Stardate: 203233

Managed to crawl through some tubing to the area of the engineering and its swarming with Tolans.  Doesn't look like they know what they are doing in there though, but somehow we've left orbit. Crawled toward the loading bays and found the crew. All being held hostage, although I couldn't see the Doctor.  I can't see into the Medical rooms, for privacy reasons I guess, so I would imagine she's in there. So now I don't know what to do.. Unless I can disrupt the plasma leading into the subphonic drive...

Stardate: 203232

Not sure how often I can get back to my quarters to leave notes in my diary, but in case they use my logs as a report for the events, I'll do my best to come back and leave something on them. Normally its the Captain that is required to leave a continual log each day - part of his duties as a Captain I think. But as our Captain is down below, he won't be able to...

Wait a moment. Chief gave him a remote log system upgrade a few weeks ago. I wonder if we could find out if they are ok? Trouble is, I don't have the access to his logs. Only Chief, or the Doctor could access those in an emergency.

 

Gotta go, somebody's in the corridor...

Stardate: 203231

**system initialising**
>dbase online<
level 1 diagnostics...running...
...running.. 87% completed...
complete.
System Errors Listed Below :-

Private Log in lockdown - 3 failed login attempts

/LOGRESET

Private Log opened
no errors

retinal scan initialising
scanning
ident-systems engineer Mulder, Joseph
retinal scan complete - no errors
Accessing Personal Logs
System Ready - Clearing Screen. . .

Please Use Retinal Scan to Log In
waiting..

 

retinal scan initialising
scanning
ident-ensign Mulder, Joseph
User locked
User log opened
Voice notation system started

 

I can't talk long, the ships been overrun. I don't know who, but I'm guessing its the Tolans. They've not found me yet, but I guess that's because I'm scared of them and hid in the Plasma tubes! Thankfully I know the tubes like the back of my hand and I'll see if I can see what's happening at engineering.  I might be able to hack my terminal here and get some ship information pumped into here. Just hope nobody's changed the password.

Stardate: 203230

retinal scan initialising
scanning
ident-failed unknown user

Please Retry... 1 of 3 attempts

 

retinal scan initialising
scanning
ident-failed unknown user

Please Retry... 2 of 3 attempts

 

retinal scan initialising
scanning
ident-failed unknown user

Login Failed - Account Lockdown... 3 of 3 attempts

 

Stardate: 203229

I can't believe it. It's so unfair. Chief let Gwen take shore leave down on the Tolan's planet because he felt she'd be good at keeping a level head while the rest of the fleet got drunk. As if!

So I get to watch..

>error unrecognisable signal

Stardate:- 203228

>memo received - Captain Cartier, Edward - Authenticated

 

As many crew as wish, and do not have shifts, are invited to the surface for a party being held by the Tolan people before our exit tomorrow morning. I recommend those who can make the most of it as I cannot guarantee when we will next have a viable surface to stretch our ground legs.

 

>end of memo

 

Oh cool, it will be nice to get out of this uniform! Time to hit the shower.

Stardate: 203227

I've asked Chief for some time off. I just realised that I've been working solid with no proper leave and I am so tired.  Chief agreed to letting me have the rest of today and all of tomorrow off, which will be nice. Not sure what I will do, but just not having the pressure of work will be welcomed.

Stardate: 203226

Ok for the record, I don't like the fact that my mum's recipe was replaced with some "alien" foodstuff.

 

However, last night I had my home favourite - fried potato strips, steak cubes in gravy surrounded by a flour pastry and for dessert... well I had to try that Tolan bean thing.. and while I was thinking it was some savoury bean like kidney beans or pulses.. it turned out to taste similar to coffee! It was ok!

 

Sorry mum, but your hashed up flour and custard has been replaced!

Stardate: 203225

Bit annoyed today. Looks like one of mums recipes have been replaced with some disgusting looking bean dessert. Sorry mum, I must have forgotten to lock the file. Got some leave days due but not overly fussed with the sports lounge at the moment. Have to find something to do.

Stardate: 203224

It appears we've overshot a little. When Chief told me that, I wasn't sure if he was talking about our vessel, or the "shots" I was having last night! I was glad that medical have uploaded a great "cure" for hangover into the system.

 

Chief was "drawing straws" between the Officers in Engineering, as Captain is taking a team down to meet the occupants of a local planet we stopped near after our high speed run.  Rumour has it that they know how to party. I bet we could show them a thing or two.

Stardate: 203223

godda dey uff..

 

urghh

 

gott the day uff today.

 

big pardy lozza drink.

