First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 5) - "Homecoming" #Amalgaverse “Fire phasers and photon torpedoes!”orders Kirk. The Enterprise swings around the scavenger ship and answers. Phasers strike first, weakening the enemy’s shields.  Photon torpedoes follow, hitting home and leaving the cruiser dark and drifting. “Set a course for the Rigel System,”says Kirk. “Warp nine.  Engage.” The Enterprise jumps to warp. By the time it drops out again, the away team has completed their post-op exams.  Bones declares them “Fit as fiddles”, while Fraiser, less impressed, tells O’Neill to cut back on the carbs. They gather in Carter’s lab where she has been working the data Rommie pulled off the Waldorf Astoria.  Anything that crosses between realities leaves a trace, she explains, and the entity left a strong one in its wake.  But when she isolated it, it wasn’t the random noise she was expecting.  It was structured, a lattice, intricate and deliberate. Kirk asks what it means.  Carter tells him the truth: she doesn’t know yet.  Only that it’s an intriguing first piece to a much larger puzzle. As for the mysterious Rhea, Carter suspects she was an extension of the entity, wearing a human face in an attempt to get aboard the Enterprise.  Had they beamed her on, the consequences could have been catastrophic. “Frell,”says Aeryn Sun.  “It would have had us by the mivonks.” And you can’t help but agree. Outside the lab, Maia is waiting.  She contacted Traugott Headquarters about her reassignment, she tells you, and learned the Waldorf Astoria and everything on it had been written off.  If she goes back now, even to be recycled, the company could be flagged for insurance fraud.  Traugott wants nothing to do with her. Odo reads your face and cautions: “I have met every member of this crew.  I had my doubts about most of them.  I have more about her.” Teal’c only says: “There was a time when I too was an outsider of dubious origin.” “You think we should ask her to stay?”you ask. “Indeed,”is his response. What do you do? A) Ask Maia to join the crew. B) Drop her off at the next space station. CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date. And TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission!]

First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 5) - "The Last of the Waldorf Astoria" #Amalgaverse Aboard the Enterprise, Kirk and the rest of the crew watch as the jumper banks – and then disappears.  The entity swipes at the emptiness.  A beat.  Then it slowly turns as – Another shuttle launches from the Waldorf Astoria.  The scavenger shuttle.  It fires its laser cannons, then punches through the entity’s chest.  Instantly, the shuttle goes dark, its engines dead, and drifts. Maybourne stares at the screen in slack-jawed wonder:  “Fuuuu,” “ – scinating indeed,”interrupts Thor.  “The entity is a self-sustaining energy pattern.  Contact with the shuttle forced the smaller vessel into resonance with its own, collapsing its internal systems.” “Captain, the puddle jumper is aboard,”reports Data at Ops.  “All hands accounted for.” At which point, the freighter’s core goes critical, setting off a chain reaction of explosions across the length of the Waldorf Astoria, catching the entity in its wake. It responds, roiling in on itself, forming and reforming, arms, eyes, briefly a face, a woman’s face, there and gone before anyone can be sure they saw it. Then Pilot stiffens in his cradle: “Captain.  The scavenger vessel.  It’s powering weapons.” “On screen,”commands Kirk. The pirate cruiser swings its bulk towards the Enterprise, gun ports glowing.  Whatever salvage drew it here is gone, blown to atoms, and the only ship left to blame is theirs. “Multiple projectiles incoming,”Pilot reports.  “Impact in ten seconds.” “Shields up,”orders Kirk. The Enterprise rocks as the volley slams home, consoles flaring, the bridge pitching under them. “They’re preparing another volley,”says Pilot. Kirk grips the arm of his chair and leans forward.  What does he do? A) Return fire.  Ready phasers and photon torpedoes and show them what a Galaxy-class can do. B) Hail them. Explain you didn’t destroy the freighter, and this fight helps no one. C) Go to warp.  Break off and leave the scavengers, the entity, and the dying freighter behind. CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date. And TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission!]