"Deja Q" Line-by-Line!

[CoveTom]

Greetings, programs!

We recently completed our "Lower Decks Line-by-Line" thread.

After each completed thread, I, or my youthful ward LeadHead, randomly pick someone who participated in the thread to choose the next episode we do. Random.org selected thread participant Vanyel to be our next chooser. And Vanyel has chosen "Deja Q" as our next line-by-line adventure.

For any unfamiliar with our "game," you are asked to post only a single line (defined as one character speaking without interruption by another character) per message. You can post as often as you like, but someone else must post a line in between your posts.

As before, at the conclusion of this thread, we will pick someone at random from among all the participants to choose the next episode we do.

Enjoy!

 

[CoveTom]

[Exterior of the Enterprise at the planet Bre'el IV]

PICARD (voiceover): Captain's Log, stardate 43539.1. We have moved into orbit around Bre'el IV. With the assistance of the planet's emergency control center, we're investigating a potentially catastrophic threat to the population from a descending asteroidal moon.

 

[HarryM]

[Bridge]

DATA: The satellite's trajectory is continuing to deteriorate, Captain. This orbit will put it within five hundred kilometres of the planet surface.

 

[Brian]

GARIN [on viewscreen]: We're predicting the atmospheric drag will bring it down on the next orbit.

 

[HarryM]

SCIENTIST [on viewscreen]: Have you been able to find any explanation for this?

 

[Athena28]

DATA: No, Doctor. It is a most unusual phenomenon.

 

[RoseDuneKat]

DATA: No, Doctor. It is a most unusual phenomenon.

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: Won't the moon disintegrate prior to impact?

 

[Enterprise1981]

SCIENTIST [on viewscreen]: No, it has a ferrous crystalline structure and it will be able to withstand tidal forces, Captai.

 

[HarryM]

RIKER: Could we blow it into pieces?

 

[Enterprise1981]

DATA: The total mass of the moon would remain the same, Commander, and the impact of thousands of fragments would spread destruction over an even wider area.

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: How long before impact?

 

[Enterprise1981]

DATA: Twenty nine hours, sir. Projecting it somewhere on the western continent. That would destroy an area eight hundred kilometers in radius.

 

[Vanyel]

Female Scientist: That damage would be insignificant, Captain compared to the seismic repercussions, massive landquakes and tsunami.

 

[Admiral Shran]

GARIN [on viewscreen]: The force would raise a cloud of dust around the planet, leading to a significant temperature reduction. We could be looking at our own ice age.

 

[Enterprise1981]

PICARD: Mister La Forge, is there any way that the Enterprise could coax that satellite...

[Engineering]

PICARD (over comm): Back where it belongs?

 

[Admiral Shran]

LAFORGE: We'd need to apply a delta vee of about four kilometres per second. Even with warp power to the tractor beam, it would mean exceeding recommended impulse engine output by at least forty-seven percent. It'd be like

[Bridge]

LAFORGE [OC]: an ant pushing a tricycle. A slim chance at best.

 

[Vanyel]

Riker: Given the choice between slim and none I’ll take slim any day.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: Make it so.

 

[Vanyel]

Riker: Lt. Worf, contact all ships in this sector to rendezvous and join us in relief efforts.