 

>error unrecognisable signal

Stardate: 203222

OH YES!! WHOOOO!!! YES YES YES !! YEEEEEEEAHHHHAAARR  OHH WHAT A RIDE.. .WOOOOOOOOO YEAH!!!  HAAHAHHAAAA!!!

WOO WOOO WOOOO WOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

 

>error unrecognisable signal

Stardate: 203221

There's that same buzz again. Everybody is talking about how fast we might go.  All systems are back to normal. Well actually, that's not entirely true! All systems are better than normal! Chief said we'd be doing the run first thing in the morning because it would be a better looking date for the history books. How frustrating! LETS GO NOW! COME ON COME ON!!

 

I need to cut back on my coffee.

Stardate: 203220

I bumped into Chief this morning and he pulled me to one side. I got told that he was in a bit of a confusing situation. Part of him wanted to give me a ticking off for using site to site transport in an inappropriate manner and for appearing between him and the emergency stop controls, but then the other part of him understood why we were trying to stop him and if he had listened to our call, the engines wouldn't have overloaded in the first place.

He's let me off with an "off the record" warning. But he's told me he wants to see my timekeeping improved or he'll use that as an excuse to administer an official one.

 

Thankfully we've sorted the fault and will be good to go within a few minutes. Chief has gone to tell Captain that we're ready again. This could be a momentous occasion, again. 

Stardate: 203219

I'll probably get into trouble for using a site to site teleport like I did yesterday. I kept trying to get chief on the communicator to tell him about the fault that we found, but I guess because I was just an "ensign" he ignored my call during such an important run.  Trouble is, the fault blew the main systems just after I teleported in front of him and I got in the way of the emergency shut down controls.

 

So, technically its my fault that the systems are completely offline. But then it wouldn't have blown if Chief had responded to my call.

 

I'm laying low in the plasma tubes later. Not that you can lay much lower than the tubes make you lay..

Stardate: 203218

Its going to happen later this morning. The run. Chief gave us a meeting at 4am to say that he was proud of everything we had done and if this works, every name on this ship will be in the history records as members of the ship that broke the record.  Everything is set. Sensors are going through the Nidus dish for now, because we need them to give the navigation systems the most advanced information about what's ahead. If we break this record, we'll probably need to rebuild the ship because half the systems on here weren't designed for that kind of continued speed. But it will be the most exciting upgrade ever. I just can't wait to see the plasma change. Silly I know but I guess I have a soft spot for..

 

>error unrecognisable signal

 

Ok Gwen, on my way..

 

>error unrecognisable signal

 

Gotta go, Gwen's found something that doesn't look quite right.

Stardate: 203217

Can't stop, just come back to get my plasma modulator. Chiefs got us working double shifts back on back to get everything ready. We had our meeting and we' going to do a Čerenkov run. Basically its the principle of getting the plasma to shove us through at the speed of light. It's never been achieved yet but the stakes are high and we'd get our name and ship listed in the history records.  The bit I am excited about, is when we hit it - the plasma changes colour. I've never seen..

 

>error unrecognisable signal

 

Yes Chief?

 

>error unrecognisable signal

 

Yes, Sir! On my way Sir!

 

gotta go, Chief just called me on my communicator.

Stardate: 203216

Am really excited today. We're having an engineering meeting later today and Chief is cancelling all rest days because of a special mission.  Rumour has it that we're going to try and breaks a speed record. It makes sense, as we're not in alert status and we only ever get cancelled days if we're in battle.

Stardate: 203215

The plasma purge went really well. I guess that's because space is a good vacuum, and it sucked every bad greenie out of the system. It's actually improved performance a lot and it's made me wonder if there were some other gremlins in the system which has been affecting the engines.  Thing is, you never know what kind of muck they give you at some of these space docks. I swear we should install a better plasma filter at the inlet valves. I am sure the filter isn't fine enough.

Stardate: 203214

I have one expression for this diary. An expression that is going to keep my progress on this ship under control.

 

"Chain of Command"

 

Why do I say this? It because, despite all my hard work recently, I still have to follow orders. And even though I worked out what that virus was, and potentially saved Chief's life.. I still get to crawl through plasma tubes.

 

Still, the flush through seemed to go ok. No more dark greenies in the light greenies mum!

Stardate: 203213

Chief might not like what I discovered today. He's only just come back to duty as that virus really got to him. But it was all very well sending out a antivirus to kill off the bug, but the green particles were all coated in Plasma! I've got a bad feeling that we might need to flush the system. Its not going to make the suphonic drive work right until we do.