Sweet Dreams Are Made of This (Gorkon)
| 2395, Episode 10 |
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| USS Gorkon | ||
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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
- Stardate 239508.14 to Present
The Maquis crew of the Skarbek has escaped Outpost Schulman, surviving a Cardassian raid. With a captured Starfleet Intelligence Officer, and a ship full of dreams, the crew hurtle toward the unknown.
Location
- Demilitarized Zone: Known as the DMZ. The buffer zone of the Alpha Quadrant where colonies were exchanged with the Cardassian Union under the terms of the Federation-Cardassian Treaty of 2370. This is the stomping ground of the Maquis, resisting Cardassian control, without support from the Federation.
- Outpost Schulman: An outpost within the DMZ where the Maquis cell of the Skarbek was rumoured to be located. Once a thriving community and colony, it was destroyed by a Cardassian raiding party.
- Skarbek: The Condor-Class vessel and home to a Maquis resistence cell under the command of Walter Brunsig.
- Inayat-Khan: Shuttlecraft used by the Skarbek.
- USS Gorkon: Currently under occupation.
Plot Elements
++Coming Soon++
Notable Characters
- Lladre: Trill Outlaw and Would-Be Captain of the Gorkon
- Doctor Ana Mirovan: Dokkaran Amoral Scientist
- Cardassian Teenager: Found stowed aboard the Inayat-Khan
- Bondon: Arkarian, Maquis Comms Specialist
Mission Summary
Act One: Escape from Outpost Schulman
With their home under Cardassian attack, the Maquis crew of the Skarbek evacuate the civilians of the colony world and resist the invasion until they can escape.
- Bringing in the Skarbek for the evacuation:
- Team: Ayiana Sevo, Ferier Lanta, Tasha MacFarlane.
- Evacuating the injured from the medical clinic:
- Team: Cory Stoyer, Jocelyn Marshall, Genkos Sim, Yiggtissi.
- Providing armament support against the ground invasion:
- Team: Kael Thomas, Tasi, Davine D'fini, Groznin Smith, Valesha Sienelis.
- Securing the prisoner for transport:
- Team: Walter Brunsig, Trellis Vondaryan, Elias Burke, Emilia Krugol and one prisoner, Quinn Reynolds.
Note: Maquis crew will be referred to by their call signs, a full list of which can be found here: Skarbek Crew and Known Associates.
Civilians evacuated from the Outpost successfully, the crew of the Skarbek begin their daring escape under fire. Papa Bear, leader of the resistance fighters, issued the order to vacate all strongholds on the colony world and rendezvous with the vessel at an appropriate location. Commands given, he managed to avoid enemy fire to engage with his team in the makeshift prison, where their captive Commander Quinn Reynolds, Starfleet Intelligence Officer, had been held for a week. Prisoner in tow, they moved out of their position and headed toward where the Skarbek would be.
Meanwhile, the Maquis cell Second, known as Red and team began their perilous mission of bringing in the vessel to the rendezvous point (or RV). Dodging Cardassian fire from multiple raiders, they managed to get a landing spot close to where the main stretch of road once was that ran down the center of the outpost.
Further into Schulman, Kael Thomas and team worked to keep Cardassian invaders away from the medical clinic by using their ranged combat skills. While their position was quiet, with most of the fighting taking place deeper into the main street, elsewhere the Cardassians had started ground troop infiltration to clean up remaining colonists and any of the Maquis cell that may have still been alive. Once they were informed their position had been compromised and the location of the RV, they rolled out.
Over at the medical clinic, those injured in the first of the bombing raids had been taken down into the emergency shelter beneath. The team, comprising of the two Maquis Doctors, the technician and the engineer, worked to move the remaining wounded toward the RV. With some crew unable to walk and unconscious, they moved up into the main clinic and tried to repair the damaged transporter. Coming under attack from a Glin ground force, the team held off the attack until Stripper managed to get the transporter operational and they beamed back to the Skarbek, but not before Sim, Alias: Wheels set alight to the remaining gas canisters, blowing up the remnants of the clinic and their transport buffer pattern.
