"A look in to the past"

[Eli Zhu 0]

Midshipman Eli Zhu

Assistant Engineer

Personal Log

SD 50406.13

 

 

Eli walked out of his chief's office, informed that he will be attending a special ceremony or something, he couldn't remember even for that brief moment. He walked into a nearby Turbolift and entered.

 

"officer quarters." He said into the computer and waited.

 

A few seconds later the door opens and he stepped out and walked towards his quarters. Many things were going through his head. He thought the Aegis would be a nice quiet station to work on but he was definitely wrong. Walked past an officer who nodded at him. The past terrorist attack on Cardassian Prime really poked his mind. It made him think about the world that seemed to be falling apart at the seems. He found his quarters and walked in.

 

He found his things that were they were suppose to be, clarinet on the desk, music on a stand to the right of his bed, padds littered on the floor. Yup all where they were suppose to be. He thought. Except for one.

 

"Hey, what did my reed go?" He asked his desk, but it gave no answer. Eli lowered himself onto the floor and searched around for that Reed. He did not know why or what compelled him to crawl on the floor just to find a expendable reed. It was true that he could have just replicated another. However he did not. Eli Crawled under the bed, caught sight of something resembling a plastic carrying case. He crawled towards it, his body now under his bed, his hand caught something else beside a box. Eli Jolted upward.

 

"Ow!" He exclaimed, this was not one of many times which he had touched something he could not see, it surprised him more than he thought. He rubbed his head and pulled himself and the padd out from under the bed.

 

He read the padd and knew exactly what it was. The cardassian terrorist attack report he had download from the news console but neglected to read the full detail of it. He took a good 10 minutes to flip through the information. Terrible lost of life, destroyed in a brutal way, vaporization. He thought putting the padd on to his desk next to the lying clarinet.

 

The rescent events had really told Eli what was going on with his assignment, Aegis was a important installation, and alot of things went on here, ships docked here, people went to Drankums. It only had occur to him that he was among one of the luckiest in starfleet to be posted onto such an extrordinary station. A station of multidersity for crew, people, inhabitants as well as technology. Indeed it was a Ferengi power generator he saw when he was touring a part of the station, he hadn't been daydreaming.

 

Eli looked around and found the picture frame with the image of him with his brother, Kai. The attack on Cardassian prime reflected gravely on him in his own mortality. He was human and his brother was human. He realized something, that a life could end at any time. Eli took his hand and wiped his face with it slowly. Trying to clear his conscience and to the more importants things at hand. The station and Cardassian Prime.

 

Eli stared at his room. It seems that Cardassia was becoming more and more like Germany during World War 2 in terran history, treaty of versaille in world war one had restricted Germany's military power and left the country in rubbles. Eli saw a historic parallel to their current situation. Cardassian military was restricted and now, the post dominion time, Cardassian terrorists had sprang up, to destroy life? Eli couldn't help but laugh at the Cardassian terrorists. But soon that laugh turned to fear then to anger.

 

Eli didn't know the current cardassian developement until now. He had mixed feelings about the people his friends so called "spoon head". Eli had never saw a Cardassian in his life, everything he was taught were either rumors or previous encounters, but now hearing this report, in the padd on his desk. He felt angered by this terrible disregard of life. But he felt insanely sorry for them as well, Cardassians killing Cardassians.

 

"HA! Pathetic, sad, propostrous!" He yelled to the room, and the room echoed his words back. His eyes laid on an object on the floor towards the kitchen, but his thoughts were still active, he couldn't recognize the object.

 

Cardassians, killing other Cardassians? In the name of what? What good would come from it? Eli thought, it seemed to be a paradox, one side fighting another, but one side is evil and other side is also evil? What was this? Were the terrorists blaming the government and using it as a scapegoat for its excuse for destruction? Those people in there still had their rights! Now Eli was very angry, he stomped towards the kitchen and picked up the plastic carrying case and looked at it.

 

"So there you are." He said, emotions had simmered down to a mere boil of the nerves. He walked back and placed the reed on the padd and walked to the closet and got out his newly ordered dress uniform. He looked at the uniform and sighed.

 

"what have i got myself into this time."