This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...Fifteen minutes later, and at maximum magnification, there was the faint shimmer of a wormhole just as the First Officer happened to notice the Science Officer tense up, but before he could say anything…
"Science, shields to maximum," the First bellowed. "Guns, all weapons on line," First snapped out even as he reached to bring the shields up himself.
"Shields to maximum," Science repeated as he too reached to activate them, even as the Weapons Officer brought his systems up, but the AI, tied into every system, had already recognized the blip and brought the shields up a quarter of a second before any of them could.
"Weapons on line," Guns said. Then a second later, "There at our three-o'clock low," he bellowed just before they rocked from two blasts from something similar to the Hunter's heavy laser/particle beam weapons. "I just happened to see a movement as it crossed between us and the shimmer of the wormhole."
Helm, "evasive maneuver 3-A. Don't let it hit that sector again. Communications?" First ordered.
Helm acknowledged even as the First kept giving orders.
"I sent the standard warning the second we saw the blip, Sir," Communications said.
"Excellent," First returned, before immediately turning to Guns. "Weapons Officer, let them know we do not appreciate being fired upon."
The First Officer had barely gotten the sentence out of his mouth when every laser/particle beam weapon on that side of the ship lit the attacking pod up with multiple bursts. The defensive pod's shields must not have been designed for that much incoming concentrated energy. Its power plant went in a brilliant blue/white flash even as energy began pouring into the Hunter from three other pods, but the Hunter had already rolled, exposing a different area that still had full shields...
Have a goodun;
Roust