The weekly Project:
Voyager log entries made by members of the Project team will be recorded
and posted here. Each month, the log entries will be archived for
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Week Four Report --
Stardate 53710.9
Lieutenant Franklin Harris
reporting
Well,
it seems as though Starfleet has certainly taken an interest in our project.
Yesterday, Admiral Hayes assigned a Vulcan Commander from Starfleet Security
to begin perusing Voyager's database. They've begun to isolate certain
files to higher security levels, as they believe they are vital to the
security of the Federation. Of course, I've already seen most of
the files, and I'm surprised at how overly thorough Stafleet is being.
I think it's a little excessive myself, but it is most likely as a result
of the breaches in security during the Dominion War: Starfleet doesn't
want to repeat it again. Most of the files isolated have to do with
the Borg, and a new alien species encountered, known simply as Species
8472. From Voyager's logs, it appears that Species 8472 invaded our
galaxy with the intention of purging it. Nevertheless, Starfleet
is concerned. Of course it all seems a little excessive like I previously
mentioned as Voyager was able to obtain a "truce" with Species 8472 just
last year. There were several other alien threats that concerned
security, including another alien species known as the Vaadwaur (they apparently
have sophisticated 'subspace corridor' technology).
It's been difficult to get
much done on the Project lately. We all seem to be far more interested
in reviewing Voyager's files. They've managed to accumulate a massive
amount of data in very little time. One item of particular interest
to me was that Voyager found the Ares IV capsule (from the first Mars mission)
several weeks before communicating with Starfleet! History is already
re-writing itself to accomodate the new discovery. I'm eager to review
the logs recorded by John Kelly when Voyager returns.
Last week myself and Lieutenant
Cooper travelled to the MIDAS array on board the USS Jackson to make a
few modifications. They took several days, and we expect to be able
to communicate with Voyager within the next few months. Garin has
already begun to work on the hundreds of message files that family and
friends have been sending to Starfleet to be sent to Voyager. By
narrowing the confinement beam and increasing the signal strength, test
messages aren't decaying very quickly, thus allowing them to be sent at
hypersubspace speeds without degradation.
It should be interesting
to see what happens with the Vulcan Commander. She's cold (have you
ever met a Vulcan who isn't??), and is constantly standing over your shoulder.
Luckily, she's spent most of her time in the Paris office (poor Garin),
but she makes daily visits to our San Francisco office (poor us).
Barclay gets very nervous around her, to the point where he can only mumble.
The man's a genious, but needs a psychiatrist to give him shock therapy
or something. Well, maybe that's a little too excessive.
Week Three Report --
Stardate 53669.5
Ensign Richard Garin Reporting
Week
three at Project: Voyager is going very well. I've been stuck in
the Paris bureau of our research lab, and I've been mostly preparing for
possible contact with Voyager within the next three months or so.
Lieutenant Cooper and Lieutenant Harris have taken a Runabout to the MIDAS
Array to begin some modifications which they believe should boost the containment
field of the message, as well as boosting the signal output so messages
can be pushed into subspace and remain there, without crossing the threshold
back into normal space. If so, this may be the first step to permanent
communication with Voyager.
In the meantime, I've been
assigned to put together "communication packets" to the members of Voyagers
crew. These packets contain messages as well as data from relatives
and friends to members of the Voyager crew. In order to ensure that
the packet maintains its signal strength, I have to make the message file
as small as possible so it doesn't degrade over the distance of thousands
of light years in which it has to travel. Perhaps one of the more
bizarre packets that I've prepared to date is one to Voyager' Emergency
Medical Holographic Program (EMH) from Louis Zimmerman, the creator
of the EMH programs. Apparently, Zimmerman has become deathly ill during
the past few weeks. There is also a large message from Admiral
Paris to his son, Tom. If the messages wasn't protected by a level
four security barrier, I would certainly love to read the Paris message.
I've reviewed much of the Voyager crew history during the past few weeks,
and I found it interesting how Tom has been disciplined on several occasions,
particularly during one mission where he disobeyed orders and was demoted
to the rank of Ensign. But if my son was the first human to break
the warp ten threshold, I think I could easily overlook the discipline
infractions here and there.
Speaking of reviewing Voyager's
logs, I have recently found myself becoming more and more attached to this
stranded crew. I can certainly see how Lieutenant Barclay felt about
them. Although I still have quite a bit of reading ahead of me, I've
found some interesting leads that might bring us one step closer to bringing
Voyager home. On several occasions, Voyager has used a new type of
warp drive called a Quantum Slipstream Drive, that has the capability of
getting them home in minutes. In fact, according to log entries by
Ensign Harry Kim, Voyager was destroyed in an alternate timeline due to
the Quantum Slipstream Technology. The reason the technology won't
allow for a successful trial is due to a variance in the slipstream, which
results in chaotic effects. I'm going to prepare a proposal to Admiral
Paris and Lieutenant Barclay to allow me to continue research into the
Slipstream Technology, in case this technology will allow us to get Voyager
home.
