Thread: Star Trek TNG:  The Wormhole

The docking clamps slide back into their protective slots on the outside of Deep Space Nine. The shuttle craft Magellan, belonging to the USS Enterprise was cleared to leave DS9 and return to the Enterprise. Captain Jean Luc Picard had been at DS9 and consulted with Captain Sisko as well as paid a visit to Chief Miles O'Brien, a former member of the Enterprise crew before his assignment to DS9. Picard had not come to DS9 empty handed. The Magellan brought some needed maintenance parts for O'Brien as well as medical supplies for Dr. Bashir's sick bay. The meeting with Sisko was over some energy reading that DS9's long range sensors had been detecting over the past few days. The Ganges had also been patrolling in the same area and had encountered the bizarre readings as well as heavy subspace interferenc. Picard put the Magellan on autopilot after plotting the course back to the Enterprise. The Enterprise was in this sector in response to investigate possible incursions across the neutral zone by the Cardasians. The USS Ticonderoga reported a running fight with an unindentified vessel whose course originated from the Cardasian side of the neutral zone. As Picard sat sipping on some of his favorite tea and reading the pad containing the information, the Magellan's shields automatically activated. Picard sat the pad down and went to the command console to look over the sensor screen. He recognized the energy signature and took the Magellan out of autopilot. Picard to Enterprise, detecting energy reading, course 222.65, can you confirm on your sensors? Picard waited and got no answer, except heavy subspace interference. As Picard attempted to contact Enterprise again, the energy reading turned into an opening wormhole. Picard attempted to veer away but felt the Magellan shudder and start to be pulled towards the hole. Picard went to full reverse on the engines, but there was no effect, and Magellan was drawn closer and closer. Picard then launched an emergency beacon which contained downloaded information of Magellan's course and sensor readings. The Magellan soon disappeared into the worm hole. The ride was quite bumpy, the shuttle shuttered under the energy turbulance, and relay after relay overload caused sparks to fly all along the control console and the other consoles on the shuttle. The shuddering stopped as the Magellan emerged like a missile from the wormhole. Picard saw a planet dead ahead, sensors did indicate it was a Class M, but that was about it as most other systems were off line. The Magellan plunged through the atmosphere, Picard struggled to keep the ship under control. Barely clearing a large gorge after clearing the atmosphere, he saw a level escaptment ahead of him, more hills in the distant, bthis was the best place to set it down. He activated the maneuvering thrusters to slow the Magellan, but nothing happened. He was going in fast. Picard braced for a crash landing as the Magellan went down hard on the escarpment bounced around for a few hundred yards before finally stopping on the solid ground, dust and smoke rose and gradually disappeared into the air after the Magellan finally came to a rest.