S02E06: Omega-12 Part I Review Topic

Started by Martin Thompson, March 01, 2014, 03:41:25 PM

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How would you rate this episode?

Verry Good
Pretty Nice
Meh...
Terrible
Yeah i totally saw this entire plot comming...

Martin Thompson

The delegation from planet Sysipha-II arrives and is greated by the station crew. The are escorted to quarters to prepare for the meeting which is supposed to take place a bit later. Ms Yunjie Chen decides to go on a tour of the station on her own. During this "tour", she encounters a closed science lab, is told by Mr Foster Engineering is off limits and Mr Anderson that the sickbay is also locked down and generally not welcomed in other parts of the station aswell. When Mr Bonchune catches up with her, he only reitterates that there was an "accident" and that its best to start the meeting as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, the USS Vesta should have been on their way to the starbase to deliver the final component for the Omega 12, the Flux Regulator. Ms. M'ral however detects only a small shuttle on approach but knows that the device in on board, suprising Dr. P'trell who wonders how she knows that. Once the shuttle arrives, P'Trell retrieves the final component and requests M'Ral adn Mr. Grant to install it before heading to the meeting room.

The crew has gathered there to speak with Ms Chen and the rest of the planets delegates. Ms Chen asks a few insinuating questions to which the crew don't have a straight answer. After some lies by the crew and Ms. M'rel walking out of the room mumbling something, Dr. P'Trell tries to remedy the situation by "admitting" that a hostile ship has been spotted in the area and the station was under lockdown as to not worry the planets residents. It is already to late however and Ms Chen shows a schematic of the Omega 12, telling Admiral Bonchune and the crew that she got this trough a backdoor via one of the crewmembers. P'Trell and Chen have a falling out on which Chen leaves the station.

The Omega 12 is stil being prepared by the science and engineering crew when Mr Entreri receives a distress call of a starfleet vessel which was damaged in a Nebula nearby. Disregarding Mr Bonchune's order to stay way, they head for Sysipha-II in the hope of getting emergency repairs. This causes Bonchune to order a full station lockdown, they can't use Starfleet poking around during the experiment.

Soon after, the starbase is contacted again by Chen from the planet. She informs the crew that the planets leaders have decided to withdraw from the Federation and that Starfleet needs to cede control over the station or they will open fire on them with their planetary side weapons platforms. During a backroom converstation, Chen gets informed by her superiors that if the station won't stand down, they'd rather not risk a conflict and want to send Chen up to the station, in disguise, as starfleet eningeer, to sabotage and stop the experiment. Chen gets surgery to look like a different person and receives a new fake ID: Engineer Vivian Li...




Dr. P'Trell has obviously seen Chen, Chen is revealed to be Vivian Li and the two are clearly not friends. Why did they act so friendly in Season 1, which is set 10 years laters? Why did they not recognize each-other when they first met in Season 2 Episode 4?

We noticed a slightly incompetent Section 31 crew during this incident, but Ms. M'rel really seemed distracted during the events.

At-least we now know what Admiral Iwata informed Ms Delacourte about, Li's papers are fishy, because they are fake, but will this be discovered? We know it remains unknown up untill May 7th 2380, when the Omega 13 reacts with Calypso's Solar flare and... well... you will have to see what happened next in Season 3...




I personally really liked this episode and have been looking forward to it for a while now. I'd like to thank Telex from bringing forward the plot on this one and sparring with me on working it out. I've heard a few reactions here and there already, but please post your thoughs there. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please let yourself be heard as we cant change anything if your not telling us! So yes, thoughts, feedback and ideas, post them below!