Grotto Trek

Captain’s Log

Stardate 1021.07

Smee the rest of the crew and I have completed exploration of the Sequoia - Kings Canyon sectors in the California Quadrant and have made cursory incursions into the Yosemite sector.

This sector is by far one of the most magnificent.  In my many years as a space cadet starship captain I have seen many wondrous and, at times, bizarre locations.  I must state, for the record, the giants in this nook of space-time make me feel so small that from this perspective all the ants look like people.

On Stardate 0918.07 Smee set forth to make contact with the Giant Sequoias (a long-lived race of colossal proportions) that make their home in this quadrant and observe their habits.  The crew became concerned after one week had passed with no communications from him.  I mounted an away team and went to search for our wayward crewmate.

I finally found him in an abandoned asparagus patch trying to communicate with the rotting stump of an especially large if not a record asparagus stalk.

“From down here the ants seem to look no larger than ants.”

After this little fiasco, I suggested that Smee do more research on Alien Recognition Techniques in the Starfleet database.

 

After a week of research Smee launched another expedition to the surface, again in search of the Enormous, Colossal, HUGE, MASSIVE and GENERALLY UNMISTAKEABLE Giant Sequoias.

 

In the meantime rest of the crew and I … after a week of no word from Smee … launched another rescue mission.

I am making a recommendation
to Smee’s wife Queen Lola
Long Suffering Supreme Ruler
and Damned Fine Cook of the
Home Front to have his ocular
acuity checked.

Fry Out.

 

Captain’s Log Supplemental

 

I am embedding  images of our explorations to be catalogued by Starfleet distributed to the Fleet.

Fry Out.

 

 

 

 

 

“I am at two with nature.”

            Woody Allen