@preconceptionschallengedâ said:        â thanks for coming after me. â
      With her typical, wry smile, Una shook her head.   â You might call it an unspoken rule of our captainâs, but he doesnât like to leave people behind. Even if theyâre not on our crew roster. â   The small detour to acknowledge the unusual distress signal Enterprise had picked up had been a given, as soon as theyâd recognized the transmission as Starfleet, albeit on a bandwidth that Starfleet hadnât used for the better part of a century.
      â Weâll put you in quarters down on deck seven, but when youâre feeling up to it, weâre all quite curious about how you ended up out here in the first place. â


















