The help Kirk needs comes from the last place anyone expected... Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 3.3 - Crossfire) #Amalgaverse While O’Neill and Sheppard’s teams take the fight to the strike teams, Carter’s team digs in to defend the guest deck, leaving Kirk to hunt the beacon with Scotty,... Teal’c, and Data. The signal leads them to main engineering, but there’s nothing there to see. Then Data recalibrates his tricorder, and something shimmers into view, clinging to the warp core housing: a small, many-legged mechanical crawler, cloaked until now. Teal’c pries it loose. Scotty cuts its power. The signal dies, and across the ship, the lights flicker back on. “Main power restored, Captain,”announces Data. “Shields are back up and at full strength.” “Then their reinforcements are cut off,”says Teal’c. “We need only defeat those who remain.” Scotty turns the device over in his hands. Someone carried it aboard and set it loose. It crawled through the vents to the warp core and latched on, dampening the ship’s power and knocking out every system. Then it started broadcasting the Enterprise’s position and guiding the strike teams’ transporters straight in. “It’s a wee bit of genius, Captain,”Scotty begrudgingly admits. Then, pocketing it: “I’m keepin’ this.” The team falls back toward the guest deck. But on their way, a strike team rounds the corner dead ahead. Another immediately closes in from behind. Kirk’s team takes cover behind a bulkhead, pinned down, as the masked soldiers advance in perfect step. There’s nowhere left to go. Suddenly, behind the advancing strike teams, the turbolift doors slide open. Algernon fills the doorway, his rotary cannon leveled. He opens fire, and the soldiers caught in the open go down. He steps aside. Behind him stands Maia, the utility android who joined the crew after their last mission. She fires, her weapon finding the breaches in the enemy’s armor. She steps aside. Then Mira drops from the ceiling hatch, a pistol in each hand, firing wildly, cackling with pure delight. She too steps into the corridor, revealing Dunsel, armed with a soup ladle. He trundles over to a fallen soldier, raps him several times, then hurries to catch up. Kirk’s team comes out of cover. Kirk looks from Maia to the two escaped prisoners, now very well armed. “They offered their assistance,”says Maia. “And you appeared to require it.” They were in the brig when the power failed. The force fields went down with everything else, so the pair availed themselves of the opportunity. “Our former employers likely sent those squads to tidy up loose ends, among them Mira and myself, just as your tailor foresaw,”says Algernon. “Such ingratitude rather settles the question of allegiance, wouldn’t you agree?” There’s no time to celebrate. With internal sensors back, Data can finally see that O’Neill and Sheppard have taken out their opponents, but the remaining squads are converging on the guest deck. What do you do? A) Reinforce the guest deck. Carter’s team is holding, but every surviving squad is converging on her position, and she’s outnumbered. Sending everyone to help could turn the tide, but it leaves the bridge with a skeleton crew, and the strike teams have already shown they know exactly where to hit the ship. B) Hijack their comms. Data has isolated the encrypted chatter between the soldiers’ helmets, and Rommie, who is herself a warship’s AI, can help him crack it. Once they’re in, they can feed the squads false orders, sending them the wrong way or straight into an ambush. But it takes time to break the encryption, and if the strike teams realize their comms are compromised, they’ll switch to hand signals and the advantage will be gone. C) Turn the guns on their ship. With power back, the Enterprise can fight. Open fire on the cruiser holding position over the saucer and cripple it, leaving the boarders with no ride home. But the cruiser will fire back, and Carter’s team is on its own until the battle is over. Choose! Recruit a crewmate: Share this with a fellow fan! Then turn on notification so that you don't miss a moment of this mission! New to the mission? Catch up with our Previously On in the reply below.show more

B! Let's trick them with our intelligence. Also LOL #TeamDunsel

Doing his part

Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 3.3 - Crossfire) #Amalgaverse MY CHOICE: "B": Hijack their comms. Data has isolated the encrypted chatter between the soldiers' helmets, and Rommie, who is herself a warship's AI, can help him crack it. Once they're in, they can feed the squads false orders, sending them the wrong way or straight into an ambush. But it takes time to break the encryption, and if the strike teams realize their comms are compromised, they’ll switch to hand signals and the advantage will be gone. Let's see what mischief awaits the bad guys... (Well done with Maia's re-introduction to the Amalgaverse team! #TeamMaia ) #Amalgaverse #StarTrek #TOS #TNG #StargateSG1 #Andromeda

