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DrDMatthews

Tired of Waiting

They had been ten minutes out when first spotted. The ten minutes had come and gone. The Klingons should have been on top of them by now. But so far, there was no sign of them.

 

"Where are they?" asked Deb Matthews, trying to hide the growing frustration she was now feeling.

"Unknown," came the reply from one of the Bridge crew. "There is no sign of them on the sensors."

 

Matthews stood and took a couple of steps toward the main viewscreen. "They have cloaking technology," she reminded everyone listening. "I hope we're looking for any anomalies that might indicate they're closer than we realize."

 

It was only the tenth time she'd made that remark in the past twenty minutes. Someone replied in the affirmative, just has they had the last time she asked that question. Of course they were scanning for anything that even remotely seemed out of place. They were doing the best they could under the circumstances but that was of little comfort to Deb.

 

They had checked and rechecked the sensor readings the fighters recorded when they first encountered the mysterious ships. Many of Reaent's senior staff found it difficult to believe the unknown fleet could possibly belong to the Klingons. Deb was among them. But the readings had been confirmed at least a dozen different ways. Those ships were definitely Klingon. And they should have arrived at People's Head a good twenty minutes ago.

 

Since determining they were on the way, the Reaent's crew had poured over every piece of information they could find on Klingon vessels, armament and especially their cloaking technology. But even the NFS assumed the Klingons were long gone. There was precious little left in the data files about them. And it was all outdated. Deb wasn't sure they would recognize a cloaking device's signature anomaly if they were staring straight at it. For all she knew, the Klingons had new and more sophisticated technology, able to cloak without creating any anomalies at all.

 

The bottom line was, they were in a potentially fatal situation. And the waiting was the worst part of it all.

 

Deb Matthews crossed her arms in front of her and continued staring at the viewscreen. She'd made the decision to the stay put in an effort to talk to the Klingons. But she was tired of waiting.

 

She turned to look at the Chief of Fighter Operations, Bryan Smythe. "Launch a fighter squadron," she ordered. "Have them locate that fleet and report back. Under no circumstances are they to engage the Klingons, even if fired upon."

 

Smythe nodded solemnly and turned back to his console. Matthews looked around and noticed Colonel Nidari was still on the Bridge. She motioned for the Chief Tactical Officer to join her. "We need to know what's on that planet that was of such interest to the UFP," said Deb as Nidari stepped to her side. "Get your team ready to launch as soon as we find out where that Klingon fleet is."

 

Colonel Nidari also nodded, turned and quickly returned to her console while Deb walked over to the ship's XO was standing. George McLean looked up from the report he was reading as she approached him.

 

"As soon as we determine the whereabouts of that fleet, we need to meet with the department heads and try to hash out what's going on around here. And I'd also like your opinion on taking out that communications relay."

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