A flash in my mind and I’m back on my real bridge. “What’s our status?” I shout at Tess. Biri answers instead, “Response team says an EPS conduit exploded and sent a power surge into the Butterfly modifications, and before anyone still awake could stop it the dish sent a theta-verteron beam into the wormhole! Gravity field strength spiked and pulled us in before we could compensate!” “Casualties?” “Six dead, eight wounded! Commander Reshek is—” Gaarra. I’m out of the chair before she can finish the sentence and running for the turbolift. “Deflector Control!” “Sorry,” I say. “Biri, any thoughts?”