Captain's log - Stardate 2261.498
I called our core group together to discuss what Bones discovered. Sulu and I were in favor of finding the silicone creature and destroying it, but Bones asked for the floor. He'd brought some of those odd metal nuggets in and made his case for not only leaving the creature alive, but seeing if it had trainable intelligence as well.
I had to admit he had a point about it being one hell of a miner and when he gave his opinion that the nuggets are the thing's shit? Worth further examination.
