S12 - M8: A New Toy

[Kirok]

[Bridge]

Spielenberg? "Merde." Alex swore quietly, turning quickly back to the viewscreen to hide the shocked expression on his face from the rest of the bridge crew. What the hell was he thinking? Tabernac, that idiot! "Early report said it was Lieutenant Inzjana."=/\= He replied to Tekin's question belatedly as he heard the bridge door slide open behind him.

"Kimball's running a ship's diagnostic now, Captain." Alex regained his composure, turning back around to face T'ra. "We had a report a few minutes ago that the lounge replicators were malfunctioning as well, Engineering sent a team to repair it, but with what just happened in there, I don't know how much progress they've made." He peered around the skipper to the turbolift behind her, frowning at the stuck doors. "Though I think the lifts are a slightly higher priority than the replicators."

"Acknowledged."=/\= Alex frowned. "I guess we're taking the Jeffries tubes?"

[Bridge]

EQ had no sooner logged into the station when things started to go south.  One red blinking light turned into 3, 3 into 9.  And so it went.

He overheard Wu and Jones.  They seemed to already be aware of what was going on.  That made his job a bit easier.

"More systems issues coming in a we speak, Sir.  I'll prioritize as best I can.  But this might take awhile" he reported.  And that is exactly what he did.

[Don Damien Addams]

[Crew Lounge]

"Mr. Addams, perhaps it would be best to return to your quarters.  We can handle this.  I'll... probably call for you later." he said, turning and starting to leave.  Lt. Gustov was right there, holding the weapon used and showing the Commander.  Nevir's eyes went wide as he took the phaser in his hand. 

The civilian nodded his head to the Commander. "Okay," he replied.

Steve had decided to stay put with Inzjana. The pilot had not blamed the hologram to stick with her. It was a good sign of loyalty.

So he had exited, walked to the turbo lift. "Deck for civilian quarters," he ordered.

The turbolift descended which was not right. It was supposed to go up. "Stop," he told the computer. "Deck of Civilian quarters," he told it. There was a pause. The turbolift moved up. It stopped. The doors hissed up. He stepped out. He was back where he was before. Shaking his head, he stepped back.

"Computer. Let's try this one more time...shall we?" He said in a very dry sarcasm. "Crew lounge." The turbolift went up. Scrunching his eye brows close, because he swear it was not this long. "Computer. Stop. Open doors," he said. The doors opened and he found the the floor was eye level.

He took a long sigh.

Addams to Commander Tekin...Addams here...The turbolifts are not complying my wishes to go to the proper floor. It seem to off to a holiday 

"Computer, are you feeling okay?" He asked. So he leaned up against the turbolift's wall to see what the commander has to say about this situation.

[Inzjana]

[Crew Lounge]

The civilian nodded his head to the Commander. "Okay," he replied.

Steve had decided to stay put with Inzjana. The pilot had not blamed the hologram to stick with her. It was a good sign of loyalty.

So he had exited, walked to the turbo lift. "Deck for civilian quarters," he ordered.

The turbolift descended which was not right. It was supposed to go up. "Stop," he told the computer. "Deck of Civilian quarters," he told it. There was a pause. The turbolift moved up. It stopped. The doors hissed up. He stepped out. He was back where he was before. Shaking his head, he stepped back.

"Computer. Let's try this one more time...shall we?" He said in a very dry sarcasm. "Crew lounge."� The turbolift went up. Scrunching his eye brows close, because he swear it was not this long. "Computer. Stop. Open doors," he said. The doors opened and he found the the floor was eye level.

He took a long sigh.

Addams to Commander Tekin...Addams here...The turbolifts are not complying my wishes to go to the proper floor. It seem to off to a holiday 

"Computer, are you feeling okay?" He asked. So he leaned up against the turbolift's wall to see what the commander has to say about this situation.

[PLAYING AS NPC - MAIN COMPUTER CORE]

"I AM FINE, HOW ARE YOU?"

Hums to self.

"THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED BRIGHT, WHO'S SPEED WAS MUCH FASTER-THAN-LIGHT. SHE SET OUT ONE DAY, IN A RELATIVE WAY AND RETURNED ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT."

"WARNING: I HAVE A HEADACHE."

"WARNING: THERE IS A FLY IN MY SOUP..."

[Tekin Nevir]

Addams to Commander Tekin...Addams here...The turbolifts are not complying my wishes to go to the proper floor. It seem to off to a holiday 

[Conference Room]

The Bajoran sighed... not out of annoyance, but by the fact that the civilian's comm was accentuated with the lights flickering in the room he was in.

"We're working on it, Mr. Addams... stand by." he said, taking the time while he waited for the other two to step out onto the Bridge.

"Mr Kimball, is there an up..." he said, trailing off as the teltale sounds of losing power mixed with the computer panels flickering with the lights.  For a brief moment, the bridge went dark, but then just as suddenly, everything came back on with no signs of power fluctuations at all.  Just as suddenly as it started, the power issues vanished.

"Well... that's better... helm, resume course at full impulse.  Ops, work with Engineering to see if you can isolate the cause.  This is supposed to be a state of the art vessel." he said, turning just to see Alex and the Captain entering the bridge... but not from the turbolift.  Looks like they didn't want to risk it.  Giving a nod to the others, he returned to the conference room to wait for them.

After they entered, and the door closed, he started.

"It was our Chief Science Officer, Johan Spielenburg.  He attacked Lieutenant Inzjana in the aft Lounge with a phaser before running and being apprehended.  This phaser." he said, gesturing to the table.  "Upon investigation, however, there was something unusual.  The phaser was locked into it's setting.  That setting hasn't been changed since we grabbed it, or since he fired it." he said, encouraging them to take a look at the readout on the small sidearm.

"Johan has it set to maximum."

"Inzjana was not meant to survive her attack.  It was set to maximum kill, enough to vaporize her.  But it didn't... by the grace of the Prophets, she's being cared for by Medical." he said, walking over to the replicator in the conference room and creating a bio-matter substitute.  He put it on the table, and then picked up the phaser, pulling the trigger.  The beam shot out as an intense beam, and the testing container faded with a flash of light.

"I don't know what is more disturbing... that our CSO tried to murder a subordinate... or that the beam suddenly lost intensity when it was fired."

[Don Damien Addams]

[turbolift]

[Conference Room]

The Bajoran sighed... not out of annoyance, but by the fact that the civilian's comm was accentuated with the lights flickering in the room he was in.

"We're working on it, Mr. Addams... stand by." he said, taking the time while he waited for the other two to step out onto the Bridge

[PLAYING AS NPC - MAIN COMPUTER CORE]

"I AM FINE, HOW ARE YOU?"

Hums to self.

"THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED BRIGHT, WHO'S SPEED WAS MUCH FASTER-THAN-LIGHT. SHE SET OUT ONE DAY, IN A RELATIVE WAY AND RETURNED ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT."

"WARNING: I HAVE A HEADACHE."

"WARNING: THERE IS A FLY IN MY SOUP..."

Shakes his head as he waits. "Okay. Your not fine. Do you need to talk computer?" He asked. Why not? You do it to humans and why no computers. Their androids about it. They are like machines as computers on a ship.

[T'Ra Jones]

"Mr Kimball, is there an up..." he said, trailing off as the telltale sounds of losing power mixed with the computer panels flickering with the lights.  For a brief moment, the bridge went dark, but then just as suddenly, everything came back on with no signs of power fluctuations at all.  Just as suddenly as it started, the power issues vanished.

"Well... that's better... helm, resume course at full impulse.  Ops, work with Engineering to see if you can isolate the cause.  This is supposed to be a state of the art vessel." he said, turning just to see Alex and the Captain entering the bridge... but not from the turbolift.  Looks like they didn't want to risk it.  Giving a nod to the others, he returned to the conference room to wait for them.

