Encounter of the Blue Kind (episode)

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The crew of the Innerprise encounters an alien race at the fringes of the galaxy that threatens the very future of civilization.

## Summary

**Note: As the episode has since been revised from the original material, this summary is written in the style of a short story instead of an actual summary until the animation is produced.**

"Lieutenant Huggy Bear," Lotso said to the Danamican Bear that sat at the helm in front of him. "Please set a course for the star system."

"Aye aye, Captain," he replied. After a pressing a few buttons on his control panel, Huggy said, "Course has been set."

"Go to Warp 2," Lotso commanded. "Lets take it nice and easy for now."

"Will do, Captain," Huggy replied.

The Innerprise's warp drive activated, and they headed towards their destination. The trip wasn't very long, and in only a few minutes the Innerprise dropped out of warp speed, having arrived at the system.

"Head for the closest planet and scan it."

"Yes, sir."

The Innerprise flew towards the nearest planet and scanned it. It did not seem very significant, having a barely breathable atmosphere and no notable metals other than what is already on most planets.

"I am detecting something on the planet, sir," Huggy suddenly said. "It looks like... some sort of battery?"

"Really? We should investigate it. Send a message to Federation command about what we found."

"Yes, sir."

The Innerprise got into a stable orbit around the planet, though it had barely gotten to fly it once before a large ship dropped out of warp in front of it, blocking its path.

"It looks like we have already encountered a new alien race," Lotso said. "Open up communications, let's try to find out who they are."

"Yes, sir," Huggy replied as he opened up communications to the ship.

"Hello, Alien starship. I am Captain Lotso Karmen of the United Federation starship Innerprise. We come in peace. Please, respond to us."

Silence. "They are not responding to us, Captain," Huggy says. "What should we do?"

Before Lotso could respond, the ship began to fire upon the Innerprise.

"Activate the shields!" Lotso yells as the alien ship's weapons continued to bombard them.

Huggy quickly activated the Innerprise's shields, preventing any further damage to the hull.

"Try to contact them!" Lotso said.

"Communications are open, sir," Huggy says.

"Alien ship, we come in peace. Why are you firing upon us?"

"You are inferior to us. You must be assimilated and become one of us."

"Who are you?"

"We are the Mobring. Cyborgs that are superior to all others, and our goal is to assimilate all others into ourselves. We have come for the Blue Kind on the planet you are currently orbiting, but assimilating you first is nothing but a minor inconvenience."

"Sheilds are getting weak; they won't hold on for much longer," Huggy says. "Should we send a distress signal?"

"Yes, do it!"

Huggy attempts to send out a distress signal, but before he could the Mobring ship unloaded a barrage of their weapons, taking down the Innerprise's shields and tearing through their warp drive and communications systems.

"Shields, warp drive, and communications are all down!" Huggy shouts over the blaring sirens. "They're targeting our weapon systems next!"

Lotso needed to act fast, or the Innerprise and its crew will be destroyed on its first mission; or even worse, turned into the hostile cyborgs that were shooting them.

"Try to retreat, return fire with our rear weapons while we do."

Huggy turned The Innerprise around and attempted to retreat, shooting at the Mobring with its rear weapons as it did.

"Aim for their weapon systems!"

"Will do, Captain!"

The Innerprise's weapons were concentrated on individual weapons on the Mobring ship as it attempted to destroy their propulsion systems.

Unfortunately for Lotso and his crew, the enemy ship's shields held long enough for it to destroy the Innerprise's propulsion, leaving them with no choice but to turn around and fight in direct combat.

"Turn the ship around!" Lotso said to Huggy. "It looks like we will have to face the Mobring face-to-face."

Huggy attempted to turn the Innerprise around to face their attacker, but the Mobring managed to completely disable their movement before re-targeting their weapons.

Lotso and his crew stayed defiant, however, and continued to attack and destroy each of the Mobring's weapon systems before disabling the ship itself.

"We have over a hundred casualties, our shields, communications, propulsion, and much of our weapons have been disabled or destroyed."

"Get shields and communications repaired first, and send a distress signal as soon as possible."

"Aye aye, Captain."

Both ships slowly made their repairs, each anticipating an attack from the other.

Eventually, Huggy announced, "Shields and communications are back up, sending a distress signal now."

The Mobring ship had repaired as well, and now began to fire upon the Innerprise once more.

"Return fire with whatever weapons we have left!" Lotso says. "We just need to hold out a little bit longer before other ships arrive to help us."

The Innerprise once again began to fire upon the Mobring. It wasn't long before 2 more Federation starships dropped out of warp nearby, assisting the Innerprise in its fight. Within minutes, the Mobring ship had been destroyed.

"Captain Lotso, we're glad to see that you have managed to hold out. We will escort you back to your space dock to get repairs while another ship finishes exploring this system. Hopefully no more of those aliens will try to take this system again."

"Thank you, Captain," Lotso said. Then, he turned to Huggy. "Once propulsion systems are back online, please set a course back to the space dock."

"Yes, sir. Repairs on our engines are almost complete."

In less than an hour, the Innerprise was ready to fly back home. As the Innerprise jumped into Warp space, Lotso wondered how many more times in the future they may have to face a threat like this. Hopefully, the next time wouldn't be too soon, and they would at least be a little more prepared.