Lost, and Found

Posted on Thu Oct 31st, 2019 @ 11:32pm by Lieutenant Minna Chang

395 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: E1 Only The Beginning
Location: Sickbay, USS Columbia NX-02
Timeline: 5-years-ago

(USS Columbia NX-02, Sickbay, four-years, 10 months and 8 days-ago in deep space

“Eight pods still active, six with feint lifesigns, commander” Lieutenant (JG) Jason Klein, a junior science officer on the USS Achilles said to Lieutenant Commander Heidi Stoddardsdotter, the ship's CMO who stood at his side. “They are all damaged and degraded, but this one still has a functioning computer interface” he added as he pointed to the stasis tube next to him.

Heidi walked over and looked at the first of the active stasis pods. The occupant was clearly wounded before pod activation and appears to have died as he entered stasis, and while no longer alive, was perfectly preserved. Pods two and three had power, but only sufficient for the display. The corpses inside were so decomposed as to be unrecognizable. The fourth pod appears to have deactivated 14-years-ago and the lid opened, killing the occupant instantly as there was no atmosphere in the ship at that time. The fifth pod, however, appeared to be functioning, though just barely.

“This one passes diagnostics, but the others I’d be more comfortable turning over to medical back at HQ. I think we can revive this one back on the Achilles” the commander said to her colleague.

Heidi could not take her eyes off of the woman in the pod. She wore an old-style MACO uniform from the Romulan War era and was identified as Sergeant Major Minna Chang by the pod's readout. She had a disruptor wound to the left hip and what appeared to be a stab wound in the left side of her abdomen, as well as small amounts of her own blood on the knuckles of both hands. In addition she appeared to have suffered some serious blunt trauma with most of the bones in her left shoulder, hip and leg either fractured, or in the case of the knee, completely shattered. In other words, she looked just as beat-up as the derelict ship.

“I'll take care of the pod. See if you can search the ship's computer and find this Sergeant Major Chang's quarters. After more than two centuries in stasis I’d prefer to revive her surrounded by some of her possessions.”

“Aye, commander” Jason replied as he took another look at the woman. “I’ll bet she’s got quite a story to tell.”

“ No doubt” Heidi replied.

 

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