This entry is a day late because I got two sentences into the post before falling asleep in my chair. That’s how exhaustion works sometimes.
It’s Day 14 of TrekAdvent and we’re looking in on the Klingons once again. Over the course of decades the Empire has heard rumors of colossal, relentless sentient machines from outside our dimension. They were called Reapers, and they once were within striking distance of making this galaxy their own. Through the efforts of an honorable warrior, Commander Shepard, these soulless invaders were consigned to the depths of Gre’thor. In a show of admiration and respect for Shepard, the Empire commissioned a new craft based on their famed vessel, the Normandy. Adapting the ship’s “Mass Effect” technology proved difficult without a network of Mass Relays in the Alpha Quadrant, but the Klingons kept the systems in place to augment the ship’s deflectors and have quietly been opening discussions with the Federation to explore the potential of Mass Relays as a replacement for wormholes and transwarp conduits to traverse greater distances.