From: tlb2665@usl.edu (Burleigh Thomas L)
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Subject: ST:USS Cavalier, Chapter 07, "Discovered!"
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:47:07 GMT
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana


(C) Copyright 1992 by Thomas L. Burleigh. The following are the property
of Paramount Pictures, Inc: the characters of William T. Riker, Jean-Luc
Picard, D'Tan, and Spock; the Borg, Romulan, and Vulcan races; the
StarFleet organization; and, the USS Enterprise. This story is an original
work of fiction base on Star Trek: The Next Generation, a registered
trademark of Paramount. All rights reserved.


                            ST:USS Cavalier
                               Chapter 7
                             "Discovered!"


   The photon torpedoes struck the ground just behind the Borgs. The blast
took out most of them. The rest were distracted by the blast, and did not
see the Away Team beam back up to the Cavalier.
   Commander Thompson, with an emergency medical team, met Ensign Karng and
the Away Team #4 as they materialized on the transporter pad. Karng fill
Thompson in on the resulsts of this reconaissance on the planet's surface.
   "Well," Thompson replied, "This pretty much matches up with the results
we've received from the other A-Teams. I'm going to make my report to the
Captain. Go ahead and take care of your troops. Lt. Sonnier," he said as
he turned to the Transporter Chief, "prepare to beam the other teams
back."
   When Thompson stepped back on the Bridge, Captain Riker was at the
Science with Lt. Darby, the Second Science Officer. They were reviewing the
sensor scans of the planets. Thompson walked up behind Riker as Darby was
finishing up with her explainations.
   "So, in a nutshell," Riker back-briefed, "we've got these little Borg
ships flying around in the atmophere blasting away the ground into alot of
rows, and the Borg soldier are walking all over those rows."
   "Yes, Sir." Thompson replied softly from behind Riker, so as not to
startle him. "I just got back from talking with Ensign Karng. These Borg
troops are using these metal poles to plants something in the ground after
its torn up. We got one of these, along with a Borg soldier, locked in the
Transpoter Grid."
   "Transporter Room," Riker said tapping his Comm-Badge, "beam the Borg
soldier to the Brig, and that device with all your scanning data to Dr.
T'Por." Riker turned to Thompson, "something tells me they're not up to
anything very military."
   Thompson nodded his head as he considered it. "I think your right. But
we better start getting out of here before the Borg start to add things
up."
   "Agreed, Number One. Have the other teams beam back up. Mr. Shaw, prepare
for out next jump..."
   Something slammed into the Cavalier. Something that, to Riker's
experience, felt alot like a phaser blast!
   "Report!" Riker yelled to Thompson, as they, and everyone else, got back
on their feet.
   Thompson keyed the Tactical station, then replied, "We just took a phaser
hit. No casualties..."  He pressed a few more controls, then continued,  
"incoming ship.  Looks like a Borg!"
   "They were able to detect our cloak?!" Riker asked.
   "Yes," Shaw added, "but not directly. They laid in a pattern of fire
around the upper thermosphere of the planet. They got lucky and hit us.
Hard. Cloaks are down. One of the Magnetic Drives is stuck. Won't be able
to make a jump for another ten minutes."
   Lieutenant Aoura at Communications then added, "Captain, incoming hail
from the Borg..." He adjusted some controls at his station as he listened.
Then he turned to his captain, "guess what they're saying."
   "I've got a good idea. Shaw, can we still use the Magnetic Drives for 
particle beams?"
   "Yes, but the repairs will have to wait."
   "Okay people," Riker addressed the Bridge as he approached his command
chair, "we're going to take on the Borg. HoloView on with tactical..."
   Riker sat on his chair at faced the Borg ship, "....let's see what she
can do."

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