Opening the Door

Chief Medical Officer's log, Stardate 58847.3

It's been over 8 months since we departed San Francisco, Earth and we are currently 680 light years outside of commonly patrolled Federation space. Now, our journey begins. There have only been sporadic cases of minor injuries and ailments thus far and I hope the crew continues to remain in good health.

When we arrived in an unknown system, Lieutenant Commander Thelor Athrun took the USS Hubble to one of the clusters that indicated a possible source of raw materials. Meanwhile, the USS Intrepid had approached a different cluster that contained an M-class planet. It looked to be a good candidate for colonization. However, when Captain Roland Alexander tried to establish contact, an alien race, presumably xenophobic, made hostile moves toward us. He had managed to convince them to come on board our ship to discuss things, so I was instructed to find out everything I could to make the environment accommodating.

Information listed in the life signs scans of the planet lead me to believe that the race has a higher intake of carbon dioxide compared to humanoids and their climate is warmer and very, very dry. Their equatorial region had a humidity of 0. I instructed facilities to set up Conference Room B with a slightly higher temperature and to increase airflow to mimic the environment. Utilizing force fields, we were able to establish a pathway leading from the transporter bay with similar conditions.

Our guests were six aliens called the Melorak. They did not seem to have a telepathic link, but were taking turns answering questions in a set order as a collective mind. They stated their claim of the area was 10 lightyears in all directions from the central star. This star was slowly dying, but Lieutenant Commander Thelor mentioned that a being he rescued was able to reignite it and reverse the process of aging. When Captain Alexander mentioned this to the Melorak, they called Melos, the scientist responsible, a heretic and seemed alarmed that his experiment was successful. I read their emotions as being perturbed, but they were not overly hostile. We made arrangements with the Hubble to meet up.