Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Captain's Log Challenge 0410.14 "...the hidden dangers of diversity..."

Write a 100+ word log entry including the phrase "...the hidden dangers of diversity...". Post it in the yahoo group or on the blogsite's "comment" feature for a Command College Point.


(Mirror TOS/AOS)

Even as Vulcan knew that our logic and physical superiority made us the natural rulers of the galaxy, we also knew to listen to others. It is illogical to assume that every answer, every piece of wisdom must come from a Vulcan. The concept of IDIC, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations made us what we are. But I failed to anticipate the hidden dangers of diversity. There are obviously those viewpoints, even valid, logical viewpoints that are too dangerous to be allowed.

Chasing the Emperor Tiberius back in time was, in and of itself, dangerous, and full of incalculable variables. But the alternative was even more dangerous. As a result of the influence that a mirror James Kirk had on me, the Terran Empire is in shambles, Vulcan is a slave planet, and Earth has been rendered uninhabitable. The Klingon/Cardassian Alliance has now swallowed up the territory once held by the Empire, and is making inroads into Romulan space. All this because I listened to the words of an honorable man. And because I didn't kill the James Tiberius Kirk from my universe. Now he knows that I am the cause of this destruction, the architect of this tragic affair as a Klingon poet once said, and he is determined to destroy Vulcan in an attempt to stop me from being born. Tiberius does not understand quantum temporal mechanics. This will not save his Empire, nor will it destroy my Vulcan. But again, the words of the Mirror Kirk come to mind. The illogic of waste. Tiberius must die.

For next week. write a 100+ word log entry including the phrase "...a system that works...". Post it in the yahoo group or on the blogsite's "comment" feature for a Command College Point.

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