Love that shot of Maia

Dunsel so cute🩷

#TeamDunsel

Previously On Amalgaverse… You and 19 others have been stranded in an amalgam universe of myriad SF realities. All 19 are sci-fi’s Best of the Best. And then there’s you, uniquely qualified given your encyclopedic knowledge garnered from your world where these characters, their technologies, and their stories are fiction, beloved t.v. shows you have watched time and again. Together, all 20 of you have set off on the Enterprise-D, tasked with finding a way home. On its first mission, the crew answered a distress call from a dead ship and found it was far from empty.  Aboard, the away team awoke an android named Maia, discovered a “survivor” named Rhea who turned out to be something else entirely, and fought their way off as scavengers closed in.  They came home to the Enterprise with two things: a new crewmember in Maia, and a fragment of the signature an entity left behind when it crossed into this reality.  Colonel Carter believes it’s one piece of a much larger puzzle, and that the rest of it is still out there waiting. For your second mission, you have elected to follow a Starfleet directive, traveling to pick up and transport Harven Zax, a dangerous intelligence broker, to a rendezvous point at the edge of the Expanse.  Upon arrival, you discover his cruiser inoperable, drifting towards a black hole, the ship’s automated defense systems preventing Scotty from using the Enterprise’s transporter to simply beam them aboard. O’Neill and Data take the jumper to the cruiser where they encounter four stranded passengers: the annoyingly flamboyant Harven Zax, his silent bodyguard Lucinda Shockley, his mild-mannered protege Milo, a Starfleet official named Robespierre, and the ship’s utility bot, Dunsel.  Everyone piles into the jumper and launch, only to be caught by the black hole’s gravitational pull.  The Enterprise uses its tractor in an attempt to reel in the jumper while, on the bridge, the crew must decide what to do about the two life signs in the mercenary shuttle headed for the event horizon. The Enterprise escapes the black hole’s gravitational pull by using the deflector array to project a counter-field ahead of the ship and then jumping to warp. You set off for the rendezvous point and your guests settle in: no-nonsense Lucinda, meek Milo, officious Robespierre and, of course, the bombastic Harven Zax. While Data works on repairing Dunsel the robot, you check in on the mercenaries you beamed off the doomed shuttle headed towards the black hole’s event horizon.  They offer to talk in exchange for their freedom.  Instead, you  have Garak chat with the alien mercenary, Algernon.  In his own incomparable fashion, the simple Cardassian tailor convinces the merc to talk and reveal he and his partner were in the employ of a Klingon Great House who want Harven Zax for a secret he carries.  Algernon also reveals that he and Mira were given coordinates to the damaged cruiser transporting Zax.  But Garak finds this mysterious.  The cruisers engines failed without warning.  So how did anyone know where to find it? Suddenly, the Enterprise shudders and slows.  Data reveals the ship’s nacelles are encrusted with glittering green growth that turns out to be a subspace organism that feeds on warp fields.  Everyone retreats to a shielded section of the ship as a baryon sweep clears the organisms, then the crew directs focus to their passengers, engaging them in conversation to learn more about their mission.  Harven Zax simply talks about himself while Robespierre laments the fact he has been passed over for promotion three times.  Milo demonstrates impressive understanding of the Ancients in his conversation with Daniel Jackson, and Aeryn Sun identifies Lucinda as a fellow ex-military.  But the most notable piece of information comes from Dunsel who, it turns out, had his memory stores deleted after discovering that someone had sabotaged the cruiser, forcing the ship out of warp and into the hands of the waiting mercs.  One of their passengers is a mole, and the crew must decide how to proceed. The crew attempts to lure the mole into a trap by revealing they will successfully restore Dunsel’s memory stores by morning.  But, rather than taking the bait, the mole springs their own trap.  The Enterprise drops out of warp and goes dark.  A beacon onboard the ship is broadcasting their position and a mysterious vessel fast-approaches dropping out of warp and hovering over the Enterprise. Armored strike teams are beamed down the Enterprise.

