Those ion storms Seven reported are moving in closer. Preliminary scans reveal they're only about class 3. Nothing Voyager can't handle, and their current path would not bring them into direct proximity in any case. Of course, these storms are notoriously 'fickle', as Starfleet likes to say, and are prone to changing course--or unexpectedly ( Read more... )

The Delta Flyer has launched, with _tom_paris_, _tuvok_ and Ensign Wildman. Should be a routine mission, reconnaissance and some geological surveys of the planetary bodies in a nearby system. Oridinarily I would have sent paristorres as well, but B'Elanna and seven_of_nine have been putting in increased amounts of time on our proposed slipstream drive and are confident they are getting ( Read more... )

I'm up early this morning, trying to get some of the paperwork that's been piling up lately out of my way. Meeting of the senior staff scheduled for 0800, and I'm really hoping to get a chance for at least a quick workout beforehand. Provided the holodeck is free, that is. No, not paristorres and harrykim again--lately naomiwildman has been spending more time there. I don't ( Read more... )

Once again, we've dodged a bullet. Or in this particular case, a full-scale war conducted with multiple nanoprobe weapons.

I know that some among my crew (seven_of_nine) thought my attempt to negotiate with Species 8472 was wildly mistaken--we had a history of hostilities, they were clearly planning on infiltrating the AQ, they had already taken chakotay prisoner... ( Read more... )

In the few hours since I went off-duty, I've managed to get a little rest, but now I'm wide awake and worrying once more. It's funny, but you know what is uppermost on my mind at the moment? Directive Zero-One-Zero: 'Before engaging alien species in battle, any and all attempts to make First Contact and achieve nonmilitary resolution must be made ( Read more... )

So help me, I never expected that the 'Starfleet installation' we found out here, tens of thousands of light years away from the AQ, would be genuine, but I certainly wasn't counting on *this*. chakotay's and _tuvok_'s reports and scans were disturbing enough, but the emh's findings as to the identity of the 'ensign' brought back to Voyager was even more alarming. ( Read more... )

As we have gotten closer to the coordinates which are the source of the Starfleet signature-like transmissions we've been picking up, all my captain's instincts have gone into overdrive. Something is not right, I just know it. The signals appear to be emanating from a large space station--nearly the size of a small planetoid. Our sensors are not ( Read more... )

Sometimes I honestly prefer the crises--the unrelenting stress, the sheer 'rush' caused by way too much adrenaline and caffeine--to the quiet times that fall in between. When space is calm, and there's not very much to do except sit and think. After our most recent run-in with the Malon and the harried 'space race', it *has* been good to relax, at ( Read more... )

Not the easiest set of conversations I've had lately--and I'm not referring to the (repeated) admonishments given to me by emh at my most recent physical. My earlier talk with B'Elanna paristorres in Sickbay, instead of alleviating my concerns, made me even more concerned. Particularly when she didn't even protest my removing her from the Delta Flyer project. I ( Read more... )

As if we didn't have enough to worry about re: the Malon and completing the Delta Flyer before the Malon manage to launch their shuttle, now there is something else: the well-being of my chief engineer pairstorres. When she didn't answer our hails, chakotay found her in the holodeck--unconscious. As soon as he finished examining her in sickbay, emh filled us in on B' ( Read more... )