From: Kimberly_Diego Date: 13 January 1996 02:30 To: U.S.S. Lafayette (BBS) Subject: RE: USS Lafayette: Bridge . [o.c.c. sorry for the extended time period it took me to respond; I had a major genetics exam]. Seated at her position in the Bridge, Kimberly sat-looking very pensative-with her chin balanced on her fist, and a distant look in her eyes. Why would someone plant a bomb here? Could it be...revenge?... a prank?...a political statement?...a TEST??? Couldn't be, or could it? If this is a test, we need to pass. Mortimer said that the bomb will detonate if we try to interact with the Starbase, but I am sure that the people down at Engineering can solve that problem, eventually if not immediately. I have to...prepare for what we do after that. We don't have any portable equipment or sensors actually suited for bomb location, (not that I know of), but there is another way to find it. The entity that planted this bomb knew we would search for it, search high and low, in every peculiar, hidden locale possible...but he probably didn't think we would look where it was obvious! Kimberly took her hand away from her chin, and began to make a list of possible locations of the bomb, according to her theory. After she finished, she spoke to Ensign Lake. "Igraine, I need you to get some security teams together. I leave their size and members to your discretion. Make sure that no one makes a blunder and detonates the bomb, we do have our share of 'nonbelievers' here on board, and they might risk the safety of the rest of us to prove it."