Chapter 39 - The Dampening Field of Star Trek (Patreon)

"After close study of the sensor readings from our previous mission, I have confirmed that the Flighty Temptress has been transported to another dimension," T'Maz reported. B’Elanna and Neela looking alarmed at this new, yet curious, not yet asking for more information. They obviously understood that some information was need to know only. "Nearby space is filled with dozens of disabled vessels, some totally inoperable, stripped and broken down to their superstructures, others minimally operating. This entire region appears to be effected by-”

“A dampening field,” B’Elanna offered quietly, looking thoughtful. Neela was pulling up and studying information on her omnitool. Thankfully, all my crew had been given omnitools with a Collector micro-singularity power cell at its heart else I suspected it wouldn’t work at all.

“Yes,” T’Maz answered, looking unaffected and unperturbed at being interrupted. “This entire region of space appears to be affected by an extremely powerful, omnidirectional dampening field that extends beyond the range of our currently limited sensors. It is draining the power systems of this ship, including our handheld weapons, though it doesn’t appear to be as effective as it should be as the vast majority of our power is derived from harnessed quantum micro-singularities, which seemingly is beyond the dampening ability of this field.”

“The warp core, on the other hand, has completely shut down,” Neela added. “The matter/antimatter reaction has gone cold.”

“You can’t dampen a singularity, only contain it,” I said. “It’d be like turning off the nuclear fusion inside a star; that’s the work of Gods.”