The Silent Monster (Juneau)
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As the Juneau is surveying the planet Anadasa, an M-class world inhabited by a pre-industrialized civilization, the Tactical Department detects a crashed Borg ship deep within the planet’s ocean.
Plot Summary
Part 1
After the mission briefing, the Captain orders two teams down to the planet. One team led by herself, to explore the city of Da’Al, where the scientists have picked up on faint traces of a plasma-based energy source as well as traces of an element called Paralithium (a substance used as fuel for some ion-based propulsion systems). The other team, led by XO Qinn, is sent to the Borg wreckage in the ocean. With both the Captain and First Officer down on the planet, Second Officer T'Lea takes command of the Juneau.
Part 2
As Captain Oddas and the Away Team, consisting of Acting Chief of Security/Tactical Kendrick and newly promoted science officer Lieutenant JG Falt - one of Juneau’s anthropology experts -, beam down to the planet, they start exploring the city outskirts. While walking down one of the streets, a young girl on the run for three hooded men, bumps into the Captain. The Captain reacts on instinct and pushes the girl into an artistry store to hide her from the men that were following her.
After the shuttlecraft has departed for the Borg wreckage, the ship’s sensors detect a structure on one of Anadasa’s moons. Commander T’Lea orders the ship to set course for the moon to investigate.
Part 3
In the city, Oddas, Falt, Kendrick, and the little girl, Ra’Am, wait for the men to pass, and attempt to talk to Ra’Am to attempt to find some answers. But don’t get very far before the man who runs the artistry store catches them and kicks them out. The team in the ocean reaches the Borg wreckage. Gunnery Sergeant Nan Hesan beams over first to get a look at the Borg wreckage, noting the apparent smell of Borg, as well as tricorder indications of Borg presence. Then she has Qinn beam over with her once it’s deemed safe enough to do so.
Back on the ship, Lieutenant Stelek has taken command. While watching all the away teams as they can, Stelek has Tito search the system for anything else that's artificial, and Tito notices Cardassian wreckage on a planet in the system. Indobri tells them about her assimilation reversal research and seems to be getting sick with something in the process.
On the moon, T’Lea and Dekas discover the Cardassian outpost has two more floors beneath than they originally thought. Dekas takes a little time and gets the previously locked door open, and they enter the outpost.
Part 4
Oddas, Falt, Kendrick, and Ra'Am try to keep a low profile, even as they see a man beat up on the ground. But their new friend Ra'Am isn't aware of the prime directive and gets the attention of the guards on all of them. In an attempt to lessen the break in the directive on everyone, Falt acts as if he's a religious official from across the sea and gets taken by the guards. Oddas, Kendrick, and Ra'Am have to leave and find another way to get Falt back.
In the Ocean, there's more proof of the Borg presence. Qinn and Hesan can only hope they're able to neutralize it before it becomes a problem.
Upon getting the lights and some of the computers working in the outpost, Dekas realizes it's bigger than the original team would be able to find any answers in a timely manner and calls the Juneau for extra assistance. Stelek and Tito find a slight connection between the Cardassian wreckage and the outpost, though not with the Borg yet. Indobri gets results back about what's causing her to be sick and finds out she has Rodulan Fire Fever, and only an hour before she potentially becomes delirious or even unconscious.
Part 5
From somewhere a bell rings, the team in the city learn from Ra'Am that it's time for prayer in the temple, which is also where they believe Falt is being taken, but that they can't get into the temple without the mark of J'Kre. Ra'Am brings them to a place where they get an amulet that will allow them entrance to the citadel. Once they are in the Citadel, surrounded by crowds of Anadasan people, they discreetly take a read with their tricorders. And as they get closer to seeing what all the people are there to see, Oddas sees the lifeless body of the Borg Queen encased in a clear coffin, being worshipped by the masses.
In the ocean, they're still cautiously searching the wreckage for signs of working Borg. And the Juneau crew is working to access the Cardassian wreckage computers, hoping to determine the cause of the wreck and possible connections between that, the outpost, and the borg.
And on the moon, Major Kiran Han, WO Gwen Kingsley, Nurse Katrina Pelley, and Security officer Condrad Jackman have arrived to assist Dekas and T'Lea in the exploration of the Cardassian outpost.