Subject: Burning the midnight oil #1

Captain Jall Trellor

"Doc" - Ship's Counselor

USS Grail

After grabbing the two young officers witha small trek to science where

the not so small gadget was put. Doc noticed the science labs were

strangely empty.."Hmmm not like a whole shift to dissapear like

this....oh well" as Doc thought aloud..

The three gentlemen looked around for possible power links to use,

"Damn...if this was engineering I could go right to it...but this isn't

my department" as the lieutenant looked somewhat confused..

"Mine either" as Doc stood there getting an idea

"Ok guys, can we make a power transfer link thingamajig" as Doc looked

at the perplexed engineers.."What..you mean a power link...one that can

be transfered from engineerng to here?" as the young ensign tried to

help

"Naw...you see, this is a romulan device with romulan power

peculiararities, and we need to make it accept Federation power types,

can we make something that sends fed power to a romulan device without

blowing up the damn thing?" as Doc tried to make it easy to understand

"OH, okay...ensign, grab a 3402 power tranfer cable, female on both ends

and the one with the green stripes" as the ensign took off towards

engineering to grab what hopefully would work.

The engineer then looked at the device.."So, where is a damn panel that

we can take off, so see the guts of this damn thing?"

"right here" as Doc knelt down and reaching around to the side and

popped open the slide and sliding it to the right, the wiring showed up.

"Right here..now I've looked at these damn things for years, but since

I'm no Romulan engineer, that's why I volenteered you guys" as Doc

looking at the lieutenant and starting to laugh

"Hmmm, damn I wish I had a scematic of this baby...with that I could fix

it blindfolded" as the lieutenant looked for a power link up so the

power cables could be installed

Doc got up to check the computer logs of the scans the young officer did

earlier...to find his scans were right on, but the young man didn't have

the knowledge of the roadmap the computer gave him.

At that time the ensign came in with the cable as the lieutenant grabbed

a connecting power cable for the power link up with the device

"Ok, I'll scan the thing, as you guys feed power from engineering.

ensign check the engineering tricorder to check for any feedback, drains

or radiation ...ya got that." as Doc grabbed the science tricorder and

hoped he could figure it out since he hadn't used one since his academy

days 26 years earlier

"Ok Doc, I have good feed in with nominal change...we have no problems

yet." as the lieutenant patched in engineering and sent in the power.

Doc checked the logs to see that no internal damage had occured which

was very lucky to have occured. "Ok guys...lets try an

experiment...Lieutenant...try to creat a power web thru the power link

network and conduits" "WHOA, hold on Doc...remember...we need another

cable since it's romulan power coming out..." as the lieutenant reminded

Doc..."Oh yeah..I forgot" was a quiet reply

"Ensign....ensign...damn where did that kid go" as Doc looked around.

the lieutenant laughed figuring the kid had ran off to engineering to

grab another cable.

after a few minutes, the ensign came back with a second cable and the

ensign looked perplexed..."Uh..sirs, shouldn't we suport the device with

a base or a stand...so it doesn't fall and go boom"

"The two older officers happy to see the ensign hit themselves on the

head..."Damn kid's right ya know" as Doc saw the ensign with a funny

grin on his face.

"Ok" as the three looked around looking for a stand or a support

"Ah!, here's one..." as the ensign grabbed what looked like a big flower

pot and hauled it into the room where the men were working

The two officers laughed out loud at this funny sight as they couldn't

believe that a cloaking device will be held up by a dumb flower pot...or

what ever it was.

"Ok guys, where is the power out relay" as the lieutenant looked it

over....hmmm mabey this looks it."

after the ensign had hooked up the cable, connected it to the power link

which fed into the wall socket...Doc's little experiment would start

"Ok guys we want full scans...Lieutenant...do the honers...and please we

want slow power feeded into it...not to overload the system so to

speak.." as Doc grabbed the tricorder and headed to the computer

"Ya, Ya I know what ya mean sir....okay baby here we go...as the officer

headed back to engineering to start the test

"Okay ensign..you ready?" as Doc turned to face the young officer

"As ready as I'll ever be sir" the ensign looking at his tricorder and

the device waiting for the lieutenants signal.

after about 3 minutes..."Ok Doc, ready here...shall I start sir?" as the

lieutenant got ready

"Ya go ahead" was Doc's simple reply

The test started up with everything looking fine for a few seconds

"Ok guys...I've got a relay chocking and weezing in jeffries

tube...lemmie check.....it looks like JT20" as the lieutenant sent the

ensign to go check it out.