Stardate: 70324:2217
Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Bar
Author: Vaebn Kehn
Time: Current
Scene: Engineering


"Ensign Remmick, have you finished trying to recalibrate the transporter to work through this interference?"

"Yeah, I think I'm ready to try it out."

"Are you sure this will work?"

Ensign Remmick had been working on this algorithm for signal enhancement for a long time. He was excited because if his plan to use subspace parity information actually worked to enhance the integrity of signals it could mean that their transporters could work through even the worst of ionic storms. On the other hand it was still entirely untested.

"It might. Let's try just beaming a simple titanium block in front of the ship and back."


=/\= Deck 2 on the port-side =/\=

Troy was just wondering quite academically how he had managed to chop off both his nose and finger without noticing when a blue shimmering to his left caught his attention. His arm was encased by a large seamless block of titanium. But as soon as it had appeared, it disappeared, leaving only part of shoulder behind.


=/\= Back in main engineering =/\=

"Sensors indicate that the block never made it outside the ship. Plus, there appears to be an arm in it."

"Damn!" Remmick exclaimed. "Guess it's back to the drawing board then."


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Lieutenant Vaebn Kehn
Acting Chief Science Officer
USS Horizon
NCC-72400
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EDITOR'S NOTE: For those of you not already aware, Troy's 'predicament' is some light-hearted relief at an expendable NPC, and not at a writer (although people have chosen to write him previously).