem. The hangar doors are jammed open to space, and won’t cycle shut. What’s your next move?
Rommie suggests forcing the doors shut manually. Her android frame handles extended vacuum without a problem, so she can just walk out and crank them closed by hand. It’s slow and exposed, but the sure fix. “The catch isn’t the vacuum,”she adds. “It’s the anomaly. Those energy pulses hit while I’m out there, and they could knock me offline before the job’s done.” And then, catching Daniel staring: “What?” Daniel pops his eyebrows, considering: “Nothing. You just remind me of someone.”
McKay pitches running a hard line from the jumper to the dead servos. It will power the doors shut, but potentially bleed some of the jumper’s reserves. “Potentially?”asks O’Neill. “Potentially – possible,”he non-commits. “More or less. Ish.”
O’Neill considers just leaving the bay open and heading in directly through the interior airlock given they’re already wearing EV suits. “We’re dressed for the occasion.” It’s the fastest way in, but their ride ends up parked inside an airless bay, so any retreat means crossing vacuum again.
Whose advice do you take?
Choose!
PREVIOUSLY ON…
You and 19 others have been stranded in an amalgam universe of myriad SF realities. All 19 are sci-fi’s Best of the Best. And then there’s you, uniquely qualified given your encyclopedic knowledge garnered from your world where these characters, their technologies, and their stories are fiction, beloved t.v. shows you have watched time and again. Together, all 20 of you have set off on the Enterprise-D, tasked with finding a way home.
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