Upon landing, the Skarbek deployed the ramp to allow those left on foot to enter. However, this was in the middle of the Glin ground force. With little option remaining, Red provided the needed distraction by utilizing a large phaser weapon and blasting "Shoot to Thrill", an ancient rock music song by AC/DC in the hopes that the Cardassian forces would be drawn out and fall beneath her fire.
Once all crew were back on board the Skarbek, and the outpost lost to Cardassian shelling, they escaped the colony by flipping to warp speed within the atmosphere under the piloting skills of Sticks and fled out into the black of the DMZ.
Act Two: The Prisoner and the Plan
The Maquis crew of the Skarbek now on board their vessel, the reality of their situation becomes clear when the prisoner's identity is revealed and the plan set in motion by Captain Brunsig starts to take shape.
- Onboard the Skarbek, getting some rest and relaxation:
- In handcuffs, housed in unassigned personnel quarters:
- Team: Quinn Reynolds.
- Aboard the Inayat-Khan on the way back from a liaison with the Klingons:
- Team: Erin Reynolds, Samira Neathler, Thalas th'Koro.
Note: Maquis crew will be referred to by their call signs, a full list of which can be found here: Skarbek Crew and Known Associates.
With their prisoner, one Commander Quinn Reynolds, confined to empty Quarters within the ship, the escaped crew of the Skarbek come down from the heights of the daring departure from Outpost Schulman. Left with little to their name, and most of it broken, repairs began in Engineering to fix the tanker after jumping to warp within the atmosphere of the planet, alongside general repairs that required Sparks and Stripper to be on the top of their game.
Interrogation of the prisoner began with Slick, with the implication of torture for Commander Reynolds if she didn't give over the information they had been trying to extract for weeks. The threat loomed in the room with them, broken only by the arrival of Leg Man and Blondie for a medical check-up. They were joined shortly after by Wheels and proceeded to have several conversations on the nature of morality in the DMZ.
Heading back from their mission, Vines, accompanied by Newbie and Buttons, slip the Inayat-Khan into autopilot and get to know one another on board. Amidst a hangover that could flatten a raging Mugato, they were all feeling a little worse for wear after an evening with the Klingons. However, their mission proved to be a success, bringing back a cloaking device and several stocks of supplies from their liaison.
Meanwhile, another couple of liaisons were starting to take shape; one between Stripper and Red, with the former asking the latter to join him for a romantic meal in the Galley that evening, and the other between Scrounger and The Kid, which had started on Schulman and progressed on board. Both were more ill-fated than a trip on a steamliner in 1912.
During this, back on the Bridge, Princess, Sticks and Thumper speculate on the arrival of the prisoner on board, repair a couple of issues with the motherboard of the ship, and continue their course heading for their rendezvous point. Feeling the effects of the mission a little later than expected, Princess fainted on the Bridge and had to be carried by Sticks down to Sickbay, joined by Slick and Leg Man, who had been drinking in the space to while the time away with conversation.
Conducting an examination on Princess, Leg Man stumbled across an interesting prognosis regarding their combined mental state - notably, that they were all within the cycles of REM sleep and weren't actually awake at all. As Wheels joined them, they began their deeper investigation into the proposed theory. Simultaneously, on the way down to the Cargo Bay, Red took a nosedive, going incredibly dizzy and nearly passed out. She made her way to Sickbay.
In the midst of repairs, Sparks found that she required isolinear chips from their makeshift storage facilities and found herself in the same room with Commander Reynolds and dented the table with her cybernetic hand.
- Meanwhile, on the USS Gorkon - Lieutenant Caedan Nkai, Chief of Operations, had been shot in the side and managed to get into Sickbay. With the crew out cold from whatever malady had befallen them, the EMH was the only available medical personnel ready to handle his injury. Unable to remain in Sickbay for long for surgery to repair the bullet wound, Nkai convinced the EMH to patch him up so he could get back out to the ship to figure out what was going on.
Back on board the Inayat-Khan, Wilde found the core of the cloaking device they had brought on board the ship was pouring out high energy photons, reaching critical levels. Vines investigated, finding the device had been configured to register as though it was installed on a ship and not in storage, leading to Newbie and Buttons discovering a teenage Cardassian stowaway in their cargo hold.
