"The dead"

[ens_keraz 0]

Keraz sat in engineering running diagnostics when McLean ordered him to report to cargo bay 1. Keraz entered cargo bay one, doctor Matthews and chief McLean were their standing by a large amount of stasis units. “Please move these stasis units very carefully to holodeck 1” doctor Matthews ordered. Keraz picked up the first stasis unit, “the cario’s dead are in these units please treat them with respect” doctor Matthews said. Keraz walked out of the cargo bay carrying the unit and inadvertently remembering the death of his brother. Keraz,s brother had been a warrior in the Klingon defense force and his ship was ordered to give protection to a small military research facility on the edge of Klingon space. Somehow a Romulan warbird had passed through the Klingon tachyon network undetected and immediately launched a cowardly surprise attack on Keraz’s brother’s ship, destroying the vessel and all aboard before they could even fire once.

 

   Soon Keraz arrived at holodeck one. The room was dark; all the power had been turned off. Keraz walked in slowly and stood in the room for a few seconds letting his eyes adjust to the darkness. Soon Keraz saw other stasis units against the back wall and Keraz set down the one he was carrying next to them. Keraz found himself wondering who these people were that had been living mere weeks ago and now were unmoving, unfeeling bodies piled in a dark room. Keraz promised himself that when he got off duty he would look up their names in the computer database and learn about them. It was a Klingon tradition to judge a person by how they died but Keraz felt that the only way to really know a person was to judge how they lived.          

 

                              "The dead" log of ensign Keraz