The Enterprise left Earth Station McKinley earlier today. Our warp plasma inducers are fixed, and the power grid is realigned. It took a day longer than expected, but we’re back in business.
Our orders are to head for the Romulan Neutral Zone, in response to the stellar anomaly reported in the Devron System. Unfortunately, our new captain ignored those orders, and insisted that we pursue our original mission instead – the science mission to the Deneb System. This is particularly troubling, because it means that one of Captain Jean Luc Picard’s first orders, as the new captain of the USS Enterprise-D, is to disobey direct orders from Starfleet Command. He declined to provide a reason for his choice of action.
Shortly after departing McKinley Station, the Enterprise arrived at a set of coordinates in the middle of deep space. We dropped out of warp to find nothing but stars and darkness. Reports from the Bridge indicate that Captain Picard seemed confused, nervous, and agitated, expressing comments like, “this is the right time; the right place…. he should be here now”. He then startled everyone by shouting, “Q, we’re here! This has gone on long enough!”
We have no clue who he was shouting at, or what a “Q” is.
Captain Picard ordered the Enterprise to maintain position, and then retired to his ready room. An hour later, he emerged, and ordered us to set course for the Devon System. The Devron System is 30 light years away at warp 9. If we remain on course, we’ll arrive there on Monday, May 9.
I’m not sure why our new captain is acting so strangely. He seems distracted, confused, even erratic, and has been so from the moment he arrived aboard the Enterprise. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he knows something that we don’t. Nonetheless, it does set a troubling tone for his new captaincy.
One other troubling issue of recent note – something we cannot ignor, are reports from many among the crew of a pervasive sense of déjà vu. Many of us feel as though we’ve been here before – a feeling that we’ve already completed our current mission (more than once, in some cases), and we’re heading to the Devron System to complete it all over again. We have no “memory” of future events, just a feeling of repeated action. It’s almost like a cause and effect kind of moment. I don’t know whether this is an odd sense of impending dread over our mission to the Devron System, or something else. Whatever the case, this new ship, and new crew, are proceeding with caution. We’re eager to see what’s out there, but not all that optimistic about what we may find waiting for us.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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May 1, 2363 – (Devron Timeline 3.0)
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