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 Following a joint shore leave with the crew of the {{USS|Arrow}} aboard [[Deep Space 224]], the Excalibur is called upon to meet with representatives from the Klingon Empire, the Son'a Solidarity and the Romulan Republic. Details are light on the ground, but a dispute has arisen and Federation intervention is deemed necessary. Shortly before departure, an "asset" infiltrates the ship and messes with the ship's computer before being extracted by parties unknown and assassinated. Preparations for the negotiations- and for the newly instituted "Taco Night"- are promptly derailed by an apparent spate of replicator malfunctions across the ship that render them unable to synthesise anything other tacos and fillings. The crew race to find alternatives in order to keep the delegates happy. Shortly after the arrival of all three delegations, the malfunctions spread to the communications systems- cutting the Excalibur-A off from [[Deep Space 224]] and the other Starfleet assets in the region for an hour- before the system corrects itself. Back on Deep Space 224, the body of the "asset" is discovered by a worker bee pilot, prompting Fleet Captain [[Cascadia Rainier]] to open an investigation. The station's CMO- Doctor Blanch- identifies the cause of death and rules out that the murder was committed using the station's transporters.
-At a welcome reception for the delegates, Ambassador Tork (with Doctor Gott in tow as his 'plus one') is taken ill and collapses. Only minutes later Ambassador Gaez'ael and Zarr follow suite. They are beamed to sickbay where York and Gaez'ael are both identified as having neurotoxins in their system. In the Round Table, Commander Yalu takes charge of the aftermath.
+At a welcome reception for the delegates, Ambassador Tork (with Doctor Gott in tow as his 'plus one') is taken ill and collapses. Only minutes later Ambassador Gaez'ael and Zarr follow suite. They are beamed to sickbay where York and Gaez'ael are both identified as having neurotoxins in their system. In the Round Table, Commander Yalu takes charge of the aftermath. Commander Etan identifies a microvirus within a chili and takes it to the medical laboratory where Counsellor Seta and ACMO Morgan have also discovered it. The Chief Science Officer theorises that the micro virus might have been genetically tailored to introduce a neurotoxin into specific individuals which would explain why nobody else was affected. On the bridge, the situation continued to deteriorate with cascading failures throughout the ship's systems. The Son'a and the Klingon vessels become agitated and take up defensive postures. An ill but stable Ambassador Gaez'ael manages to dissuade the Son'a from acting rashly. Lieutenant [[Vitor Silveira|Silveira]] manages to gleam from Doctor Gott (who was told by a drunken Ambassador Tork before the dinner) that the negotiations are about the rights to an asteroid field filled with dilithium. Lieutenant [[Hallia Yellir|Yellir]] is apparently able to purge the a computer virus responsible for the power failures. At the same time, Commander Yalu and Commander Etan independently begin to suspect that the micro virus originated from the failed Earth colony on Turkana IV which has become a hotbed of bioweapon development in recent months. In the medical laboratory, Etan and Seta work with Lieutenant [[Talos Dakora|Dakora]] and newly arrived Ensign [[Jovenan]] to prove the link.
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