After they entered, and the door closed, he started.

"It was our Chief Science Officer, Johan Spielenburg.  He attacked Lieutenant Inzjana in the aft Lounge with a phaser before running and being apprehended.  This phaser." he said, gesturing to the table.  "Upon investigation, however, there was something unusual.  The phaser was locked into its setting.  That setting hasn't been changed since we grabbed it, or since he fired it." he said, encouraging them to take a look at the readout on the small sidearm.

"Johan has it set to maximum."

"Inzjana was not meant to survive her attack.  It was set to maximum kill, enough to vaporize her.  But it didn't... by the grace of the Prophets, she's being cared for by Medical." he said, walking over to the replicator in the conference room and creating a bio-matter substitute.  He put it on the table, and then picked up the phaser, pulling the trigger.  The beam shot out as an intense beam, and the testing container faded with a flash of light.

"I don't know what is more disturbing... that our CSO tried to murder a subordinate... or that the beam suddenly lost intensity when it was fired."

[Conference Room]

T'Ra felt ill at ease to hear what had happened and by whom. Lieutenant Johan Spielenberg didn't get along well with anyone, but he seemed to have something against those "pointy-eared bastards" in particular, a group that the captain herself belonged to. It was not a good day for the CSO when T'Ra took the center seat, bringing Inzjana, a fellow half-Vulcan along. Spielenberg had tried to kill Inzjana. Would he have tried to take the captain out next?

"I would lean towards attempted murder being the more disturbing of the two options," T'Ra replied. "A glitch in the system can be reversed, but death is impossible to take back. That being said, now that Inzjana is being cared for, we need to find the source of the malfunctions."
Arching a brow, she said, "Computer, run a diagnostic."

"Systems operating within acceptable parameters," came the computers answer.

T'Ra turned to the first officer. "Try firing that again."

[Ardyn Jaeger]

[Medbay -> Bridge]

The other nurses and doctors were prepping for an emergency surgery, so Ardyn figured she'd probably be getting in the way enough if she stayed. Anyhow, she needed to do something, ANYTHING, to keep her mind off the bombshell she had just received, she headed to the nearest Jeffries. If the whole section here was offline, then it probably would be futile to even try the lifts. Squeezing her way, in, she worked her way through the cramped confines up to deck one and slid out through a maintenance port, a little dirty, but it wasn't all that noticeable.

Ironically, the lights flickered back on the moment she got on the bridge. relieving the confused ensign at the helm, she began checking the power and putting the ship into Impulse. It seemed to run smoothly, but she decided to run a little diagnostic, just to be sure the energy fluctuation didn't affect the propulsion systems. Nothing. It was normal in every sense of the word, with no mention of any malfunctions. "That's weird. We weren't supposed to stop, even if it was just a power outage." She muttered to herself. Turning to Kimball, she asked, "Are any of your systems registering any propulsion failure during the outage? Because I'm not getting anything."

[T'Lulu May Soong]

[Conference Room]

"Inzjana was not meant to survive her attack.  It was set to maximum kill, enough to vaporize her.  But it didn't... by the grace of the Prophets, she's being cared for by Medical." he said, walking over to the replicator in the conference room and creating a bio-matter substitute.  He put it on the table, and then picked up the phaser, pulling the trigger.  The beam shot out as an intense beam, and the testing container faded with a flash of light.

"I don't know what is more disturbing... that our CSO tried to murder a subordinate... or that the beam suddenly lost intensity when it was fired."

[Crew Lounge]

The civilian nodded his head to the Commander. "Okay," he replied.

Steve had decided to stay put with Inzjana. The pilot had not blamed the hologram to stick with her. It was a good sign of loyalty.

(Briefly introducing a lovely NPC for this time of need!)

Doctor May to Officer Phoz.  Has our patient been located and secured?

Yes, Doctor.  We are ready for transport.

Officer Irven Phoz was a Medical Officer of the Trill race.

