On Sun, 9 May 1999 17:10:36 -0700, "jonathan ruckwood"

<jonathan@ruckwood.freeserve.co.uk>; writes to USS Galileo

<galileo@ucip.org>;:



<<Sorry the first log I sent seemed to be a bit messed up>>



~~~~~~~~~~Bridge~~~~~~~~~~



 He woke up and let out a loud groan. His whole body ached. He felt a warm

liquid dripping down his head. He wiped it off, it was blood, he reached for

his pocket and put some tissue on the wound. He stood up and looked around

the bridge. He had been thrown about 5 metres from his station. Everybody

had been flung about like rag dolls and now they were laying lifeless on the

floor. The last thing that he could remember was the captain screaming to

brace for impact and then he saw the ground coming up fast on the view

screen, ‘This is going to  be rough’, he thought at the time and then was

knocked out.

“Bridge to medical” the only response was a static hiss,

“Bridge to medical” he demanded anxiously. The static broke and his comm

badge bleeped to life.

<Engin.....brid...need.... assi...tance> he felt reassured that there

was

somebody else alive.

“Negative engineering. This is Chief Science officer Ruckwood here. There

are many casualties but most  are dead.” As long as Dach was working on the

problem he felt that everything would be all right. She was one of the best

engineers he had ever met.



“Computer. Status report.” he insisted. He was half hoping that it wouldn’t

work, he didn’t really want  to know, he knew it would  be bad. But as usual

the computer responded instantaneously.

<Structural Integrity down to 55%, and holding. Inertial damping fields

down

to 37%, and holding> the list went on finally indicating the overall

status

of the ship.

<Overall status of the USS Galileo is 45%> he sighed, he knew that they

had

an immense task to repair all the problems.

 Stepping over the bodies he got back to his post and oblivious to the

situation developing in Engineering he started gathering information about

the planet that they may have to call ‘home’ for sometime. As far as he

could tell they were on a M class planet. and there were signs of life. This

worried him, ‘Would they be hostile?’ he thought to himself. His thoughts

were broken by his loyal comm badge bleeping into action.

<Engineering to bridge. We have main power source back online. However,

the

warp drive is not available for at least 12 hours>

“Tar’a Bridge here. Congratulations! You’re a genius” he replied

enthusiastically.

<Not a genius, but getting there> she chuckled back.

“This is Chief Science officer Ruckwood. I advise that nobody should leave

the ship. There are traces of life on this planet and they may be hostile.”



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Cdt. Jonathan Ruckwood, USS Galileo, Chief Science Officer



jonathan@ruckwood.freeserve.co.uk