Category: Fiction

[Story by Shawn Alpay, Character Art by Thomas Marrone]

Previously on Star Trek: Loma Prieta…
Episode 1: Shifts – Prologue
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 1
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 2
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 3
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 4
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 5
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 6
Episode 1: Shifts – Act 7

ACT 8

Setting down the flashing tricorder and leaning it against the window, Perkins popped open his combadge and quickly inspected its contents.  He removed its power cell and held it up in the dim light for inspection; it had been cracked in a couple of places, most likely when he fell during the last exchange of fire.  He glanced around the power conduit room for a suitable replacement, then made his way over to a drawer and pulled it open, finding a neat row of PADDs.  All of them were locked out with high-level security clearance, no doubt, but each of them possessed a suitable power replacement — so Perkins fetched one up and, holding the edges with his pinky and thumb, slapped the back flatly down on the desk nearby, cracking open the outer casing and revealing the circuitry inside.  He deftly extracted a power cell and slotted it into his combadge, then placed it back on the left breast of his sooty uniform and tapped it.

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