Star Trek: Foundations Book 1 (Star Trek: Corp of Engineers, Book 17)
Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore
Language: English
Pages: 59
ISBN: 2:00222975
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Beginning an all-new trilogy that tells the origin of the S.C.E.! The U.S.S. da Vinci answers a distress call from a ship careening out of control after going through an ion storm. While researching similar events from the past in an attempt to find a solution, Lieutenant Commander Duffy comes across a piece of history.... One hundred and twelve years before the heyday of the da Vinci, Montgomery Scott took an assignment to the Romulan Neutral Zone to work alongside the crew of the U.S.S. Lovell and her staff from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. But this S.C.E. is much different from the modern version a down-and-dirty team of technicians given the worst jobs in the fleet. When the repair of one of the Neutral Zone outposts goes horribly wrong, Scotty and the nascent S.C.E. team must work together to keep the outpost in one piece....
strictly no-frills affairs. This close to the Neutral Zone, you can imagine the day-to-day tension level, even if no one’s heard from the Romulans in years. Combine that with a lack of real recreational facilities or the ability to travel to very many places for R&R, and you can see what a hardship posting this is. That’s why they rotate personnel out of these stations every six months.” Taking another look around the stark chamber, al-Khaled exhaled audibly. “It’s not at the top of my dream duty
immediately threatening, sir, if you’d like to head back to bed.” Gold narrowed his eyes at Duffy, a signal that he was there strictly for business and not for a crack at his expense. “Just when will we cross paths with this vessel?” Duffy looked to Piotrowski, who was ready with the information. “Unless we alter course, about twelve minutes, Captain.” Gold looked to Faulwell next. “And we haven’t made contact with the vessel yet?” “No, sir,” Faulwell replied, two fingers helping to keep his
generator. Doing so, however, would almost certainly result in widespread internal systems damage requiring extensive repair work if not outright replacement. But it’s better than lettin’ the damned thing blow up, Scott thought. He and al-Khaled reached the sealed door to the control room, and al-Khaled tapped a control set into the wall, allowing the door to slide open. As he moved to enter the room, though, he stopped short. “My Lord,” he whispered. Moving alongside his companion, Scott
asteroid’s interior made the task of pushing the reactor back up the tunnel far easier than the team of engineers had any right to expect, given the luck they had experienced to this point. They had cut it close. Because of the scattering effects of the asteroid’s dense mineral deposits, it had been necessary to push the reactor more than halfway back the way they had originally descended from the surface before the Lovell’s tractor beam could lock on and pull it the remaining distance. Scott
and I were friends,” Duffy said of his dating relationship with Sonya Gomez, the da Vinci’s first officer. “I mean, we still are friends, but we were friends first back on the Enterprise.” He paused, looking about the bridge and seeing that work continued as usual. “So, what, you think maybe you and Core-Breach are friends?” “As close as she’s willing to have me be one, sure.” “And you’d be open to more than that?” Stevens paused again, mulling his words. “I’m thinking so, yes.” “And you