"Origins"

Doctor Seth
Medical Officer USS Sulu
http://come.to/dr.seth


Seth had gone to the bridge to speak to 
Captain Salinger about the planet killer.  But 
the Captain not being present, she'd spoken to 
Lieutenant Marcus Treymond, who was 
currently in command of the Sulu, instead.  
Treymond had found the Doctor's ideas about 
how to passively defeat the planet killer by out 
smarting it rather than over powering, it to be 
interesting.  He suggested that she could brief 
the Captain on her idea once he returned from 
meeting with the crew of the Teth Garrol.  Not 
knowing how long it would be before the 
Captain and First officer returned from their 
meeting, Seth asked the Lieutenant to let the 
Captain know about her idea.

"When Captain Salinger returns and has a 
moment to discuss my idea, have him give me 
a hail."  Seth asked of the Lieutenant.

"I will do that Doctor."  Marcus nodded.

Seth then turned and exited the bridge.  
Stepping into the turbolift, she called out, 
"Sickbay." To start the lift into motion.

Seth was pondering over the appearance of 
this planet killer.  It seemed illogical to her 
Vulcan mind that two such machines could 
exist.  The original machine, discovered by 
Commodore Decker and Captain Kirk a 
century earlier, was thought to have been a 
doomsday machine, created by one side of a 
warring pair of civilization as a last effort device 
to wipe out their enemies, and themselves in 
the process.  The machine was designed to 
destroy entire planetary systems.  How could 
there possibly be two such machines created?  
And why would this one be unknown for the 
last hundred years?  If it was created by the 
same civilization that created the first planet 
killer, wouldn't it have been released and 
activated at the same time as the first one 
encountered by Decker?  And if that were the 
case, why wouldn't anyone have noticed entire 
planetary systems disappearing over the last 
century while this thing carried out it's primary 
function?  Or was it that this planet killer was a 
brand new machine, created from the same 
design plans as the one encountered by 
Decker and Kirk?  If that was the case, then 
some of the people who created the first planet 
killing machine must have survived to build this 
one.  If that were true, then maybe there was a 
way to override the machine's program;  A safe 
set of command codes that could be 
transmitted to turn the thing off.  It followed that 
if the designers of the first doomsday machine 
survived to create this second device, that they 
must not have been suicidal as was first 
thought by Decker and Kirk.  It would only be 
logical to design in some sort of fail-safe 
mechanism to allow the thing's creators to 
deactivate it should something go terribly 
wrong.   If Seth could find out more about the 
creators of that machine, it might be possible to 
speculate if such a fail-safe device was part of 
it's design.

"Halt."  Seth called out, bringing the turbolift to 
a complete stop.   "Bring me to Stellar 
Cartography on deck 8."

The lift began to again move and soon Doctor 
Seth found herself on deck 8.  Exiting the lift, 
the half Vulcan, half Betazoid Doctor began to 
walk down the corridor towards the Stellar 
Cartography lab.