Summary[]
Montgomery Scott, while a guest on the Federation News Service show Terra Tonight, is contacted by Fleet Admiral Alynna Nechayev about an emergency on the USS Hood during a training mission. He ends up talking a cadet through a major systems failure during the live broadcast.
References[]
Characters[]
- Chandra • Robert DeSoto • Brad Foster • Marta Jensen • Lojal • Alynna Nechayev • Ella Rose • Montgomery Scott
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- Matt Franklin • John Harriman • James T. Kirk
Starships and vehicles[]
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- USS Enterprise • USS Enterprise-A • USS Enterprise-B (Excelsior-class) • USS Enterprise-D • USS Enterprise-E (Sovereign-class) • USS Jenolen • USS Voyager
Locations[]
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- Cardassia • Nexus • Norpin V • San Francisco Fleet Yards
Races and cultures[]
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- El-Aurian
States and organizations[]
- Federation News Service • Starfleet
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- Maquis • Dominion
Other references[]
- artificial gravity generator • AU • baseball bat • caber toss • cadet • captain • coil spanner • combadge • dilithium chamber • fleet admiral • holocamera • inertial dampener • monkey bars • structural integrity field • temporal distortion • Terra Tonight • warp field
Chronology[]
Appendices[]
Information[]
- This story takes place about two weeks after "Caretaker."
- When Scotty says, "In other words, she drafted me," he's echoing what McCoy said about returning to Starfleet in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- When Scotty says, "Well, whatever lands the caber straight, lass," he's referring to the traditional Scots competition of the caber toss. The large wooden pole is not thrown for distance, as some assume; the goal is to have the caber land pointing directly away from the thrower.
Connections[]
- TOS episode: "Operation -- Annihilate!"
- TNG episode: "Relics"
- VOY episode: "Caretaker"
- TNG movie: Star Trek Generations
- TNG short story: "Full Circle"
- SCE eBook: The Future Begins
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