Playing God Starfleet Orders the Liberty to travel to Valentina, a
Planet near the Romulan Neutral Zone. The Planet's
orbit is being altered by a black hole that has
appeared near the planet's Sun. Due to the
gravometrical forces exerted by the hole, the planet
is being drawn near. Starfleet informs Decade, Gorath,
and Connelly that the Planets population has not
achieved warp drive, and therefore cannot be
interfered with the prime directive. Yet, since the
population is over 4 Billion, Captain Decade is given
the choice whether or not to help the people in need.
Connelly wishes to obey the prime directive, however
the Captain and the rest of the crew decide to try and
aid the people. When they reach Valentina they find
they only have 40 hours to either stop the worm hole
or rescue the population. Buitlier tries to alter a
torpedo into making it close the wormhole, however
this proves fatal. Connelly analyzes the population's
evancement and sees that one day they will achieve
warp, but at the moment they are about two centuries
away from it.
However, after the crew debates on the course of
action, they decide to try and save as many people as
possible. It was originally supposed to be a random
beam out of women and children. But, the governer of
the Valentina requested he, and his people be beamed
out instead of the regular population. Ace does not
agree with this, while Connelly does. The debate
became drawn out and time was running short.
Due to the problems with the Crew(I.E. Connelly
insisting that we not interfere) all that could be
done was save seven percent of the population in an
emergency beam out. Connelly was then ordered off the
ship, after ordering ensigns to shoot any of
the survivors that protested. He left shortly after,
going to a sewage transport ship where he worked as a
janitor.
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