2414.09

After the rescue from Titanic... The ship is slowly making its way back to the wormhole to return to the DQ.  Cromwell is flying through the Alpha Quadrant Stardate 1912... and still managed to get itself infested by the borg.

Before Captain Sesgaard arrived on Cromwell (as a lowly ensign) Borg had almost taken over the ship.  With heavy losses the crew had beaten them back and destroyed them.  Subsequent refits cleaned out the remainder of the borg tech left.

Then how did a borg hand come to be on the ship?  The Resident scientist Lt Braun had saved a Trill Borg hand for future work, but it had been left behind when Lt. Braun was transferred.  This one prosthetic hand, from a Trill communications drone attempted to communicate with the collective following it's escape.  In an unexpected accident, the crew was placed in stasis while they traveled to the Titanic to complete their rescue mission, allowing the Borg hand to access and learn and adapt.

The Borg have returned, and in this newest adaptation, have utilized Holograms, assimilating the sentient holograms aboard Cromwell.  This newest adaptation is not without its difficulties, while we have lost some crew to the borg, the assimilation is incomplete.  A crewman assimilated, turned out to be a hologram herself.  Emma has been able to undermine the borg while still having been assimilated.

The tides are slowly turning in the crews favor.  The hand, using trill physiology, and an oversight by Jinx where he turned off his own borg trill hybrid from sensors, which allowed the (trill borg) hand to move and hide.  Even some good detective work by Red the Helmsman and Ensign Who, resident android using internal sensors to detect different modes of locomotion and speed failed to find the hand initially.  The hand was making holographic borg to move itself around, which , while unintentional, defeated the internal sensors for motion detection.

The crew found the borg on a second search of the hull.  Holographic Borg had upgraded the Deflector dish for communications, and now have managed to take over navigation of the ship.  With Borg Nodes scattered all across the ship, cutting power is no longer an option, power redundancy prevents cutting the borg off from their resource.

The hand had attempted to hide, and had been successful for a long time by hiding with the torpedo, stolen from Jinx, inside a shuttle craft in the shuttle bay.  Discovered by Red, and sealed off, the holograms can escape the shuttle, but the hand, cannot.   Emma and other borg confront Major Reynolds, who disable the holoemittors of the shuttle bay, effectively isolating the hand in the shuttle.

The shuttle trapping the hand has Jinx Transphasic torpedo, and a borg integrated hand.

Will the crew be able to save the holograms and Emma?  Will they be able to get the hand off the ship and destroy it with "over kill" as more and more crew are wanting to do.

2414.08

After the rescue from Titanic the ship crew enjoys a well meaning party, Much dancing, singing and musical instrument playing; The many hidden talents of the Cromwell crew!

Finally without a serious threat to deal with (No one even got drunk!) we had a chance to recover, rest, and enjoy each other...with the lights out.

Except the lights were not suppose to go out.  Nor the replicators, nor another half dozen systems that lost power.

It, unfortunately fit in with the minor investigation that was going on with someone surreptitiously re-writing Cromwell.  The unfortunate part was the choice of parts. Specifically Borg parts and Holograms.  Only one of our crew knew enough to pull it off.  Jinx, and as clues were gathered: Replicator ID's using Jinx's voice authorization,  Borg Tech, Grainy security footage of Jinx stealing his own quantum torpedo, Trill DNA on Borg nodes: Finally the crew had to stage an intervention.

A couple of theories are coming up.  A clone? Mind Control? (one of Jinx's own personalities taking over the others?  Or an outside force?)  Jinx volunteers to go into the Brig...and immediate escapes when the lights, and security forcefields go down.  Nah... We're not suspicious.  He still has his security guard with him, doesn't he?

2414.07

Stardate 2414.07.15 Cromwell returns to Titanic for the third and last time.

There was a brief interlude of a game of 'capture the borg hand', a few guesses of what was about to happen and the Cromwell crew was again off.

The ship's crew awaken after three months deep sleep over Earth North Atlantic ocean, and set about rescuing the Passengers and Crew of Titanic.

With the Titanic adventure all wrapped up with a bow,  Q exits Cromwell, and most are saying good riddence.  But as Q told Picard, the test is never over.  The crew attempted and succeeded in returning to Titanic yet a third time, and rescued the Cromwell crew left behind, and the passengers of Titanic who were lost and presumed drowned.  They will live out their lives on a secluded island until generations pass and the sinking is only legend to the islanders.

Cromwell makes the big turnaround and is heading back to the Delta Quadrant (though still technically back in time) where they will rejump forward, back to where they belong. 

The deep sleep was very thorough, and included shutting down the holograms, and even deactivating the cadet android aboard.  Everyone immediately points fingers at 'the hand' (pun intended), a borg hand briefly loose aboard Cromwell before the time jump.  But it remains safely secured in the stasis chamber they had locked it in before leaving DFA Babylon station.

So who rewired the ship's power during the last three months, and why?  Some are attributing it to superhuman efforts of the (missing, but now rescued)  captain Sesgaard.  Soon, they will find he too has human failings.

Coming soon; We need more powah!