Choose Your Pain Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

Hello, Welcome!

We recently completed Treachery, Faith, and the Great River in the DS9 forum!

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Get ready for a story, here we go!

 

[Athena28]

[Laboratory]

BURNHAM: Doctor Culber, I've been studying the creature since it came on board. It's incredibly regenerative, but with each jump Discovery makes, it cries out. And the last 48 hours, it seems sluggish, depressed.

 

[May 20]

CULBER: We don't know if it experiences stress or pain like we do.

 

[CaptVader]

BURNHAM: You think I'm anthropomorphising.

 

[May 20]

CULBER: You discovered how to use the Tardigrade for navigation. A victory that maybe isn't a victory anymore, given the creature's deteriorating condition. Let me run some tests.

 

[Athena28]

BURNHAM: Thank you.

 

[CaptVader]

[Briefing room]

LORCA: In less than three weeks, the Discovery has prevented the destruction of the dilithium mines at Corvan 2, broken the Klingon supply line at Benzar, and routed an attack through the Ophiucus system.

 

[May 20]

CORNWELL: The reason you've been brought here today is it has become increasingly imperative that we duplicate Discovery's spore-drive technology, and get it into as many Starfleet vessels as possible.

 

[CaptVader]

LORCA: To that end, I ordered Lieutenant Stamets to release the schematics of our propulsion system immediately after our first successful jump.

 

[Athena28]

CORNWELL: Our new classified facility in Jefferson, Iowa received them and is building units according to those specs. We need more Tardigrades to ensure safe, accurate navigation. Every ship, every starbase, every colony is on the hunt for these creatures. In the meantime, we want Discovery to dial back on its missions.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: No, hold on a second.

 

[CaptVader]

CORNWELL: There is concern at the highest levels of leadership about taxing our prime asset.