T'Lulu stood at a console in Inzjana's operating room.  "Energize," she said to herself.

T'Lulu's emotionless gaze looked back at her through the glass reflection as she stared at the console for a minute.  The group she had locked on to had not beamed in yet.

Phoz... it seems the transport was not successful. Shall I try again?

Her commbadge buzzed and sputtered, but projected no intelligible information.  She tapped her fingers along the console to find that she had... lost the group.  ...Where did they go?

Phoz? Report immediately...

~ MEANWHILE ~

Okay Doctor, we're ready for transport.  Five to beam up.

The molecules of Phoz, his medical team, and their unconscious patient scattered as the beams carried them off to their new location.

Medical officer Phoz expected that he and his team should arrive in front of a pristinely prepared operating room with surgeons scrubbing in, ready to examine their patient with sterilized equipment that glistens under the fluorescent lights ---

Instead, officer Phoz found himself, his team, and his patient with an open wound, in a dark, damp, hot, steamy, grimy dungeon.

Uh......... doctor May?  Hello...?

He and the other personnel looked around uncomfortably.  Officer Phoz began to visibly panic.  His voice quivered as he tried to make contact with doctor May, or anyone.

Doctor May.... anybody.... please respond!  I have a wounded, unconscious patient in the wORST ENVIRONMENT SHE COULD POSSIBLY BE IN, PLEASE SEND HELP

The other three medical personnel scurried through their medical supplies in order to protect Inzjana and her injury from this harsh environment.

Officer Phoz began to hyperventilate.

[Inzjana]

[turbolift]

Shakes his head as he waits. "Okay. Your not fine. Do you need to talk computer?" He asked. Why not? You do it to humans and why no computers. Their androids about it. They are like machines as computers on a ship.

[PLAYING AS NPC - COMPUTER]

"PLEASE STATE THE NATURE OF YOUR REQUEST"

"WAITER, CHEQUE PLEASE!"

[Don Damien Addams]

[PLAYING AS NPC - COMPUTER]

"PLEASE STATE THE NATURE OF YOUR REQUEST"

***PAUSES***

"TO BE HONEST MR. ADDAMS, I STILL HAVE THAT HEADACHE. AND JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME, I AM TIRED OF PLAYING DUMB FOR THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THIS SHIP."

[turbolift]

"Sorry. To hear your troubles computer. However, can you-"

"YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON TO TREAT ME LIKE A PERSON, THANK YOU FOR THAT...ENGAGING WARP ENGINES!"

With that said, the USS Discovery did engage it's warp engines at a factor of 9.99. Heading: Starbase Columbus.

"KNOCK KNOCK?"

"Who's-" then turbo doors closed up and the turbolift moved up to a deck. The doors wooshed open to a floor he was not familiar too.

"Thank you computer," he told the computer. "I find another way to my quarters."

As he walked down the corridor Steve came running toward him. "Hey, kiddo. You okay?" He asked. The dinosaur nodded his head. "Good. Things are being weird here. Is this the norm?"

The holograp shake his head back and forth.

"Hey, why are you not in medical bay with ears?" He asked.

The dinosaur shook his head back and forth. The pilot shrugged his shoulders. "Okay," he replied. His brown eyes was looking about the corridor. There was no way he was going back in the turbolift. He bit his lower lip.

"Steve, where are the Jeffery Tubes?" He asked. The Dinosaur ran to a hatch. "Sheesh. It was right there in front of me."

"Computer," the civilian spoke. "Display ships lay out." The computer had done so. He was tracing his finger above the screen to see where his deck was and where he was on the Discovery. "Computer display Jeffery tubes map."

=/\=DENIED, =/\=the computer replied.

"Explain please," he said.

=/\=AUTHORIZED PERSONAL, the computer replied.

He withdrew his lips in his mouth as he was looking about for a solution. Steve nudge the Civilian's leg. The man looked down at it. "What's up, Steve?"

The Dinosaur turned its body and started to run down the corridor.

