"Some silly putty with feelings"
 by Lieutenant jg T'Kang
 Chief Engineer - USS Intrepid
 http://come.to/tkang


Visions of the Intrepid's last battle kept circling in the 
Klingon's mind.  When the Intrepid was part of the task force 
that took on the dreaded Panthers, the Intrepid and the MVA 
mode was a complete nightmare.   The Intrepid had fought 
miserably, the third vector, the Engineering hull of the ship, 
had to jettisoned it's warp core to avoid being destroyed.

The ship was on a simple milk run, delivering the Mugarri 
ambassador to earth.  The now identified Nharwak, the only 
thing stopping the ship from reaching it's destination.   
Already two Nharwak Infiltrators had been discovered on 
board the starship.  T'Kang shook his head in disgust 
wondering how such hostile aliens could get on board a 
starship such as the Intrepid.  Had security grown that lax on 
this vessel since Fleet Captain Hawke's departure?

What made things worse was that the Nharwak were a 
bunch of genetically enhanced telepaths.  Lieutenant jg 
Salek had come up with a plan to create a sort of telepathic 
thought detector using the ship's sensors, a control unit, and 
liberal help from Lieutenant Commander Davis' green goo.  
The fate of the entire ship in the hands of some silly putty 
with feelings, that had left the main computer core of the 
Intrepid coated in a weird sort of slime.  Given the time 
constraints there was nothing T'Kang could do about it but 
complain to Davis and Calenzie about what the goo had 
done to the ship systems.  T'Kang felt bad complaining to 
Nal, who has in sickbay at the time, but Davis simply 
dismissed the Chief Engineer saying the slime in the system 
isn't doing any harm, and they didn't have time to shut 
everything down to remove it.

Currently, the battle station klaxons were sounding as the 
Intrepid detected one of the approaching Nharwak vessels.  
The Captain had extended the urgency of getting Salek's 
contraption on-line in a hurry.  Hastily the Vulcan finished up, 
before announcing he'd completed and asking for a new 
assignment.

"You can stay here in main engineering and run that.. goo 
powered contraption of yours."  T'Kang pointed, "You are the 
only one that understands how it works anyhow.   I will 
monitor the Intrepid's systems from the master situation 
monitor station on the Bridge."

Salek nodded.  "You had better hurry then Lieutenant.  The 
Nharwak vessel is quickly approaching."

T'Kang regarded the Vulcan for a moment and gave a low 
grunt of approval before he turned and quickly made his way 
out of engineering in a half jog.   Salek watched as the bulky 
Klingon clamored out of Engineering before turning his 
attentions back to the telepathic tracking device.