USS Quasar - Sunken Battlecruiser

Captain's Log Stardate 4202.9, Captain Corcoran recording.

Taking a break from astronomical observing, we've taken time to survey planet M119, "Priplanus".
Anomalous sensor readings have found a wrecked Klingon Battle Cruiser.  Analysis of the wreck show it has been under water for about 6 months.  Plenty of time for the Klingons to have noticed her missing.  Unknown what she was doing this far into Federation Space. 

Our small ship is insufficiently equipped to fully investigate a find of this magnitude.  I have therefore requested the USS Hood divert here.  I did not broadcast the reason for the diversion.  I told Captain Dodge we needed his ship's surgeon for an emergency appendectomy.  I'll apologize later.

I just hope we need the Hood's science labs more than we need her guns.  Should the Klingons discover our salvage operation, the Quasar would be badly outgunned.

Until Hood arrives, I've ordered the crew to investigate the wreck to learn as much as we can in case we're cut short.

Priorities are their Library Computer and as much data as we can get on their S-2 Graf Units.  Klingon warp technology is vastly different from ours.  I'm sure our engineers would love to get a chance to tear them apart.  Lt. Mauggie, Lt. Birdsong, and Lt. Whittle volunteered to take the Aquashuttle to investigate the wreck that the crew has dubbed the "IKS Krash."

It's a calculated risk.  We don't know where the Klingons are, and more pressingly, we don't know what wrecked the Krash.  At this point, I'm not willing to risk my crew beaming aboard blind.

What happened to her crew?  Radiation?  Plague?  Mutiny?  Too many questions.

No answers.



(Artist's Note on the Aquashuttle:  I added a drop down ramp on the aft end of the design.  It only makes sense for an aquatic exploration craft.  Divers must come and go easily.   There's also a hatch on the underside of the passenger compartment that would allow Divers entrance while underwater.

The small Quasar carries only one shuttlecraft, so I gave her an Aquashuttle.  The "Voit".  To explain the joke, the 1990s TV show "DSRV seaQuest" got their dive equipment from the "seaQuest" dive equipment line from a French Manufacturer.  I assume it was 1990's product placement.  I had a seaQuest wetsuit at one point.  Now, the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" show used AMF-Voit dive equipment.  Thus the name is a small joke that's so obscure it has to be explained.)