Yoritomo Mission 06: "The Mission That Never Happened"

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Captain's Log, Stardate 20112.23, "The Mission That Never Happened"

Captain Alorian Dax, Commanding Officer of the USS Yoritomo reporting.


Our mission took us to investigate the "Black Cluster" on the fringes of the Milky Way. Seems some passing frigates and other ships have encountered some unusual readings there, as well as being pulled in by the gravitational wells of the collapsed stars. It proved to be uneventful as we found nothing so out of the ordinary. We placed markers around the area to warn future traffic of the hazard of the unpredictable gravity wells and then were on our way.


There was one crew member that committed suicide on the ship, but perhaps it was the hallucinogenic effects of the area that have been reported at times. Other than that the trip was uneventful.


The real mission...

No sooner did we arrive and things began to happen. The environmental controls on the ship went nuts, a male crewman turned into a female, and a female crewman turned into a male. We even had one male become inexplicably pregnant and give birth (surgically) without changing gender. The warp core simply stopped at one point only to mysteriously start back up again without going through a start-up sequence. Finally, there was the entire Marine garrison trapped on the holodeck fighting for their lives.


It turned out that the cluster was the hiding place of a race of aliens. They were non-corporeal beings and could influence matter and energy at level unknown to us. They communicated primarily through telepathy as well. They had been testing us to see what kind of a threat we posed to them. They eventually altered all our memories and the ship records so that they never were known to us. The cluster and the hazards there are of their construction and protect them. We have left them in peace, and they let us go on our way, having helped to protect both them and us from mutual harm.