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Revision as of 09:48, 26 July 2021
Summary
During an away mission on Beta III, Boimler accidentally reveals through an open comm link that Beckett Mariner is Captain Freeman's daughter, while the bridge crew is listening. In the following, various crew members try to ingratiate themselves with Mariner. As this gets exasperating, she decides to go for a promotion so she can leave the ship and start over again. Tendi tends to a new crew member, Ensign "Peanut Hamper", an exocomp, who proves its skills in sickbay. In the Kalla system, Captain Dayton, who formerly commanded the USS Rubidoux, is concerned about keeping her new ship, the USS Solvang, in perfect shape. Then an unknown huge vessel shows up and destroys the ship with all hands. The Cerritos still receives a distress call from the Solvang and arrives in a debris field. Soon the enemy ship begins to tear apart the Cerritos as well and rips off a nacelle.
The enemies turn out to be the Pakled, who add any piece of technology they pillage to their ship. Captain Freeman runs out of options and orders her daughter to come up with a plan that breaks the rules. Mariner consults with Rutherford, who goes to the holodeck and asks "Badgey" to create a computer virus against the Pakled. Peanut Hamper is supposed to carry the virus over to the enemy ship but refuses to go on a suicide mission. Rutherford volunteers, and stores the virus in his implant. Shaxs grabs Rutherford, and they use a decommissioned shuttle to escape from the Cerritos and penetrate the hull of the Pakled ship. As Rutherford uploads the virus, the progress bar stops and the vengeful Badgey says the activation will only work with Rutherford still aboard.
As the virus activates, it leads to the imminent destruction of the ship. Shaxs rips off the infected implant from Rutherford's head, puts him in the shuttle and stays behind as the Pakled ship explodes. As the Cerritos regains power, the ship gets surrounded by three more Pakled vessels. But then the USS Titan with Will Riker and Deanna Troi appears with blazing phasers and chases the attackers away. In sickbay, Rutherford doesn't remember Tendi any more. After the memorial service for Shaxs, Mariner and her mother pledge not to fight each other any longer. Boimler, on the other hand, is offered a promotion by Riker and a transfer to the Titan, which he accepts.
Errors and Explanations
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Plot holes
- The USS Solvana is a new ship. Yet its registry number -- NCC 13101 -- is lower than the Cerritos's -- NCC 75567. Perhaps the registry number – which may or may not have been intended to start with 78 instead of 13 - was assigned before construction finished, and the ship spent the intervening period in the starship equivalent of Development Hell! (I mean, just look at the Prometheus from Message in a Bottle!)
Nit Central
- Francois Lacombe (Franc0is) on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 6:41 pm: Who the hell repaired Landru on Beta III? Surely not Starfleet or they would have known about it, and no one on the planet had the knowledge to do it. Perhaps it somehow managed to repair itself?
- Mariner and Boimler should have heard the ship calling on Boimler's badge, the thing is not that quiet and wasn't that far from them. They were probably too busy arguing to notice!
- Just how did the Titan know that the Cerritos needed help? The Pakleds were jamming all distress signals and other communications. Exactly! The crew of the Titan knew the only reason for such extensive jamming was to prevent a ship under attack from requesting assistance, giving Riker enough reason to take his ship to that location to investigate the situation and resolve the problem.
- The Pakled ship's computer systems were, in Boimler's words, wide open. So why could they not just link up to them and order the ship to power down, like Kirk did with the Reliant in Wrath of Khan? They didn't even need an access code the way Kirk did. The communication jamming by the Pakleds would have stopped the signel getting through.
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