50007.3 "The
Luetkan Incident, part 1"
Story by Ricardo "Barney" Reis
The USS Highflyer's
first mission is to take a Vulcan diplomat to mediate a trade agreement
between the planet Annuli and the Federation. When the ship rendezvous
with the diplomat's runabout, a sudden explosion occurs. At the focal point
of the explosion, the crew finds an egg-shaped object. Inside it, there
is a dying blue humanoid with several cybernetic attachments. Dr. Cruz
manages to stabilize the humanoid, but it is unable to bring him out of
the coma. Meanwhile, the diplomat and his assistant are beamed down to
the planet. The crew receives orders to head to Deltari IV to investigate
the impounding and arrest of the Starfleet medical ship USS Sabin
and its crew. Apparently, the planetary authorities are accusing the ship's
crew of running Federation phasers to a rebel faction responsible for terrorist
attacks. Deltari IV is a border territory of the decadent Luetkan empire
that is getting less and less attention from the imperial government, and
the rebels want to speed up this proccess.
50012.7 "The
Luetkan Incident, part 2"
Story by Ricardo "Barney" Reis
Commander Sanvak,
Lieutenat Damien and Dr. Cruz cooperate with Deltari IV's police force
in trying to track the origin of the phasers. While on orbit, the Highflyer
locates a Ferengi D'Kora-class ship. When contacted, they state
that they are doing nothing. Capt. Weygand decides to make a show of force
and makes the Highflyer pass "very close" to the Ferengi ship. Back
on Deltari IV, the joint efforts of the Highflyer's officers and
the police pay off as they locate and, after a firefight, arrest one of
the terrorists. Eventually, it is revealed that the rebels did not stage
the attacks using the phasers. They were made by criminals being paid by
one of the imperial representatives on the planet. He did not want the
empire to relinquish its hold on Deltari IV and end his privileges. So
he devised the plan of simulating an increase in rebel activity, hoping
to make the empire augment its presence in the planet. The phasers were
really from the Federation, but were smuggled in the ship disguised as
part of a medicine cargo to Deltari IV. Solving the case benefits doubly
the Federation, as the Ferengi were broadcasting the events to Annuli,
hoping to expose any forceful tactics the Highflyer's crew came
to use in order to free the Starfleet officers. The Ferengi had an interest
in not seeing Annuli establishing a trade agreement with the Federation,
but their plan backfired.
50136.0 "Secrets..."
Story by Fred Furtado
Captain Weygand
is summoned to an important reunion and leaves Sanvak as Acting Commanding
Officer and Lt.Cmdr. Piotr Dostoievsky as exec. While the Highflyer
is heading to the Epsilon Indi system, it detects a massive explosion in
the Alpha Charybidys system. The fourth planet of this system houses a
Starfleet outpost engaged in astronomical research. Arriving at the planet,
the crew witness a major space-time rift located where the orbital station
sould be. Rescue teams beam down to the support station on the planet and
manage to find ten survivors. They don't know what happened, but suppose
that the antimatter chamber on the orbital station exploded. However, the
crew concludes that such an explosion wouldn't create the rift. Meanwhile,
another Starfleet ship arrives, the USS Gilgamesh. Its captain,
Draxx, tells Sanvak that he has orders to take the survivors and all the
data gathered from the outpost's computer. Sanvak keeps a copy of the records,
which he had been ordered to delete, but beams the survivors over, except
for one deemed unstable by Dr. Cruz. Draxx beams the last survivor nonetheless
and leaves. Sanvak follows, but is advised by his crew to return to Alpha
Charybidys IV in order to deal with the rift that is expanding. Back on
the planet, they separate the saucer section and the engineering hull,
with only and skeleton crew, enters the rift. They use the warp field to
seal the rift and leave, suffering some damage in the proccess. Then, they
head to Starbase 622, the probable destination of the Gilgamesh.
50141.4 "...Lies..."
Story by Fred Furtado
At Starbase 622, Sanvak
and Lt. Motat contact Adm. Jered and find out, through his Chief of Operations,
Cmdr. Axwan, that the survivors were transferred to the USS Republic.
The Highflyer intercepts the Republic, but does not find the survivors.
According to the Republic's commanding officer, Capt. Rragarr, no one
was transferred to his ship. Sanvak contacts Adm. Baxter in Starfleet Command
and asks for a full investigation. Baxter tells him to go back to Starbase 622
and wait for the Judge Advocate General representative he will send. Halfway
through, the Highflyer receives an emergency signal form the USS Saragosa.
Suspecting that this is a maneuver to delay them, but unable to refuse aid,
Sanvak helps the ship. However he sends Dostoievsky, and an Away Team to the
Starbase to keep an eye on things. The Highflyer rescues the Saragosa
and tows it back to the Starbase. There, Sanvak and Motat convince Jered to
let them scan the Starbase with the Highflyer's sensors. They fail to
find the survivors.
50163.0 "...and
Conspiracies"
Story by Fred Furtado
Capt. Izana Kex, from the
Judge Advocate General's office, arrives at Starbase 622 and interrogates all
officers involved. Meanwhile, Sanvak, Motat and Cruz keep trying to find the
survivors. They deduce that the survivors are still aboard the Gilgamesh,
but don't know how to prove it. During Motat's statement, Draxx's is found dead.
