Who Watches the Watchers Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

Hello, Welcome!

We recently completed the Let That Be Your Last Battlefield thread in the TOS forum!

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.

Our "rule" is that if the episode has a "To Be Continued..." on the end, it is done in a single thread, but if it's just an arc of related episodes (like the Dominion Occupation Arc on DS9 or the Xindi Arc on ENT), each episode is a separate thread.

 

[Athena28]

Captain's log, Stardate 43173.5. We are en route to Mintaka 3, where a 3 man Federation anthropological field team has been studying the inhabitants. Our mission is to resupply the outpost and repair their malfunctioning reactor.

(Bridge)

PICARD: Mr. La Forge, report.

 

[May 20]

LAFORGE: We've finished replicating the parts they'll need, but what I don't understand is why a three man station would need a reactor capable of producing four point two gigawatts.

 

[Kertrats47]

RIKER: Enough to power a small phaser bank, a subspace relay station, or...

 

[CaptVader]

LA FORGE: A hologram generator. Oh, a duck blind. Right. They're anthropologists.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

PICARD: Who are studying an extended family of Mintakans at close range from a camouflaged observation post.

transcript to follow along: http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/152.htm

@Kertratz47: great pick!!

 

[Athena28]

TROI: According to Dr. Barron's preliminary reports, the Mintakans are proto-Vulcan humanoids at the Bronze Age level. Quite peaceful and highly rational.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Which is not surprising, considering how closely their evolution parallels Vulcan.

 

[Kertrats47]

WORF: Captain, incoming transmission from Mintaka Three.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Thank you, Lieutenant. On screen.
(a dodgy image with lots of interference lines)

 

[Kertrats47]

BARRON [on viewscreen]: Barron to Enterprise. Our temporary repairs have failed. The reactor is now inoperative.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Do you have battery backup?

 

[Orac]

Barron: 3 hours at best.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

DATA: Captain, if we increase to Warp 7, we can be there in 23 minutes.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Make it so. We're on our way.
(They see a big explosion on the screen. One man escapes through the now-exposed observation window on to the planet surface proper)

 

[Kertrats47]

WORF: We've lost contact, sir.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Increase to warp nine.

 

[Athena28]

(Outpost)

LAFORGE: The framework's still charged, so watch it.

 

[May 20]

[Path]

(Bronze age proto-vulcan apparently means slanted eyebrows, pointed ears and nineteenth century farm worker clothing)
LIKO: (a man) Why did we have to come so early?

 

[Kertrats47]

OJI: When the sun reaches its zenith, I have to be ready to take the measurements.