Stardate 1704.1

Sadie and I talked for hours and fell asleep together. Maybe this will work out, maybe not -- we'll have to wait and see...

Supplemental: Strange thought - a few light years away on another Enterprise, Joe Tormolen is starting his last day alive. Wierd... Did it occur to anyone to go back and try to stop them before the whole mess happened? We'll assume Spock advised against it.

Stardate 1704.5

Dr McCoy has found a cure for the infection thats driven us all nuts, but now only an experimental drive restart can save us

supplemental: Restart successful, except it threw us 3 days back into the past. I'd rather forget the last 3 days, not relive them...

Stardate -- oh heck, I'm not sure what the date is now, I still haven't checked the nearest time beacon yet. Wait a minute...

I get a little annoyed trying to reorganize star dates, and so does Al.

Okay, it's apparently Stardate 1703.6 now. Sadie wants to talk after her shift -- probably a good idea, considering...

supplemental: Sadie said she couldn't remember what exactly happened while she was infected, but it didn't mean anything.

cont. I said that may be, but it will be a long time before I forget the image of her and McGready naked in the rec room...

I thought I'd point out that Al didn't walk in an any innocent make out session. He wouldn't entertain homicidal thoughts without a good excuse.

Stardate 1704.3

Tormolen died, McCoy says he just lost the will to live, but that's not a choice on the death certificate. Autopsy will tell

I doubt the death certificate for had a spot for "lost the will to live"...

supplemental: Just saw Sulu chasing someone down the corridor with a sword! Now Riley's singing over the shipwide intercom. What's going on?

cont. went looking for Sadie (Riley's got comm system tied up) found her making out with McGready in the rec room! She just started giggling

trouble in paradise...

cont. Just yelled at Tina Lawton, came to my office with a bowl of plomeek soup asking me to show her -- anyway, she was covered in sweat...

What's with the environmental systems? Now I'm all sweaty. Why doesn't someone shut Riley up? What the hell was sadie doing?

notice the lack of usual log entry notation, just some gradual loss of coherance...

who to kill first sadie or mcgready hey that rhymes dirty back stabbing wench what's mccoy doing here with that hypoooo

What goes on in the mind of a man scorned? Good thing McCoy showed up when he did.

Stardate 1700.1

On course for Psi 2000 to retrieve the research team there and observe the final breakup of the planet.

supplemental: completely unable to contact the research team. Never a good sign, so I told Zanotti to start getting paperwork ready...

Stardate 1704.2

Mr Spock and Ltjg Tormolen beamed down to Psi 2000 and found the research team frozen to death under strange conditions...

and so it begins...

Supplemental: Spock and Tormolen have beamed back, and the corpses are thawing out in the decon section of pathology...

continued: Tormolen tried to attack Sulu and Riley in the mess hall, before turning the blade on himself - Dr. McCoy is working on him now.

Stardate 1695.8

Quick stop at Starbase 11 to drop off the extra survey teams and grab supplies before heading to Psi 2000...

setting up for "The Naked Time"...

Supplemental: Ltjg Zanotti and I had to finish up reports, so Sadie went over to Starbase 11 without me. We're finally done though...

foreshadowing?

Stardate 1682.2

Alfa 207 is a very nice planet, home to several bronze age type civilizations. We're exploring where they aren't for now...

cont: Sadie and I found a quiet beach to spend a little quality time on. We've had so much going on lately, it was nice to get away.

Jimmy had made me a picture of Al and Sadie on the beach, but since I think it's time for a change of plot, I needed an excuse to use the picture sooner than I was planning.

Stardate 1676.5

I blame Prof. Crater for the mess, he could have told us about the creature and we could have made arrangements. But nooooo

Just imagine how differently things would have turned out if Prof. Crater had just reported what had happened instead of all the secrecy.

Stardate 1673.7

Scotty and Spock think they have the problem solved with the transporters -- going to try it out on a split animal...

Supplemental: Sucess, sort of, the animal was rejoined but died. Spock says it was from the shock, Capt. Kirk should be able to handle it...

continued: Capt Kirk survived the process, and we beamed Sulu and crew up. They'll be in sickbay for a while recovering from the cold...

Stardate 1675.2

Sulu and the others have been released from Sickbay on light duty orders -- Sulu's still practicing fencing though...

supplemental: just recieved a protest from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens. Upset that we killed the alien space poodle...

New name, same initials, same sometimes questionable priorities...

cont. They also raised a stink about the death of the salt vampire that killed 4 crewmen and Professor and Mrs. Crater. Go figure...

Stardate 1672.0

Geo. Tech. Fisher fell while surveying the planet and injured his hand, nothing serious -- was treated and returned to duty.

Supplemental: Got all but 4 people off the planet before a transporter malfunction. Temps on the surface are dropping fast...

Stardate 1672.7

The transporter malfunction has created an evil twin of the Capt. He's attacked Rand, and put Fisher back in sickbay...

Supplemental: 2 crews working on the transporters, 3 trying to get the shuttlebay going, the planet surface getting colder...

Continued: bad capt. locked up, good capt. flaking out, meanwhile Sulu and his crew are starting to freeze...

