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-**ON+**ON**
  
-Timeframe:  Present day (Prime timeline), Stardate 61902.7 (old Earth date: November 26, 2384), 1737 hours shiptime. +**Timeframe:  Present day (Prime timeline), Stardate 61902.7 (old Earth date: November 26, 2384), 1737 hours shiptime\\  
-Location:  Main engineering, Deck 11, USS Republic (Luna Class), NCC-81371, docked at Space Station Deep Space Four**+Location:  Main engineering, Deck 13, USS Republic (Luna Class), NCC-81371, docked at Space Station Deep Space Four 
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 Vehns didn't join Starfleet to be an engineer.  As a Tellarite, he enlisted into the service as means to gain the skills necessary to become an officer on a mining ship near his home planet.  He didn't intend to to stay long, as his family and friends were off making huge profits in the ore trade, and his Starfleet experience would have ensured him a lucrative position in the industry.  However, the Dominion War changed all that.  When his homeworld was attacked, and a number of his comrades perished in the ensuing conflict, Vehns became incensed, and while not a violent person, a need for payback transcended his previous life plans, so he remained in the service. Vehns didn't join Starfleet to be an engineer.  As a Tellarite, he enlisted into the service as means to gain the skills necessary to become an officer on a mining ship near his home planet.  He didn't intend to to stay long, as his family and friends were off making huge profits in the ore trade, and his Starfleet experience would have ensured him a lucrative position in the industry.  However, the Dominion War changed all that.  When his homeworld was attacked, and a number of his comrades perished in the ensuing conflict, Vehns became incensed, and while not a violent person, a need for payback transcended his previous life plans, so he remained in the service.
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 "Yes.  All systems are running perfectly.  It's just that the computer onboard the Captain's skiff isn't providing the expected feedback." "Yes.  All systems are running perfectly.  It's just that the computer onboard the Captain's skiff isn't providing the expected feedback."
  
-"A deuterium tank," the chief engineer's voice trailed off. "A deuterium tank..."+"A deuterium tank," the engineer's voice trailed off. "A deuterium tank..."
  
 Somewhere in Pakita's mind, an alarm bell was ringing.  Something about building a fake signal generator into a backup engineering computer core of a Galaxy class starship so that the bridge wouldn't know that their controls were disconnected from the ship's main thruster manifold. Somewhere in Pakita's mind, an alarm bell was ringing.  Something about building a fake signal generator into a backup engineering computer core of a Galaxy class starship so that the bridge wouldn't know that their controls were disconnected from the ship's main thruster manifold.
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 Unlike Elohsa, Meridian was not an idiot.  She knew full well that Virtus had been aboard ship all throughout the mission to hunt down the Hirogen pirates.  However, her orders from Fleet Intel at the time were to simply observe passively, and only intervene when she deemed the ship or the Federation in danger.  She hadn't been required to inform Captain Roth-Dorian about her knowledge of Virtus posing as Crewman Cronus.  Besides, Fleet Intel saw it important to make sure that they knew where the renegade Malthusian was at all times, with the understanding that as soon as the green light was given, she would immediately hold Virtus for questioning by the Presidential Commission on Unpatriotic Activities.  Informing Roth-Dorian might have invoked a Draconian response such as incarceration at a starbase, possibly putting him out of Meridian's reach.  Keeping the captain in the dark about Virtus was for the good of Starfleet and the Federation. Unlike Elohsa, Meridian was not an idiot.  She knew full well that Virtus had been aboard ship all throughout the mission to hunt down the Hirogen pirates.  However, her orders from Fleet Intel at the time were to simply observe passively, and only intervene when she deemed the ship or the Federation in danger.  She hadn't been required to inform Captain Roth-Dorian about her knowledge of Virtus posing as Crewman Cronus.  Besides, Fleet Intel saw it important to make sure that they knew where the renegade Malthusian was at all times, with the understanding that as soon as the green light was given, she would immediately hold Virtus for questioning by the Presidential Commission on Unpatriotic Activities.  Informing Roth-Dorian might have invoked a Draconian response such as incarceration at a starbase, possibly putting him out of Meridian's reach.  Keeping the captain in the dark about Virtus was for the good of Starfleet and the Federation.
  
