Return to Sender

[Sergio Giovanni 0]

"Return to Sender"

Log entry 18: 27 December, 2154

 

"Return to Sender,

Address unknown,

No such number,

No such phone.."

-- Elvis Prestley

 

Searching through his memories, there probably wasn't a moment where Sergio Giovanni didn't worry for his life, as well as the lives of others as much as he did now. Sitting in the small shuttlepod, he looked out of the small windshield at an entire armada of Andorian vessels -- twenty six in total, according to sensors.

 

The fleet comprised of destroyers, scout ships and one huge battlecruiser. It was the biggest ship Sergio had seen in his whole life. And it had the shuttlepod locked in some sort of weird laser beam. Everything Ens. Walker does to break from its hold fails. "Gee, what could the Andorians want with us?" he said to noone in particular.

 

"Is there something down there that they don't want us to see, like in Khittomer?" he asked, again to noone in particular. How actually the Andorians found out they were here was also a big mystery in itself. And with 26 big Andorian ships looking them straight in the eye, even the Challenger -- which hardly isn't 100% herself, wouldn't stand ghost of a chance.

 

Sergio rubbed his chin and looked to the big planet below. It was an M-Class planet, uninhabited according to sensors (though the same was said for Khittomer, and look what happened there). But there was alot of minerals dectected in the northern part, such as iron, dilithium, tritanium, and latinum. The Andorians could have interests in those.

 

Or, they could just be toying with their pinkskin friends. Everybody knows Andorians and humans still don't play well with each other, because of their affiliation with the Vulcans; they're sworn enemies. There was rumours that the Challenger construction project itself faced threats from the Andorians after an Andorian exlosive was blamed for the destruction of the construction facility near the moon.

 

Though it was later found that the Andorians weren't to blame, at least that's what Sergio heard, there still is a bit of a resentment lingering between the two races, though happily the relationship is showing signs of growth. So, then why are they currently caught in some sort of Andorian "Tractor beam"?

 

Perhaps they are interested in what's on the planet and wants it to themselves? That's the only logical reason Sergio can think of. Or maybe there's something else down there like in Khittomer? He makes a mental note to make a more detailed scan of the planet when he gets back to Challenger; or rather if he gets back to the Challenger.

 

Sergio hears a loud sound and feels a small shake. "We're free" says one of the crewmembers. "And we also have orders to go back to the Challenger" he continues on. "Alright, I guess we have no choice but to go back" replies Sergio. There are times to take risks and go for it, and times to just fall back and retreat, and well this was one of them. Thought Sergio not wanting to mess with 26 Andorian ships.

 

Sergio feels the shuttlepod make a 180 and head back to the Challenger. With the Andorian Fleet watching them like a hawk. He couldn't wait to get out of this shuttlepod and back into the relative safety of the Challenger. "Oh man, first the Suliban, then the Klingons and now the Andorians. This mission keeps getting better and better, eh?" says Sergio scarcastically. THe crew around him simply shrug as they head back home to the Challenger.

Edited December 27, 2004 by Sergio Giovanni