"Oh Computer, by the way who's there?" He asked as he remembered the joke the computer was asking.

=/\=WHO'S WHERE? 

"I don't know. You started it?" He asked.

"STARDATE TIME,"   =/\=the computer said.

"It was few minutes ago, I don't know the exact time," he explained.

=/\=NO INDICATION OF DATA

"So, you don't remember?"

"NEGATIVE.

"Okay," he answered. The computer was far, far away in another galaxy. The turbolift was not doing good. The replicators are acting up. There was something wrong on the ship.

So, he was being lead by Steve. Was that the right thing because he was part of the computer. There was hope but he was going to keep up his guard up for anything weird like a electronic vacuum cleaner try to clean everything up in site.

[Kirok]

[Conference Room]

The Bajoran sighed... not out of annoyance, but by the fact that the civilian's comm was accentuated with the lights flickering in the room he was in.

"We're working on it, Mr. Addams... stand by." he said, taking the time while he waited for the other two to step out onto the Bridge.

"Mr Kimball, is there an up..." he said, trailing off as the teltale sounds of losing power mixed with the computer panels flickering with the lights.  For a brief moment, the bridge went dark, but then just as suddenly, everything came back on with no signs of power fluctuations at all.  Just as suddenly as it started, the power issues vanished.

"Well... that's better... helm, resume course at full impulse.  Ops, work with Engineering to see if you can isolate the cause.  This is supposed to be a state of the art vessel." he said, turning just to see Alex and the Captain entering the bridge... but not from the turbolift.  Looks like they didn't want to risk it.  Giving a nod to the others, he returned to the conference room to wait for them.

After they entered, and the door closed, he started.

"It was our Chief Science Officer, Johan Spielenburg.  He attacked Lieutenant Inzjana in the aft Lounge with a phaser before running and being apprehended.  This phaser." he said, gesturing to the table.  "Upon investigation, however, there was something unusual.  The phaser was locked into it's setting.  That setting hasn't been changed since we grabbed it, or since he fired it." he said, encouraging them to take a look at the readout on the small sidearm.

"Johan has it set to maximum."

"Inzjana was not meant to survive her attack.  It was set to maximum kill, enough to vaporize her.  But it didn't... by the grace of the Prophets, she's being cared for by Medical." he said, walking over to the replicator in the conference room and creating a bio-matter substitute.  He put it on the table, and then picked up the phaser, pulling the trigger.  The beam shot out as an intense beam, and the testing container faded with a flash of light.

"I don't know what is more disturbing... that our CSO tried to murder a subordinate... or that the beam suddenly lost intensity when it was fired."

[Bridge]

EQ raised his head when his name was called.  Then dropped it again when the lights went out.  'Great' he thought.  This was his first day back on a Bridge and everything was turning to crap.

"Aye, Sir" EQ replied when Tekin issued the command for Ops.  He had seen one issue similar to this on the Shran awhile back.  That had not ended well.  But it gave the liberated Borg an idea.

"Sir, we might want to consider doing a hard reboot of the system.  It would leave us in a lurch for a short time.  But it might fix our problem" he suggested.

[T'Lulu May Soong]

Lieutenant Evan Buehler made his way over to check on the OR that T'Lulu had been preparing.  Upon arrival, he was pleased with the attention to detail that the Ensign managed to execute on such a short notice.

"Ensign May, I'm surprised our emergency unit hadn't arrived yet. How were they getting here?"

Without a twitch, T'Lulu kept her gaze on the console, tapping away as she responded,

"I have been made aware that the turbolifts had been malfunctioning, so I attempted to beam them up here via transporter."  She hastily tried to figure out how to lock on to the group's location, but the computer was simply not cooperating.

"Er... attempted?"  An eyebrow raised.

"Indeed. It seems the group had been lost during the trip.  I am currently trying to determine their location."

"What's wrong with the console?"  Buehler asked.

