Chapter 15 - The Environmental Suit Explained (Patreon)

Checking the integrity of my environmental suit one last time, I picked up my tricorder and the equipment I’d need to get this job done. While half the ship had materialized inside the rock, an airlock near engineering was still intact and would serve as a convenient way to dock my ship with the Pegasus. When my ship docked to the powerless ship, it would supply the power necessary to open the doors.

Unlike Riker and Admiral Pressman from the episode, I had no desire to extend my shields and turn life support on by initiating a power transfer beam so that I could walk around without an environmental suit. Yes, it would certainly be more convenient, but it would also leave even more evidence that I had been there in the first place. I wasn’t even sure I could supply the full power necessary, but even if I could, there could be a sensor record of my power signature if I supplied the ship power directly from my ship’s warp core and that was as unique as a fingerprint. No, I wanted there to be as little evidence as possible that I had ever been there. I was realistic enough, though, to know that there would invariably be something.