The Sierra had actually slowed down after Harn’s communication with her. It did not change course, still going towards Starbase 63, its original destination.

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The doors to the ready room hissed open as Jason and Kolar entered continuing a conversation they had begun elsewhere. “But in the meantime I want to know the locations of the people who have become paralyzed,” Jason was saying in his ‘officer voice’. “I want to know if there’s any chance they were in contact with each other, or with anyone who’s been aboard the Sierra. If they weren’t, that tells something and we can stop making assumptions.”

Jason Harn, aCO attempting to break up the long threads to make it easier to go back and reread what happened in an earlier scene