Memo to Science Department; Executive Officer

[Guest Laarell]

Laarell was frowning, glancing between the latest evaluation of sensors and Dox's report. He'd done good work... but some of the conjecture had turned out to be false, based on the more recent sensor overviews.

 

Working across the console quickly, she gathered as much detail and data as she could given the time constraints, and jotted a few notes to go with it.

 

Memo - Formal Science Report

To: Science Department, Cptn. Corizon

From: Lt. Cmdr. Laarell Teykier

 

 

The following is a summary and brief analysis of the events leading to our current status in what still appears to be the Bajoran star system:

 

According to Lieutenant j.g. Maturin, the sensors (faulty information though they were and still are providing) appear to picked up some sort of distortion waves (I interject here that I believe this to perhaps be instead some sort of radiation. However, this is a matter of interpretation. The information we str reading in the sensor logs is currently jumbled, nearly beyond recognition. Some of the scientists are working on making more sense of the readings we received while the sensors were haywire) after we entered the wormhole. Poorly-recorded sensor logs indicate, along with data collected after emerging on on the current and apparently Alpha Quadrant side, that star positions, quasars, and other interstellar phenomenon are in the correct places; therefore we are in the time period that we were in before passing through the wormhole; and therefore we can draw from this that the radiation/distortion was nontemporal in nature.

 

Also in the Lieutenant's notes was a comment about a disturbance from the wormhole's Scorpiad-placed "collar"; however, sensor records are inconclusive. The proposition that the collar malfunctioned, purposefully or not, is certainly within the realm of possibility, but I cannot explicitly agree with his interpretation of the data, and due to lack of clear records (or even moderately readable ones, for that matter), this disturbance is going to be disregarded for the time being.

 

His analysis of the collar, compared to what I have read and seen coming from Camelot and our brief studies of the technology, worked in near opposition to what other scientists have proposed as hypothesis regarding the operation of the device. Instead of a phasic inhibitor, as he proposes, most scientists are reaching the conclusion that it was instead actually powered by draining the open wormhole, and though the collar hampered normal passage and communications transfer, it did not 'close' the wormhole in a scientific sense. Therefore, his analyses of the disruption (already noted above to be disregarded) must be considered immaterial to the current situation.

 

After reaching visual range of Bajor, we encountered an object in orbit, along with several Federation starships which are currently unidentified (a situation which will be amended quickly, our sensor pallets obliging), a station or docking port resembling Spacedock. While sensors are not at a high enough capacity to conduct scans of such in-detail nature to provide us with recent dating, logic would suggest, given the amount of time needed to complete work on a Spacedock-like structure, that this could not have been completed in the time between our last contact with Starfleet Command and now. Therefore, it was either somehow moved to this location from Earth, or somehow it was constructed in an almost supernaturally accelerated manner. However, all suggestions and possibilities are speculation. This matter I have labeled as inconclusive. Even with the explanation that it was transported from the Sol system to Bajor, it still would not explain the lack of space travel through this region, nor the absence of Deep Space Station Nine.

 

Given the inherent lack of conclusive data available to us at the moment, I would prefer not to speculate on our exact whereabouts, and mark this matter as in development and inconclusive. More data will be presented with analysis as soon as available.

 

All matters in regard to turbulence, our location, the lack of Deep Space Nine, and the mysterious activity surrounding Bajor are hereby determined to be currently inconclusive.

 

Note: I would like to mention, as a reminder, if only for the sole reason that we did indeed pass through the wormhole, those believing in Bajoran religion might choose to view it as an act of the Prophets, though again, absolutely nothing would suggest that beyond purely theological speculation and potential religious belief. However, I see it as something that might be offered as explanation by some, and feel a need to bring it to your attention.

[Joy 0]

Re : Formal Science Report

To: Science Department, Cptn. Corizon

From: Ambassador Joy Five

 

 

I would agree with Commander Teykier that sensors are confused and this is too soon to be certain of the current situation.

 

However, the physical location is definitely Bajor. We did exit the wormhole at the normal position. The time is the 'present,' in that we are not significantly before or after when we expected to be.

 

Yet, it seems highly probable this is a parallel universe, an alternate time frame. At a guess it is most likely to be The Mirror Universe, where the Federation equivalent is known as The Empire, and the dominant values are autocratic and militaristic. While in theory there are an infinite number of parallel universes, in practice that one seems to be 'closest' somehow to our reality. Most accidental shifts between parallel universes go there.

 

At a guess, The Empire may well not know of the existence of the wormhole. I am inclined to suggest that we avoid letting them know about it without all due consideration.

 

I am also strongly suggesting that we secure, encrypt and / or destroy all data, plans and prototypes related to subspace weapons development. Unless I hear a strong and immediate counter argument, I am inclined to order it so.

 

It may be possible that the transfer is related to the 'collar,' or perhaps the energy beings that dwell in the hole, or even both, but I agree that assigning a cause at this point is highly premature, as would be disregarding or ignoring such a cause.

 

Joy Five