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> >
> >The LCMR replied, "I am not suggesting that we wait forever. I am saying
> that we try to work with the man before we start thinking of taking drastic
> measures."
> >
> >The piggy replied, "You are an idealist, adn you are soft. How can you
> suggest that we wait. We have been waiting for years for reforms to be
> proposed."
> >
> >Captain Simmons breaks in, "The real question is can one being cause the
> demise of what we hold dear? Can one being single handedly take down
> Starfleet?"
> >
> > The Tellerite jumps in, "Of course he can. If he is high enough. If he
> is unopposed and blindly followed. If beings are not watching and there is
> not a system of checks and balances. The answer is obviously yes. Anyone
> that thinks different is fooling themselves."
>
> "I think," said Kitanya quietly, interrupting the Tellarite's tirade with a
> demeanor that said she was to be listened to, "that the question is not
> whetherrr one being can cause the kind of damage you'rrre talking about,
> Admirrral, but whetherrr Admirrral Lasiterrr is the kind of perrrson who
> will do so. And since I am the only one herrre who knows him and worrrks
> with him, my opinion is that he will not. Just becuase he is an unknown
> varrriable doesn't mean he is bad. Given the strrring of well-known
> failurrres in that position, someone who isn't well-known and isn't playing
> a political game seems to me like a welcome rrrelief." She kept her voice
> calm, but put convinction behind them, to stress that this was not an
> academic debate but her real feelings.
>
From the back of the room came a voice that sounded very over important...
"Well folks if we are to weigh our voices by how well we know the CinC, then mine
trumps all."
At this point attention turned from the Caitian to the back of the room. Where from
out of the shadows, walking down the stairs was an officers in Admiral's garb. A Rear
Admiral.
Captain Simmons replies, "Well if it isn't the infamous Tyrus Lasiter. I knew it
was getting cramped in here. You ego made it before you did."
"Simmons, your dry wit is as stale as ever." replied the man walking down the
stairs.
"Good to see you, Ty." added the Tellerite.
"Admiral Samuel Lasiter has a plan. I can assure you of that. While I am not
privy to it, I know he has one. He never does anything without a plan. From the time
he was a teenager he has always thought 10 steps ahead. He has a plan, and he is just
waiting for the right time to put it in motion. That is if he has not already."
replied the new Admiral.
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