First officer Riker
"'First officers log, Starship Enterpris. Star date 81.356. Star fleet command has given the Enterprise the honor of surveying the planet we call Auros, a mysterious class M planet. For as long as we have known of this planet on the border of the neutral zone, it has been cloaked in a strange electromagnetic field that allowed nothing to pass through the atmosphere. But about one hundred years ago an anomaly happened and the field has been dampening. The last research vessel to go to it left a probe in orbit. This is what has called our attention to the planet, the probe has been destroyed. This accompanied with the probes last report saying the atmosphere was open enough to allow scanning of the surface and possibly more. So with an excited research team we are on our way, and due to arrive in a few hours. End of entry.'"
(On the bridge)
Data: "Commander, I have noticed that many of the crew has been growing increasingly anxious."
Riker: "Well that's because we get to be the first to study a planet we have not been able to step foot on, or even look into, a planet that we have studied in the academy. For instance, I had a professor who posed a question to my class. He asked "What do you think, with a logical support, is keeping any other race from getting down to that planet?" We each had to write a report for it."
Data: "And what did you theorize, Sir?"
Riker: "I took the hardest course, I said that the inhabitants generated the field themselves to keep others off their planet."
Data: "And how did your professor judge it?"
Riker: "Quite mercilessly"
Data: "Ah"
Riker: "Well we're almost there so I'm going to go get the research team ready."
(Enters shuttle bay 2, where Obrian meets up with Riker)
Obrian: "Commander, sensors show we won't be able to beam through the left over fields, so the team will have to use shuttles."
Riker: "Make it so."(Obrian nods and leaves. Riker goes back to the bridge with Captain Picard. Thirty minutes later the Enterprise arrives in orbit. The first away team takes the shuttle down. Moments after landing the first report come through to the bridge.)
Troy: "Captain…. This planet is in ruins.."
Picard: "Councilor, what do you mean ruins?"
Troy: "I mean it looks like this planet was combed over with fazzers from space. And everything is destroyed."
Warf: "Sir, the tricord shows signs of residual plasma energy along all the destroyed buildings. And Doctor Crusher has found what seem to be…charred people."
Picard: "Can you determine who could have caused it? Or if there are any survivors?"
Warf: "We would need to figure a way to use the ships scanner through the residual field around this planet."
Picard: "Make it so."
Crusher: "Captain I think I found a live one! But it seems like a red crystalline substance isn trying to engulf him!"