Apparently, he was killed by a phaser shot. Kex declares an alert and orders
all the arsenals locked. Back in the Highflyer, Dostoievsky informs Sanvak
that a phaser and the two officers guarding the arsenal are missing. A complete
search of the ship yields no results. Further incidents force Sanvak to call
Dostoievsky to attention. During that, Motat investigates the shuttle that Dostoievsky
had activated and finds ten torpedo casings. Inside the casings are the survivors
in a state of suspended animation. Motat warns Sanvak and at the same time Dostoievsky
pulls out a phaser and threatens the commanding officer. On the bridge, Sanvak
tries to disarm Dostoievsky, but fails, and two security officers die trying
to help him. The Chief of Security calls an emergency transport and beams Dostoievsky
to the brig. Dr. Cruz examines Dostoievsky and finds out that he is infected
by the same alien parasite that infiltrated Starfleet Command in 2364 ("Conspiracy").
The crew informs Kex and the conspiracy is revealed. Adm. Jered, Capt. Stewart
of the Saragosa, Cmdr. Axwan, Adm Darzan of Starbase 621 and Draxx were
all infected by the parasites when they were in Starfleet Intelligence. After
the first conspiracy was discovered, they disguised their presence and initiated
Project Interference, that sought a way to enhance subspace communications in
order to contact their race. Then they arranged assignments that put them in
positions to supervise their project. When the Highflyer's crew got close
to finding out the truth, they extracted the parasite from Draxx and put it
in Dostoievsky, so thet they could use him to "smuggle" the survivors aboard
the Highflyer.
After evaluating
Motat's record, Sanvak decides to promote him to Lieutenant Commander.
50245.2 "Demon
Hunt, part 1"
Story by Fred Furtado
Captain Weygand
is still away at Starfleet Command.
Responding to
a distress signal, the Highflyer rescues a human from the attack
of a Triangle-based ship. The human, Trent, tells the crew that he is a
merchant who fell through a wormhole and ended up in the Delta Quadrant.
There he discovered that a powerful and highly advanced species, the Kiben,
made a pact with a Romulan admiral, Nepex, giving him access to technology
in exchange for the obliteration of the human race. The crew is skeptical,
even more so when they find out that Trent's ship is stolen, but decides
to check out the story and heads to Krytos II, in the Triangle. Meanwhile,
Dr. Cruz discovers that Trent is at the apex of human physical fitness.
At Krytos II, Trent's story falls apart, but he manages to convince Sanvak
to head to the Pardok system, also in the Triangle, where he says is located
Nepex's base. Not trusting Trent and thinking that he is hiding something,
Sanvak orders him to take off his gloves, which he was very reticent to
do before. He refuses and proves to be very resilient, resisting phaser
stun settings and lack of oxygen. Eventually, Trent escapes his room and
invades the computer core, taking control of peripheral systems.
Note: This adventure is based on the Outer
Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" by Harlan Ellison.
50258.7 "Demon
Hunt, part 2"
Story by Fred Furtado
Trent calls Sanvak and
Motat to the computer core saying that he will reveal the true story. He, or
rather his glass hand, tells them that in 2860 the Kiben will attack the Federation,
cutting a path of death and destruction across the Alpha quadrant. They will
arrive at Terra to enslave humanity, but they will find a dead planet. Humankind,
knowing that its fate under Kiben rule would not be a pleasant one, constructed
Trent, and android, and transformed itself, all its 8 billion humans, in energy
patterns that were stored in a filament in Trent's chest. Then, a radioactive
plague that killed every living being was released on the planet and Trent was
sent to 1960, to wait until the plague was gone, in 3160. Trent then tells the
two Starfleet officers that the Kiben are trying to change history by aiding
the Romulans. Convinced by Trent's story and the sensor scans Motat made on
Trent, Sanvak orders the ship to go to the Pardok system. During the trip, Trent
makes some modifications to the ship's shields and sensors in order to help
them in a possible fight. Arriving at Pardok, the Highflyer has to engage
two Apro'ridex-class ships. The Highflyer defeats them, but has
to face a modified Warbird. Sensing that the Highflyer won't last long,
Trent suggests that he be beamed aboard the Warbird. Thanks to a daring maneuver
by Sanvak and an exemplary transport by Chief Chandrasekhar, Trent is beamed
aboard the Warbird. Trent takes control of the ship and destroys it. The Highflyer
boards the orbiting station and, eventually, contacts the Romulan Empire. Trent
asks and is granted possession of a captured Romulan scout vessel. He then leaves
for the Triangle. The Highflyer returns to Starbase 622 to be repaired.
After seeing the
mission and the captain's logs, Adm. Baxter decides to end the shakedown cruise
and comission the Highflyer. He also promotes Sanvak to Captain and assigns
him as commanding officer of the Highflyer. Sanvak in turn, promotes
Chief Chandrasekhar to Ensign.
Note: This adventure is based on the Outer Limits
episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" by Harlan Ellison.