That being said, in the here and now, the Enterprise has dropped out of warp near the Pranitan System. We are currently docking at an orbital facility above Gellius, a Federation member planet. We are here, in port, to undergo a complete restart of the Enterprise ship’s computer. Such a procedure cannot be safely attempted outside of a support facility, and Gellius has the assets necessary to complete the task.
As you may remember, while I was away on our mission to find Lieutenant Worf Rozhenko, Lieutenant Kensington reported that the Enterprise had become infected with a Klingon re-write code. That viral infection corrupted computer systems all across the ship, and caused significant frustrations for nearly every department. Our engineers managed to contain the code inside secondary systems, but a full computer reboot is still necessary to purge the remaining virus once and for all. That process will take place on Friday. Until then, we are taking extra precautions not to infect the Gellius facility as well.
Due to the computer virus, we were limited to a speed of warp 8, and it took 11 days to travel these 30 light years. We should be cleared to return to our standard warp 9 once our systems are purged, and long warp jumps, like this, will likely see brief stops again, as usual.
As far as the virus itself, it appears as though the Enterprise was intentionally infected during a routine cargo transfer. Compromised data was uploaded into our computer cores by a nefarious trader, who managed to code the Klingon re-write virus to evade our encryption. The individual is being apprehended by another Starfleet vessel, and steps have been taken to close the exploit in our data systems.
We will likely remain in port, above Gellius, until the start of next week.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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March 31, 2366 -- (Original Devron Timeline, altered by temporal anomaly)