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Star Trek Log Series Log One Beyond The Farthest Star

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"Captain's log, stardate: 5221.3. On outward course beyond the fringe of our galaxy towards Questar M-17, a source of mysterious radio emissions. Mission: Star charting."

En route to investigate, the USS Enterprise suddenly experiences severe hypergravitational effects from Questar M-17's negative star mass. The starship gets pulled towards the remnants of the star, but manages to achieve a standard orbit.

The crew discover a huge, damaged pod ship of unknown alien origin. Seemingly devoid of life...Seemingly.

This work provides examples of:

  • Agony Beam: The hijacking entity takes control of the Bridge defense system to attack Kirk and Spock, in order to blackmail the rest of the crew into obeying it.
  • Eldritch Abomination: One that was apparently badass enough to destroy the gigantic, millenia old starship that the Enterprise team finds.Or at least, badass enough to make said starship's crew conclude that Self-Destruct was the only option. Which then proceeds to possess the Enterprise.
  • I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: The entity's threat to Scotty when it allows him to carry out some much-needed repairs (needed because Kirk wrecked the Helm console in a desperate effort to hold off the hijacker). If it catches him making even one slip, intentional or not, it will kill everyone else on the Bridge - which it can, as the defense system is now under its control.
  • Red Alert: General Alarm, anyway. Scotty sounds it when a course deflection - plus an unexplained increase in speed - is detected...In other words, something is pulling the ship towards it. Something with a gravity well too strong for even Enterprise's engines to fight against.
  • Starship Luxurious: The dead ship which was the entity's earlier victim. Not only is it huge enough to completely dwarf the Enterprise (which would only be natural, given the size of its designers), but it is simply...beautiful. Even Spock admits that. However, he adds a corollary:
    Spock: Beauty may have nothing to do with it, Lieutenant, the design may merely conform to their own conceptions of spatial dynamics.

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