Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Enterprise - The Neutral Period

Opening Scene

Captains starlog April 13, 2151

The SinTam and the Tamore have agreed to have trade talks at a summit held on Tamore’s home planet Tazzeer. Tacsui from SinTam and his counterpart Marneem expressed willingness to enhance cooperation and deepen their relations between the two planets. After a four day successful summit, Enterprise is on its way to the Delorian system and Captain Archer is assigned to transport the SinTam delegation to their home planet DaKza.

While, the Enterprise is traveling at Warp Speed, unexpected visitors attack the Enterprise. Archer instructs Mr. Reed to fire torpedoes at the enemy vessel. During the attack, the Enterprise’s warp coils gets damaged and the ship comes to a halt. The visitors vanish without a trace and Enterprise is left stranded.

Music theme - Faith of the Heart


Festival of "Eraa"
Without Warp speed, Captain Archer is unable to transport the SinTam to their home planet. The SinTam is awaiting for the festival of “Eraa”, before they celebrate they have to do the “nonagathe” – the Neutral period of fasting. 

In the mean time, T’Pol informs the Captain, that they have only two options of reaching the Delorian system. Either they have to travel near a black hole or a class G star system.   

T’Pol advices Captain Archer to take the route near the class G star, as this route is much safer than passing near the black hole. Captain Archer instructs Mayweather to take Enterprise near the star. 

Back at the Engine room, Trip is in the process of repairing the damaged warp coils. He informs the captain it would take around six hours to fix the coils. As the Enterprise nears the class G star, Captain Archer informs the crew to be ready and take appropriate measures to avoid dehydration. 

In the mean time the SinTam have started their ritual of “nonagathe” and are chanting their rituals. Due to the temperature, some of the SinTam passes out due to dehydration. Captain Archer is concerned about the guests and insists that they consume water. But Tacsui says it is a must they have to continue their ritual. The fallen SinTam are taken to sick bay, and Tacsui tells Doctor Phlox, they cannot administer anything into their system.

Back at the bridge, T’Pol detects the enemy vessel that attacked the Enterprise earlier, and alerts the Captain, that the vessel will arrive within twenty minutes.  Captain Archer inquires the status of the armory from Mr.Reed. Mr. Reed has carried out some  modifications to the torpedoes and informs Archer that they are ready to attack.

As the enemy vessel approaches, on Archer’s instructions Mr. Reed attacks the vessel. The vessel’s weapons get damaged. T’Pol scans the vessel and informs Archer that the vessel is non other than a SinTam class ‘T vessel with five life forms – SinTams and the ship has been badly effected by the class G star high temperature. Archer notifies Tacsui about the SinTam vessel. Tacsui tells the Captain that they are a group of SinTam’s who are against the trade agreement.  Archer hails the damaged ship, one of the SinTam respond and Archer informs that they will be beamed to the Enterprise and taken to DaKza to face trials for their misconduct.

For the SinTam delegates the fast is over. They break the fast by taking “thambili”, an ancient SinTam beverage, and as they reach DaKza, they prepare for their Festival of ‘Eraa’.

My first attempt on writing a story..:)
Characters : Enterprise

Main Characters
Jonathan Archer - Captain
T'Pol - Science Office
Charles "Trip" Tucker - Chief Engineer
Malcolm Reed - Tactical Officer
Travis Mayweather - Helmsman
Dr. Phlox- Chief Medical Officer

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Faith of the Heart

On 12th of April 2011, the 50th anniversary of the world's first manned flight into space carried out by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Also celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch.What a long way we have come from Spaceflight. NASA is retiring the shuttle program later this year. Awaiting the next generation of Spaceflight
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin


Vostok 1

How a Space Shuttle Museum would Look Like!

 My tribute to Spaceflight! - Faith of the Heart.