Addressing Concerns

Samji paused for a moment, and silence filled the air as he attempted to bring his fractured answers to the various comments and questions into a logical flow in his mind. The tension in the room was palpable, both from the impending fight and the strong opinions coming out.

He broke the silence.

"They would be watched closely, of course, and every bit of information taken with a grain of salt and verified," he said, in regards to information retrieved from diplomacy with individual ship commanders.

"As for her sanity, I can't speak to it personally, but every indication from Starfleet Intelligence points to her simply trying to blow up the Azimuth Horizon with conventional weapons... in order to collapse it," he said strongly, letting that information sink in. It was clear that this singular point of information was both important and not stated very well previously.

He looked at Lieutenant Junior Grade John Adams and added, "And that is the issue with what they are planning. We cannot just attack this anomaly like as if it is some behemoth starbase. While our primary mission is to contain it, we very well may have to destroy it, you're right. But we should be prepared with intelligent, scientific studies, which we still need to formulate... not firepower."

He explained further. "Our scientists have studied the Anomaly enough to know that any such show of force will only serve to feed into the energy of the phenomenon while also widening the cracks in subspace that are allowing the Azimuth Horizon to expand even faster. This is why we believe what they are planning will doom us."

Acknowledging Commander O'Conner, he said, "It is clear the Romulans have not studied it enough and whatever information we attempt to pass on is immediately dismissed as 'Federation trickery'. We do know, however, that the Klingons the Alsea encountered were studying it in depth, and as I've already stated, seem to be planning to use it as a weapon."