From:		alligator1
Date:		11 May 1996 06:02
To:		U.S.S. Lafayette
Subject:		RE: Bridge

<Lt. j. g. Lectron, Bridge>

	The doors to the turbolift opened and Lectron stepped out.  The bridge had its normal hum of activity--Lt. Commander Beata was acting.  He nodded to Beata and headed to the science station.  Beata seemed friendly.  He had moved up fast.  Wonder whether he is as good as his record shows.  Strange things happen in the military.
	Lectron moved to the science station and sat down at the console.  Where to start?  He had a couple of ideas, but he didn't know whether the sensors could do what he needed.  Shape shifting--no one knew much about it.  Could one assume that since the folks on Slaters were shape shifters, they knew everything about how the shape shifting was accomplished.  No answer to that question--yet.  He would have to find out.
	He punched in a query to the computer and watched the response.  Nothing available onboard.  He would just have to ask.
	"Computer, can we get a query to Slater's Planet?"
	"Yes sir."
	"Ok computer, as them for their data on shape shifting and the physiological processes involved in that process.  Also, get a copy of the species genome and any related information concerning the genome and the shape shifting ability.  Let me know when download is complete."
	Lectron sat back.  Am I off on a wild goose chase with this thing?  I liked McRae's eyes.  How long would the download take?  She was pretty damn attractive--she is probably married.  Hope they have some good genome stuff.  I shouldn't even be thinking about her.  This whole thing wasn't an accident--Romulan activity and all.  Wonder when she is going to page me.
	Waiting for the computer, Lecton pulled up a schematic of the sensor pattern and looked it over.  A great band width--he could pull information from the complete spectrum--plus some he wasn't even sure of.  What was out there to be found?  Let's try this one--no, that shouldn't be possible--a communication to the Captain?  He shouldn't have been able to receive the Captain's message--but he had.  Encrypted--what should I do?  I could get in big trouble for this.  The whole message would be in the sensor data.  Lectron hesitated and finally pushed a button that would save the message to his personal file.  Why did I do that?