SPOCK'S ULTIMATE TRUTHS
By: Dan Bivens
Chapter 3
"What Makes Gargantuan Planets Spiral In?"
With holographic illustrations seemingly dominating one-half of the lecture region before the stadium-seated rows of curious Cadets and two friends and fellow officers, former officer for one!, from Spock's previous years on board various starships christened ENTERPRISE…
"As you will note here," Spock said as an enormous planet, larger even than Jupiter, "this immense gas giant, at some cosmological moment following its solidification as a planet, eventually spirals in about certain stars, such as 51 Pegasi. Until, in time, it is so close that it orbits around said sun in mere days. Back in the 21st Century of Earth history, for instance, some dozen or so stars were determined to harbor orbiting gas giants extremely close and unreasonably fast."
As Spock expected, several Cadets, mostly Human, shot hands into the air for permission to speak on the subject. Spock pointed to one particular person of Human ancestry…
"Cadet Johannson?"
Cadet Sophia Johannson, Human female barely old enough to be a Starfleet student, stood and said, "Sir, it had been established by 2007, Old Earth Calendar, that such spiraling-in orbits were, for some inexplicable purpose, common around some stars while those with rocky worlds, like Earth or Vulcan, did not have such…"
"What would you say, Ms. Johannson," Spock asked icily yet certainly, "if I were to tell you that such was something all star systems started as in regards to planetary progress in its overall development? Even Earth and Vulcan?"
Once again, not only the Cadets attending but Admiral Kirk and Dr. McCoy, murmured and muttered in direct disagreement. Something said aloud by Cadet Sophia Johannson…
"That's impossible, sir. If that had happened in the cases of currently rocky world orbited suns, like Earth's and Vulcan's, there would, in fact, be no such celestial evolutions leading to…"
"What if I were to subsequently explicate my point by telling you all," Spock shot a passionless glance to Kirk and McCoy a mere moment before finishing. "That this was simply a never-before-formulated Truth in regards to normal cosmological life-spans of a star and its ever-growing collection of planetary bodies. First, the impossibly massive gas giants grow then spiral in to strangely close/fast orbital trajectories."
"Spock must be joking," scoffed McCoy only for Kirk to hear. "Our astronomers and physicists couldn't possibly have missed something like that."
"Nor," Kirk commented quietly, "could the Vulcans. Still…Spock is speaking on what his psychic linking with Thasians had imparted to his mind."
"Think about it," Spock said a little louder so as to stop opposing discussions. "As the billions of years gradually pass from stellar 'birth' to the eventual development of a true solar system…from too-immense, tightly orbiting super-planets…which gradually break apart because of such orbital trajectories…to, inevitably, allow for said solar system to completely coalesce out of the cosmic chaos. Observe…"
The holographic illustrations steadily demonstrate such as formerly faithless Cadets come to comprehend this Spock Truth, including Kirk and McCoy…
"Now," said Spock as he gestured toward the three-dimensional moving images floating freely before them all, "I believe you fully understand such without further oration."
"Wait-a-minute," quipped McCoy with a curious scowl that spoke seeming volumes in direct regards to his begrudging respect for Spock. "Did he just say he didn't need to keep talking and talking and talking about something?"
"Guess miracles can happen, Bones," Kirk wisecracked in return. "Even to a Vulcan."
"What else did you learn from your mind meld with the Thasians, sir?" asked a blue-skinned Bolian without actually standing as did Sorek and Johannson. His interest immediately mirrored by all the other Cadets.
"I think I've already answered such," Spock said stiffly, "in my logs, but I can add that the so-called 'dark energy' Earth and others have pondered and debated is directly related to the Fabric of Life-Consciousness. Especially considering such immortal energy-beings as not only the Thasians. But, as those of the ENTERPRISE came to comprehend during our first five-year mission…Organians, Metrons, Delta Theta III entity, Pah-Wraith, 'Prophets' or wormhole aliens, as well as an unknown number of others yet to be encountered."
"What about," sheepishly asked a Caldonian whose huge head and height was such that even sitting he was taller than all the others, "the 'dark matter'? Might that be 'black holes' as Humans had dubbed them?"
"Precisely, Cadet Leyav," answered Spock with a self-certain nod. "But also such things as clouds of antimatter and neutron stars. And this doesn't even take into account the 'black hole' related crossing of other universal Realities with our own. They, too, account for a certain amount of both 'dark energy' and 'dark matter'."
At that self-same moment, just outside Starfleet Academy and Starfleet Headquarters…
Something especially strange was emerging from such cross-universal electron-related existence.
Something mundane in its own parallel Reality, yet quite magical, it seemed, to such as our Reality.
Just one more energy-being similar to such stated by Spock during his oration of Ultimate Truths gleaned from a mind meld with Thasians so many years ago.
A being as pompous as he was powerful. As mischievous as he was manipulative.
Someone who would come to be called…
Q!
END OF CHAPTER 3