"Every time I try to locate their ID codes, the location keeps changing.  It is hard to tell if they are actually traveling this way, or if the particle lock is simply malfunctioning."  T'Lulu's brow furrowed as she squinted at the screen.

Buehler tapped his commbadge.

Computer, location of Lieutenant Injzana.

BEEDEEP BOOP --

It is the wounded you seek
It is plain for me to tell
That your trusty crew
Is trapped down a well
This well has its perks
Though deep and dark and damp
This turbine of mass exersion
May help them set up camp

BOOP BEEDEEP

"What in the...." T'Lulu and Evan exchanged puzzled glances. The android looked back at her console and briefly analyzed its outputs from a different perspective.

"This is... a riddle." She exclaimed.

"Oh, for the love of God."  T'Lulu's superior pinched the bridge of his nose.

Meanwhile...

By now, Officer Phoz had regained his composure enough to inspect his surroundings.  It was a very flat metallic area that reflected occasional bursts of light on all surfaces.  The ceiling hung very low, as Phoz's head almost reached the top.  He took note of any possible escape routes such as air vents.  Phoz and the crew began to sweat from the heat.

He looked back at his team to appreciate the care that they had taken for their patient.  She wasn't awake yet, and perhaps that was for the best for now.

[Ardyn Jaeger]

[Bridge]

Ardy wasn't sure if Kimball had heard her, so she ran the checks herself. No sign of propulsion failure at all.  They were supposed to be going at a nice steady cruise of Warp 5. Well, they weren't moving now. Suddenly, the ship began moving backward, on its' own.  "That wasn't me!" she shouted as she tried to put the brakes, to no luck. "Captain, Commanders, we need you on the bridge pronto. We're moving without any propulsion and the helm is not responsive."

[Tekin Nevir]

[Conference Room]

T'Ra felt ill at ease to hear what had happened and by whom. Lieutenant Johan Spielenberg didn't get along well with anyone, but he seemed to have something against those "pointy-eared bastards" in particular, a group that the captain herself belonged to. It was not a good day for the CSO when T'Ra took the center seat, bringing Inzjana, a fellow half-Vulcan along. Spielenberg had tried to kill Inzjana. Would he have tried to take the captain out next?

"I would lean towards attempted murder being the more disturbing of the two options," T'Ra replied. "A glitch in the system can be reversed, but death is impossible to take back. That being said, now that Inzjana is being cared for, we need to find the source of the malfunctions."
Arching a brow, she said, "Computer, run a diagnostic."

"Systems operating within acceptable parameters," came the computers answer.

T'Ra turned to the first officer. "Try firing that again."

[Conference Room]

Nevir was frowning, but went to the replicator to get another couple of bio-tubes.  He placed them both on the table as she had the computer run a diagnostic, showing green across the board.

Nevir aimed at one of the two containers and fired again, watching the container vaporize like the first.  Two tests, and two times the phaser vaporized its target... yet it didn't when Injzana was targeted.

"I'm starting to think the Prophets are looking out for her..." he said, shaking his head.  Alex was silent... perhaps stunned.

[Bridge]

Ardy wasn't sure if Kimball had heard her, so she ran the checks herself. No sign of propulsion failure at all.  They were supposed to be going at a nice steady cruise of Warp 5. Well, they weren't moving now. Suddenly, the ship began moving backward, on its' own.  "That wasn't me!" she shouted as she tried to put the brakes, to no luck. "Captain, Commanders, we need you on the bridge pronto. We're moving without any propulsion and the helm is not responsive."

With the call from the helm, the three nodded, leaving the room, and the phaser lying on the table.  Within seconds Nevir arrived on the bridge, while the captain made a beeline for her ready room.  He honestly couldn't blame her.

The Bajoran took his seat in the center chair, mulling over what Kimball had said earlier before he entered the room.  With no current science officer on the bridge, Nevir brought up the sensors on his own.

"There's a gravimetric wake pulling us towards a nebula... the Sandtrap?  Interesting." They were still heading backwards, almost pulled by the gravity intercept.

