<div dir="auto">Just to be clear here since an intimation has already been made.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sekal did NOT just consider a forced telepathic reading. Sometimes you have to look closely at what I write.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What he DID just consider is the possibility of an empathic reading. We used it at Bajor on Dean Vedek Horavei... twice. Once by Alaya Ravenstone (now Hammons) and once by Ariel Trei. And I remember very vividly Picard and Deanna Troi conspiring on it a number of times on TNG.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Captain I'm reading a great deal of stress coming from that individual." </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is an empathic reading. Sekal will and would not consider resorting to mind rape to get the information he wants, that's mirror universe stuff.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just letting everyone know.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers!</div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Charles Gatling<br>Commanding Officer<br>USS Illuminar<br>NCC 61240<br><br><br> "The light shines brightest amidst the deepest darkness."</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 7, 2021, 12:24 PM Charles Gatling via illuminar-rpg <<a href="mailto:illuminar-rpg@startrekfreedom.com">illuminar-rpg@startrekfreedom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Mission: Death in the Shadows</div><div dir="auto">Day: 1</div><div dir="auto">Stardate: 2446.02.01</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(USS Illuminar - Sickbay - CO- Captain Sekal- 19.47)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"He is holding back sir. Be wary If he persists in withholding information, I ask for permission to search his mind."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The answer came quickly. "Not at this time Counselor as you say. His orders are clear, to report what he knows to us. I am certain he will not be initially forthcoming and we may have to resort to guile to get some of the answers we are seeking but he is not an enemy. Not that is unless he chooses to be treated as such."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sekal was well aware that intelligence operatives sometimes had hidden agendas. Jaelle Foxglove had been one such and he had attempted to break through the wall she had built around herself but in the end had failed. At least in the grand scheme of things she had come through will some technological innovations courtesy of Section 13 which she had seemed to despise as much as the rest of the fleet. Some like the dark matter phaser configuration option built into the ship had uses while personal weaponry built on that foundation had been summarily banned. The upgraded Void-Sphinx fighter had proven to be a windfall while the planetary bombardment cannon was still being considered.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Spooks" as they were sometimes called however often had divergent interests to the rest of the fleet. Michael Weston would no doubt want something for the information he carried and what they could not get willingly they might have to take. Before resorting to such methods however he would use every other avenue available.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"However if necessary I will call upon you. Sometimes emotional reactions can be just as effective at reading an individual as telepathy in such cases as you saw at Bajor. Stand by in the waiting area in case you are needed."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Reply: Trei)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Posted by Charles G)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Charles Gatling<br>Commanding Officer<br>USS Illuminar<br>NCC 61240<br><br><br> "The light shines brightest amidst the deepest darkness."</div></div>
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