This post was shared by Lieutenant Sam Archer, while on a mission aboard the runabout, SS Terra Nova. It is archived here for mission report purposes.
All of us, aboard the runabout Terra Nova, are struggling with the news that Lieutenant Worf Rozhenko was executed by the Klingon High Council. To the Klingons, Worf is a traitor to the Empire. His name is no longer spoken. To us, he was a good man. WE will remember him well, for how WE knew him.
Please know that we are upset, angry, and heartbroken over this fulfillment of Klingon law. It is a law that most of us in the Federation do not understand. But it is the law of the land, and we, operating as civilians, are subject to Klingon law as long as we are visiting their planets, in their space.
Please keep in mind too, this communication platform that I am using (the same as in my Enterprise PAO office), is a unique wide-broadcast platform. It is not a standard encryptable point-to-point message system. While the message range is (still mysteriously) further-traveling than normal communication channels, I have no control over who can see my updates. As such, the Klingons can likely receive and read what I write. I choose to honor their laws while I am subject to them.
Think of this PAO communication system like an old-Earth radio-wave broadcast. The message goes wherever the wave travels, and is received by whomever is in the (oddly expansive) range to pick up the signal. Standard communication is like an old-Earth fiberoptic telephone line, where there is one sender, and one targeted receiver. Standard communication is limited to warp 1, and is pointless outside of close proximity. Commship messages are only possible if a commship is available to deliver messages (at warp 9).
That being said (and stepping back from my tangent)....
We, as Federation civilian visitors to Qo'Nos, mourn the loss of a man whom we still admire. He is gone now, and we must accept that, even if we don't like it.
As far as our mission, unfortunately, it has come to an end, and we will be returning home. We do have one last-minute sight-seeing visit to make tomorrow, but, after that, we will return to the Enterprise. As I understand it, we will be given ferry passage aboard a warp-9 Klingon warship.
We will be home soon, and then we can all honor Lieutenant Worf together -- safely, within Federation space.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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March 11, 2366 -- (Original Devron Timeline, altered by temporal anomaly)