Star Trek - The Next Generation
Star date: 41176.8 Captain's log.
This is my (Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise #NCC-17O1 D) account of the events leading up to and beyond the Federation and Romulan war
(2380-2385 AD).
Star date: 32851.2: The Enterprise received a distressed call from a fleeing scout ship.
SOS... I am ... under ... attack!! request ... asylum ... Federation ...
Space!!..
The ship was pushing the limits of its engines as it hurtled out of the neutral zone -- the volume of space that serves as a no-ones-land separating the
United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Empire. A powerful Romulan warbird was mercilessly firing wave after wave of disrupter blasts at the small defenseless scout ship. Once the scout was in Federation space, the warbird broke off the attack and quickly retreated back to Romulan space.
We hailed the ship and found out from her captain that he was alone.
His name was Shaq, captain of the Check Mate. He claimed to be a Romulan captain in search of Federation asylum. I had never heard of such a thing; in
Romulan society, loyalty to the Romulan Empire is more sacred than life itself.
In any event, I was certain that we would learn a lot more during the next few days. Star date: 32851.5: Captain Shaq claimed that he was defecting in order to prevent intergalactic war. He told us that the Romulan Empire has plans for an abominable new weapon for use against the Federation and any others who might dare to resist total domination of the Romulans. The weapon, called the
Metagenic Device, would be launched from orbit to any planet and release a deadly virus throughout the planet's atmosphere. The virus would then quickly infect all forms of life and cause fatal mutations in the DNA of its victims.
Within twenty-four hours, all life would cease. Within thirty-six hours, the virus itself would break down becoming inviolable, leaving the planet's resources free for plunder.
At this time we did not know if we should trust Captain Shaq, so I decided to send an away team to investigate his ship and its computer record.
As I was ordering my number 1 officer, Commander Riker, with the away team over to the Checkmate, Shaq warned me against such action claiming that he had initiated a self-destruct sequence before leaving his vessel. Seconds later, the scout ship exploded. We immediately questioned Captain Shaq as to why he initiated the self-destruct. He replied, that though he wanted to prevent the war, he was no traitor and would not willingly give up the secrets of his
...m, of if he was a greedy traitor who stabbed the backs of his friends and abandoned the people who believed in him.
revenge on the rebels who had taken everything from him by taking part in the fight against
revengeand one of secrecy. He was not driven by an anger at his ownsin, but
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contain a virus in their genetic code that is deadly to all humans who come in contact
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himself and had been a traitor from the beginning. He even had them convinced that
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