The clues were flying in all directions, and Chief Soren had about had it. The news that the hotel was overwhelmingly a hologram was a blow. The fact that he missed it was an even greater blow. Perhaps he would be better off back on board the Malinche taking inventory. How, how, how could the struct...

Soren stood to attention. "Captain. As you know, the readings from the basement were inconclusive, but they were suggestive. Each time the sensing tools began to detect something, we got a surge that basically shut down the scan. I can only think of two ways that this could be done." He sh...

Soren got comfortable. He had heard the feedback signal in the hallway and tried to track the signal, but once again lost it as the tricorder started closing in on the source. He had also heard Lt. Sovereign muttering as he took his seat. "Defense mechanism, I think, ma'am. There are just too m...

<<Hotel Direidi, Basement, 1421, Day 3>> Yrel didn't know if it was entirely appropiate, but she let out a quick laugh. "Well, there seemed to have been some lack of communication from HQ. Apparently, you weren't informed of the transfer and it was just left for me to meet you at starbase,"...

<<Direidi, 1204>> Soren suffered an episode of unreality as he listened to the Direidi greeting song. This had to be a bad joke. A ship and its crew were missing, and someone took time to paste together that doggeral? Still, the Denobulans had a proverb: When in Fellebia, do as the Fellebians do. Th...

Communications Array, Day 1, 1000 hrs. Soren never got tired of going to warp. He loved the subspace particles that cast a rainbow image as real-space was bent to shift the ship's location in 3-dimensional space. But this was no time to wax poetic over warp physics. The boatswain's last discussion w...

<<USS Malinche>> <Conference Room 1, 1322, Day 0> <snip> "Me too," Jason responded. "If you don't need us for anything else sir, I need to get back to operations." "Go right ahead." Jason nodded and headed out of the conference room, Darkhelm close behind him. "You...

Day 0, 1320 hrs, Main Bridge Soren was at the OPS station as the Senior Staff meeting took place. He smiled...there were actually advantages to not being senior staff. He did not have to get into unequal arguments with people who outranked him. Ah, bliss. The chief looked over power consumption over...

USS Malinche Main Bridge, 1230 hours, day 0 Soren had heard the Captain's announcement, and stopped in the middle of what he was doing. It was just as well. Soren had agile fingers, but he was possibly the worst gift wrapper in known space. All three of his wives agreed that it was a male thing more...

<<USS Malinche>> <<Starbase Restaurant Bar, Day 2, 1400>> ON The two finshed up their meals and headed over to the center, it was so crowded that they coudln't even get threw the front door. Luckily Mason saw an old friend who happened to work there and let them in threw the back door. Loud music an...

<<USS Malinche>> <<Starbase Restaurant Bar, Day 2, 1305>> Mason looked up seeing Soren looking a bit tired and offered him a seat before he answered the question. By then he was already on his third tart, his mouth was craving the tonic water set down by the waiter. ?Surprisingly good, its been too ...

Starbase Day 2, 1300 The night shift in engineering had been downright tranquil, without a single j-clip out of place. The following morning, Soren checked into Operations and obtained permission to go down to the base. Not that Soren was hungry for R & R. He was more interested in a change of s...

Day 1, 1400 hours, leaving Main Engineering Deck 5 The simulation that Chief Soren was running would take a while. It made no sense for Soren to sit and stare at a screen with parading columns of numbers. The Chief had a look at his PADD, and everything was moving forward. He shook his head in surpr...

A formal welcome aboard, Tony. Have fun on the Mali.

You'll find Cheetara...um...energetic.

Best,

Main Engineering Deck 5, 1130 hours, Day 1 "Reset simulation, computer." said Soren again. "Acknowledged" Chief Soren had been at it for about half an hour now, testing and retesting various angular confinements for the matter/antimatter injectors. The Prometheus warp containment...