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“Captain Log: Stardate 228540.5, we are on route to the Guugonite System, where will experience, and document, a star’s expansion. It shall be a historic day for all of us here on deck. I am particularly looking forward to it as it will be truly amazing and awe-inspiring to see.”
That had been what Captain Picard was expecting. However, like it always seemed to him and his companions and the good ship U.S.S Enterprise, an emergency contact from the higher ups of the United Federation of Planets had to be put off to put in new coordinates, to another entirely different corner of the universe at large. Like always it seemed, they didn’t give the why’s until they got to be either halfway or almost, there. It always got on his nerves, but he dealt with it because he was the captain and as long as nothing too crazy or large was happening, maybe he and the crew would be able to see the star’s expansion soon as fire.
In the captain’s room was where he took the first contact from High Science Officer Hugh Teeb’rick on the wall monitor. The man looked sweaty, nervous, and visibly vibrating in his chair like he couldn’t wait to get out of it, or explode. Picard looked to the science officer and said, “Hello High Science Officer Hugh Teeb’rick, what seems to be the trouble?” That single, non-directory question seemed to be the pulled pin to the High Science Officer’s grenade of nerves. “TROUBLE!!?? TROUBLE???!!!!” He exploded. “THAT IS FAAAR FROM THE WORD I WOULD USE IN THIS SITUATION.” Captain Picard stood from his chair quickly and shouted out, “CALM YOURSELF MAN!" Letting the command sink in to the shaken man on the monitor. He took a few breaths to try and calm himself before sitting down again, and composing himself, while still sweating. Picard knew that whatever it was that unspooled a man like this so badly, must of been huge…damn, so much for the star expansion, the captain thought. The man continued, calmly this time, “Sorry about that, it’s…been a day. Recently, some satellite images came through to us over in the Stazo. The one named after the famous Klingon astro-scientist, as you know.” Picard responded, “I’m aware, your stalling however.” Teeb’rick cringed as the exploration captain correctly guessed.
“The documents that I will be sending over detail exactly what’s been happening, but to make a long story short, and please, believe me when I tell you this, we have made a very startling, unsettling, and bizarre discovery.” The captain raised a single eyebrow in questioning doubt. When he got the documents shortly after Teeb’rick sent them, he opened up the folder, picked at the first photo that caught his interest…and was startled beyond all belief. The crew was going to be rocked to their feet at what they would soon have to deal with. The mere implications could vastly effect space science in every possible way. He let the photo slip from his fingers, it falling to the ground. If anyone else was were in that room, they would see that it looked like a Giant sea-turtle, that had 4 smaller yet large elephants standing on its back. And on that, was a flat disc of terra, packed with an ocean, mountains, and from the looks of things, cities.