Re: Trek Plot Brainstorm Help!
Preparations for War
The Seraph delivers a new group of scientists to a distant outpost where a joint Federation/Romulan team are developing anti-Borg weaponry. The most promising of these is a new defensive weapon that uses subspace itself to literally crush starships travelling at warp speed - while short ranged, it would make a remarkable defence for endangered planets.
En route to it's next destination, the Seraph overtakes a massive subspace shockwave, taking the drives off-line and causing general havoc and damage. Sensors indicate that the shockwave came from the outpost - and that the wave was gaining strength as it traveled, before finally dissipating shortly after the Seraph's encounter with it. The origin of the shockwave coincided with the half-strength test of the new weapon - and the shockwave would have been too weak for the outpost to have noticed.
Worse, even a slightly greater powered wave would have reached a heavily traveled trade route packed with cargo ships. And the FULL-power test is scheduled in twelve hours.
Seraph has no warp capability or subspace radio transmission capacity, but that weapons test has to be stopped...