"Bread and Circuses" Line-by-Line!

Greetings!

We've recently concluded our "In a Mirror, Darkly Line-by-Line" thread in the Enterprise forum!

After each completed thread, I'm randomly picking someone who participated to choose the next episode we do. The lucky winner this time around was Enterprise1981! And Enterprise1981 has chosen "Bread and Circuses" as our next line-by-line adventure!

For any unfamiliar with our "game," you are asked to post only a single line (defined as one character speaking without interruption by another character) per message. You can post as often as you like, but someone else must post a line in between your posts.

As before, at the conclusion of this thread, I will pick someone at random from among all the participants to choose the next episode we do.

Enjoy!

 

[Bridge]

SPOCK: No doubt about it, Captain. The space debris comes from the survey vessel SS Beagle.

 

Kirk: Missing for 6 years, and now this junk in space.

 

SPOCK: Portions of the antimatter nacelles, personal belongings. Captain, no signs of bodies whatsoever.

 

Kirk: Then whatever destroyed the ship, the crew was able to get off safely. Navigator, compute the present drift of the wreckage.

 

Chekov: Computed and on the board, Sir.

 

KIRK: Mister Spock, assuming that the wreckage drifted at the same speed and direction for the past six years?

 

SPOCK: It would have come from planet four, star system eight nine two, directly ahead.

 

CHEKOV: Only one sixteenth parsec away, Keptin. Ve should be there in seconds.

 

Kirk: Standard orbit around the planet. There may be survivors there.

 

SPOCK: SS Beagle. Small class four stardrive vessel. Crew of forty seven, commanded by- Jim, I believe you knew him! Captain R M Merik.

 

Kirk: Yes, at the Academy. He was dropped in his 5th year. He went into the Merchant Service.

 

Chekov: Coming up on the planet, Keptin.

 

Kirk: Put it on the screen.
The viewscreen shows a planet with lots of water, some land masses and just s few wispy white clouds.

 

Uhura: Aye.

 

Chekov: Technically Class M. Somewhat similar to Earth.

 

KIRK: Yes, similar. But the land masses and oceans are quite different, however.

 

SPOCK: Different in shape only, Captain. The proportion of land to water is exactly as on your Earth. Density five point five, diameter seven nine one seven at the equator, atmosphere seventy eight percent nitrogen, twenty one percent oxygen. Again, exactly like Earth.

 

Kirk: Exactly in some ways, different in others.

 

SPOCK: I also picked up indications of large cities.