Stardate 1671.8

Alfa 177 show some promise. Extremely cold nights, but lots of life signs. We'll be sending down survey parties asap...

Finally, we prepare to begin "The Enemy Within"

Supplemental: There was a plasma conduit rupture in the shuttle bay, damaging the shuttle and fusing the doors closed. 96 hours to fix...

Ever wonder why they didn't send a shuttle craft down to rescue the guys stuck on the surface? We know it was because they didn't have a shuttle set -- but I like this reason better.

Continued: We have 3 geological, 4 botanical, and 3 zoological survey teams on the surface gathering data before the temperature drops...

Stardate 1670.1

It seems like we've been in sector alfa for weeks. 176 planets done,70 more to go...

Stardate 1652.2

We've now charted over 150 planets, nearly all uninhabitable - several have interesting archeological sites, but not for us.

Supplemental: At least 5 systems show signs of interplanetary warfare, 7 systems with unstable stars, only 2 habitable, but just barely...

Stardate 1620.3

We've cataloged another 60 planets, few capable of sustaining life -- one was nothing but a hot, swampy, bog of a planet...

Stardate 1606.5

Cataloged first system, a red giant -- all planets in system completely lifeless cinders, star extremely unstable...

This gave me a good excuse to study different star types and their life cycles.

Supplemental: Long range scans on inner planet show remains of civilization, but we can't get any closer due to the unstable star...

@emzanotti welcome back from wherever you were....

in case you forgot, EM Zanotti is in fact a real live person (who recently appeared on CNN!)

Stardate 1597.2

Heading out to the Alfa section to start cataloging the planets there - almost 200 planets to look through...

Alfa 177 sounded like a really dumb name for a planet -- it's unlikely one sun would have 177 planets, so we call it a section with multiple unamed stars and planets in it.

Supplemental: Fortunately we only have to do detailed surveys of planets supporting lifeforms -- that should cut our work down some.

Stardate 1589.9

Heading back to Starbase 11 to pick up another Geological survey team for some upcoming research missions...

Stardate 1581.7

Torpedo Specialist 2 Speelman dropped a torpedo casing on her foot, and will spend the next 3 days in sickbay recovering...

another Twitter follower...

Supplemental: Another dinner date with Lt. Tomlinson and Ens Martine joining Sadie and I for something that looks like steak from our last stop.

Stardate 1577.9

Spent several days at Outpost IX helping them setup their new equipment, and enjoying real gravity and air for a change...

Supplemental: Found out my sister Penny was accepted to Mars University. Mom is ecstatic -- all over a glorified junior college...

continued: My great-grandfather helps to found the Federation, and my Mom hates everything about it. Grandpa Archer is spinning in his grave

Yes, I made Al's great grandfather Capt Johnathan Archer -- I have a plan though. I'm going to use this little reference (along with the fact that Al worked for a Vulcan featured in "Enterprise") It's all in preparation for future plot twists...

Stardate 1570.4

Our stop over at Starbase 11 is over, and we're heading out on a resupply run to several deep space scientific outposts...

Supplemental: Dropping mining supplies and machine tools at outpost IX -- they're planning on building underground manufacturing sites...

Bet you didn't know this was another Dune reference did you -- the planet Ix was originally planet 9 (Roman numeral IX). So in another 7000 years or so, this small manufacturing outpost will be one of the premier manufacturing planets in the known universe.

Stardate 1561.9

Came out about 5 credits richer, Sulu and

McGready about even, Tomlinson cleaned out Riley to the tune of 65 credits!!

Supplemental: The girls are back from their night out, when asked if she had fun, Tina Lawton blushed redder than Sadie's uniform. Hmmmm...

Continued: Sadie says Zanotti asked her what the deal was with plomeek soup, and after she explained, Lawton started the blushing routine...

Stardate 1560.1

Back at Starbase 11, resupplying, dropping off what recovered from the Antares, as well as 4 colonists heading back home...

Supplemental: Sadie, Rand, Zanotti, Martine, Tina Lawton, and Uhura are going down for a "Girls Night Out" down at the club...

Continued: Riley, Sulu, McGready, Tomlinson, and I decided to have a poker match while the girls were out and about...

They were always playing poker on TNG, why should these guys be any different?

Stardate 1553.2

Heading back to Starbase 11 with the remains and personal effects of the Antares crew, as well as their research and data...

Naval ships usually have home ports, if you haven't figured it out by now, Starbase 11 is the home port for Enterprise

Supplemental: Spock reviewed the Antares log -- they knew the reactor was going critical, but didn't know about the missing baffle plate...

You got to figure they knew something was going wrong and they were desparately trying to fix it when time ran out.

Stardate 1550.7

Since we'll be passing through the area where the Antares blew up, UESPA asked us to recover anything valuable we can find.

At the beginning of the series, they hadn't standardized on Starfleet yet, and used several different organizational names in the communications. I figured they were like NASA, sometimes on a NASA mission, sometimes on military missions, sometimes on CIA missions -- so why shouldn't the Enterprise be the same?

Supplemental: We recovered 4 bodies from the bridge crew (including Capt. Ramart), 135 computer tapes, and the record bouy...