Commodore's Log 008

Posted on 30 Aug 2014 @ 7:31pm by Rear Admiral Lirha Saalm

391 words; about a 2 minute read

Commodore's Log, Stardate 67255.3

Progress on the tribble front has been slow and the infestation has now reached a critical level. Earlier this morning, Captain Holliday put the ship to orange alert in an attempt to conserve power and preserve whatever remaining systems we currently have functioning. The tribbles have managed to spread to every section of Galileo and are disrupting primary, secondary, and auxiliary functions. It seems we are currently operating at roughly forty percent efficiency, and this will soon drop in the coming hours.

So far, attempts to control the infestation have not been very successful. All attempts to manually retrieve and confine the tribbles to quarantined areas have proven all but useless, and we simply cannot keep up with their breeding pace. They also seem to quite enjoy chewing on our ODN lines and electrical circuitry which is making the task even more difficult. I have spoken to Admiral Hurin and informed him of our situation. Surprisingly, he did not seem too concerned about our plight which was a bit disconcerting...as if he somehow expects us to fix this problem by ourselves. I wish it were that simple, but we may need to transmit a localized distress call if we cannot quell the tribbles' reproduction in the coming day or so.

Lieutenant Commander Warraquim has been working with her sickbay staff ever since the infestation first started in an attempt to devise some sort of medical treatment which could help alleviate some of our troubles. Unfortunately, progress is slow and so far they have not had any wide-spread success. Recently I volunteered to donate a sample of my pheromones for a rather unorthodox treatment with the hopes of creating a chemical that would bring the tribbles out of hiding, but I am unsure how useful that is going to be at this point. I believe Lieutenant Kita and his Engineering teams are also working on a possible solution, but most of their time has been consumed with keeping our systems online and preventing catastrophic failures across the ship.

I will record another log tomorrow with hopefully some better news. Galileo does not have much time left given the exponential increase in their numbers, but I am confident that some how...some way, we will get through this.

Computer, end log.

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