"I think that will be wise, sirrr, but with the situation at the borrrderr, I may not be back in time. I can find out forrr you who she is tomorrrrow morrrning - I have a meeting with yourrr brrrotherr to discuss how this meeting went and whetherrr you werrre going to go along with what they wanted," she smiled. "I hope that I will rrreturrn in time forrr the next meeting. I also have some plans to look into the Caitian side of things. We arrren't a big rrreprresentation in the fleet, but given what I saw last night of the divisions among the Tellarrrites, it might be nice to have one loyal grrroup on yourrr side."
(resp?) "One was verrry vocal against you (can't remember his name). He wanted to stop talking and take action. Howeverrr, therrre werrre Tellarrrites that walked out with the Betazoid. The Vulcans prrreach patience, and the humans arrre all overrr the map. Otherrr grrroups werrre only rrreprresented by one orrr two people, so I would not want to give an opinion. Rrright now, they lack unity; they fight among themselves and cannot come to a consensus. But if you take a wrrrong step, sirrr, it may be enough to unite them, and togetherrr, I believe they would be a forrrmidable forrrce." (resp?) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
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"That is the group that I want to make contact with first.
> They will fit in perfectly with what is going on now, and could be a good
> lead in to the others. Speaking of the others, I am afraid that I will
> have to take serious action against one of them to enforce or to prove my
> positon as leader of this pack we call Starfleet. That is something that
> I do not want to do, as I am sure you know that such actions can only go
> one of two ways- very good or very, very bad. Now, just who seems to be
> the leader of this break away group and who is the leader that they are
> frustrated with?"
>
>
>
> She hated this part. Betraying confidences was not for her. But she'd
> started this - she had to finish it, and he'd find out anyway at some
> point. She sighed, her conscience giving her trouble. She hadn't
> expected them to be the good officers ! they were.
>
>
"Admiral, I sense that you are have a conflict over loyality. Between my and your obligations to Starfleet Command and to this group that took you into their confidence. I must know what I am up against if I am to do anything to save what we have." he prodded gently.>
> "I'm sorrrry, sirrr. I know. It's just harrrd. When I starrrted this,
> I thought these werrre people who sought to brrring Starrrfleet down."
> She looked at her tea and took a deep brrreath. "The one they werrre
> upset with was Admirrral Ketterrring. He wants to deal with things
> frrrom the top down, starrrting with you, beforrre he gets to the rrrest.
> The one who walked out was a Betazoid admirrral, I do not know herrr
> name. About fifteen people left with herrr," and she named as many as
> she knew. "They felt it was theirrr rrreponsibility to fix theirrr own
> prrroblems, regarrrdless of who was at the helm and didn't want to wait
> forrr action when therrre werrre things they could do on theirrr own."
> From her voice, it was clear she sympathized with those people.
>
"Oh, good old Kyle Kettering..." he said in a way that summed up a! n old friendship that had soured."Admiral Kettering and I go way back. We served together on the USS Rigel. Our careers and individual styles destroyed our friendship. Not to bore you with the details, but it happened on the USS Ajax during the war. We were both young Lietuenants without a senior staff. We technically both at the same level in the chain of command, and that dispute finished us off. Anyway, he will be hard to deal with. Particularily if he thinks that he should be the Commander in Chief of Starfleet. Let's just hope it does not go that far.
Now that Betazoid Admiral is interesting. If she is for real, then I want to meet her. I want to help her any way that I can. Change in the way that she favors is the best way. Slow, dileberate, and from within. Not form the top rolling down. Perhaps a meeting should be set up once the reform of Starfleet Command is announced and a few other iniatives are launched. Perhaps some action on my part will warm things up a bit and ease a conversation..... What are your thoughts?"
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