Enemy of My Enemy (Montreal): Difference between revisions

While the first officer, Lieutenant Commander [[Lael Rosek]] and the commanding officer, Commander [[Mei'konda]] were discussing new transfers, they were alerted by a priority one communique from [[Meridian]]<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-montreal/aBo-G4SIABo ''Commander Mei'konda - Solok'']</ref><ref group="footnotes">See [[Shoals]] entry, re known communication issues</ref> and then shortly after, a new transfer - a noted doctor, Lieutenant Commander [[Solok]], who formerly served with much of the crew of the {{USS|Montreal}} when they were on the {{USS|Veritas}}.

Alerting them that at the time, it was primarily affecting the [[Klingon]] population of the primary colony, they immediately began plans to implement a proper quarantine and relief to the colony. Implementing a rather risky plan to land the ship, given the age of the [[Norway_class]] spaceframe and damage from the persistent mission, they began to perform a dual outreach and medical relief mission<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-montreal/c-Sk-wA3i5U ''CDR Mei'konda - Two Tasks''], </ref>. Choosing to perform the diplomatic outreach directly, Mei'konda left the Rosek in command of the ship and left for the central visit to see General Eth'ek of the Klingon house Cirposh. Meanwhile, the Montreal immediately had to deal with two ships attempting to breach quarantine at the same time their medical and science teams were rushing to create two makeshift quarantine zones. Disabling the two ships, the shuttle patrol issued by the Montreal aided in rescuing the people stranded one of the more damaged freighters.

However, the meeting was interrupted by the fact that the general had been infected with this plague. Further more, the proceedings broke down entirely upon learning that one of the Klingon General's party, a Colonel Rilaw was a traitor<ref group="footnotes">Starfleet Intelligence has been informed by Klingon Intelligence that they suspect the real Rilaw was killed, but due to internal tensions, this is considered unconfirmable and no more than hearsay.</ref> and upon boarding the Montreal, she poisoned the Chief of Science, Lt. [[German Galven]] through a tear in his EVA suit. Meanwhile, Solok had remembered that at one point of his past, he had heard of the <ref>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phyrox_plague ''Phyrox plague'']</ref> and managed to get authorization to get it's specifications. This was further aided by the party getting a purer sample during their investigations.  

In the meantime, the responsible party for the plague had hailed them. It was [[Lenik]], an extremist member of the [[Reya-Laialara]]. He wished to get command of the Montreal for his fleet, and threatened them with destruction if they didn't comply. Refusing to hand over the ship, the bridge crew began to work on an idea to counter him, but before they could execute this plan, Rilek fired on the Crescent View Medical Research Facility.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-montreal/0TwKbPaFA-4 ''MSNPC Colonel Rilaw - Fire at Will '']</ref> with roughly 300 initial casualties<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-montreal/vsXZfkpjU38 ''Ens. Tiria Hamasaki - The Value Of Our Dead'']</ref><ref group="footnotes">The final casualties were 425, with 89 dying in the initial attack, and 12 as a result of it.</ref>. As a result, the crew of the Montreal accelerated their plan and executed a much more daring one. The plan, a hybrid of the ones proposed by Commander [[Tal Tel-ar|Tel-ar]] and Ensigns [[Sotak]] and [[Tiria Hamasaki|Hamasaki]], was two fold. Force a shuttle to reach a warp core-breach at the same time it rammed the ''Miran's Tifar'', and then accelerate from the surface to attack.  

A concern was the minimum time to reach safe distance for shields, roughly 31 seconds. Thanks to a plan by Lt. JG [[Jacob_Harkrow|Harkrow]], and with assistance from [[Sotak]] and Rosek, they cut that down to a much more daring twenty four seconds, and executed an attack on the terrorist ship, forcing it to retreat. In the meantime, Solok, with assistance from Ensign [[Stennin]] had come up with a vaccine for this modified plague, and had successfully treated General Eth'ek, which was sent back down to Meridian to aid in recovery there.