"Relics" Line-by-Line

[Orac]

Hello and Welcome!

We recently finished our "A Piece of the Action" Line-by-Line over in the TOS forum!

After each completed thread, using a Random Number Generator, we choose the person who gets the keys to the car and selects the next episode.

This time around, Random.org selected @retroenzo as our winner. @retroenzo chose "Relics" to be our next Line-by-Line adventure!

For any unfamiliar with our "game," you are asked to post only a single line (defined as one character speaking without interruption by another character) per message. You can post as often as you like, but someone else must post a line in between your posts.

Our "rule" is that if the episode has a "To Be Continued..." on the end, it is done in a single thread, but if it's just an arc of related episodes (like the Dominion Occupation Arc on DS9 or the Xindi Arc on ENT), each episode is a separate thread.

As before, at the conclusion of this thread Leadhead, CoveTom, leandar, Enterprise1981, Admiral Shran or I will run the randomizer to determine who will pick the next episode and get it going.

 

[Orac]

[One day on the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise] (at the science stations)

Data: Captain, I have identified the signal. It is from the USS Jenolen, a Federation transport ship reported missing in this sector seventy five years ago.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

This should be fun.
(Sits back with crackers, cheese and white wine to follow the development.)
I'm going to sticky it for convenience of the participants.

 

[Orac]

Thank you Mutai Sho-Rin, you are a scholar and a gent. (In addition to being a crusty old bastard.)

 

[retroenzo]

RIKER: Code one alpha zero. Ship in distress.

 

[Orac]

Picard: Take us out of warp, Ensign. All stop.

 

[mattman8907]

RAGER: (a dark lady) Aye, sir.

 

[P Tom]

(the ship shakes)
PICARD: Report.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: We have entered a massive gravitational field, Captain.

 

[mattman8907]

DATA: There are no stars or other stellar bodies listed on our navigational charts. However, sensors indicate the presence of an extremely strong gravitational source in this vicinity.

 

[Orac]

Picard: Can you localize the source of the gravitational field?

 

[mattman8907]

(viewscreen shows a dark grey sphere)
RIKER: Sensors?

 

[Orac]

Data: I am having difficulty scanning the object. It appears to be approximately 200,000,000 kilometres in diameter.

 

[mattman8907]

RIKER: That's nearly as large as the Earth's orbit around the sun.

 

[Orac]

Picard: Why didn't we detect this before now?

 

[mattman8907]

DATA: The object's enormous mass is causing a great deal of gravimetric interference. That might have prevented our sensors from detecting it before we dropped out of warp.

 

[Prax]

PICARD: Mister Data, could this be a Dyson Sphere

 

[Orac]

Data: The object does fit the general parameters of Dyson's theory.

 

[Athena28]

RIKER: A Dyson Sphere?

 

[mattman8907]

PICARD: It's a very old theory, Number One. I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of it. In the twentieth century, a physicist called Freeman Dyson, postulated the theory that an enormous hollow sphere could be constructed around a star. This would have the advantage of harnessing all the radiant energy of that star. A population living on the interior surface would have virtually inexhaustible sources of power.