Stardate 69011.7

Posted on 09 Mar 2019 @ 11:42am by Lieutenant JG Matthew Plumeri

396 words; about a 2 minute read

[ON:]

“Science officer’s log, stardate 69011.7:

In a staff meeting we learned some rather privileged and unusual information. I suppose that kind of thing is to be expected from an organization like Starfleet? Lots of projects, lots of people involved, it is impossible to always know what the right hand is doing from the left hand. I suppose? I mean how else does one explain the fact that Starfleet has so many secrets and projects so classified that way out here in the galactic ‘boonies’ we’re finding ‘Christmas presents’ in that very same closet? It’s not just the Federation. Everybody has secrets. Even my own people; my own planet.

However, that’s not the point of this log entry. It was at one of these staff meetings not ten minutes ago that we learned about one of those projects. And now we may have found a clue not only to the destructive force of this project, but what has to the Federation colony at least on Ostara. Probably the same is true here on Lantoria too. That would be Latari B III and Latari A III for the record.

Captain Saalm asked for volunteers. Now, I ain’t got no ‘death wish’ but a chance to do something other than review long-range sensor logs, catalog and index the stellar cartographical database and keep up with my technical skills is a welcome relief. I volunteered to go down to Lantoria and take a peek. See what we can see. So did Ensign Mimi. Captain also assigned Security Officer and guy you want at a party, Gabriel Stark. Archaeologist and Anthropologist Doctor Petra Varelli and Equipment and Engineering Bosun and girl most likely to break your heart Chief Azra Ghoc. I’m grateful for the extra help. I can’t help but feel that Captain isn’t confident that I could do this away mission. But I will.

There’s not much time now, we leave in a few minutes as soon as the last team member gets to the Virginia. It’s been a while since I had to pilot anything bigger than a data PaDD. Well, they said that it comes back to you. Like riding a bicycle right?


Computer, end and save science officer’s log.”



[OFF:]

Lieutenant JG Matthew Plumeri
Science Officer – Astrometrics/Historian
USS Galileo-A
NCC-80010

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