Adrift

Posted on 27 Oct 2013 @ 8:37pm by Lieutenant JG Tykhin Vess

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Intelligence Officer's Personal Log
MD 05 - 2100 hrs
LtJG Tykhin Vess
USS Venture

About two days ago now, I woke up in Sickbay onboard the Galileo. I swear to the four gods, I wish I hadn't. We lost some 200 people in an instant when the Borg attacked the Venture's stardrive. I don't even know what happened to me or how I ended up in one of the lifepods, but the Borg left us out there. They left us out there as bait.

And the Galileo took it, damn them. It's a complete debacle. Half their senior staff seems to be assimilated, and the crew seems to be either stunned into inaction or blindly reacting.

Why couldn't we have been given those extra few minutes to initiate the auto-destruct? Why couldn't the Galileo have just gotten itself out of there instead of getting ambushed? Why couldn't Alice climb just a little faster or the Borg blow away the nacelle just a little later?

Why do I have to be here?

It's like a nightmare that keeps getting worse. The situation is bad enough, but for now I'm saddled with... I don't even know what to make of Markos or Saalm. Nothing makes sense on this ship. Are all science vessels run like cadet cruises?

sigh

And it really doesn't matter what I think about it. This isn't my ship and the odds of us surviving are so damn remote anyway. And if I get out of this? What then?

I really don't know, anymore. After this, I really don't know.

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