The Travel Pod That Cracked Reality

Today has been a challenging day aboard Enterprise Station. We have been....

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...severely garbled communications, and failing equipment....

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And if that isn’t frustrating enough, there are the continued headaches, migraines, dizzy spells, and.... [SENTENCE LOST]. Ever since my duplicate appeared near the station -- in that alien travel pod, something is negatively affecting our crew, and the effects are growing. Medical is distributing the stabilizing treatment, and there is some success in countering the.... [SENTENCE LOST].... however, the physical stresses are not dissipating. More and more cre....

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...mmander Data believes that our troubles may be temporal in nature, and has recommended.... [SENTENCE LOST] ...it may be caused by the travel pod itself.... [SENTENCE UNRECOVERABLE] ...a time travel pod? None of these issues were registered until that duplicate travel pod appeared...

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But most disturbing of all.... [SENTENCE LOST].... my duplicate, who was being held in the Marine brig on deck eight, has escaped. And, based upon internal sensor data – and phaser injuries to numerous station security and Marines – he had help. Help from the inside. Three Starfleet security personnel were seen helping him escape from the brig. They.... [SENTENCE LOST].... and then, once inside, the entire travel pod disappeared from the deck 5 maintenance bay. It powered up, and then vanished. Poof. My duplicate is gone now, as is the travel pod. Where it went remains a mystery, and the three security personnel are now missing as well.

Unfortunately, the minute that pod vanished, our troubles escalated. [SENTENCE UNRECOVERABLE] ...comatose. If that travel pod started all of this when it appeared, it seems to have made things even worse when it disappeared. The quarantine remains in effect, and.... [SENTENCE LOST]. It feels like reality has been -- how can I put this.... cracked. Something wasn’t right with that travel pod. The one that I escaped from my captors in, didn’t cause these ill effects. ...[SENTENCE LOST].... same travel pod, which is disturbing to say the least. I think....

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It’s been a long day. Personnel, who have skills that I do not, are working furiously to manage the situation. There isn’t much more that I can do.... [SENTENCE LOST].... has ordered me to get some sleep. I need it. My headache is.... [SENTENCE UNRECOVERABLE]. So, I’m off to bed. I hope, and pray, that we can get control of.... [SENTENCE LOST]. Our sanity depends upon it.

-Lieutenant Commander Sam Archer

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February 3, 2370 – (Devron Timeline 3.0)