I got my head, shoulders and mechadendrites in a service hatch, cursing up a storm while tossing broken components out of it over my shoulder. I did of course do a complete scan on where the fried component where installed first and how they where connected, but this just feel good.
It's been two months of pretty much nothing but routine other than receiving a scrambled transmission from starfleet. I have been spending my freetime either with Seven, designing that cerebral sub processor and the rest trying to fix things piece of scrap.
"It is unlikely that is physically possible, nor would it be likely the individual in question is still alive after this much time." a voice comment from behind me and I force myself not to crack my head against the hull before crawling back out
"Well, I can hope, cant I? Somebody deserve to be punished for what they did to this poor thing." I comment as Seven arch her eyebrow
"Its a inanimate object." and I grin
"Maybe, Maybe not. So what can I help you with Seven? We still meeting up for the project later?" and she shake her head
"That would be unnecessary. I finished the design and you can turn it in to the Doctor for review." and I frown
"Really?" and take the offered PAD "Wow...Thanks Seven."
She hesitate for a second before nodding "You are...Welcome. My tasks in astrometrics where finished earlier than anticipated." and I give her a small smile
"You where bored, weren't you?" and she frown for a moment
"It was a inefficient use of time."
I nod and stretch "Well, while you are here, would you mind taking a look at the so called warp core and tell me what you think?"
She nod and enter the ship as I follow her into the small engine room. After a few minutes of examination she glance back at me
"I am unfamiliar of this technology. It's not know to the Borg." and I Hmm
"Well, it is five thousand years old. I took apart the coils around the outside of the sphere and it turn out they are gravity generators. I checked the database for gravity based power generation and it took me to the romulans..."
She nod "Species 3783. Some of their big warships use artificial singularities as powersources." and I nod
"Yeah, that was what I was thinking. But from what I have been able to figure out those are way bigger."
Frowning she remove one of the gravity generators "They are. This technology is unknown to me."
I give her a small smile "Want to help figure out how it work? Perhaps if we can, the technology can be adapted to Voyager." and she glance back at me before nodding and turning back to her examination of the broken powergenerator.