You’re sending the puddle jumper.  You’ll need a pilot and someone who can bypass and shut down the cruiser’s anti-abduction shroud so that everyone can beam back and spare the jumper a fully loaded return trip.

Who are you sending?

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A) Sheppard and McKay

B) O’Neill and Carter

C) Sheppard and Thor

D) O’Neill and Data

CHOOSE!

Previously On Amalgaverse…

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. On its first mission, the crew answered a distress call from a dead ship and found it was far from empty.  Aboard, the away team awoke an android named Maia, discovered a “survivor” named Rhea who turned out to be something else entirely, and fought their way off as scavengers closed in.  They came home to the Enterprise with two things: a new crewmember in Maia, and a fragment of the signature an entity left behind when it crossed into this reality.  Colonel Carter believes it’s one piece of a much larger puzzle, and that the rest of it is still out there waiting.

For your second mission, you have elected to follow a Starfleet directive, traveling to pick up and transport Harven Zax, a dangerous intelligence broker, to a rendezvous point at the edge of the Expanse.  Upon arrival, you discover his cruiser inoperable, drifting towards a black hole, the ship’s automated defense systems preventing Scotty from using the Enterprise’s transporter to simply beam them aboard.


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16 responses

  1. baterista9 AKA gildermcc Avatar
    baterista9 AKA gildermcc

    O’Neill and Data should be fun…to write.

  2. D. Data is only logical to drop the shroud. Fastest and most efficient. O’Neill to handle the outlaw.

    I would have liked to see Thor in action, but yhis is serious 🙃

    JamesPB

  3. Graham Willmott Avatar

    Oh dear, I’m worried this mission could be the last we see of the puddle jumper.

    All the team selections have their good points. I don’t think there’s much to choose between Sheppard and O’Neill for this mission, although in a way it’s Sheppard’s turn, and he deserves to have one last ride in the jumper before it’s torn apart by the black hole’s tidal forces. Meanwhile we haven’t seen Carter in proper Amalgaverse action yet, and McKay is always good value. The idea of sending Thor is an interesting option. I wonder though: Asgard technology, while very advanced, is quite alien, so is he familiar enough with the type of shielding present on that cruiser to disable it quickly?

    The technology in our current mission seems to be leaning towards the Star Trek side of things. Perhaps Data might be the most qualified to override the shroud. And pairing Jack with Data has scope for many fun conversations.

    So I’m going with D.

  4. Jane Woollestone Avatar
    Jane Woollestone

    Aaaw oh well, didn’t go with my previous choice, but, this is the best dream team ever! B, B, B please everyone

    1. Using the Enterprise-D’s tractor beam to slow the luxury liner down while Carter, McKay and Data work to drop the shroud got 7 votes. Sending the puddle jumper got five votes. Two additional votes were abstentions or clarification questions or hybrid votes for both.

      1. Joseph Mallozzi Avatar

        Voting also ongoing on X

  5. O’neill and Data? That’s an odd pairing. I’ll go with a classic, Sheppard and McKay.

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  6. Sheppard and Thor!!

  7. That’s a tough one, but I’m gonna say D because I think Data can work faster than anyone else there.

  8. D – no offense to the other brainiacs, but Data would be faster.

  9. Option D. Nobody taps buttons as quickly as Data. When you need to shut down an anti-teleportation shroud, prevent a warp core containment breach, or get 1300 words per minute on a typing test, Data’s your android.

  10. Thought a lot about A, but decided on D.

  11. Patricia L Shelton Avatar
    Patricia L Shelton

    D – just for the “conversation” between O’Neill and Data

  12. D) O’Neill and Data

  13. Options are very Stargate heavy. I’m going to mix it up and choose D, O’Neill and Data.

  14. Well, if you are worried about possibly having to fly back with a “fully loaded” puddle jumper then bringing a lightweight like Thor would be a good idea. But then the Asgard aren’t exactly the most physically capable race. How fast can he even run in an emergency? The Asgard do have some good experience with black holes though.

    On the other hand, while Data is possibly the most technically and physically capable, he also probably weighs the most.

    So, McKay or Carter. I lean toward McKay in this instance mostly because he tends to work wonders when his life is in jeopardy.

    I also think Sheppard is a better pilot. Jack, while good, is more of a commander than a pilot.

    So option A.

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