Captain's log - Stardate 2261.5494

Long range scanner readings look to be confirmed. After a thorough scanning on atmospheric conditions and life forms on the planet, I'll send down a team to do an onsite confirmation.

One oddity has turned up in atmospheric scanning so far. Spock says the sensors detected dikironium, but that gas exists only in laboratory experiments. Since dikironium doesn't occur naturally, that would seem to indicate that higher intelligence beings have been on this planet at some time within the past decade as the gas would have fully degraded after that time frame.