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 in, Mira, the wild-eyed old pirate, twitches in her chair, pounds the table and launches into something only barely resembling language: “Aaaar! Ye frontin’ tall, but lemme ‘splain. Ye bet yer vee we gunnin’ fer a tract, lest we go no talk-talk!”
Beside her, her hulking partner, Algernon, speaks up, in a deep, cultured voice nobody expected: “Do forgive my associate. Her command of the language is, shall we say, impressionistic. What she is endeavoring to convey is that we should be delighted to arrive at some mutually agreeable arrangement. A quid pro quo, if you will: the information you so clearly desire in exchange for our liberty.”
What do you do?
A) Take the deal. Let them go free at the next port and get your answers now, trusting that the information is worth it.
B) Refuse the deal. Send them back to the brig to think about it, then hand them over to the authorities at the rendezvous if they still haven’t cooperated.
C) Send in Garak. Let him have a quiet word with them. He may get the truth without a bargain, but there’s no telling what methods he’ll use or what it might cost you with Kirk.
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.
O’Neill and Data take the jumper to the cruiser where they encounter four stranded passengers: the annoyingly flamboyant Harven Zax, his silent bodyguard Lucinda Shockley, his mild-mannered protege Milo, a Starfleet official named Robespierre, and the ship’s utility bot, Dunsel. Everyone piles into the jumper and launch, only to be caught by the black hole’s gravitational pull. The Enterprise uses its tractor in an attempt to reel in the jumper while, on the bridge, the crew must decide what to do about the two life signs in the mercenary shuttle headed for the event horizon.
The Enterprise escapes the black hole’s gravitational pull by using the deflector array to project a counter-field ahead of the ship and then jumping to warp.
You set off for the rendezvous point and your guests settle in: no-nonsense Lucinda, meek Milo, officious Robespierre and, of course, the bombastic Harven Zax…
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