In Sickbay, The Kid appeared with a cut in his hand from the Cargo Bay, amidst the chaos of the investigation into whether they were all sleeping/dreaming or not. This was swiftly concluded when Papa Bear appeared from his den and called into question the validity of their theory as well as the state of their equipment. A swift call to Sparks to fix their equipment, while drunk, and the rest scattered into the wind.
- Meanwhile, on the USS Gorkon - Lladre, an outlaw from Trill and would-be Captain of the Gorkon sat in the central chair as though she owned the place, watching several monitors of the streamed data from the Skarbek. Without much progress in the way of interrogation of the Commander, with most of the crew feeling some kind of allegiance to her without knowing exactly why, Doctor Ana Mirovan, architect of the dreamworld, pushes the scenario into higher gear.
Up on the Bridge, Sticks and Soup guided the Skarbek on the final leg of the journey to the rendezvous point, and met up with the Inayat-Khan. Granting access to dock, Sticks took off for the hold in search of food, Red took off for her date with Stripper, while Soup remained on the Bridge, holding an impromptu dance lesson with a seemingly recovered Princess, before escaping to the Cargo Hold once Sticks returned to show up his dancing abilities with a flared Trill rendition with Princess.
Down in the Cargo Hold, the docked Inayat-Khan allowed the disembark of Vines, Newbie and Buttons onto the Skarbek. A hearty greeting from friends and a welcome back on board later, the two new crew onboard were treated to a whistlestop tour of the Skarbek by The Kid and Scrounger, while Blondie and Vines retreated to her quarters for the sake of the continued health of the hygiene filters.
However, inside the makeshift cell of the Starfleet Intelligence Officer, the Commander dreamed of a romantic affair with Brunsig, culminated in a short, sharp, shock back to reality as the Arkarian crewmember Bondon laid into her, with no holds barred. Attempting to retrieve her codes, he beat her into unconsciousness while the rest of the ship carried on, blissfully unaware.
Until, after a shower to ward off the hangover, a conversation between Vines and Blondie reveals the secret they had been keeping from her - her twin sister, Quinn was aboard, and they were holding her prisoner. Taking off for the woman's quarters, Vines found her sister, unconscious on the floor, amidst splatters of blood.
The question was: who did it?
Act Three: A Dream Unravels
The Maquis crew of the Skarbek begin to feel the boundaries of their reality shifting when they are faced with the unconscious Starfleet Intelligence Officer and a question that their world is not as it seems.
- In Sickbay tending to wounded Reynolds:
- Team: Walter Brunsig, Quinn Reynolds, Genkos Sim, Yiggtissi, Erin Reynolds, Needles, Jocelyn Marshall.
- Investigating the makeshift cell for evidence:
- Team: Ayiana Sevo, Groznin Smith, Samira Neathler, Ferier Lanta.
- Trying to find the culprit to the beating:
- Figuring out what is going on while trying to remain sane:
Note: Maquis crew will be referred to by their call signs, a full list of which can be found here: Skarbek Crew and Known Associates.
Discovering the extensive injuries inflicted on Reynolds had caused her to be "awake" somewhere outside of their reality, the nature of their existence was called into question. Splitting the crew into teams to cover all ground as best as possible, the very fabric of the dreamscape they were snared in began to unfurl.
Act Four: Wakey, Wakey
The crew of the USS Gorkon begin to awaken back on the ship, having been asleep for a few hours at the hands of Lladre and her criminal crew. Faced with multiple situations of sabotage, alongside adjusting back to their realities as Starfleet Officers, could prove difficult.
- In Sickbay tending to the wounded:
- On the Bridge, with the bomb:
- Team: Ayiana Sevo, Cory Stoyer, Ferier Lanta, Emilia Krugol.
- In one of the computing labs, amidst a smoking ruin:
- In the shuttle bay, investigating the accident:
Mission Reports
- Stardate 239509.25: Starfleet Receives Distress Call from USS Gorkon, Crew Unresponsive
- Stardate 239510.21: Starfleet Dispatches Rescue Vessel to Aid USS Gorkon
| REV SD 239511.07 |
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