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As for Klingons, anyone who knew Glen or who knew the Merrimack, didn’t need to explain about Klingons. “Klingons killed my first Captain aboard the Yorktown. Klingon assassins also cam e aboard and killed the previous Captain of the Merrimack, Captain Bordeaux,” Glen told them. “I’m not very keen on Klingons either, but any that remain on the planet following the withdrawal are likely to be favourable and agreeable to the independence of native population. We might use them to our advantage.”

Verity had heard about the terrible incident through Starfleet and attended the memorials out of respect.

Joe then waved his hand in dismissal as he said, “And it’s my own opinion that we should leave all this god crap behind. One thing everyone loves is when guests show up with a great present. Considering where they are with technology how great would it be if our engineers made a small portable steel manufacturing facility? I mean considering that the Prime Directive has been removed as an obstacle. And I would also advise that we should send in a scouting team first. Just to make sure we’re not walking into a trap. ” Joe chuckled then as he spoke saying,” And although I hate to say it Doctor Wong might be a good idea. “

Glen considered this idea of a technological present. “Giving natives presents in return for goodwill isn’t a new idea. However, Wal3 is not the Habitat we just left. Sometimes there are problems, usually with the misinterpretation of the present and whether it is a free gift or trade. We’d need to be careful. This ‘god crap’ will not go away just because we wish it to. There have been twenty-five years of Klingons pretending to be ‘Gods’ and painting the Federation as ‘Devils’. I don’t think that can be undone with a gift alone, but it might help.”

Glen continued, “Certainly, we should send a small recognisance party first. Doctor Wong… I don’t know about that. He’s not Starfleet, so I can’t trust that he will stay on message. He’s already caused chaos on the Merrimack!”

“I would like to volunteer myself to accompany the recognisance party, so that I can collect data from the natives for analysis.”

“I want to keep the team as small as possible, but I have no objection to that,” Glen replied. “Doctor Cross, I’ll require you or Doctor Hunter for a medical evaluation. Lt. Del Wolf for security. Then possibly Cara Meow and Wong, if we must.”

‘’Captain don’t worry about Lt Lance, once we got back on the ship I operated on him and before taking him to the O.R gave him a medical evaluation ‘’ Cross was not about to operate without first knowing if there was any underlying health problems or illness’‘.

“Good to know! Have Verity and Max got a clean bill of health too? Just to avoid anything like that incident again!” Glen asked her.

Cross glanced at the new CSO ‘’Max yes but Verity not yet Captain, as she boarded the ship and came directly to the conference room ‘’ the chief medical officer replied ‘’Hunter had given Stan a medical and he’s fit,as for Cara I do not know cause she was already on the ship when I came back’‘. the doctor thought for moment ‘’She was with the group when we were on the Habitat and she seemed healthy enough ‘’.

The female doctor wondered what could came next, Glen had somehow changed and it appeared that he had a short fuse this past few days Maybe he should be thinking about himself Cross thought but was not about to say anything of the sort.

Cross CMO.

Joe had listened to the captain and then as was his job began to try to take the captain’s orders and turn them into something solid and real. Something he suspected irritated Glenn, but it usually worked out for the best. Looking over at Glenn Joe spoke up saying. ” Alright then sir I think before we do anything else we should set out specific goals for our recon team. Are we there to get an eye on a certain place? Are we there to seek out inhabitants to check their attitude towards us? Or maybe to look around for a place for a good base of operations since we may be here awhile? I think that once we know specifically what we want from the recon mission we can make it easier and simpler to for the team going in. “

Lt.Cmdr. Joe Milligan XO

OOC: Fixing my split!

Looking over the data they had the population looked mostly human like, save for having darker skin tones and slightly above human average strength/endurance. All intel showed the klingons had fully left the system, meaning no ships or personnel were left behind. Intel also showed the Klingons had a soft fist approach to their rule during their time there. On one hand they used the populace hard for mining and other such efforts on the planet. Those who worked hard and towed the line got favorable treatment and status, those who were weak did not and felt the brunt of harsher punishment/encouragement to work harder and such. This over the past 25 years had meant that the society firmly believed that those who were strongest ruled by a divine hand of their face and through the agents of their Gods.

GM CockRoach