Stardate: 203363

Chief says we’d be home in about a week. To be honest, I think we all need it. And I need a bath. I wonder if rations would allow it?

Stardate: 203362

Had an interesting meeting with Commander Stratton, who finally seemed to be satisfied that I had dotted all my I’s and crossed every T. He realised that in such a situation it was hard to know what might happen, but it was his duty to conduct the enquiry.

We’ve slogged hard today, desperate to get this wrecked ship back to GE0. We’ve managed to do some tweaking as a team and got the thing to fly a bit faster. Chief wanted to tell Captain, as he thought he’d appreciate some good news.

Stardate: 203361

We’ve worked on repairing the Plasma conduits today, but my work is interrupted by this enquiry. Got to go to the Mess hall in a few moments.  But we’re moving. Heading home I believe.

Stardate: 203360

We’ve stuffed out against the Doctors orders! Something about allowing our bodies to adapt.. yeah right. Apparently an enquiry is being set up to find out why Wilson almost ended up with the stars. Hope I did everything right!

Stardate: 203359

Oh my, Wilson, you really got me worried then. Chief managed to get a moving target lock on Wilson and get him back to safety. The plasma is gone, and all the doors are open again, so we’ve been “excused” for a few days to recover. I’m just about to meet Wilson at Sickbay, although I must admit, I’d rather head to the Mess Hall and stuff myself silly with food!! I feel so weak

Stardate: 203358

I've enable remote voice log entry although I hope this holds out while I.. eugh.. I jump across from one side of the ship to the other. I remembered our space walk's trainer, and his point in making sure I'm always strapped to the ship, even if it makes my journey slower. Ok, I've got to the manual release. Wilson should be ready to pull the lever, and as soon as I pull this, it will suck anything not strapped down out of the ship, namely our plasma.  

Right, hope you're ready for this Wilson, its the agreed time. Just pull this... eugh...

 

OH NO!  NO!! WILSON!!! WILSON!!!

 

>error out of range
 

Stardate: 203357

Ok, Wilson is going to have to crank the safety latch because the plasma leak has caused the safety bubble to explode, locking the hatch. It’s a safety feature to stop people salvaging stuff from a floating vessel that’s full of contaminant.  Teleporters would warn them if it’s too hazardous to beam in to, opening the door to this stuff is a little more dangerous.  I get to space walk across from the port to starboard side. Wilson will have to hold on tight when the door opens. Hope he remembers that.

Stardate: 203356

It hasn’t worked, We spent all day trying to find a way to get it to work from within engineering, but we’ve come to the conclusion that we’re going to have to go outside and do this manually. That means a space walk for one of us, and Wilson has never done it before. That means me.

We better inform Chief and work out a routine of what we’re going to have to do, because Wilson will have to do something on this side while I am outside. He might prefer the space walk.

Stardate: 203355

Ok, we’ve been waiting for Chief to open the bay doors and flush out engineering completely. We’re in our airlock suits and strapped to something solid..hold on.. there’s a noise..this could be it..

Stardate 203354

I’ve set up a dummy log account for Chief and I to post to, so that we can get messages in and out. It was a little crude, but crude is working at the moment.  They’re deciding what to do, so Wilson and I are sitting here waiting. I am so hungry, it’s starting to make my mind a bit of a blur.

Stardate: 203353

It was Chief Hanson! He tried to hack my system but I was blocking his moves until I recognised one of his algorithms.  Right, now we have contact we can work together to get this sorted.

 

Wilson had a good idea that if we put on our airlock suits, we might be able to open some bay doors and flush this part of the ship out of all the leaked plasma, We’re locked out from here so might have to get Chief to do it, or we’ll have to do it manually. But that might mean going outside and the controls aren’t easy to get to from here. Any volunteers?

Stardate: 203352

Well, we’re doing ok but starting to flag a little from the lack of food.  Wilson found a couple of banana’s left behind by somebody who was planning to eat at their station, which we scoffed quite quickly.  I never understood the purpose of rationing out food, but that’s probably why I am hungry again alrea  5 435  ^^£”

 

What the..

 

21 15:>$482 010200 593m..1^))$!

 

Who the hell… oh , no they don’t…

 

5”!__%

 

Ha! Somebody’s trying to hack my log while I’m using it!! Well, they can chew on some of these algorithms..

 

>$$!))”_”* sjj! >1c00s lockout < 2001 152 104:”11

 

Haha.. that’ll keep ‘em guessing. Chew on that matey!

Stardate: 203351

Looks like Chief was able to redirect the major part of the plasma flow away from the engines, because the engines shut down and I didn’t do it. And I’m not alone. Ensign Wilson was here caught in a plasma conduit when the blast doors closed, so at least I have company. He’s not hurt but a little claustrophobic over being “shut in”, even though engineering takes up a good 25% of the ships mass!  None of the internal sensors are working and we still can’t get a message outside. We need to get the plasma leak down, or the blast doors will remain shut. I’m hungry too, the replicators don’t work in here because nobody is expected to be inside the blast doors!

Stardate: 203350

Ok.. that wasn’t a clever day.  Woke with a hangover after being stupidly drunk. Gwen lost, but I took it wrong, thinking it had been a fix.  I met Herman in the corridor and, well… we got into a little bit of a… a fight. Anyway, he’s substantially stronger than me, which goes to prove he could have won the competition.. anyway, I’m rambling and long and short of it is that he swung at me, I ducked and he hit a plasma cover so hard that it punctured the plasma manifold behind and ruptured into a major plasma leak.  I can’t get behind the cover at the moment so I don’t know what else has happened, but it looks like everybody has got out of engineering and the blast doors have closed and sealed. Unless I can get this thing fixed, the blast doors will remain closed.  I’ve accessed my logs from within engineering but nothing else seems to be getting out. I better get back to work and see what I can do I guess the crew are on the other side of the doors trying to figure out how to get in!

Stardate: 203349

It was fixed. Gwenshud hav wun it.

>error please speak clearly

Stupid fing.

>error please speak clearly

I said SHUDDUP!

>error unrecognisable signal

>auto logout

Stardate: 203348

Been working hard today, but we seem to be getting more and more speed out of her. Chief's doing a grand job at organising us all. Sad to think that we're already starting to forget the old Chief. I won't let that happen, I won't!
 

Stardate: 203347

Go Gwe-hen, Go Gwe-hen, Go.. oops..

 

Wow, that was great, Gwen is in the FINAL!! YAY!!

 

Ok I take back my comments yesterday. It was mildly exciting.

 

I need to log off and get some kip, got some catch up work to do on the late shift..

 

Go Gwe-hen..

Stardate: 203346

I don’t believe it. They’ve started up the Sports Lounge Championship again. We’re already struggling for crew to get this ship moving. But to make matters worse, they’ve renamed it the Thomas DuMond Cup – after our poor Chief. For the record, while they call it that, you will not get me….

>error unrecognisable signal

Yes Chief..

>error unrecognisable signal

I’ve been “advised” to go. Chief told me it would be good for all officers to attend as we need to set the lead. I am not going to enjoy this.

Stardate: 203345

Had to go to medical today, a plasma relay blew right beside me. It was my own fault, I was being cocky and showing off. Taught me never to say “I know what I’m doing, I’ve done this a thousand times before”.

Stardate: 203344

We’re slowly making steady progress back to GE0, but to be honest I think we’re overcooking it still. But Chief has it all in hand and he has a good sense of what this ship can manage. I’m growing to like him more and more, but still miss our old Chief.  We’re still working hard to cope with blowing plasma relays. Let’s not do battle with anybody, because I get the feeling we wouldn’t last very long..