Subject: a new morning

Captain Jall Trellor

"Doc" - Counselor

currently on a Fed vessel

after waking up, Doc did his usual, went to the com panel to see if he

got any mail....(some traditions never die), he got no mail as he looked

around getting access denied, and unauthorized access errors..

"Hmm..Ok, let's have a looksie" as Doc checked the started to open up

the programming of a "VIP" prisoners com panel. After checking the

energy flow and communication paths thru the programming, Doc realized

that any mail could be tracked, decoded, blocked and a whole host of

other things without the "prisoner's" knowledge.

"So, these boys wanna have fun I see, well...students..how about if old

Professor Trellor takes you to School." with that, Doc got into the code

which was modular in style..easy to find stuff, and easy to debug..which

was good news to programmers and communications people. Doc started to

get the coding and block the access paths and after an hour or two, had

left just the main computer, engineering and the Main Scanner array as

avenues into and outof this prisoner's com panel.

Hmmm (as Doc looked for the time)..must be near lunch by now as Doc

thought to himself...naw..I'll eat later...

"OK..what's next...Oh yeah..securing all channels" Doc used his skills

to pry into the main computer's access for Engineering and found the

isolinear chip set for communications...And started to play with the set

by making software to manipulate the hardware which was easy to do..what

made it hard was he was dealing with new chips with new codes and access

numbers which all took a lot of time to figure out. In about another few

hours, Doc had a line from his terminal through engineering to the Main

Scanner dish to send out signals, usually in a high frequency modulated

pulse beam..which make it very hard to detect, track, decode, ect, ect.

"HMM..Ok ( as Doc's stomach growled from lack of food )...time to eat,

then creat my password group..so whoever spy's on this terminal..would

have no access to my stuff and messages" as Doc cracked a smile..knowing

after all these years..what he learned in the academy...still worked.

It was early evening and Doc had finished his break, He went back and

poured over his work...and thought of his passwords..which were usually

easy to create...but a hassle to remember..."Ah..I know..I'll use my

usuall access codes...since noone else has them...I don't need to worry"

with that Doc put in his access codes..and saved the group of programms

into a file buried in the data access files of the main computer where

No One Looks for stuff...

Next was to try it out....

Computer...Code access Omega Black level 6 Trandor Grey.....

|Computer Voice: accesssing............secure channel Captain Trellor|

"Hendry..this is Doc...I don't know what the hell is going on here..This

is a Federation vessel alright..But they're treating me like a prisoner

here..with access only to the common areas and they gave me a terminal

where they thought they could read my mail. I know this message will get

to you in at least several hours..send your reply secure channel like

usuall...Oh yeah...I think the Captain here is named Terrakian...

Doc out"

"Computer send message and erase original, message log and message

trace."

|Computer voice: ............action completed|

"Good.. who ever these boneheads are, the message I sent has no trace of

it ever existing...so they don't even know I sent one out...I just gotta

find out who they hell they are...Federation officers don't treat thier

kind like prisoners...somrthing is going on here. And I'll find out"

"Ensign Charrr....you out there!" "yes sirr" came the quick reply as the

ensign came quietly in the room

"Now I'll tell ya something...I don't like being treated like a

prisoner...and no, They don't always want to socialize" as Doc looked

sternly at Charr like a father looks at his child when the child screwed

up.

"But sirr, I didn't" knowing full well, those words was what she was

thinking...so somehow..The old man...read her thoughts...

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