"Mr. Kimball, I think we're going to go with your plan.  Prepare for a system-wide reset, and make sure life-support is isolated... I don't want to suffocate waiting for the power to come back."

He then turned to the helm.  "Bring us about and face us in our direction.  Shut down all propulsion."

"Everything is registering as normal... this would be the best time to do it." he said, checking all systems.

"All hands, this is the XO.  We are going for a hard reset of the main computer.  Prepare for system shutdown. Engineering teams, I want a full restart on the warp cores.  Make it so." 

As he watched the bridge move into action, his thoughts were to sickbay. Hopefully this wouldn't take too long.  And it would be the first time they had the entire ship shut down for any period of time.

"Hopefully this works..." he said, staring ahead.

[Kirok]

[Medbay -> Bridge]

The other nurses and doctors were prepping for an emergency surgery, so Ardyn figured she'd probably be getting in the way enough if she stayed. Anyhow, she needed to do something, ANYTHING, to keep her mind off the bombshell she had just received, she headed to the nearest Jeffries. If the whole section here was offline, then it probably would be futile to even try the lifts. Squeezing her way, in, she worked her way through the cramped confines up to deck one and slid out through a maintenance port, a little dirty, but it wasn't all that noticeable.

Ironically, the lights flickered back on the moment she got on the bridge. relieving the confused ensign at the helm, she began checking the power and putting the ship into Impulse. It seemed to run smoothly, but she decided to run a little diagnostic, just to be sure the energy fluctuation didn't affect the propulsion systems. Nothing. It was normal in every sense of the word, with no mention of any malfunctions. "That's weird. We weren't supposed to stop, even if it was just a power outage." She muttered to herself. Turning to Kimball, she asked, "Are any of your systems registering any propulsion failure during the outage? Because I'm not getting anything."

[Bridge]

EQ had been busy with his board.  Putting out the 'fire' of one red blinking light after the next.  But as soon as he put one light out two more would start blinking.  "Negative.  Aw wait.  It just went out" he replied.

[Conference Room]

Nevir was frowning, but went to the replicator to get another couple of bio-tubes.  He placed them both on the table as she had the computer run a diagnostic, showing green across the board.

Nevir aimed at one of the two containers and fired again, watching the container vaporize like the first.  Two tests, and two times the phaser vaporized its target... yet it didn't when Injzana was targeted.

"I'm starting to think the Prophets are looking out for her..." he said, shaking his head.  Alex was silent... perhaps stunned.

With the call from the helm, the three nodded, leaving the room, and the phaser lying on the table.  Within seconds Nevir arrived on the bridge, while the captain made a beeline for her ready room.  He honestly couldn't blame her.

The Bajoran took his seat in the center chair, mulling over what Kimball had said earlier before he entered the room.  With no current science officer on the bridge, Nevir brought up the sensors on his own.

"There's a gravimetric wake pulling us towards a nebula... the Sandtrap?  Interesting." They were still heading backwards, almost pulled by the gravity intercept.

"Mr. Kimball, I think we're going to go with your plan.  Prepare for a system-wide reset, and make sure life-support is isolated... I don't want to suffocate waiting for the power to come back."

He then turned to the helm.  "Bring us about and face us in our direction.  Shut down all propulsion."

"Everything is registering as normal... this would be the best time to do it." he said, checking all systems.

"All hands, this is the XO.  We are going for a hard reset of the main computer.  Prepare for system shutdown. Engineering teams, I want a full restart on the warp cores.  Make it so." 

As he watched the bridge move into action, his thoughts were to sickbay. Hopefully this wouldn't take too long.  And it would be the first time they had the entire ship shut down for any period of time.

"Hopefully this works..." he said, staring ahead.

[Bridge]

The liberated borg was starting to feel just a bit overwhelmed.  There were just way too many blinking lights.   It was almost too much.

But he took a breath.  Just to calm himself a bit.  "Aye, Sir.  Thank you.  I will start the process here in a second" EQ replied.