Assistant Science Officers Log Stardate 0301.27

[Travis Kroells 0]

 

Travis sat on the shuttle with his eyes closed trying to comprehend what just happened.  He had been so close to making first contact with that alien and Cmdr. Ridire had ordered him back to the shuttle.  In Travis’s opinion he was just willing to take the first window of opportunity to get out of here.  No scientific interest at all.  In my opinion the survey wasn’t even complete.  No tests had been made to determine the usability of the station…hell for all we know this thing could fall apart any second!  In his opinion Travis’s first away mission was the kind to keep him locked up on the ship for the rest of his career.  But the life form…that was the one thing that will stick with him… what if they don’t get an opportunity to go back down… what if it isn’t native to this planet?  For all he knew if nobody comes back for another 25 years he may just be killing that creature if it has no way to survive… Travis just relised how warm it was in the shuttle.  At first he figured that Vanroy had turned the heaters on to mess with him until he felt like he was really burning up… he thought about how this was just like his days at the academy… he had been working on an important experiment he was so close to finishing it but that pompous ass of a professor had decided that after all the research he did all the materials he collected that just at the end he’d tell him to stop.  It took all his strength not to drop him right there.  At first he pretended that he couldn’t hear him and that worked for about a second the professor ran up to him grabbed him by the collar and threatened him with expulsion if he didn’t stop.  The next day Travis dropped that class.  He thought to himself “Why to they open the door for me, tell me to go through it and then at the last moment slam it in my face?”  This is exactly what was happening now…it was so hot he couldn’t think strait… he thought he remembered Cmdr. Ridire turning back to him but it was all a blur now….that creature was the only thing that mattered now…he needed to contact it… it might very well be the most important thing that will happen to him…but not now to hot to sleepy….no matter what he has to make contact with it… in the end it will all be worth it….Darkness approached him… he told all he needed to and let himself slip into unconsciousness.