MEMORY OMEGA EXTRACT / COMMUNIQUE

SD44402.4

FROM: ADM MIRIAM RANER (CODED/RESTRICTED)
TO: CPT JEAN-LUC PICARD (USS ENTERPRISE, NCC-1701-D)

You are hereby ordered to second your Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge, to Starbase 206 immediately for temporary duty.

Jean-Luc, know that I do not hold you to task for your inability to retain or regain control over your vessel during the recent Terlina III incident. Who could have speculated that there was sleeper code embedded in Lieutenant Commander Data’s positronic net?

However, his ability to take over the Enterprise in a matter of minutes is cause for great consternation. And it’s not the first time that the asset has been hijacked; the Ira Graves incident comes to mind. LaForge will be key in this endeavor.

You will be expected to implement the recommendations of the red team upon approval by Starfleet Security.

Project: Data Red is classified at the Admiralty-level. That includes disclosing the true nature of this assignment with LaForge prior to his arrival at Starbase 206.

LaForge’s cover orders for a warp field design thinktank are attached to this communiqué.