Intelligence Briefing: Somewhere in Star Fleet Section 31 Secret Headquarters - Continued
"It explains a lot - the unchallenged Uhura clan rulership, the statistically unnerving production of near geniuses, her telepathic then empathic emergence and the sheer power of those psionic skills - even the fact that while other human-Vulcan couples live in the reproductive endocrinologists' offices praying for conception and then praying to get close to a full term pregnancy, she gets pregnant the old fashioned way and stays pregnant with ease.
"How about the fact that she can broadcast across planets and her son can broadcast across quadrants, maybe galaxies? I don't know how far it goes with the boy... I do know our agents in the Romulan system can hear him and heard her before she learned to shield better. If she and Spock share DNA - "
Davich smiled sheepishly at his grammatical mistake while Frenezulo chuckled pervertedly. Their son meant they'd already shared DNA of some kind.
"I'm tired, alright? Let it go." Tedesciu pleaded jokingly before continuing.
"If they in fact both have the root Vulcan DNA, it would explain a lot. And it might explain the interest Romulan agents of the Tal Shiar have with the United States of Africa. They've been spotted on Earth."
Brad Frenezulo's eyes continued to stare at Davich who presented his supposition to his boss.
"I think the folks downstairs are going to discover we're not dealing with emergent evolution but with disruptive evolution; we're dealing with the reuniting of two distant but related gene pools."
Tedesciu let that sit.
"You want to tell me why, beside the psi thing, you believe this?" Frenezulo asked.
"I can but it's not scientific."
"Let me brace myself" Frenezulo retorted. Both men laughed.
"Uhura's do not look like any other clan groups in the region. Eyes, hair, eyebrows? They don't look sub-Saharan African. And they don't exactly look like the Euro-African mixes either; we've got plenty of forensic examples of those to compare to.
"What's more, when they marry outside that DNA, the resulting progeny seem to get all their DNA from the Uhuras and not much from the outside. Couple of grandkids down the line and every subsequent generation looks similar to the Lieutenant. Statistically that doesn't jive."
Both refilled their drinks.
"Brad, look at these pictures." Tedesciu reached over to the table and handed Frenezulo a recent unlabeled family picture of the S'chn T'gai family without Uhura.
"Nice Vulcan kid. So what?"
"That's her three-quarters-human son. All green-blooded, high-temperature, heart-near-his-kidneys parts of him. Spock's the father. And Spock's half-human; mother was a caucasian of Russian Jewish descent."
"Wow. Strong genes."
"The genes don't have to be strong if they're just recognizing long, lost family."
"So what does this have to do with the subject?" Frenezulo queried.
"Just this: Uhura and Spock are producing some of the most gifted psionics since we've been able to measure. Uhura families tend to be large. They could be producing the army we'd need to take out Romulus and protect the entire Federation, not just Earth."
Davich leaned forward for emphasis.
"You only need one, maybe two, per quadrant, Brad"