| rdfs:comment | - The two ships are docked together once again, this time augmenting the salvage of the USS Cochrane onto both ships. With most of the senior officers off duty (except for both CMOs, who are still busy with the wounded), they enjoy an early breakfast in the Admonitor's mess hall. Both captains are able to have a personal, face-to-face discussion, which they haven't had in ages. Lianna Young congratulates Shield for his actions, and remarks that he should try to run for admiral if they ever beat Sanders. Shield says that he doesn't care for the admiralty, saying that he's always known that his life's goal lay elsewhere, beyond the mundane task of sitting behind a desk and running the Federation, though he says that he is unsure as to what exactly it is.
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| abstract | - The two ships are docked together once again, this time augmenting the salvage of the USS Cochrane onto both ships. With most of the senior officers off duty (except for both CMOs, who are still busy with the wounded), they enjoy an early breakfast in the Admonitor's mess hall. Both captains are able to have a personal, face-to-face discussion, which they haven't had in ages. Lianna Young congratulates Shield for his actions, and remarks that he should try to run for admiral if they ever beat Sanders. Shield says that he doesn't care for the admiralty, saying that he's always known that his life's goal lay elsewhere, beyond the mundane task of sitting behind a desk and running the Federation, though he says that he is unsure as to what exactly it is. Meanwhile, the rest of the senior officers aren't getting along. Nox, the only Romulan onboard the ship, sits alone, eating a replicated Romulan dish. The others sit as one, even though they aren't united. Wess says that its Nox's own fault for sitting alone, even though he himself - Wess - would not even talk to him if his life depended on it. Loghri complains that the food replicators can't make the d'dedri (crustaceans native to Reuian swamps and marshes) that are common food items among his race. Wellington says that this is because live food can't be replicated, since there is something inexplicable that makes something live, which distinguishes a machine with a highly sophisticated AI from an actual sentient being, which technology simply can't make. Bored with their inane talk, Rookwood joins Nox and begins talking with him. She asks him about his people, since they don't exist in her alternate reality, she is very curious about them. He explains only a little, but she presses him further. He then makes his complaint to her that humans have a habit of measuring everything alien to their own standards and then accepting or (in most cases) rejecting it if it does not come close to what they hold to be basic morality. The discussion is then ended by a call from the ship's computer. We have entered the Romulan Neutral Zone.
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