An Alternative.

Through it all, David had sat listening to the shift of debate; the pro and con of every idea that had so far been brought forward. During the revelations about the adversarial attribute’s of the Empress Sela, and subsequent discourse on the Romulan faction ideals, he had kept himself out of it.

Being hybrid with half Romulan blood kept him silent on the subject. The revelations brought to him during his tenure at Star Fleet Academy had shown him that there was much prejudice toward anything Romulan still underlying the human complement of Star Fleet. Nay, the Federation itself even. Thus, David had prominently kept himself distanced from anything remotely connecting his mother’s species, whether it be actual or conjecture. But now, there was a new subject on the table, brought forward by the Fleet Captain just now, and David found it time to voice his own thoughts into the debate. Rising from his seat beside Captain Summers, he paused momentarily to let the assembly know he wanted to speak.

“Sir, if our orders are as you stated, this whole debate about the anomaly is meaningless. We contain it or we move. I cannot think for one minute that containment is beyond the quadrants best minds, and I also cannot see this galaxy moving through the anomaly to a new, and unknown, home. Therefore, our course is clear. If we fail to contain it, then we could move, but within this universe. The Magellanic Cloud galaxies are only seventy-five thousand light years distance.”

Rogers paused a moment, letting the distance sink in. Moving the galaxy’s population was not an option, in his opinion. The multitude of factions that would fight over the positions within a new galactic home was beyond comprehension. Just the Klingon and Romulan species alone would want the whole new home galaxy for their own power base. Not to mention any of the other powerful groups in the Delta and Gamma quadrants. He hoped similar thoughts occurred to the minds of those assembled. Looking discretely about the hall, David could not see the two who would vehemently oppose his idea, but he also knew that they would be listening somehow. Lulsky and Dulmer .

“Baring this move however, I have a thought that has perhaps crossed the minds at Star Fleet Command and even the President himself, but I feel I must put it forward for discussion.”

Facing Fleet Captain Samji again, David stated what, to him, was the obvious solution to the short term danger presented by the growing Azimuth Horizon.

“Sir, I put forward that we go back in time and take care of this anomaly in its infancy. We know where it is; we know what it is, and back then, we should be able to influence its course out of the home galaxy.”

Knowing the uproar this would cause, especially with Temporal Investigations, David studiously avoided looking about again, and simply sat down again.