Subject: USS Grail - 'The Great Brightness': Disbelief
USS Grail: 'The Great Brightness' : Disbelief
by
Lieutenant(jg) Eve Mallory
NRPG: I know I should be writing my parts of 'Sisters...II' but
I just had to respond to this. Sorry Viv...
RPG:
Eve listened to Lt. Brennan's speech with growing disbelief. She
hadn't really been paying attention to the arguments before her
outburst, and Deshaine's addition to her idea. But now she was,
she honestly couldn't believe it.
The words burst out before she could stop them. "So you are
prepared to let an entire *planet* die just for a *principle*?" She
exploded. "This is exactly the reason why I resisted joining
Starfleet; the holier-than-thou attitude of some of it's officers!"
She was looking directly at Brennan when she said this.
"If we ignore the Prime Directive on this, the Federation isn't
going to fall apart," She continued. "The original Enterprise
broke the Prime Directive so many times, Starfleet stopped
repremanding them for it! And the Enterprise-D, under Jean-Luc
'I've got a Steel Rod up my Ass' Picard, did a fairly good job
of it too. Hell, even their Second Officer, Lt. Commander Data,
an android, a *machine*, broke the PD and spoke to a little girl
from a civilization who had only just developed radio technology,
let alone warp drive! And the Enterprise then went on to save
that world and all the people on it. So if they can do it, so can we!"
Mallory guestured over at Brinn. "I agree with the Major, though.
We shouldn't give them any technology they don't or wouldn't
already have. Nor am I suggesting we overthrow these 'Lords'. But
we can save this planet from premature death, and I for one say
we do it. I doubt the Kyrestian's will make good allies even, if the
Ambassador speaks true. But let me ask you this."
"What does it say about this crew and this ship if we just go
down and act like a bunch of marauding Pirates, kidnap one of
their people just to save our own skins, and give nothing back in
return? Make a trade of it, if we have to, but we should help these
people. And damn the Prime Directive!"
Jason Cleaver
Lieutenant (jg) Eve Mallory
Chief Science Officer: USS Grail
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