Typing up Chapter 9 is a slow process, especially as I've got so many other things to do I never had the time for during school term. But I'm making headway, as you can see on the snipped below.
I've also started laying the grounds for the rest of "Brothers-in-Arms". I read through the existing chapters, made a list of events that already happened; then I went through the last 9 chapters of the original novel the story is based on and made a list of the canon events I actually can and/or want to use. I hope that I can start writing tomorrow, as most of the research has been done years ago, I just have to read through it and refresh my memory.
Excerpt:
If not ten, but fifteen minutes later Geordi returned to Engineering, carrying a PADD with odd diagrams and detailed instructions on it. He handed it to Alfonse Pacelli, one of the enlisted specialists that nominally belonged to the science division but actually worked for Engineering most of the times.
“Here,” he said. “I want lots of these things, preferably yesterday, or the day before. As many as you and your team can churn out within the next hour and a half.”
Pacelli studied the PADD with interest. “What are these things?”
“According to Ensign Rina, and I quote, they’re 98.6-degree objects within a carbon dioxide shell(*) that can mimic organic life for a limited time,” Geordi replied. “We have to fool that alien killing machine somehow, and these little gizmos are supposed to do the trick.”
“Wow!” Pacelli’s eyes grew bigger and bigger as he was reading the instructions. “I’ve never seen this kind of technology before.”
“It’s Bridrani,” Geordi explained. “They’re damn good engineers and Ensign Rina is a certified genius, so I trust that it’s doable.”
“Oh, absolutely!” Pacelli agreed. “It will be a bit tricky, but we can do this.” He graduated the Starfleet Technical Services Academy with honours, so his confidence was well-grounded.
*My apologies if the technobabble sounds stupid. It's quoted from the actual rejected first draft for the TNG-episode "Unnatural Selection". So, you see, it's not my fault at all!
Still on with Terminus
I've also started laying the grounds for the rest of "Brothers-in-Arms". I read through the existing chapters, made a list of events that already happened; then I went through the last 9 chapters of the original novel the story is based on and made a list of the canon events I actually can and/or want to use. I hope that I can start writing tomorrow, as most of the research has been done years ago, I just have to read through it and refresh my memory.
Excerpt:
If not ten, but fifteen minutes later Geordi returned to Engineering, carrying a PADD with odd diagrams and detailed instructions on it. He handed it to Alfonse Pacelli, one of the enlisted specialists that nominally belonged to the science division but actually worked for Engineering most of the times.
“Here,” he said. “I want lots of these things, preferably yesterday, or the day before. As many as you and your team can churn out within the next hour and a half.”
Pacelli studied the PADD with interest. “What are these things?”
“According to Ensign Rina, and I quote, they’re 98.6-degree objects within a carbon dioxide shell(*) that can mimic organic life for a limited time,” Geordi replied. “We have to fool that alien killing machine somehow, and these little gizmos are supposed to do the trick.”
“Wow!” Pacelli’s eyes grew bigger and bigger as he was reading the instructions. “I’ve never seen this kind of technology before.”
“It’s Bridrani,” Geordi explained. “They’re damn good engineers and Ensign Rina is a certified genius, so I trust that it’s doable.”
“Oh, absolutely!” Pacelli agreed. “It will be a bit tricky, but we can do this.” He graduated the Starfleet Technical Services Academy with honours, so his confidence was well-grounded.
*My apologies if the technobabble sounds stupid. It's quoted from the actual rejected first draft for the TNG-episode "Unnatural Selection". So, you see, it's not my fault at all!