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-Pursuing strange readings picked up by a passing probe, the ''Blackwell'' arrived at the abandoned planetoid P-409 Sigma. The Hur'q incident of the previous mission was still fresh in the minds of the crew, and, rather notably, those of the Klingon Empire's leadership.
+Pursuing strange readings picked up by a passing probe, the ''Blackwell'' arrived at the abandoned planetoid P-409 Sigma. The Hur'q incident of the previous mission was still fresh in the minds of the crew, and, rather notably, those of the Klingon Empire's leadership. As a result, the ''Blackwell'' was joined (rather reluctantly) by a powerful Klingon battleship, the ''gik'tal''. An away team, composed of members from both starships, was beamed to the planetoid, and began taking extensive readings of the area. Before a conclusive explanation could be reached, the away team vanished, replaced instead by an anomaly in space. Immediately, efforts to achieve contact with the now absent personnel were begun, but the crew received no response. Whittaker had left the bridge to attend to other important matters, leaving Shayne in a very difficult situation. In searching for answers, the crew discovered that the anomaly directly before them shared both temporal properties and a passing similarity to another rift, encountered more than a century and a half earlier by the crew of the Constitution Class Enterprise. This partially interphasic rift presented an ugly possibility; depending on what was on the other side, the away team might have been killed. Commander Walker, an individual with intense interest and profound experience in the realm of temporal mechanics, quickly came up with a possibility; using science that Shayne, frankly, could not grasp, she might insert herself into the rift, and rescue the wayward team. Shayne, who would despise himself for months after the incident, refused to allow the commander permission, instead relying on Whittaker's final word of approval. In a surprising turn of events, Commander Merzan, the leader of the ''gik'tal'' and individual who most despised their involuntary pairing, volunteered to join Walker on her mad escapade. Shayne and other members of the crew worked to keep the anomaly open for as long as possible, in order to afford both teams the best chance to make it out alive. Eventually, though, there efforts failed. Just as the anomaly was preparing to close, the away team was extracted, only now joined by nearly one hundred other people. It turned out that the same anomaly the ''Blackwell'' had been investigating had brought down the NX class USS ''Fortwith'' more than two hundred years earlier. Now burdened with temporally displaced refugees from another era, the ''Blackwell'' returned to home port in order to submit their findings and deliver their passengers to the DTI.
+Shayne was awarded the Silver Star for Valour in the aftermath of the incident, along with the entire ship- something he'll likely never understand, as throughout the event, he'd felt more useless than ever before, a condition he vowed to never permit again.