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Comments from the Tagboard:

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01/14/24 11:56 PM
BrickVoid: The old switchboard components were pretty heavily insulated. It might have been a different story had there been delicate electrical circuit boards that are more susceptible to arcing or shorting due to conductive fluids being poured all over them.
01/13/24 06:10 PM
Oldarmourer: I could go on about the bottle of pop and the telephone switchboard that was in the parlor of the old station house we lived in while my father was stationmaster and my mother happened to be a trained switchboard operator but it's anti-climactic...not even a spark, :(
01/12/24 12:45 PM
BrickVoid: He calls it that! He should hightail it out of there while he still can! :D

Transcript
Panel 1:
Operator Cordzil: Good lord!
Prince: Not at all. In fact, I think I acted badly here.
Cordzil: No, I mean the mess you made.
Prince (aside): I wonder how I tripped...
Director: J'enn: You forgot to call him "your majesty."
Cordzil: Fine. "Your majesty." But your spill is seeping into the control panel!

Panel 2:
Cordzil: Gah! This station isn't working at all.
    Gyntork! What do you have on your console?
Systems Monitor Gyntork: It's some kind of short circuit, Cordzil. I can't tell how bad it is without pulling panels.
    I'll just try a hard reboot first. If we're lucky, it'll all come back online.
    Hang on, I'm picking up an energy spike on the other side of the room! I'm not sure what--

Panel 3:
SFX: *VMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*


Panel 4:
Weather Monitor Romulan: The spike was a transporter beam! Call the guards! Ungh!
Natashia Starrat: Commodore! Commander!
Commodore Jeffrey Bannister: Stand back!
SFX: Stun!
    Stun!
Cordzil: Gah!

Panel 5:
Romulan Guard: Command! I have shots fired at Particle Defense Control! Send backup!
SFX: Stun!
    Stun!
    And stun some more!

Panel 6:
Commander Dale Zurkett: Whoop!
Romulan Guard: Die, Starfleet scum!!
SFX: Disruption!

Panel 7:
Jeff: Are you hurt?
Natashia: No, but we have to get Pavembril! Why didn't you just beam us out?
Jeff: Sensor jamming... we couldn't get a lock without boosting the signal from down here.
Natashia: Then we have to get past that guard!
Dale: Yeah, yeah... I'm on it.

Panel 8:
Romulan Guard: Blast it!
SFX: Roll!
Romulan Guard: Hold still!

Panel 9:
SFX: Stun!
Romulan Guard: Urngh!
Dale: We call that move the Captain Kirk.