Because my muses are capricious and always do what they want. And now the Away Team is about to open the mysterious door - they just happened to find some moss on it, even though the planet was supposed to be dead.
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“My guess would be: our torches,” Novakovich eyed the alien moss with wary interest. “It must be a photosensitive species; which makes sense on a planet so poorly-lit like this one.”
“That is a logical conclusion,” the Vulcan agreed. “Take a sample, Crewman, but make sure to seal the testing tube airtight. We cannot know what breathing in eventual spores might do to lab personnel.”
Novakovich did as he’d been told, working carefully but with barely suppressed excitement. Sure, it was just moss, but still an alien life-form – one that nobody had seen for a hundred thousand years.
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Back to Enterprise again
on 2016-07-19 05:53 pm (UTC)Excerpt:
“My guess would be: our torches,” Novakovich eyed the alien moss with wary interest. “It must be a photosensitive species; which makes sense on a planet so poorly-lit like this one.”
“That is a logical conclusion,” the Vulcan agreed. “Take a sample, Crewman, but make sure to seal the testing tube airtight. We cannot know what breathing in eventual spores might do to lab personnel.”
Novakovich did as he’d been told, working carefully but with barely suppressed excitement. Sure, it was just moss, but still an alien life-form – one that nobody had seen for a hundred thousand years.