Star Trek Hunter
Episode 10: Interview With An Ethicist
Scene 14: Who Made the Hulk?

10.14
Who Made the Hulk?
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As the Hunter was returning toward Federation space, Irons held a shipwide conference. Irons and most of the senior staff (except Mlady, who was in command) were gathered in the executive conference room, but their images and voices were transmitted holographically to several points throughout the boat, including the bridge, ground operations, medical and engineering.

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Irons was summarizing what had been learned: "So we now know that the relative movement of the Gamma Gun Galaxy…"

"Are we really calling it that?" Dr. Tali Shae asked.

"That is the name Navigator Imex gave it. She discovered it; she names it. As I was saying, from the relative movement of the Gamma Gun Galaxy to ours, those gamma waves will destroy all life in the Alpha Quadrant over the next 4,000 years. The more immediate problem is that they will very soon make romulan territory uninhabitable. We do not have locations on all romulan colonies, but any colonies near the Dead Zone will need to be evacuated - as soon as within the next decade."

Pep spoke up. "We also know that our big green friend down there that eats gamma radiation is also moving relative to our galaxy to continue to protect the galaxy from the gamma waves. And it would do so effectively if, what Admiral Scumuk referred to as 'the Hulk' was in proper working order."

"And we know how the Hulk was built," said Lieutenant Napoleon Boles. "Or more precisely, who built it."

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All eyes turned to Lt. Boles.

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"I got interested in the ring structure," Boles continued. "It, and the Library, are located too close to the Hulk to be a coincidence. I asked Navigator Imex to confirm - not only is the Hulk moving to track the incoming gamma waves, so is the Library and its solar system. I figured the ring structure was some sort of factory for some critical component of the Hulk. And I was right… The progenitors came to that ring by the billions to become the workers that built the Hulk. I don't know if they came voluntarily. A new race was created in that ring. A race uniquely equipped to build and maintain the Hulk. And now we know why that technology looked so familiar. We have seen its derivative."

Tali Shae was mildly annoyed. "Okay Napoleon, enough with the dramatic build up. What are you talking about?"

Boles smiled grimly. "The progenitors genetically altered their own people to transform them into the race that constructed and maintained the Hulk. That ring structure was the cradle of that race. And I am fairly certain we will need their descendants to come back to the Hulk to repair it. They are probably the Alpha Quadrant's only hope. The only people who can repair the Hulk."

Tali Shae banged the conference table with her fist, making her cup jump. Her antennae jumped with it… "Who?"

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Napoleon Boles' voice was flat: "The Borg…"

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10 - Interview With An Ethicist

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Crew of the U.S.S. Hunter: (Ship's Interactive Holographic Avatar - Hunter)

At-Large Appellate Justice, Captain Minerva Irons
Chief Executive Officer - Commander David Pepper
Chief Operations Officer - Lt. Commander Mlady

Medical Director - Lt. Commander Tali Shae
.Asst. Medical Director - 2nd Lt. Jazz Sam Sinder
..Ensign Chrissiana Trei
...Forensic Specialist - Midshipman Sif
...Emergency Medical Hologram - Dr. Raj
...Tactical Medical Hologram - Dr. Kim

Director of Flight Operations - Lt. Kenneth Dolphin
.Asst. Flight Dir. - 2nd Lt. Gaia Gamor
...Navigator Johanna Imex
...Navigator Eli Strahl
..Ensign Ethan Phillips
...Chief Flight Specialist Dewayne Guth
...Flight Specialist Dih Terri
...Flight Specialist Joey Chin
...Flight Specialist Winnifreid Salazaar

Director of Ground Operations - Lt. Tauk
.Asst. Ground Ops Dir. - 2nd Lt. T'Lon
...Investigator Lynhart Shran
...Investigator Buttons Ngumbo
..Ensign Tolon Reeves
...Tactical Specialist Jarrong
...Tactical Specialist Belo Rys
...Tactical Specialist Belo Garr
...Tactical Specialist Belo Cantys

Director of Engineering - Lt. Sarekson Carrera
.Asst. Engineering Dir. - 2nd Lt. Moon Sun Salek
...Midshipman Tammy Brazil
...Transporter Engineer K'rok
..Ensign Sun Ho Hui
...Flight Engineer Yolanda Thomas
...Flight Engineer Thomas Hobbs
...Flight Engineer Tomos
...Flight Engineer Kerry Gibbon