<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp59d2738cMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mission: Space Was Cool Before It Mattered</span></p>
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<p class="ydp59d2738cMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stardate: 2446.04.26</span></p>
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<p class="ydp59d2738cMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Exeter – CTO Office – CTO – Lieutenant – Ire Williams – 1345)</span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Ire dropped heavily into his chair and sighed
deeply. The day was going okay no one had died yet and the ship was still under
Trips command. His illation from the night before had slowly evaporated as the
day went on. It was not that he regretted what had happened it was just work
had squashed it flat for the time being. He looked at his desk and looked at
the pictures sitting on it. He smiled at the one of Greta as well as the one of
his happy family. He picked up the last one of him, Trip and Ravok standing in
front of the Peregrine fighter with massive cheesy grins plastered over their
faces. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">~How young we all looked~</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He looked at Ravok and sighed.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“You know make if you have not died you would still
be here, and I would be zooming around in fighters.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He felt a pang of guilt before carrying on.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“How did you do it, transfer from fighters to
tactical.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He sighed.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“How did you cope with the responsibility of
keeping every one safe. I mean if I mess up, I could get everyone killed or
worse”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He ran a hand through his hair.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“By the prophets this was so much easier when I flew.
I mean I had the squadron to worry about but when flew it was just me and my
flight officer. Things seemed less complicated”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">His eyes moved to Trip and a thought came to him.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“At least I can keep the skipper family safe.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He accessed the ships red alert duty stations and
placed a security officer to guard Trips children and the nanny. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“At least they will be protected or taken to the
nearest escape pod whichever is needed.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white"><span> </span>He looked
again at Ravok.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“Wish I had your ability mate. I know you had your
demons you crazy Romulan we all do but how did you make it look so easy.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He nodded to his self as he placed the picture
back on the table.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp59d2738cyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Reply any)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
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