USS KENT Incident Report: NCC5673-D12 SD38505.04

Posted on 09 Jul 2020 @ 12:30am by Lieutenant T'Char Le'el
Edited on 01 Sep 2020 @ 7:39pm

[Incident Report NCC5673-D12, USS KENT, 38505.04 (2360.June 10)]

Officers Involved:
_Lieutenant Junior Grade T'Char Le'el
_Lieutenant Hathaway Cassidy
_Lieutenant Alice Hurke

Description:
Atomic hydrogen plasma samples generating astromicrobial life signs in IC 2944 Bok globule Thackeray-4 beamed aboard for catalog, study, and release. Proposed by Lt.J.G. T’Char Le’el, supported by Lt.’s Hathaway Cassidy and Alice Hurke.

Procedure:
Plasma sample beamed into secure containment field area on deck 12 laboratory, scanned with onboard equipment once secure containment established. Upon conclusion, samples are to be beamed out of secure containment from deck 12 laboratory directly into the Bok globule.

Result:
Plasma sample disabled primary and secondary containment generator due to astromicrobial infection in power emitter conduits from transporter signal. Lt.’s Cassidy and Hurke killed by subsequent discharge from overloaded force fields and thermal plasma displacement, resulting in total vaporization of subjects. Lt.J.G. Le’el admitted to sickbay for extensive plasma burn trauma, placed in a medically induced coma for seventy-eight (78) hours. Deck 12 laboratory purged of plasma, containment field emitters repaired following diagnostic analysis.

Analysis:
Accident recovery engineering team diagnosis revealed that graviton interference in transporter beam from Bok globule Thackeray-4 caused by stellar phenomena could have resulted in the subsequent gravitational “spaghetti” effect that allowed sample containment to breach. Further study of the H II region IC 2944 Bok globules should note the gravitational instability when conducting other tests.
Microbe sample analysis revealed that the life form uses suprathermal electrons in solar plasma as a source of energy. The damage to the emitters was caused by this life form absorbing and subsequently draining the electron supply in the field emitter power conduits.
This caused the force fields to enter a state of Gradual Collapse Failure from the lack of an energy supply. Gradual Collapse Failure will become amplified by external energy intake, such as from expanding ionized gasses as were present in the Deck 12 containment generator.
Normal functionality reroutes external energy input into emitter coupling batteries, but as no power mediation was supplied after Gradual Collapse Failure, automatic system equilibrium failed.
Failure to absorb subsequent energy discharge resulted in amplification effect from failing force field barriers, and manifesting as thermal plasma. Detonation event occurred in .37 seconds after successful transport of sample.

Notes:
This accident was solely due to the microbes within the plasma and not the fault of any crew member involved. Lieutenant Hurke and Lieutenant Cassidy are to be posthumously awarded commendations for their bravery and sacrifice, this is a loss is felt by all members of this crew. They were part of our family, and we will honor their memory together.
-Captain Alex Rockbell, USS-KENT