Creative Couplings (Book 2) by Glenn Hauman; Aaron Rosenberg

Author:Glenn Hauman; Aaron Rosenberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Star Trek
ISBN: 9780743496896
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2005-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Meanwhile, in the engine room of the Hyperion, the students had their hands full.

“Everything’s shutting down!” Ian shouted. “I don’t know what to do!” He was frantically punching buttons on his console, to little or no effect.

“We’ve lost main engines.” Santar was reporting to Tev on the bridge. “Impulse drives at twenty percent and failing. Life support also at twenty percent. Backup generators offline. Emergency beacons—”

“Dammit!” Tanya stepped back, shaking her hand, as sparks flew from the open panel where she’d been working. “We just lost the—”

“—offline,” Santar continued, updating his information. “Predicting complete shutdown in fifteen minutes.”

“Engineering, shunt all available power to life support,” Tev said. “Jettison warp core immediately, and prepare to abandon ship.”

“Abandon ship?” Malcolm asked, glancing up from his console. “Where does he expect us to go?”

“Hull doors and airlocks not responding,” Ben reported from another console. “We’ll have to open them manually.”

Latha started to say something, but was interrupted by a klaxon. “Proximity alert,” she said after a glance at her console. “Another ship just appeared, and it’s approaching fast. Thank the stars we still have sensors working.”

“All hands, this is your captain speaking,” Tev said a moment later. “A ship has been spotted nearby, and is rapidly approaching. Long-range scans indicate—” A groan from Latha told the others that this was not going to be good news. “—that it is a Jem’Hadar warship. Prepare for possible combat.”

“With what?” Tanya asked. “We’ve got no shields, no phasers, no torpedoes! We’re sitting ducks!”

“We might be able to modify one of the lifepods,” Zoe suggested, “transform it into a guided missile and fire that at the warship.”

“That is a worthwhile notion,” T’nok said. “If we can create the illusion of life-forms on board, the Jem’Hadar will seek to capture it rather than destroy it. And that will put it inside their hull when it explodes.”

“It’s the only shot we’ve got,” Tomas said. “Zoe, start prepping one of the pods. Trick its systems into thinking there are three people aboard. Ian, set the engines to overload in ten minutes. Malcolm, find some way to boost that explosion when it happens. Everybody else, keep salvaging what you can here. See if we can draw power from anywhere to get our shields back up, otherwise we’re goners with the first hit. Let’s move, people!”

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