The Slaver Weapon Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

Hello, Welcome!

We recently completed the Resolutions thread in the VOY forum!

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[Athena28]

First Officer's log, stardate 4187.3. The Enterprise shuttlecraft Copernicus is en route to Starbase Two Five with an important cargo. A Slaver stasis box discovered by archaeologists on the planet Kzin.

[Shuttlecraft]

SPOCK: These stasis boxes are the most remarkable thing the Slavers ever produced. Time stands still inside a stasis box. A billion years means nothing in there. What is it, Lieutenant?

 

[Oddish]

UHURA: "I've studied the history of the Slaver Empire, but it's sketchy. We know they were masters of all the intelligent beings in this galaxy a billion years ago, until one race revolted. Are the stasis boxes the only source of information we have?"

 

[CaptVader]

SPOCK: The Slavers and all their subjects were exterminated in the war that followed. Intelligent life had to evolve all over again. The stasis boxes are the only remnant of those lost civilisations.

 

[Orac]

Uhura: Why is it glowing like that?

 

[CaptVader]

Spock: Mister Sulu, what is our position?

 

[Poltargyst]

SULU: Passing Beta Lyrae, sir. One forty two degrees north east of galactic plane.

 

[CaptVader]

Spock: Most peculiar. This indicates there is another stasis box circling Beta Lyrae.

 

[May 20]

UHURA: Another one?

 

[CaptVader]

Spock: It would be most illogical that a stasis box would remain here undiscovered for so long. Beta Lyrae is one of the rare spectacles of the galaxy. Almost every ship that passes stops to see it.

 

[Orac]

Uhura: Maybe no one else was carrying a stasis box detector.

 

[Oddish]

SPOCK: "Possible. The only known stasis box detector is another stasis box. Still. Mister Sulu."

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

SULU: Yes, sir.

 

[Oddish]

SPOCK: "Bring us about. We'll investigate the Beta Lyrae system."

 

[Orac]

Sulu: Aye, aye, sir.

 

[CaptVader]

Spock [OC]: Stasis boxes and their contents are the only remnant of a species which ruled most of this galaxy a billion years ago. Their effect on science has been incalculable. In one was found a flying belt which was the key to the artificial gravity field used by starships. Another box contained a disrupter bomb with the pin pulled. As a result, all stasis boxes are now under the jurisdiction of Starfleet, and only certain key specialists handle them. The boxes are rare, potentially dangerous, and we seem to have found a second one.

 

[Orac]

[Planet surface]

(Spock, Sulu and Uhura are wearing life-support belts. Spock carries the box)

Uhura: I never did like these little ice-bound worlds.

 

[May 20]

SPOCK: We are not tourists here, Lieutenant.

 

[mattman8907]

SULU: Mister Spock, if it takes a stasis box to find another stasis box, how did anyone ever find the first one?

 

[Oddish]

SPOCK: "As with a number of discoveries, purely by accident, Lieutenant. The other box seems to be almost under us, perhaps thirty metres below the ice."