Enterprise
Episode 3 of Enterprise
“Captain’s Log Mission Date 5635.2, we are investigating the surviving ship. There were only three survivors out of a crew of about 100. The life support system has stabilised but it cannot hold up for much longer. I have made the priority accessing the ship’s computer. We need information…”
Spock signals from the ship
“Yes Mr. Spock?” asks Hunter.
“Captain, I have managed to download much of the information stored on the computer system but I cannot access it. There are too many differences in protocols. Indeed I may well just have succeeded in downloading the duty rota rather than any historical records. I just don’t know!”
“What is the problem with accessing the data?”
Spock sighed
“Captain, it is as if a person from the late twentieth century tried to access a twenty third century computer. Technology and programming have moved on and we have no idea in which direction!”
“Understood, do your best Spock.”
Hunter thought for a moment and then signalled sickbay.
“Doc, how are your three patients?”
“One is fine, if a little confused. The other two I’m keeping under sedation. Their injuries need more time to heal.”
“Can I speak to the one who is comptis mentis?”
“Yes, it’ll get him out of my hair. It doesn’t help that we can only barely understand each other.”
“Send him to the conference room, with a guard!”
“Yes Captain”
Hunter goes to the conference room. He finds a man (George Takei) who appears to be of Japanese ancestry walking around it. Hunter sits down and signals to the man that he should do so. He does.
“I’m Captain James Hunter of the United Systems Ship Enterprise, who are you?”
The man replies but very little of what he says is understandable. After a while the translation programme begins to work and more and more of what is said is translated. Hunter is surprised at what the man is apparently saying it appears to be a children’s story! However once the man hears the computer repeating what he has said He brightens and says a short sentence. It is translated as
“I am Hachiro Nogura Second Officer of the Liberty”
Hunter repeats his original statement.
Nogura leaps out of his chair and salutes.
“Sit down Mr. Nogura.”
Nogura complies and asks
“Why do you claim to be a United Systems ship? The US hasn’t existed for over two hundred years!”
Hunter smiles
“It’s a long story involving a collapsing planet and an accident. We seem to have jumped 300 years into our future.”
“If it was not for the evidence of my own eyes and the way that you have treated me and my men, I would not believe you. However your uniforms do match records. Those few that we have left of that time anyway.”
“What happened?”
“It is a long story, the quick version is that the US was involved in a long war with the Tellurians when the Carnyate invaded. Both the Tellurians and US quickly collapsed and were conquered. The Carnyate leadership set up the Imperium and it now rules most of this part of the galaxy. There are just a few independent worlds and the Klingons maintain a precarious existence albeit at the Imperium’s discretion.”
“Perhaps you could help my First Officer access your computers?”
Nogura looks horrified
“You’ve tried to access the Liberty’s computers. Without using the correct prefix codes the computer sets the autodestruct on a silent countdown!”
Hunter rapidly signals the transporter room
“Get Spock and the others off that ship now!!”
A moment or two later Kutuzov on the bridge signals Hunter
“Captain the ship has just blown up!”
“Captain’s Log Mission Date 5635.2, we are investigating the surviving ship. There were only three survivors out of a crew of about 100. The life support system has stabilised but it cannot hold up for much longer. I have made the priority accessing the ship’s computer. We need information…”
Spock signals from the ship
“Yes Mr. Spock?” asks Hunter.
“Captain, I have managed to download much of the information stored on the computer system but I cannot access it. There are too many differences in protocols. Indeed I may well just have succeeded in downloading the duty rota rather than any historical records. I just don’t know!”
“What is the problem with accessing the data?”
Spock sighed
“Captain, it is as if a person from the late twentieth century tried to access a twenty third century computer. Technology and programming have moved on and we have no idea in which direction!”
“Understood, do your best Spock.”
Hunter thought for a moment and then signalled sickbay.
“Doc, how are your three patients?”
“One is fine, if a little confused. The other two I’m keeping under sedation. Their injuries need more time to heal.”
“Can I speak to the one who is comptis mentis?”
“Yes, it’ll get him out of my hair. It doesn’t help that we can only barely understand each other.”
“Send him to the conference room, with a guard!”
“Yes Captain”
Hunter goes to the conference room. He finds a man (George Takei) who appears to be of Japanese ancestry walking around it. Hunter sits down and signals to the man that he should do so. He does.
“I’m Captain James Hunter of the United Systems Ship Enterprise, who are you?”
The man replies but very little of what he says is understandable. After a while the translation programme begins to work and more and more of what is said is translated. Hunter is surprised at what the man is apparently saying it appears to be a children’s story! However once the man hears the computer repeating what he has said He brightens and says a short sentence. It is translated as
“I am Hachiro Nogura Second Officer of the Liberty”
Hunter repeats his original statement.
Nogura leaps out of his chair and salutes.
“Sit down Mr. Nogura.”
Nogura complies and asks
“Why do you claim to be a United Systems ship? The US hasn’t existed for over two hundred years!”
Hunter smiles
“It’s a long story involving a collapsing planet and an accident. We seem to have jumped 300 years into our future.”
“If it was not for the evidence of my own eyes and the way that you have treated me and my men, I would not believe you. However your uniforms do match records. Those few that we have left of that time anyway.”
“What happened?”
“It is a long story, the quick version is that the US was involved in a long war with the Tellurians when the Carnyate invaded. Both the Tellurians and US quickly collapsed and were conquered. The Carnyate leadership set up the Imperium and it now rules most of this part of the galaxy. There are just a few independent worlds and the Klingons maintain a precarious existence albeit at the Imperium’s discretion.”
“Perhaps you could help my First Officer access your computers?”
Nogura looks horrified
“You’ve tried to access the Liberty’s computers. Without using the correct prefix codes the computer sets the autodestruct on a silent countdown!”
Hunter rapidly signals the transporter room
“Get Spock and the others off that ship now!!”
A moment or two later Kutuzov on the bridge signals Hunter
“Captain the ship has just blown up!”