MEMORY OMEGA EXTRACT / PERSONAL LOG: LAFORGE

SD44406.9

Damn my orders, I’ve got to let Data know what’s going on here. I sure as hell can’t keep generating ideas to neutralize or destroy Data. Not behind his back. It may defeat the purpose of the red team, but the red team is wrong.

But how? The second I try to establish contact with the Enterprise, the station computer’s going to alert Thalla, if it lets me contact the ship at all.

I could reroute through any number of subspace relays. I could even reroute my subspace signal through the USS Khayyam and maybe no one would be the wiser, but if I were a paranoid Starfleet Security officer, I’d be monitoring all the subspace traffic in this sector. I’d catch me in a nanosecond.

Maybe I can piggyback on some other kind of wave that might reach the Enter--

That’s it!

If I send some innocuous message to, say, my sister but include an embedded code that would be read by the subspace relay station as the signal passed through… I’ll code in a command that will instruct the relay to split the carrier wave and encode half of it in a transmission of intentional subspace distortion.

Data has an autonomic subroutine that monitors subspace distortion because fluctuations over 70 milliCochranes can cause random subroutine errors unless he compensates, which he also does autonomically. His positronic net will read the code embedded in the distortion, almost like subconsciously picking up a song in the background at a loud party. His positronic net will interpret the code as an attention-getting signal. Like when you realize that song has the same tempo as your breathing, and now you’re thinking about breathing and you’re not doing it autonomically, you’re doing it intentionally, like you’ve forgotten how to not think about it for a minute.

What am I doing talking about it? I need to get to work. I’ve got to find a subspace relay in Enterprise’s sector, then write the code--

RECORDING DISRUPTED.