What do we have here?
Posted on Fri Aug 8th, 2025 @ 9:45pm by Lieutenant Kestra Ral
618 words; about a 3 minute read
Mission:
Children of the Stars
Location: USS Montana
Timeline: Present
On:
{Science lab, USS Montana}
Rubbing her forehead with her fingertips Kestra frowned as she watched the creature “it is cute” she stated her observations.
LT. Wallace Wilson pushed her hand away from her forehead to place his hand on it as he huffed.
“What are you doing?” Kestra asked with just a touch of annoyance.
“Seeing if you have a fever because that is the ugliest thing I have ever seen.” He told her seriously.
Frowning up at him she asked “Do you think Harry is ugly?” Beauty was in the eyes of the beholder she thought.
“No he is cute enough I would be tempted to pet him. Only I have seen it eat.” Wallace told her grinning.
Now Kestra was really confused “they look just alike only that one is grey.”
“No they aren’t.” Wallace told her.
Reaching up she placed her hand over his to make full contact “mind if I see what you do?”
He raise a surprised eyebrow but nodded. Closing her eyes she let herself open up to his mind. Then really saw the creature for the first time. “well now that is interesting and probably why I have been getting so many headaches lately. “
“Do you know what it is” He asked her almost feeling lonely as she left his mind.
“No, we need to keep an eye on it because if we didn’t put it in there. Then it did or someone else did.” Kestra told him.
Wallace nodded finishing her thoughts on the problem.
“And if it did then it could leave any time it wanted, to get whatever it needs to feed.” He said a few curses that had her fighting not to smirk.
Ensign Kosh entered the lab looking like she was furious. “you left them?”
Raising an eyebrow Kestra frowned . Her hand going to the strap running over her shoulder clearly stating her rank and position on the ship. “I wasn’t aware that star fleet command made me Captain of the ship and gave me veto privileges over the decisions that they make Ensign. “
Wallace chuckled but remain silent on the discussion.
Ensign Kosh still angry came back with “how could you make a connection to them and leave them to the Klingons.”
Kestra frowned walking back to her desk “I filed my objections on their decision to leave an unprotected telepathic Sentient being in the hands of the Klingons to be killed or enslaved. And also forward that report to the Betazoid and the Vulcan high command. That is all I can do within regulation’s. Out side of that I did mentally contact the Horta and explain a few things to them. Now I need to attend a meeting. “
Kestra sighed “Never accuse me of being an unfeeling person. I am Betazoid. I feel everyone’s pain and emotions far more then you will ever understand. You have your right to be angry at decisions made but as a Star Fleet Officer we follow the orders sent down to us. If you can’t I suggest you let the captain know that you can no longer work in your position.”
Picking up her PADD she walked out knowing Wallace would set up something to keep an eye on that creature. As to how it got on the ship well that was going need to be looked into. The farther away she got from her labs the less her head seemed to hurt. That also could mean there might be more of them on the ship because there was two other places she had getting headaches at. Her main office and the arboretum.
Lt. Kestra Ral
chief science officer
USS Montana
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