"It's happening again"

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“”It’s happening again”

McLean’s Log

Chief Engineer

USS Reaent | NCC-3345-G

0505.28

 

“It’s happening again,” George thought as he stared down at Ensign La Touque.

 

The scene outside eerily reminded him of a scene a little more than two years ago. A disfigured hull with all the signs of sabotage, George could imagine the bodies strewn across the decks, lifeless and scorched beyond recognition. Yes, it did remind him of the Cairo. Everybody was touched by the incident in some way, some more intimately than others. For George, the whole tragedy had disgusted him. If he had not had the pressure of maintaining his composure in front of his young impressionable officers, Keraz and Graham, he probably would have let his true feelings be known.

 

How was this massacre going to change the Reaent crew? There was already a deep spirit of bitterness looming on board. Would bitterness be transformed into despair? At least these were Tholians and not humans right? As much as he tried not to sound xenophobic in his mind, he did conclude that this situation would not tug at the heart like the Cairo.

 

George sighed. All of this pondering and complaining was not going to change what happened and did not bring them any closer to the truth of what happened. George began to ponder the facts. A Tholian vessel has been severely damaged by some sort of internal explosion, perhaps a bomb, perhaps something more complex rigged through Engineering. Perhaps, he was just thinking the worst. Maybe it was a major malfunction in the ship’s systems. He assumed that most, if not all, were dead on board, including an ambassador. The next task would be to determine what kind of chemicals were on the debris, whether they were elements normally found in bombs.

 

“I don’t like mysteries,” George thought to himself, “someone always ends up dead.”