The Yue Fei dropped out of warp and Galakail Minor came into view. “Huh, the area doesn’t look so bad.” Joshua said looking at the viewscreen, “You never would have known there was a major conflict here a week ago.”

“There’s no telling what damage the Dominion did to Galakail Minor though,” Tolria said, looking at the viewscreen.

The roundabout broke through the planet’s atmosphere and Dawa and Jabir announced their arrival to the planet’s control tower. The Yue Fei was guided to a landing pad where it landed with a soft thud.

“Houston we have touch down. That’s one small trip for all mankind, one big warp trip for all mankind ” said Jabir 

“If no one has heard something like that it’s an old earth saying from even before first contact,” said Jabir again.

“I didn’t know you were into Earth history, Ensign,” said Dawa with a chuckle.

“I saw a photo in the academy hanging up of the Apollo 11 moon landing in Earth history and it had that saying below and kinda thought it suits this situation even though we are not the first Starfleet personnel here it is our first time,” said Jabir.

“All right people, we’re going to meet with the local government,” Joshua announced. “After that, we’ll be given assignments to assist with the hazard teams. Grab your things and be ready to work.”

Dawa retrieved her gear and messenger bag from storage and fell into step with Josh as they headed toward the prefectural hall. “So, do you think this government will give us a better reception than the last one did?”

Joshua chuckled, “Man, I hope so… The landing certainly was better,” he added with a smirk.

The hall they entered was still beautiful despite the recent devastation. Massive windows on the forward wall were still mostly intact, and they looked out on the lush coastline and sparkling sea.

There were two women in conversation at the reception desk, one seated behind and one standing in front. As the group approached, the seated woman stood and gestured to the woman in front of the desk, but before she could speak, the other woman cut in.

“Well, it looks like I owe you dinner,” she said, addressing her coworker as she eyeballed the group. “Starfleet delivered on their promise of aid for once. I thought they’d quit cleaning up after themselves a long time ago.”

The other woman looked helplessly from her associate to the group and back before weakly chiming in with, “Uh, this is Prefect Adelbai.”

Dawa’s smile quickly went from genuine to stretched and fake.

“Prefect,” Joshua simply said with a nod of acknowledgment. “My name is Dr. Joshua Bryant, these are my associates, Lieutenant Commander Dawa Vlček, Cadets Jabir Tior, Kinos Tolria, and Xiran Zoff.” He motioned to each of them in turn. “We’ve been tasked with cleaning up after ourselves, as you so eloquently put it,” Joshua continued, the million-dollar smile never leaving his face. “The only question remains is, how can we help?”