Captain's Log: Ep. 3, 'Simulations'

Here's a quick summary of the third session of the Star Trek tabletop rpg campaign I'm currently running. You can find the summary of the previous episode here.


The Fearless warped back to Starbase 39-Sierra for a full debriefing with Fleet Admiral Elsa Kiel. During the two-day return voyage, Dr. Vasor, Lt. Pus and Lt. Cmdr. Aliok managed to repair the torn psyche of Tyrion through the therapeutic use of a bridged mind meld. With Tyrion’s sanity restored, she revealed that former Senator Pardek is the new director of the Tal Shiar. When Tyrion contacted Pardek several weeks ago for help as her psychological conditioning unraveled, Pardek summarily discontinued her mission, essentially cutting her off from any official Romulan help. Tyrion has vowed vengeance and is seeking to return to Romulus to kill Pardek for abandoning her in her time of need.

Meanwhile, T’Thetrik administered a truth serum to the Psellan the crew captured on Mount Soverin and learned that he is actually Tovik, a Tal Shiar agent known by the codename Proteus. Tovik admitted that the Tal Shiar is interested in recovering Iconian technology for military use.  He also suggested that Conduit may be trying to reach the Eye of Vendris, a large black hole deep in Romulan Space.

Captain Eldred, after a lengthy conversation with the crew, decided to turn over to Starfleet Intelligence the Tal Shiar agents captured on Psellus III. But Lt. McClure warned that Commander DeLeo, the chief intelligence officer on Starbase 39-Sierra, may be a member of Section 31, prompting Eldred to decide to keep Tyrion’s presence on the Fearless a secret.

Upon arrival at Starbase 39-Sierra, the Fearless was ordered to engage in a battle simulation with the USS Venture, a Galaxy-class Starfleet vessel commanded by Captain Elliot Gannon. Before the simulated battle, Skavrin, a first cousin of Jak vin Karka, arrived on the Fearless, demanding that Jak return to their home colony on Landis VI to marry a man from a rival political faction. Commander DeLeo also contacted Lt. McClure asking pointedly if Captain Eldred left anything important out of her report. DeLeo seemed to imply that McClure owed something to “the organization” and made reference to something called Mjolnir.

The Fearless and Venture engaged in their war game, exchanging phaser fire and photon torpedoes for several minutes before McClure and Lt. Korudos beamed over to the Venture in an attempt to sabotage their opponent’s main computer core. McClure scaled a turbolift shaft to reach the computer core but failed to hack into the mainframe before he was apprehended by the Venture’s security team.

With both ships badly damaged, the Fearless came about at maximum impulse, nearly skimming the top of the Venture’s saucer section in a gutsy feat of piloting. T’Thetrik locked all weapons on the Venture. But as Pus established a sensor lock, he made a surprising discovery. Internal sensors had detected an intruder in the Fearless’s brig.