Subject: burning the midnight oil #2
Captain Jall Trellor
"Doc" - Ship's Counselor
USS Grail
The test was running smoothly for a few seconds when a sharp eyed
lieutenant spotted the porblem..
"Ok Doc, she's overheating there...we hafta shut her down..so he can
check it out..."
"Acknowledged" as Doc grumbled as the device's humming slowly stopped
until it sat there cold and dead
"Yeah, my scans say the cloaking device didn't like our power either,
she worked...but she's really complaining" as Doc answered back to the
lieutenant
in a few minutes, the ensign had reached the jeffries tube, and spotted
a few burned out power couplings and fuses...it looked like a small
mess.
"Sirs, we have a slight problem here. the couplings and fuses were fried
sir...that power overloaded the relays here..and well you know the
rest.....shall I stay here and try and fix it...and replace the parts
sir." as the ensign looking a little uncomfortable at telling the bad
news
"Ya kid, go ahead, your the expert over there" as Doc looked in dismay
at the cloaking device giving them a few problems
"Well Doc, at least we know the power fed thru to the ship sir...we
actually had a 1% em emission drop...your cloaking device did work"
"Ya lieutenant...but we need 100% em emmission drop, I don't know if we
can ever get there..but we sure as hell can try." as Doc sat down
looking at the device to see if anything on the inside fried
The lieutenant taking the tricorder scanned the device..."Hmm...looks
like a fuse...there sir ( as the lieutenant pointed to the spot), we'll
need to replace it"
Doc looking at the young officer.."Oh great and just where are we gonna
get a romulan fuse...we are 1000 parsecs from home...who are we going to
call...The Post Office mabey?" as Doc stood with a sarcastic smile on
his face
"Well sir...we were able to transfer romulan power thru our lines..mabey
we can fix this with our parts..."
"I hope so young man...I hope so" as Doc looking dejected wandered off
back to his room to finally go to bed and try again the next day
as Doc wandered down the hall, Doc looked back at the lieutenant..
"We'll call it quits for tonight, close up shop..since you guys have
work back in your department...I'll see you tomorrow"
"Ok sir, I'll disconnect everything and tell science to leave it alone
until we can figure out what to do next" as the lieutenant got to work
finishing up and then heading back to engineering where he had some work
to do
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