DAY 141 (sun) continued ...
The Caco returned to Voyager.
DAY 142 (mon)
On their return to Voyager it turned out that strange phenomenon had been occurring in the system and Ensign Kim had vanished into what they thought may be a Subspace Vacuole.
This had occurred on an asteroid in the ring of the planet Voyager was orbiting. On the asteroid were many bodies of aliens that appeared to have been prepared for burial. Every so often one more would appear.
The Caco was ordered to go scan a nearby moon. Kirk pointed out that the Caco's scanners were vastly inferior to those of Voyagers, but the Captain told him that the Voyager would concentrate on this planet and everything else while Caco pitched in at the moon.
On arrival the Caco orbited and scanned the moon and read feint electronic signals from caves under its surface. Kirk formed an Away Team and once they were in their EV suits they went down to take a look.
They followed the signals into a network of caves and discovered an area that was full of what looked like Vidiian equipment. In the caves were also the mysterious shrouded corpses of aliens.
Kirk and the others scanned everything and gathered data. Just as he was finishing up and thinking of moving on, suddenly everything went black for Kirk. He then found himself lying down in a coffin.
He sat up and declared, 'I'm not dead yet!'
An alien male in priestly robes came over to him and attempted to communicate but the UT of Kirk's comms badge was having trouble with this new language.
As he tried to talk to the priest he observed that the coffin he had arrived in was one of many in a wide circular room that appeared to be at the top of a tall tower in a well built-up night time city.
Their attempts to talk were suddenly cut short when there was a loud bang from several stories below.
The priest made motions to Kirk to make a run for it and together they head for the stairs and up onto the roof where a hover car was parked.
The priest and Kirk jumped in and the driver took them off at speed. The UT was beginning to pick up the language and he understood from the aliens that they were a species known as the Vhnori, the tower was known as the Temple of Ascendancy where the bodies of dead Vhnori were sent on to their afterlife.
The Temple was under attack from heretics.
'Did you come from the next Emanation?' asked the priest.
Kirk replied that he didn't think so, probably he had just arrived from somewhere else in the galaxy.
As the priest formulated his next theological question the hover car was shot out of the sky by another car, presumably piloted by heretics, and the driver crash landed them in an alley.
Kirk was the only one conscious once all the crashing had ended and thinking it was probably best just to make a run for it he climbed up a six storey fire escape onto the roof of a building.
He must have been dazed from the crash and forgotten about the heretic's hover car because they saw him and did a fly-by. He jumped over to the next building then went back down to street level.
In this new alley he saw a parked car and attempted to boot in the window. A man came through a door in the alley and shouted, 'I'm calling the cops!'
Kirk smashed the window anyway and grabbed some tools out the back as the alarm went off. He then made a run for it, then seeing what looked like a police car, abandoned the tools and gave himself up to the cops.
He was hustled into the police hover car that then flew to another city skyscraper and into a landing bay on a high upper floor.
Kirk was dumped in an interview room, then half an hour later a Vhnori man in blue robes arrived.
He introduced himself as Nerel and called himself a chief investigator.
'Where are you from, alien?' was his first question.
'I'm not from around here...' replied Kirk enigmatically.
'Did you come from the next Emanation?'
Kirk replied he had come from a moon full of corpses.
The investigator called him a liar and left.
Half an hour later another alien male arrived and introduced himself as Dr Hruna.
After some more questions, the doctor then declared to the investigator.
'He's nothing more than an alien anarchist - do with him as you will!'
Nerel nodded and chucked Kirk in a cell.
Kirk had to admit though, it was a nice cell, with an en suite bathroom and view-screen with access to lots of alien entertainment and information services.
He lay down on the double bed and picking up the remote control began to flick through the channels.
DAY 143 (tue)
It was still dark outside, but Kirk felt like a day had passed.
He was taken to another room and interrogated for twelve hours by Nerel and a female called Grute.
He just stuck to his story though.
After that he was dumped in his cell again.
Kirk stuck the TV back on.
DAY 144 (wed)
Kirk woke up on the second day of his imprisonment finding that it was still dark outside. The planet that he was on seemed to have a very long day/night cycle.
At the next interrogation he was told to co-operate or that they would get the judge to execute him.
Kirk decided to start lying and told them what they wanted to hear, that he was an alien heretic who had arrived in 'Space Port 3' a few days ago.
After 12 hours his confession was worked up and they took a DNA sample in the form of a signature.
DAY 145 (thu)
Kirk, with apparently no desire to escape and every faith in the justice system of an alien planet he knew nothing about spent another day lying on the bed in his pants while watching TV.
DAY 146 (fri)
Kirk woke up on the fourth day of his imprisonment and decided he as getting bored of this new life.
He knocked on the door and two fairly friendly looking guards answered.
'What?'
'When do I get out of here?'
'When it's your trial'
'And when's that?'
'It will be about six to eight months.'
'What?! Uh... how about those coffin things? Can't you just put me in one of them?'
'That's up to the judge!'
The door closed in his face and Kirk went back to the bed. He didn't want to miss his soaps!
DAY 147 (sat)
Waking on his fifth day of confinement he decided enough was enough.
Luckily they had not taken his comms badge off him and he used it to 'hack' the TV terminal and easily gained access to lots of interesting parts of the planet's Internet.
He easily hid what he was doing from the security systems of the prison and began to look for heretic groups that he could make contact with.
This took him all day.
DAY 148 (sun)
Kirk grabbed a few hours sleep on the morning of his sixth day in pokey.
Using the UT in his comms badge to translate the alien text into English he made contact with an alien heretic named 'RenegadeX'.
Kirk sends his 'police hack' to the heretic and then some more info he stole from an establishment church on the 'Scrolls of Abala' (Something akin to the Dead Sea Scrolls on Earth).
Kirk wanted to get RenegadeX to send a message to Voyager, but he had not realised that the aliens knew nothing about Subspace comms and the ship was unlikely to be with radio range.
Also note that Subspace has a range of 40 LY only and Kirk could have been anywhere.
After more talk with the heretic, RenegadeX agreed to help Kirk escape if somehow the human could get to the roof of the building. Kirk, who did not have a plan yet, agreed.
Outside, dawn was breaking.
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