Stardate: 70910:0701
Title: Guarding the Fort
Author: Marc Remmick
Time: After 'Dichoto-my-Heart'
Scene: USS Horizon - Main Engineering


Nestled quietly in the Horizon's sensor banks were the full scans and schematics of the future-version of the Horizon that had accompanied the contemporary crew to the Renna's homeworld. After debating the ethics with himself, Lieutenant Remmick had decisively hidden and locked down the files. Once the Captain was back, Remmick would advise the information be purged indefinitely from the Main Computer.

His barely-remembered Temporal Physics seminars came back, along with the sessions on Ethics and the Temporal Prime Directive. Perhaps the mere existence of information on the make-up of the second Horizon would influence massively it's existence in the future. Perhaps it could even be some catalyst for the crisis the crew would inevitably face.

Unlike the Command Staff, Remmick was suffering from no internal dichotomy. If any fault or cause could be traced back to the Engineering department of the USS Horizon, Remmick would act to prevent it from influencing the future, from even developing - and potential future benefits be hanged.

It was a pensive engineer that stalked the cramped cabin housing the Horizon's warp drive. One did not have to be a Betazoid to pick up on the aether's tension - the ship was at a focal point of history, and the slightest action here could have repercussions for decades. The slightest mistake could cost them lives, the ship...the Federation. Remmick was merciless in his diagnostics, unforgiving in dictating repair schedules and testing programs, and irrepressible in his zeal towards his superiors. Crisis or not, the USS Horizon would be ready to move out - or fight - at a moment's notice.


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Lt. (J.G.) Marc Remmick
Engineer
USS Horizon
NCC-72400
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