In The Mouth Of Madness Admiral Star requests the Liberty return to Starbase
as soon as possible. Three days later they return to
San Fransico. Star and Ace have a private talk where
Ace is told about a new threat to the Ferderation,
Captain Luke Goric of the USS Falcon, Ace's old
roomate from Starfleet Academy, who has ordered the
surrender of the Federation. All that is known at the
time is that the Falcon was attempting to tansport
Borg technology back from a deserted planet when it
dissappeared. Later, Goric returned as a self
proclaimed God and destroyed an outpost with an
enhanced energy beam as proof of his power.
In response, the Liberty's crew is asked to meet with
Goric with false surrender plans, and try to
infilitrate the Falcon and assassinate Goric. Ace
reluctanly agrees to take the mission, knowing full
well that the Liberty would face it's most dangerous
foe yet.
The Liberty then schedules the meet with Goric, and as
the deadline approaches, Sutak , along with others,
get worried that Goric may be immpossible to beat.
None so more then Hawkins, who after reviewing all the
data on Goric, becomes increasingly worrisome that he
may be impossible to defeat. He decides to see what
Lt. Commander Tavik thought of their chances.
Tavik did not expect any surprises from Goric,
however, he still decided to work on the ships
weapons. Creating shields and phasers that alternate
in frequency. He also thinks an creating an algorithm
that has no end, one which the Enterprise D thought of
to defeat the Borg, by confusing them and shutting
them down. However, the Enterprise never used it, so
it was only useful in theory.
Later, it is revealed Goric is expecting to kill the
crew and assimilate Decade, however this plan is not
known to the Captain or the crew. Goric hails the
Liberty and demands a surrender, only allowing Ace to
beam over. However, Decade forces Goric to allow a 5
man away team to beam over. Their mission, find out
all they can about Goric, and his anti-matter cannon,
then assasinate him and blow the ship up.
Buitlier had discovered a way to deflect the blasts of
the cannon, but, this can only be done if the shields
are changed from one function to the next, leaving the
ship open for a normal attack in the special sheilding
mode.
During the meeting of the away team, Hawkins suggests
using an EMH of Montbourget during the visit, that way
Mont, could use his inherint cloaking abilities to
hide himself and find a way to destroy the ship. Mont
decided to travel in a cargo instead of traveling with
the away team, thereby making him an "Ace" up the
Liberty's sleeves. However, when the team beamed over
they are ambushed, and the Captain is taken away to
Gorics chambers while the crew is rendered
unconscious.
When the team awakens, they find themselves in the
Brig, minus the Captain. They decide to introduce
Tavik's algorithm into the ship through an unshielded
computer terminal. After it is introduced, Tavik
figues they have thirty-six hours to get to Captain
Decade before the Falcon and the drones start to go
hay wire. Sutak disables the forcefield and the team
is on their way.
During the same time, Goric is revealing his plans to
Decade about the Federations domination. He intends to
assimilate the Liberty crew and take over the vessel.
This will give him the added advantage of new
technology to further his goals in taking over the
Federation. Ace argues with his former roomate, but is
awe stricken when Goric changes into the face of Ace
and orders the Liberty to lower it's shields. When the
Liberty does this, Goric beams over with hundreds of
drones and takes control.
Luckily, the algorithm starts to take effect and the
drones start to become incapacitated, along with the
Falcons warp cores. This gives the away team twelve
minutes to find Decade and beam off the ship before it
is destroyed.
After finding Ace, they hail the Liberty, where Goric
orders Decade to beam over alone or the crew would
parrish. The Captain decides on a different route,
locking the Liberty with the Falcon by the use of
a tractor beam. He beams over, and sees that all the
drones have failed, forcing Goric to let the away team
beam aboard the Liberty or else the tractor beam would
not be released. In an act of totally irrationality,
Goric fuses his mind with the computer once the team
is aboard. Tavik severs him from the Liberty and sends
him over to the Falcon to await destruction.
Goric pleads for his life, offering to explain exactly
what happened if they will only transport him off the
ship. Decade decides to beam him into the brig for
interrogation, and the Liberty speeds off right as the
Falcon explodes. Goric explains that the technology he
found was an ancient Borg Assimilation machine. It
took over the Falcon and started to assimilate random
people. He tried to stop it, yet it became
too powerful, though, through use of the Falcons
computer, Goric found he could manipulate the device
and the drones. In a sense, he would head the
collective.
Goric hands them a tricorder with the Borg Data. Sutak
feels that it would be best to destroy the data to
severe any chances it may have of corrupting the
Liberty. Ace decides to drop Goric off on the nearest
inhabitable planet, even though he had orders to kill
Goric, he couldn't harm an old friend. If Goric was
sent to trial, one of the family members of the Falcon
or of the outpost would surely kill or tortue him to
death. The humane thing would be to let him live on a
small planet for the rest of his days in repentence.
Episode #4
