Transporter anomalies

Posted on 26 Sep 2023 @ 9:41pm by Lieutenant Commander Temerant Bast & Lieutenant JG Christina Hartley

410 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Outbreak
Location: USS Cygnus - Transporter Room One
Timeline: Following "1000 Patients" - Gamma Shift

Farroudjah Marek lifted the cup containing her jasmin tea from the replicator, and turned back to the transporter console. Gamma shift was her favorite. She'd always been a night owl, and the late shift usually meant a very quiet one. Very few people needed to use the transporters at this time of night, so most of her duties consisted of routine maintenance and just making sure the transporters were manned and ready when the ship was at station keeping.

Soft sitar music was playing in the background as she tapped into her console, and started the routine maintenance check. This was her first shift in three days, since she was just back from her week-end. She'd overdone it on the Holodeck, by running two half-marathons on consecutive days, and her hamstrings were a bit stiff. She stretched her legs as she started tapping the console. Her mind wandered as she performed the same routine tasks she'd performed time and time again, and before long, she was humming to herself along with the music.

She'd gone through six of the fifteen diagnostic routines she was supposed to run when she spotted something that seemed a bit off. The phase coils on the Heisenberg compensators was off by 0.6 percent - something that shouldn't be allowed to happen. It was commonplace for these components to drift by 0.1 percent over a 24-hour period, and it was the transporter tech's job to realign them by following standard procedure. But for a 0.6 percent misalignment to suddenly appear...

She tapped the communications panel. "Chief Marek to Engineering. I need assistance in Transporter Room One."

Christina was currently in the holodeck of Main Engineering, going over some of the new upgrades she had been designing with several of the engineers.

"Okay, so once we've replaced these conduits," Christina was explaining as the call came in. "We'll be able to get started with the next phase. Excuse me a minute," she said. "Engineering, Hartley here, go ahead Chief," Christina said.

"I need some assistance in the Transporter room. I've found an anomaly in the Heisenberg compensators that I think you should see."

Marek worked the console while she waited for the designated engineer to arrive, trying to collect as much data as she could. The Heisenberg compensators were a key component to the biofiltration system in the transporter's pattern buffer. If such a key component of the technology was defective, the implications were disturbing - to say the least.

 

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