[Asteropax]

Since I'm starting to chat with Barron about his treachery, I'm also going to post links to where evidence was provided to further actions he's done without us noticing or realizing.

The first of these is his admittance to tampering with the shields during the confrontation with the Orion Syndicate ships during Ch 1. As we were expecting the Orions to use disruptors, their standard ship weapons at this point, the shields were originally calibrated to counter disruptors. However, as these ships were of an elite group, like an honor / elite guard, they were outfitted with particle weapons instead. The sabotage also explained why only 2 Orion Interceptors attacked as their leaders were counting on their inside man, who'd been using them to his own ends, to create problems for us to prevent us from effectively fighting back. Unfortunately for them, my character changed our shield frequencies to different ones, rendering the sabotage useless.

Dyrell Teriir recognized the Orion Interceptors were of an elite group from the Orion Syndicate the instant before they opened fire with a series of particle weapons rather than disruptors. Two of their six shots hit, one near enough to the bridge to cause a fail in the inertial dampeners and caused a small explosion on the bridge near him. Most officers would momentarily panic but he was a veteran of dozens of fights with pirates, the Dominion War, and even faced the Borg. This was just another day on the job to him. He changed the frequency of the shields to one which was better suited to shield the Ares from particle weapons over disruptors as Ensign Aerign informed him that the second blast disabled the saucer's ventral phaser array.

[Asteropax]

It is known that we have an Orion on board as a prisoner, but it's been mentioned there are several. However, it's been specifically stated that our prisoner, Therta, was specifically Grakan's.

The thing he was even madder at was the fact that his Orion soldier had been taken. Grakan respected courage, and anyone that could stand up to the Syndicates leaders would be useful.

. . .

"Send out three of those squads and attack that ship from all sides. I don't care if you have to get to the brig room by room, just get that Orion back and destroy that SHIP!" He said.

A little tie in to connect more points in the story. Since Therta is the only one from the Nausicaan Base who can actually identify Barron for us, she may have more information to give us. Maybe she'll give us her information as payback for the Nausicaans killing her fellow Orions on Barron's orders.

[Blaster]

To be fair, once we get Barron I think Tess using a mind meld to find out what he knows would be effective, considering this is a guy that wouldn't care what we threatened him with.

[Asteropax]

To be fair, once we get Barron I think Tess using a mind meld to find out what he knows would be effective, considering this is a guy that wouldn't care what we threatened him with.

I wish I'd thought of that.

A mind meld would be the most effective way to get information out of him that he doesn't provide in my discussion with him. True, he's going to reveal everything although it'll be good to know what computer systems he's tampered with so they can be fixed. Also, there is 1 more act of sabotage he's planned with the person who has been assisting him but I won't bring up what that is until we have him as the setup for that needs to wrap up in my conversation with Barron.

[WelshAvenger]

Question for you all. Does a mindmeld without consent constitute telepathic assault? I know that there is precedent because of Spock and Valeris but that scene always jarred horribly in The Undiscovered Country. I realise that we're not going to have a JAG in Space storyline, but that would seem to be the thing that gets a mistrial. If we do go down the mindmeld route, then it might be worth noting that this could create a nemesis for us. Barron gets hauled off to face a court martial, gets off on a technicality because of questionable interrogation methods but is still discharged from Starfleet. Then he's free to be a thorn in our side from the shadows. Food for thought.

[Asteropax]

Question for you all. Does a mindmeld without consent constitute telepathic assault? I know that there is precedent because of Spock and Valeris but that scene always jarred horribly in The Undiscovered Country. I realise that we're not going to have a JAG in Space storyline, but that would seem to be the thing that gets a mistrial. If we do go down the mindmeld route, then it might be worth noting that this could create a nemesis for us. Barron gets hauled off to face a court martial, gets off on a technicality because of questionable interrogation methods but is still discharged from Starfleet. Then he's free to be a thorn in our side from the shadows. Food for thought.

There is a reason why the mind meld is acceptable with Valeris. Due to the plot against both the Federation and Klingon Empire, extreme measures were needed to identify the conspirators so they could be arrested. As for Ensign Barron; he's not getting off for what he's done at all. Plus, with the release of my latest conversation piece, we're actually going to need intel from him about Admiral Barron as she's in charge of the plot. I'm not done with the whole setup and will summarize the information towards the end so we know what we've got and still need.

[Blaster]

Just adding on.

Technically it could, but the amount of times you see people doing it without consent of anyone, its hard to tell whether it is or isn't.

Also I'm on Holiday RN, so I'll post tomorrow.

[Asteropax]

As Christopher locked eyes with her, Jei nodded back and hit the execute command to initiate the power overload. It would be a few moments, before the coupling overloaded, and effectively taking out the force fields. The entire area would be bathed in darkness for a moment before emergency lightning switched on. If Jei's luck held out, Barron would also have some nasty burns on his rear.

Um . . . as Barron said; anything and everything you guys do to try to free me is just going to get my character killed. You can keep everything ready though anyway as your plan for trying to drop the forcefields is good but it won't work in this situation; keep it as a we're trying to think of something so we aren't doing nothing to help. There is also a lot more dialogue I still have in store with Barron.

[WelshAvenger]

Um . . . as Barron said; anything and everything you guys do to try to free me is just going to get my character killed.

Maybe JeI is counting on this and is trying for the captains chair? 🙂

[Blaster]

Conspiracy Theory

(And I highly doubt that XD)

[Silynn]

Um . . . as Barron said; anything and everything you guys do to try to free me is just going to get my character killed. You can keep everything ready though anyway as your plan for trying to drop the forcefields is good but it won't work in this situation; keep it as a we're trying to think of something so we aren't doing nothing to help. There is also a lot more dialogue I still have in store with Barron.

True. But all villains say that and likely they will do it anyway. It's a threat. It's just words to try to cower people... well, not playing that game.

Doing nothing will get the Captain killed... and we don't want that, so doing something is better. hahaha.

[Asteropax]

True. But all villains say that and likely they will do it anyway. It's a threat. It's just words to try to cower people... well, not playing that game.

Doing nothing will get the Captain killed... and we don't want that, so doing something is better. hahaha.

Doing nothing is all you can do right now; trust me. There is a lot more to be revealed about Barron before we can take him down.

[Silynn]

Doing nothing is all you can do right now; trust me. There is a lot more to be revealed about Barron before we can take him down.

Oh I do. Jei doesn't though.

I'm looking forward to it though.

[Asteropax]

So, Teriir has guessed what happened to the Human / Cardassian Ensign who went missing; he is another victim of Barron's vendetta against the Cardassians. He's alive but being kept a prisoner while getting tortured for information about a people he hardly knows yet is distantly associated with by birth.

Another tie in here;

As Chris left, Jei knelt down next Amita’s chair. She looked as if she was resting, as Chris closed her eyes. Jei shook Amita’s leg, maybe hoping that she could be alive. But Amita didn’t move. Jei then noticed an object on her ring finger. A simple latinum band. “You’ll have your justice soon, Amita.” whispered Jei as she got to work finalizing her makeshift booby-trap to blow up the shuttle.

It is confirmed that Amita Patel was married.

[LogicalLeopard]

I am still laughing at Max drinking coffee and listening to Michael Jackson while saving the ship! *LOL* Priceless! Good song choice, too. Thanks, I have it stuck in my head now!

Edit: I had to alter my post because I thought he was actually listening to it, not just hearing it in his head.