Through A Glass Darkly

[Sivuk 0]

Seeing through a glass darkly

Sivuk of Vulcan

Science Officer, USS Reaent

 

Whispers in the dark, murmurs in the corridor: rumors of an Iconian arch present on the planet ran rampant through Reaent's crew.  Speculation on the possibilities of dimensional transport was not only the topic du jour, but a distraction from the task at hand.  Therefore, when Sivuk reported to Captain Michaels, he was careful to describe the data outline on the main viewscreen as an "arch-shaped object" and not an arch.

 

They were, in essence, looking through a dark glass, which, if an energy source such as a light were put behind the dark glass, would create a shadow producted by the object behind the glass.  They had little positive data, so the science department had used shadows and negative space — what was not there — to create an outline to determine what might be there.

 

As Sivuk explained, "The energy readings on the surface of New Rigel are being distorted by energy patterns from the moon, and visa versa.  However, the patterns we are observing are more distortion patterns that the sensors and computers are reading as energy fields."  In actuality, they were energy voids.

 

Sivuk would have continued his long-winded explanation, but in mid-sentence the shuttle disappeared from sensors, the energy field around the moon disappeared, and both the shuttle and Reaent came under attack from a base that, according to Captain Michaels, should not be on the moon's surface.  Some technology, more advanced than evidenced on the surface, had shielded its presence and allowed the base to successfully target the Reaent.

 

Most illogical.