Last edited 2022-09-26. [06] GP'd. "Screenplay/verbal storyboard" by Roland Stoller; rjmlstoller-gmail.
ClassMPlanet 1-2, preceded by ClarionQuests 1-2, followed by MultiWorldsCollide 1-4.
"ClassMPlanet-Chapter1" [06] - a chronicle of an alternate/parallel universe, different from EarthPrime,
a translation into EarthPrime language made by Roland, ambassador without portfolio.
Characters within alternate, parallel universes are similar to and different from their counterparts.
Readers are encouraged to be, or become, familiar with:
- Star Trek, The Next Generation [ST-TNG], especially planets Romulus, Vulcan, Qo'noS/Kronos (Paramount).
- The Owl House (Disney). Episodes and extracts from Disney's The Owl House.
- Episodes and extracts from The Twilight Zone (Viacom-CBS and Warner Bros).
- WWII carriers, battleships, ships: supply, medical, troop, etc. (Discovery and History channels).
The Demilitarized Corridor or Demilitarized Zone, often nicknamed the Neutral Corridor or Neutral Zone, contain many M-Class planets. Planets with oceans, seas, islands everywhere, continents, peninsulas, tundras, savannas, forests, plains, polar caps, lakes, rivers, and so much more.
NCTO NHC-9018 Unit 5 helo powered away and descended below cumulus clouds. It finally disappeared from view. Our four friends had a hunch, a vague feeling, that everyday life within Northern Continents Treaty Organization, Southern Continents Treaty Organization, Strategic & Tactical, Scanners & Sensors Delta OPs was also disappearing from view.
Our four friends, Augustine Suubonna, Forrest Pollmer, Luseda Aprencia, and Amitae Breitran, began looking around. Now onboard a much different, much larger vessel. In a reasonably good-sized cargo bay.
Multiple doors quietly open, and Romulans appear and enter the cargo bay. However, unlike in the old days, two guards, now with weapons at a stand-down position, seemed to be ready to protect newly arrived guests rather than protect the ship against any possible guest reaction.
One Romulan, definitely an officer, approaches our friends.
Trevahar: "I'm Trevahar [traveler], Acting Captain of this vessel, which Senior Captain Vrybrih nicknamed, Amitainya. Later on, you will take a tour of what Senior Captain Ariende nicknamed Luzceska. Both vessels are D'deridex II-class, approximately 700 yards long and 500 yards wide, equipped with what many call a singularity drive. For some time now, we have moved from military-green to silver-gray and blue-gray coloration."
All four gave their names and shook hands with the Acting Captain.
Trevahar: "Northern Continents and Southern Continents Treaty Organizations' Liaison Admiral Bouker granted our urgent request to bring you four here. If memory serves me, Liaison Admiral Bouker is [NCTO/SCTO] Strategic/Tactical Command, which includes the Sensors/Scanners division. Please follow me, as our honored guests, to what we call External Environs Monitoring center."
As they made their way, Trevahar kept giving more and more details as to why the four were requested in roundabout ways.
Trevahar: "Over time, we have been replacing our Arrogance with the Idea of acquiring missing, and then utilizing, knowledge and expertise."
Our four friends have learned to listen carefully to spoken and unspoken communique over the years.
Trevahar: "Also, we have been much less arrogant. Much more willing to ask for help from those with the necessary knowledge and expertise.
Alas, some are less able for the tasks than others."
Having not yet said a word, they still intently listened.
Trevahar: "Romulus has not been very much respected, has not received nor earned a lot of universal respect. Unfortunately, this has permeated our planet, nations within, and many of our families grown great as well. We in this universe did not inherit well from others. Many non-Romulans have believed, and some have voiced: " Knowing us is not to respect us."
Everyone entered a turbo-lift.
Trevahar: "The only profound respect we ever had from Day One was, from all things, our D'deridex-class vessels. Of course, and to most of those they encountered, the vessels looked real cool and quite formidable, and they usually worked out quite well for us, albeit without cloaking devices [a small smile crosses his lips]."
Exiting the turbo-lift, down another hallway they went.
Trevahar: "Then, one day, some time ago, one of our portal monitoring stations picked up a piece of a recorded speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in another universe, on EarthPrime, in the United States capitol, at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, Wednesday, 1963. Dr. King dreamed that one day all children, not just his four, will no longer be judged by their skin color but by their character content.
We received that recorded piece around the time of our One Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-three. During the construction of a brand new class, a D'deridex III-class, a 'War-bird' vessel, designed to be 1140 yards long and 845 yards wide, an accidental but mighty explosion destroyed the partially-built ship. Tragically, it also killed one thousand four hundred seventy-three workers. Our Military never returned to business as usual, and our Government never returned to governing as Usual. Romulus built a Cornerstone and a Workers Memorial Cemetery. We took pages from EarthPrime's somberness and solemnity of the US's Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier and the US's Arlington National Cemetery.
We knew Romulus had to change, and we knew families-grown-great had to change; I knew - I - had to change."
Augustine: "Your children, their parents, families, were re-awakened to a vital truth, that the Creator gave each sentient being an Essence of Charactership. Character born and made of thoughts, emotions, ideas, concepts, activities, and Memories is what we take with us into any AfterLife."
Forrest: "From a great and terrible defeat comes either more defeats and eventual downfall, or, comes an awakening of a People, to awareness and implementation of new Purpose, new Missions, new Goals. The latter has become a huge part of the Romulan Way. What the present generation has started, their children and children's children will continue. New mistakes, like old mistakes, have been, will be, course-corrected."
Luseda: "Despite defeats and tragedies, an upward climb of character growth, building character, to reach respect for oneself and to gain respect from others, this has also become the Romulan Way. Each up-and-coming generation will build upon the previous generations, learning and growing from the bad and the good."
Amitae, after reading the faces of her friends, her right hand reached for Trevahar's right hand, held it briefly, and spoke quietly, "Suspicion UnBound. Of you and your People, our suspicions exist no more." One by one, without a word, the others did likewise. [Little did anyone realize this communique's impact later on.]
After some moments of reflection, after a short trip down another hallway-
Trevahar: "We have arrived - in more ways than one! Come on in; here is our external environs monitoring room.
In summary, making a long story shorter, based on calculations from another monitoring station, Vrybrih and Ariende, in their respective D'deridex I-class vessels, began a journey to somewhere within, abbreviated, the Neutral Zone. Their scouting ships, 175 yards long and 125 yards wide, are fast enough to give them a good head start. United Planet's Delmar forwarded his calculations to us, which means we should take another look."
Trevahar gave our four friends brief but thorough descriptions of the numerous dials, levers, buttons, sliders, and screens. While the four have much knowledge and expertise in scanners and sensors, Romulan and United Planet monitoring stations are somewhat different.
Outside the portal windows, one can see and hear an occasional D'deridex II vessel, loaded with the crew having their orders, each vessel's singularity engines roaring into life. Normal outside sounds are heard, vessels slowly clearing the launching area. One can watch as such picked up speed and movement with precision, onward, forward, to their respective destinations.
Meanwhile, inside, all five are actively inputting the Romulan database, inputting Delmar's forwarded observations, turning dials, sliding sliders, moving levers, pushing buttons, watching the displays, observing the outputs, and making calculations. Some time has passed.
Augustine: "Class M planet-"
Forrest: "-with complications-"
Luseda: "-short and long term-"
Amitae: "-how soon can we leave?"
