The Mission Summary?

[Atragon9 0]

::A9 is sitting at his desk in his Ready Room, trying to compose his mission report for the Consul General::

... the alien was consuming the protostars in order to sustain, no, ... the ancient alien device, which is really an inter-dimensional platform, no... the tripedal aliens were actually just a service species for the alien that is an energy being that manifested itself as a huge ship, no ...

::he gets up and paces the room::

Frak, I wish we really did have a fight on our hands, it would be so much easier to describe than this weird non-event. We expended such a great effort and all for nothing. It came into your dimension, it absorbed the protostars it needed and it's gone again for a span of time greater than any of our lives.

So I guess we can say that we solved the mystery and it won't happen again (while we're around). Yeah and they believe that, I have a great rescue mission for them - just a little ship called the Kobyashi Maru!

Ooooh, I know! I'll get Sovak to write the mission report, the facts, nothing but the facts.

I don't know, it's time to get back home and see if we can shoot something! Uh oh, now I sound like Kenickie!