To sum things up, although
the Project has had a fairly successful week, I feel somewhat out of place.
Harris and Cooper have really bonded, and I don't see Barclay regularly
as he has spent most of his time in San Francisco. However, according
to Admiral Hayes, Admiral Paris is looking into bringing two new officers
to work with me in the Paris Research Office for Project: Voyager.
I almost wonder if this is an attempt to eliminate me, and if they are
not happy with my level of work to date. Thus, I've decided to truly
make myself valuable to the team, so I'm trying my best to devise new ways
of getting Voyager home.
Eng Log Entry
Week Two Report --
Stardate 53513.2
Lieutenant Alicia Cooper
Reporting
My
apologies that this log entry is a day late! I've been advising some
of the members of the Starship Development Committee lately, as they attempt
to develop new starship designs to replace the losses due to the Dominion
War. This has put me slightly behind towards my duties with Project:
Voyager, however, Lieutenant Barclay hasn't made any objections.
So far, the Project is slow going. We are still in the initial stages,
and we are all still getting to know one another a little better.
The crew is enjoyable and I believe I am going to enjoy my time working
on this project. The team leader, Barclay, is a bit eccentric, but
his devotion to the Project is truly refreshing. Apparently while
working on the Pathfinder Project, Barclay became quite attached to holographic
representations of the Voyager crew. For the past two weeks, I've
run into him countless times in the lab after hours, pouring over the Voyager
database. I guess it is like getting to know the people you thought
you knew a little better. Harris is a little quiet, but very bright.
He has devised some fascinating new projections for the hypersubspace technology:
with him on the team, I believe we could be in regular contact with Voyager
in less than a year. Garin comes off a little strong. He is
definately a player, and I've heard about his "reputation" from a friend
that served with him on board the Intrepid. However, he does fine
work, and certainly pulls his share on the team.
What have I been up to with
the Project? Well, I've been looking over the current schematics
of the hypersubspace communication technology. Although we haven't
had a successful test as of yet, we are still in the process of making
some modifications. I believe that we have to extend the range of
the STA (subspace transceiver assembly). As well, although the messages
sent through the MIDAS Array are radially polarized and highly focussed,
the message is still decaying as the message is forced across the subspace
threshold to become slower EM. This is limiting the range and speed
at which the signal can be sent. Myself and Harris are attempting
to work on a way to decrease the message degradation. I believe that
if we can conduct the message at higher energy levels, driving the message
signal into deeper layers of subspace, the message should travel significantly
further before it begins to decay. We are still testing our theories,
with promising and encouraging results. If our tests continue to
be successful and approved by both Admiral Paris and Lieutenant Barclay,
Harris and I could travel to the MIDAS Array and make the modifications
ourselves in the next couple of weeks.
End Log Entry
Week One Report --
Stardate 53440.1
Lieutenant Reginald Barclay
Reporting - Project Leader
Things
have been very exciting lately! Federation citizens are thrilled
after our successful communication with Voyager, thus raising morale which
plummeted after the Dominion War. I was a guest of honour at the
celebrations held in the San Francisco Heritage Section.
Very little has been done
with the Project this week, just establishing and setting up the Project.
The other three project members, Cooper, Harris and Garen are fantastic
and easy to get along with. They are very bright, and Admiral Paris
made the right decision to assign them to the Project.
I've been pouring over the
Voyager database received during communication with Voyager on stardate
53320.2. It is absolutely amazing how much Voyager has accomplished
in the Delta Quadrant! Although I've just begun, I was fascinated
to see that Thomas Paris was able to break the warp threshold and make
it to warp ten on stardte 49373.4. I'm sure his father, Admiral Owen
Paris, would be very proud. As well, Voyager has had many encounters
with the Borg, as well as the Borg Queen herself! I was still serving
on board the Enterprise-E when the vessel went back in time to stop the
Borg from altering history. However, Captain Picard was able to kill
the Borg Queen, so I find it curious that Voyager was able to encounter
the Borg Queen, even though she should be dead. I imagine that Starfleet
Intelligence will find this information very interesting.
I plan to continue studying
the information received by Voyager...crew logs, mission logs, astrometrics
charts, etc. This new crewmember, Seven of Nine, seems like Voyager's
version of Lieutenant Commander Data, with whom I had the pleasure of serving
with on board the Enterprise-D & E. She has made numerous log
entries, and I am eager to read them.
On a personal note, I plan
to celebrate the New Year with Hope. So far, we seem to have so much
in common, and I look forward to our evening together at the celebrations
in San Francisco.
End Log Entry