Lieutenant Archer took a digital camera with him when he went down to the surface of Iconia on the original, now-missing, away team. His plan was to take a few shots of the Iconian ruins, but fate obviously had a different plan. His camera did make it through his three-week survival experience (on the distant planet), but was completely drained of power by the time he stepped through the “Guardian of Forever”, and made it back to Iconia.
At Sam’s request, I charged up the camera and downloaded the photos to our Public Affairs database. This photo is one of the only photos Sam was able to take of the surface of Iconia (before he stepped through the “Iconian Gateway”). It sure is a bleak and desolate place.
Courtesy of Lieutenant Archer, this may even be the only photo of Iconia that Starfleet or the greater Federation get to see.
There are a number of other photos from his camera, too, including some from the planet he survived on, but he’ll be sharing those himself, once he returns to duty here on deck 2.
-Lieutenant (JG) Tessa Kensington
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October 31, 2364 -- (Original Devron Timeline)