Gershen-Siegel-Star Trek: Enterprise : Emergence

“No, no, please, not yet. I should like to speak with only you.”

“Of course,” she said.

“We had contact with a species today, called the Daranaeans,” Malcolm said, “and I, I don’t quite know what to do.”

“I’m sure you’ll figure something out. You always do.”

“We, it’s that, we fought a battle with them today.

Side by side, as it were, and some of their ships were lost and their people were killed.”

“What about the Cochrane? Are you okay?” she was distressed.

“I am all right, and we didn’t have any injuries beyond a few little bumps and bruises. But they had some deaths and ship losses. They, they wanted us to help them repel Klingon incursions, and we did. But I wonder if there will be more days like today. The Klingons, I suspect, will return.”

“So you think this is a sticky tar baby you’re getting yourselves into?”

“That’s a part of it. But, you see, it’s also because of the way they treat their women. They buy and sell them, they readily dismiss their opinions, I, it’s hard to watch.”

“You don’t have to spend time with them all the time, you know.”

“I know. But if this wasn’t a strategic location, I doubt very much that we would be here at all. We 89