Star Trek Hunter
Episode 12: Prisoner in the Ice Castle
Scene 18: After Action Review
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After Action Review
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"We're going to keep this short." Justice Minerva Irons looked exhausted. She leaned back in her chair at the head of the table in the executive conference room. "Tali."

Dr. Tali Shae was seated next to Irons. "Dr. Sif did a thorough job with her autopsy of the Dauphin, Sin th'Ravonet. However, she tells me that it was Dr. Boles who researched thousands of andorian autopsies, particularly in missing persons cases and it was his research that identified not only how to track an andorian's location by their consumption of aglimoss and oroins, but it was also what made him suspicious when they identified the amount of pardo in the Dauphin's bloodstream. I know Dr. Boles occasionally rubs people the wrong way, but his contributions were vital to this effort. And Dr. Sif has become one of his small circle of fans."

"Thank you, Tali," said Irons. "Lt. Tauk."

Tauk took a deep breath, coughed and took another breath. "Ensign Tolon and his team, along with Investigator Buttans got all the excitement and performed exceptionally well. Tolon has completely won the loyalty of his team. He leads well from behind and from in front and knows when each is appropriate. He was the one who had the presence of mind to collect samples of the aglimoss during the first rescue attempt in the Ice Hole. But we would have been nowhere without the intelligence provided by Investigator Shran and Lieutenant T'Lon's processing of this information. She designed the attack plan to rescue the Dauphin Sin Shav's daughters."

"Has Shran returned from leave?" Irons asked.

"He has," Tauk replied. "He isn't telling us what he did during the time he was reactivated by the Imperial Guard and I am not asking."

"Continue that policy," Irons said. "Kenneth."

"Chief Guth, and flight specialists Chin and Salazaar conducted a flawless first strike in Bespatel," said Lt. Dolphin. "Chin and Salazaar had to wait for more than 20 hours in their interceptors in Rings' eastern LaGrange point. Hiding in a LaGrange point requires constant adjustment to keep from drifting into the debris. Guth did a superb job gathering information at Bespatel and taking down the house shields. He also did some fine flying down into the Ice Hole. And T'Lon and I had a bit of excitement up here."
"So I heard," Irons intoned. "We will talk about that momentarily. Sarekson?"

Dr. Carrera cleared his throat. "Midshipman Brazil worked well in the field, especially in rescuing the ground ops team out of the Ice Hole. She has done some fine tuning to the pattern enhancers that helped overcome some local conditions that would otherwise have made use of the transporters impossible. Dr. Sun worked with Lt. Gamor up here to feed erroneous information to House Shav's surveillance satellites, which kept our ground operations concealed from them. The Hunter, the wagon, the tactical unit and both interceptors are in good condition and ready for next action."

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Irons turned toward her 2nd officer: "Lieutenant Commander, you met directly with the new emperor. Impressions?"
Mlady sat up. "He is strongly telepathic and projects a presence around him that everyone can feel. A lion. The other andorians were terrified of him. And fascinated by him. It appears word that he was making a power play got leaked to the House Shav fighter pilots, which could be one reason they were so unwilling to open fire on us."

"That was a barn burner of a speech," said Irons. She tapped Tali's hand. "I fear we may have delivered your people into the iron claw of a charismatic tyrant."

"I really don't know much about him," said Tali, "but considering the alternatives… Zorah zh'Itherith is sickly and unlikely to live more than a year. Baronetta th'Ravonette is under suspicion now for her father's murder, which left Ishav Shav, who is in league with the Andoria First separatists…"

"And now, apparently, on the run with them, to be hunted to the ends of the galaxy by her cousin," Irons concluded. "Well, all things considered, I believe this qualifies as a successful mission. Thank you all. You are dismissed. Kenneth, David, Mlady, please stay…"

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