Gambit Line-By-Line

[Orac]

Giusti: Somewhere on the surface.

 

[LeadHead]

Data: Bridge to Transporter Room 2, can you get a lock on the Away Team?

 

[Orac]

Chief [OC]: Negative, sir. There's too much interference.

 

[May 20]

[Ruins]

(what looks like a Romulan woman runs forward and grabs the artefacts)
RIKER: (to security woman) I'm going to head for those trees over there. If I can get there, we might be able to set up a crossfire.
(Riker makes it to some rocks and gets knocked out by a blast. The mercenaries get him and beam away)

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

DATA [OC]: Data to away team. Please respond.

 

[sekundant]

LAFORGE: Data, we've been attacked.

[Bridge]

LAFORGE [OC]: We've got one casualty and Commander Riker has been taken captive.

 

[May 20]

[Ruins]

WORF: Sir, the mercenaries have beamed away. They must have a base or a ship nearby. Can the sensors locate anything?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

[Bridge]

GIUSTI: Commander, we're picking up a vessel leaving orbit.

 

[Athena28]

DATA: Why was it not detected earlier?

 

[May 20]

GIUSTI: They could have been using the planet as a shield. Sir, they are powering up their weapon systems.

 

[sekundant]

DATA: Raise shields. Red alert.
(the little ship strafes the Enterprise as it passes)
DATA: Damage report.

 

[May 20]

GIUSTI: Minor hit on the port deflector. No damage. They're running, sir. Their speed is warp eight point seven and holding. I think they're at their maximum.

 

[LeadHead]

Data: Take us to Warp 9 and pursue. Lock Phasers on target.

 

[May 20]

GIUSTI: Sir, we should be within phaser range in twenty three seconds. Switching to long-range scanners. Commander, the sensor image of that ship is extremely weak. It's fading. The ship doesn't register on the long-range sensors. I'm sorry, sir. We've lost them.

 

[LeadHead]

Data: Increase the sensor field bandwidth. Patch in the lateral sensor arrays.

 

[sekundant]

GIUSTI: It's no good, the signal's gone. It just disappeared.

 

[Kertrats47]

DATA: Plot a course and take us back to Barradas III. Notify the away team to prepare for transport.

 

[Orac]

Giusti: Aye, sir.

 

[May 20]

[Observation lounge]

DATA: Starfleet Intelligence confirms that a ship matching this configuration has been linked to raids on several other planets in this sector. For the short time it was within our visual range, we were able to take sensor readings of the mercenary vessel. It appears to be encased in an energy absorbing material. Although we can see the ship, this energy sheath renders it virtually undetectable to our long range sensors.

 

[Kertrats47]

TROI: There must be some way we can track it.