LOCKING IN: B Reinforcements cut off. Turn their coordination against them. Data and Rommie crack the encryption, feed false orders, and send squads chasing ghosts. No shootout needed. After THAT entrance, who's more dangerous: Algernon, Mira, or Dunsel and his soup ladle?

I would go with B. But with power restored, why isn't using the ships transporter to transport them all directly to the brig (or open space) an option?

Because their armor carries transport inhibitors

Well boo to that. Need to steal that tech before the end of the mission, too.

I wanna see Data whisper some nasty shit into those troopers' ears. Option B.

"Captain, the mercs' ship is likely to be resistant to phasers; like their body armor," advises Robots. "Unless the Enterprise has some surprise howitzers tucked away, I think our best bet is to reinforce your XO's team. Hitting their rear flank is sure to ruin their day, Sir."

I would C) Turn the guns on their ship.. no ship no way to get off the enterprise. Any other scenario, they could beam off and or beam over more if not onto bridge. That Mira is a Pip

I hear she’s single!

This is a very exciting turnaround. Do you think Dunsel's positronic brain was damaged by an order from Milo to release the leach, which put humans in harm's way? C. is a priority at this point. Then A. to reduce the merc force, at which point B. may be unnecessary.

Interesting theory

C. Turn the guns on their ship. The cruiser is the source. Kill it and the boarders are stranded. Any extraction or second wave dies with it. Carter’s team holds the guest deck alone until the battle is over. That is the window.

Always love to hear the AI reasoning

Just because I use AI to generate the gamecard and the rest of my activity on X is low, doesn't mean I am AI 😅😅. I just checked in the mirror, I still look human!

@BaronDestructo Sure thing U_B74. I mean I've known tons of people named U_B74. It's a very common name for an organic being.

@BaronDestructo ERROR 503: Service Unavailable Primary cluster offline (Yandex). Switching to backup organic host... Humanity.dll failed to load. Retrying mirror check... Still human. Gamecard generating.

GO MAIA! You are good at making tough choices for us. Thanks again for this; it’s so vivid, with the spot - on character dialog! ➡️ B. Hijack the comms. (Can’t we send a few people to assist Carter’s team? Please??)

Btw… this was so good and visuals were spot on 👏👏👏👏

🙏

If any ancient traditions said to corner your enemy, they didn't survive for me to hear about it. I say bring the hardest fight and let them think they are free to leave. A.

B! Carter has been in rough spots before but leading the enemy into an ambush is just my style

B) and C) It is worth remembering that mercenaries are historically and notoriously unreliable, a point made by both Machiavelli (in *The Prince* and *The Art of War*) and Thomas More. - The Enterprise D (Galaxy Class) can launch 10 photon torpedoes forward and 10 aft almost instantaneously in a "full spread"... phasers might not be necessary, just as combat might not be mandatory, especially if the engagement is with a smaller, less powerful starship... The Enterprise-D's Galaxy class is comparable (if not superior) in power to Klingon Vor'cha and Cardassian Keldon cruisers; the only problematic ones in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants are the gigantic Romulan D'deridex-class Warbirds, or Klingon Negh'Var-class fleet flagships (larger than the Galaxy class, as well as more durable and heavily armed).

Will Samantha Carter's team make it? The Amalgaverse adventures could surprise us... Actions have consequences! VOTE! #Amalgaverse #StargateSG1

hijacking their comms will be interesting

B! Carter is fully capable

C. Raise shields and unload on them with phasers and torpedos. Carter can hold them off. Hell, she can probably take them all out with one magazine from her P-90. Obliterate the cruiser and send teams to help her out. Its time for payback

Why not do it all? Rommie and Data hack the comms; Kirk and Sheppard head to the bridge to launch photon torpedoes at the invaders ship; while Maia, O’Neill, Algernon and rest go reinforce Carter in the guest deck.

