Last week, two agents from the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations visited Enterprise Station to interview me. When they left, they took with them the non-Federation travel pod that I had used to escape from my recent abductor. That travel pod had been stored, under guard, in the shuttle maintenance bay on deck 5, since my return in early December.
Earlier today, that same travel pod appeared, suddenly, just outside the Enterprise Station exterior vessel parking coordinates. A duplicate of me was aboard. That duplicate me was wearing a red-shouldered Starfleet uniform, exactly the same as I wear, and he displayed a Lieutenant Commander’s rank pin, just like the one attached to my uniform.
Duplicate Sam seemed bewildered, surprised, and clearly disheveled when he was taken into custody. He was questioned by top security personnel, Captain Riker, and Commander Chakotay, and then placed into detention in the deck 8 security brig. His travel pod was brought aboard Enterprise Station, and is currently stored, under guard, in the shuttle maintenance bay on deck 5. There are, right now, two of me aboard Enterprise Station.
Why there is a duplicate of me, and a duplicate of my stolen travel pod (the original of which was taken from the station, by DTI, this past Thursday), I cannot say. The interviews with duplicate me have been classified by Captain Riker, and cannot be discussed here. I, myself, have no insight into those discussions. If I was a betting man, though, I’d say that there’s a bigger story here, however, thus far, that story remains a total, and complete, mystery.
-Lieutenant Commander Sam Archer
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January 31, 2370 – (Devron Timeline 3.0)
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