"Three down, two to go"
 by Lieutenant jg T'Kang
 Chief Engineer - USS Intrepid
 http://come.to/tkang


The glimmer of the transporter beam surrounded the away 
team and safely brought them all back to the Intrepid.

The mission to save Lieutenant Cadan had been a success, 
however three crew members had also died in the rescue.  
T'Kang was glad that Camelia was safe, but still felt bad at 
the loss of his fellow crew members.

The morning would need to wait for another time however, 
as the Intrepid was still facing three enemy Nharwek 
vessels.

A violent explosion rocked the Intrepid as the lead Nharwek 
ship exploded in a brilliant warp core breach.  Make that two 
Nharwek vessels left to fight.    T'Kang took his leave of the 
away team and headed for main engineering.   Lieutenant 
Salek would be needing his help in assuring the Intrepid had 
the power to finish off the remaining Nharwek vessels and 
get the Intrepid out of trouble.

The doors swished open as the burly Klingon came walking 
into Engineering.

"Lieutenant, glad to see you have returned safely."  Salek 
noted.

"Our mission was successful."  T'Kang replied roughly.  He 
didn't want to bring down the engineering team by letting 
them know that the First Officer and two other officers from 
the away team had been killed in the rescue attempt.  "What 
is our status?"

"Shields are holding.  The remaining Nharwek vessels are 
trying to gain position on the Intrepid.  They are proceeding 
cautiously after the sudden loss of 60 percent of their attack 
fleet."  Salek droned on in a perfectly relaxed Vulcan 
monotone.

The starship shook again under the fire from one of the 
Nharwek ships.

"Their weapons do not pack a very hard punch."  T'Kang 
noted.

"The Nharwek depend on their advanced dimensional 
weaponry.  Since Captain Celchu managed to use their ill 
guided weapons against their own ships, they have fallen 
back to using more conventional tactics and weaponry not 
nearly as advanced."

"Then they are fools.  They will not be able to defeat the 
Intrepid in a fair fight.  Genetically enhanced or not."  T'Kang 
barked while checking the master situation monitor.

"That remains to be seen.  We are approaching sector zero 
zero one.  If the Nharwek intend to stop us from reaching 
Earth, they will have to do something now.  That urgency 
could conceivably cause them to do something unexpected 
or rash."  Salek explained.

T'Kang glanced over at the Vulcan and gave it a thought.   
Raising the Bridge, the Chief Engineer blurted, +taps+ 
"T'Kang to Bridge.  Be prepared for a suicide run from one or 
both of the Nharwek vessels.  They may attempt to destroy 
the ship by colliding with it."