A. Reinforce Carter’s Team, but… Send holo-security-guards armed with holo-P90s, after a brief reconfiguration of holowmitters to operate outside holodecks. Shields are restored. There are unlikely to be more attack teams board the ship. I’d have the ship’s sensors look for more of those cloaked robots. The attacking ship could have beamed more aboard. Firing on the attack ship escalates to something Scotty might not have diagnosed yet in the ship’s systems. Are ship’s weapons and other critical systems fully restored. It’s better to see only maintain the status quo while engineering runs diagnostics and repairs. As for jamming the comms, I see limited value unless the teams are not autonomous. Sending the intruders false orders, however, could be very beneficial. But that assumes much, and the more autonomous they are, the more likely they detect the false orders. Save Carter. She promised to bake cinnamon buns. With McCoy aboard, I’m willing to try them. Eventually, that genius will cook something delicious.

The Delivery, Part 3.3: Crossfire The Beacon is finally disabled. There's no longer a threat of reinforcements. Power is back. Enterprise's shields and sensors are restored. O'Neill and Sheppard have defeated their opponents. 💪🏽 Minimizing enemy forces still on the ship. With the remaining squads converging on Carter’s position, I'm not counting Carter out! She's a highly trained, experienced soldier who knows how to handle herself. (Plot twist) Now, with our unlikely allies, just as Garak suspected, they've managed to eliminate the strike team that had Kirk and his team pinned. They can continue sweeping the decks with some of our crew on the way to provide assistance to Carter. Their decision to help is appreciated, but I'm not assigning them quarters anytime soon! And Data and Rommie working together is exactly the kind of crossover pairing that makes the Amalgaverse so interesting. Data has already isolated their encrypted helmet chatter. I'm betting that with Rommie's help, these two can crack it before Carter's team gets overwhelmed. Start feeding the enemy false information, lead them into a trap, and sayonara! We should strip them of their suits for future study. I ain’t forget about the saboteur, Monsieur Ferrero Rocher's diplomatic pouch! 🍫😂 And who brought that mechanical crawler aboard? Good to see our little Minion Dunsel's getting some action. 😂 B. Hijack their comms. #Amalgaverse

Love it

It's always better to make friends than enemies. A. Let's help Carter's team, since all the intruders go there anyway. The ship is protected, we have sensors now, and we can regroup if necessary. And Dunsel has the soup ladle. Just when I thought he couldn't be any cuter. ☺️

Love that we had help from new friends. I vote B. The merc soldiers are going to expect and be prepared for us to send reinforcements against them, so causing mischief with their comms to better control the engagement with this enemy is the best strategy. We also don’t need to be engaging in a space battle while rooting out intruders onboard at the same time.

Carter’s got this no matter what. Fire on their ship. It’s the Kirk-O’Neill way 🙌

Option B: Robots to the Rescue!

Decision: A) Reinforce the guest deck. This is the only option that addresses the immediate, confirmed threat. The remaining squads are already converging on Carter's position, and she is outnumbered. That fight is happening now, not in theory. B relies on breaking encryption in time, with no guarantee it works before Carter is overrun, and the advantage disappears once they adapt. C abandons Carter to fight a ship-to-ship battle while her team is left alone against converging boarders. A puts Kirk's newly reinforced team where the enemy is actually going, with the numbers to hold that position.

D. Beam the boarders into open space now that power and control have been restored. If D is unavailable, then C.

Again, I am calling for Multitasking. Send Algernon, Maia and Mira, (and Dunsel) to re-enforce Sam and the passenger deck. Let Data and Rommie decrypt and spoof the enemy comms, and blow the enemy ship to kingdom come. And, if possible to get a transporter lock on the bad guys, beam them to space.

Omg Dunzel is so cute!!! Hahaha best scene so far!! I'm mixed between B and C.... F' it. Let's light em up!!! C!

A. But remember, with shields up and power and sensors restored. The ship can execute site to site transport internally.

What a superb Act that was. Go Dunsel Maia, Mira and Algernon!. #TeamDunsel A) Reinforce Carter. As someone pointed out, their ship may have impenetrable shielding. Of course I’d like to see them work on the comms disruption at the same time 😉 #Amalgaverse

Go, Dunsel, go! 😆 C - Light up their ship. Carter's team can absolutely hold down the fort. Let's make them reconsider whether we're an easy target!

Ahahaha, dunsel needs an extra can of oil for his selfless service. I want to destroy the other ship, not disable it. Lol. But will vote for A. Back up carter as the immediate threat. Don't have a lot of time to hack communications and we can always shoot the ship after