"Space vampires, regardless on subsentiability will have your name on it."
"That is a fair point Doctor." Rose noticed the captain skirm at the use of the term 'space vampire' when she looked back. She shook her head and stepped forward, the door didn't open so she took a step back and then forward once more. "That's odd," voiced to nobody in-particular. "Computer open the door."
"Material transportation in process. Standard procedure is to be locked."
"What- No it's not. Computer override." Rose was a little taken by what the computer had said, because it was rather odd.
"Transportation complet, you may enter."
"There was no scheduled transports until everything was cleared." The security officer said. As the notice of uncertainty had passed through the posts commander.
"I know. Computer what was transported?"
"Non living organism."
"Expand!" She yelled to the computer while she stepped through the doors. Why was the computer being cryptic? And why was she concerned about an override to her system?
"None organic artifacts."
"That- Who gave the command?"
"It was a scheduled transport."
"Who authorized it?" She went to a nearby table and tossed something out of her pocket on to the said table. There was just a glint from it.
"Lieutenant Davix."
She blinked a few times "What?" She was speechless.
The computer decided it was time to expand what was previously asked."Lieutenant Davix authorized the transport."
"Yes I know that," was directed to the computer and then she focused on the group "I never gave the order and neither did Lieutenant Worf I assume." She looked at the Lieutenant and received a shake of the head.
With a bit of concern Riker called up, "Riker to transport room. What just got beamed aboard?"
"Artifacts from the site sir. They went to cargo bay three."
"Who gave the orders?"
"Lieutenant Davix sir."
"Thank you." the link was cut.
Rose sighed. "I'm going to have to remind Davix the chain of command. I apologize sirs."
"It was out of your control commander. Now I believe we are here to see your find."
"Oh yes sir" Rose moved to a separate section of the lab that had incase shelving units. She pressed the second from the top. "This was the most recent find." She took the skull from the skeleton. "Everything has been scanned into the system and sterilized. The container next to this has the soil samples that contain trace elements of blood." She passed the skull to the captain. "As you see the structure is very similar to humans."
"Yes, I can see that."
"The foramen magnum confirms that they were bipedal and went through similar stages of evolution."
The captain held the skull so both him and the doctor could examine it. "The cranial cavity seems to be relatively the same size."
"The maxillary canines and mandibular canines are elongated past the human average. That is rather odd. Once human ancestors passed the scavenger stage the canines grew smaller." It seemed like the statement started off as a confirmation and then shifted solely to the Captain which took Rose a bit longer than it should have to notice.
"I couldn't have put it better myself." Rose went ignored and she decided to back away. Knowing the two would ask for input if needed.. The two seemed to be talking among themselves. Rose noticed the Doc pointing to the skeleton in the draw to the shoulder and neck for the captain to see. Presumably pointing out similarities the spiece had with humans themselves.
Rose turned to Riker and Worf, she decided to walk to the other side of the post. "Are they always like this?"
"When you find a common interest the two have, yes."
"Oh, well do you want to see the weaponry we found near the field sites? It looks like they were just understanding the concept of an armory."
With a small smile, "That, I would love to see."
There was a bigger shelving unit than the one holding the skeleton remains. "They seemed to advance like human ancestors once just short of combust weapons. They got to refining metals which is why I find it odd not to have found recent remains of skeletons." Rose pointed out the advance metal work the species had acquired and she also released a few more draws.
"These can be dated?"
"Carbon dates from remains around, and isotop isolation. Yes sir."
"Huh."
"That's what I've been saying as well sir."
A couple of hours later Rose watched the captain and doctor go between the artifacts and skeletal remains, while Riker had wanted to see the the terrain map;s and Worf was examining the difference in weapons. In six hours a team would be down to pack up the post and Rose could leave all of the past year behind.
It took a bit of time to reassure the captain and doctor that they would both get copies of everything discovered on location. She had until starbase sixty two to make sure everything was cataloged and recorded correctly until the star basees science officers would take over. She also informed the Captain and Doctor that they would also get a rough copy of her reports by the time they all got back on the Enterprise.
When the three curious souls and Worf gathered together, Rose took that as the cue to get going, she grabbed her bag she had once abandoned on a chair; her silver token glinted towards her from the other side of the room to remind her to grab it. Once Rose had grabbed her personal belongings she headed towards the group.
"Riker to enterprise, five to beam up." They all faded...
And the science base was abandoned by all life once again, with the post going into lock down until the retrieval team would grace the floors in the hours to come. There would only be hard feelings from the once commander of the base, and they would definitely not miss this confusing planet.
AN: sorry about the delay, work picked up and I forgot to type this up... Thanks for reading!