-However, Meridian also knew there were others on Republic who would have rushed to Virtus's aid were he to be discovered.  At least three sympathizers were among the crew; likely more.  Further, the known three were of high enough rank to interfere by enabling any escape plan that Virtus might hatch:  The First Officer, Chief Medical Officer, and Chief Engineer.  Once Meridian learned that Pakita was on her way down to the docking level en route to the Captain's skiff, it was clear that Virtus was about to escape.  The gig was up, and she had standing orders to bring him in should there be any hint of him fleeing Republic.+However, Meridian also knew there were others on Republic who would have rushed to Virtus's aid were he to be discovered.  At least three sympathizers were among the crew; likely more.  Further, the known three were of high enough rank to interfere by enabling any escape plan that Virtus might hatch:  The First Officer, Chief Medical Officer, and Assistant Chief Engineer.  Once Meridian learned that Pakita was on her way down to the docking level en route to the Captain's skiff, it was clear that Virtus was about to escape.  The gig was up, and she had standing orders to bring him in should there be any hint of him fleeing Republic.
  
-As she and the two other security guards she hastily conscripted turned a corner on the forward-most deck of the stardrive section, they found Pakita and her Tellarite assistant with open tricorders around a containment field that sealed the entrance ramp to the Captain's Skiff.+As she and the two other security guards she hastily conscripted turned a corner on the forward-most deck of the saucer section docking level, they found Pakita and her Tellarite assistant with open tricorders around a containment field that sealed the entrance ramp to the Captain's Skiff.
  
 "...Vehns, there's one more test I'd like to perform..." Pakita said to her cohort before noticing Meridian's presence. "...Vehns, there's one more test I'd like to perform..." Pakita said to her cohort before noticing Meridian's presence.
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-**Location:  Captain's Ready Room, Deck 1, USS Republic (Luna Class), NCC-81371 +**Location:  Captain's Ready Room, Deck 1, USS Republic (Luna Class), NCC-81371\\ Timeframe: Two hours later**
-Timeframe: Two hours later**+
  
 It was a ruined evening.  In bad temperament, Captain Roth-Dorian re-donned her uniform after following up on the reports of what happened with the Captain's Skiff and Virtus's hasty departure with a piece of Starfleet equipment.  Secrets were being kept by her subordinate officers.  Again.  Only this time, Carter had nothing to do with it.  Was it a curse?  A plague?  What had she started by putting back together this crew of wayward, disorderly officers?  It was time to get at the truth again, and like separating barnacles from the hull of a wooden seafaring ship, she would have to keep chipping away until it comes out clean again. It was a ruined evening.  In bad temperament, Captain Roth-Dorian re-donned her uniform after following up on the reports of what happened with the Captain's Skiff and Virtus's hasty departure with a piece of Starfleet equipment.  Secrets were being kept by her subordinate officers.  Again.  Only this time, Carter had nothing to do with it.  Was it a curse?  A plague?  What had she started by putting back together this crew of wayward, disorderly officers?  It was time to get at the truth again, and like separating barnacles from the hull of a wooden seafaring ship, she would have to keep chipping away until it comes out clean again.
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 "Is that all, sir?" he asked with disdain, still not looking her in the eye. "Is that all, sir?" he asked with disdain, still not looking her in the eye.
  
-Kim was hurt.  She had many hopes for this young man before her, carefully tutoring him on his way up through the command ranks.  While they had their differences in the past, they had patched most of it up, and this business with Virtus was tearing open old wounds again.  If wasn't fair to her, as it only served to alienate her from the rest of the crew.  That was one thing she would not tolerate.+Kim was hurt.  She had many hopes for this young man before her, carefully tutoring him on his way up through the command ranks.  While they had their differences in the past, they had patched most of it up, and this business with Virtus was tearing open old wounds again.  From her point of view, it wasn't fair to her, as it only served to alienate her from the rest of the crew.  That was one thing she would not tolerate.
  
 "Don't disappoint me again, Nat," she said with an air of finality, hissing her last word to him.  "DisMISSED..." "Don't disappoint me again, Nat," she said with an air of finality, hissing her last word to him.  "DisMISSED..."
  
-**OFF+**OFF**
  
-LTCR Leon Cromwell, MD, PhD +**LTCR Leon Cromwell, MD, PhD\\ Chief Medical Officer\\ USS Republic, NCC-81371**
-Chief Medical Officer +
-USS Republic, NCC-81371**+
  
  
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