It's Always Sunny in the Delta Quadrant (Amity)
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It's Always Sunny in the Delta Quadrant
- Episode: S2E5 (2400)
- Stardate 240009- 240011
What was expected to be a routine day on Amity Outpost resulted in a meeting between Starfleet attaché and Commander Wil Ukinix and Chief of Mission Niarivi Vataix when long range scans detected a radio pulsar in an unconfirmed star system labelled Fana 2977-B. When a classified alert was sent through referencing ‘Protocol Parallax’ the Commander didn’t waste a second and set out with Chief Science Officer Robin Hopper to check it out aboard the Daintree.
Act 1
It didn’t take long for word of the exploits of Commander Ukinix and Lt. Commander Hopper to return to Amity Outpost. However this was delivered on behalf of a transmission from the USS Kitty Hawk, informing the senior staff that the Daintree had crash-landed on a populated world and both commanders had made the news - and not for the best reasons!
Insert from the Paak News Network:
Paak News Report: ...the aliens were quickly arrested following their insults and threats to the Paak and Paak people. The Paak officially announced that she was unperturbed by the threat posed and has mobilized the Paak military to prepare all defenses against this "United Federation of Planets" should they seek to follow through on the male alien's words.
Paak (Leader): I declare to this United Federation that you will not succeed in your Paak. We have captured your Paak and will obtain the Paak we need to survive.
Paak News Report: We here at Paak have obtained exclusive footage by a local Paak who was at Paak during the initial encounter.
The video changed to grainy footage of a gathering of officials, although the familiar face of Wil and Robin could be seen in the middle of the alien congregation.
Ukinix: It is an honour, Paak, to be welcomed to Paak, and to meet the leading representative of the Paak people. Paak “Paak” of the Paak people, my commanding officer is an Ambassador, and I’m sure-Paak #3: You *dare* insult our Paak with such *words*?
Ukinix: ::To Robin:: What’d I say?
Hopper: ::To Wil:: You said “Pa–” ::cutting herself off:: You said the word. Their word.
Ukinix: “Paak”. I said “Paak”, right?
Paak #6: Make him stop… make him stop!
There was the sound of more yelling before the video stopped.
Ambassador Vataix assembled her team of senior staff for a meeting to discuss and weigh in on the possible options to resolve the seemingly volatile First Contact situation.
The crew was divided into three teams;
The Ambassador, alongside Chief Counsellor John Carter, Deputy Chief of Mission Vaje Kizat, Chief of Staff Keehani Ukinix and Civilian Analyst Nadeshiko were assigned to decide on the correct approach to deal with this new alien civilisation once an appropriate form of communication could be reached and the best diplomatic avenue to take.
Chief Medical Officer Ikaia Wong assumed position as Chief Science Officer and took command of the second team consisting of himself, Ensign Cara Veers and Ensign Harrison Blackwood to decipher the nuances of this new alien language, analyse all incoming transmissions from the planet and try to adapt the Universal Translator before the diplomats need to make contact.
And lastly but not least, Amity's Chief of Security Lt. Commander Cassian Iovianus assumed command of the remaining operations staff including Lieutenants Nathan Richards and Rebecca Iko, Lieutenant JG Scotty Reade and Ensign Kaito Moore to analyse the technological status of the so called "Paak" people. To explore potential alternatives should diplomacy not prevail and to get all crew out safe and sound.
With all three teams assembled, the crew boarded the USS Independence-B and began the journey to the "Paak" System to recover their lost comrades and with any luck make some new friends in the Delta Quadrant.
Meanwhile on the Paak Homeworld both Commander Ukinix and Lt. Commander Hopper were experiencing life on an unknown alien planet without a fully functioning UT.
Following their arrest both commanders found themselves locked in a non-descript plain-white room isolated from all else somewhere inside a fortified Paak military installation. Unfortunately for the pair, their day was about to get a whole lot worse when a representative of the Paak Legal System arrived to offer legal representation as the planetary government levy a multitude of charges against them; from violating Paak airspace to unlawfully entering a military facilities and causing several million Paak in damages to the environment!
Despite protests from both Starfleet officers and countless attempts to convince the Paak people that everything was a misunderstanding due to miscommunication all their words fell on deaf ears. To make it worse their hearing was in no less than three hours time!
In an act of defiance for their unfair and potentially unlawful lack of preparation time or defence the officers showed up to their tribunal[1] without their communication instruments, resulting in an uproar from the court and the Magistrate charging Commander Ukinix with contempt of court and interning him for the remainder of the tribunal hearings, leaving Lt. Commander Hopper alone to weather the storm where she learned an alarming fact about the Paak's Warp Tests they had investigated - they never happened.