Wilson' expression did not show much, but she suspected that it did show that
she disagreed with this. Then again, she had said as much to K'Tael at the
time, so this should not be news to him. However, she kept this to
herself for
now.
Colin frowned slightly, but held his tongue, at least until asked to
do otherwise by the Admiral. As the leader of the military end of
the operation, he had at no time felt overwhelmed. the Centurian
*was* the back-up, and he had felt that his crew had had the tactical
situation well in hand. He did not understand why K'Tael felt
otherwise.
t'Llhweiir's eyes grew as cold as obsidian. While Smallwood was as much a
suspect as anyone else in this room--it would not be the first time
that a flag
officer had been a co-conspirator with such activities as the Brotherhood, it
was inappropriate for a lower-rank officer virtually to accuse him of this--or
of gross negligence for putting intentionally putting Fleet officers at
risk--without overwhelming evidence.
She held her silence, though, to see how Smallwood reacted.
The tone and implication of the Security Chief's answer was not lost
on Smallwood. That much was evident when he leaned forward, focusing
on K'Tael as if he were the only one in the room.
"While I don't feel the need to justify my orders to you, Commander,
", he started placing emphasis on the rank. "I will answer your
question. I made the decision not to send additional aide becuase I
believed that the Centurian, with a well trained and highly
discliplined crew under the command of a highly capable and
experienced Captain and command staff, could handle what amounts to
civilian militia. I also had to weigh the fact that even though this
mission was need to know only, and only trusted personnel were
assigned to it, information got out somehow. Just who could be sent.
Who could be sent to assist you, and be trusted to not fire upon
you, the Centurian, or the other escort craft? The answer, Commander
K'Tael, is that there was no one. If Starfleet personnel would leak
information that would allow an ambush to be set up on their fellows
in arms, then it is not unreasonable that somebeing in Starfleet
would think nothing about openning fire on one of their own. Does
that answer your question sufficiently?"
Smallwood's tone betrayed his feelings of annoyance that a
subordinate would think it proper to question his authority and
loyalty in such a forum. K'Tael was bold indeed.
"Do you have some evidence to suggest that Admiral was acting criminally or
incompetently?" t'Llhweiir asked coolly.
(response)
t'Llhweiir ends
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