The crew of the Tiberius were conducting some routine scans of a K-class planet with a new sensor. This sensor was based on chroniton particles and was able to get a detailed account of the history of the planet and what likely caused it's demise.
After a successful first attempt, our Chief Engineer performed a quick diagnostic on the sensor to make sure everything performed as it should. Other than a few chroniton particles near the sensor, everything seemed to perform as expected. So Captain Ral ordered additional scans of the planet, a process that would take a few days to complete.
A couple of days later, the crew started experiencing what can only be described as deju-vu. In sickback, our Chief Medical Officer healed a crewman's hand. Shortly after the crewman left sickbay, he walked in again and asked for his same hand to be healed. Meanwhile, in the science lab, our Chief Science Officer spotted a comet off the starboard side of the ship. Then he spotted it again, and again, again. Each time, the comet was moving on the exact same path at the exact same speed, something that should be impossible. And lastly, our Chief Engineer, while in Engineering, was handed the daily duty roster from a crewman, only to be handed it again just moments later.
Captain Ral gathered the senior officers together to hear the reports and start working on a plan to fix whatever is apparently going wrong onboard the Tiberius. However, before they could get anywhere, the ship suddenly explodes.
Then the loop started over again. Slowly, the characters realized they were stuck in a time-loop. The Chief Engineer was the first to realize this, followed (in the next loop) by our Science Officer. One of the loops, the Chief Engineer tried to shut down the sensor, causing the ship to explode once again. The Science and Engineer officers were then able to convince the Captain and the rest of the senior officers that the entire ship was stuck in a time loop.
The plan to stop the loops was dangerous. With time not on their side, the Chief Engineer and Chief Science Officers made their way carefully to engineering and carefully to a panel where they were finally able to disable the sensor. However, an excessive of chroniton particles had built up in the warp core and was still threatening to blow the ship up. It was decided that the warp core had to be ejected in order to save the ship.
Now the Tiberius is limping back to Narendra Station to obtain a new warp core and to await their next orders.
