On stardate 43610.4, the research station orbiting Tanuga IV exploded, killing one of the galaxy’s finest scientists, Dr. Nel Apgar. The available evidence showed that Commander William T. Riker, the first officer of the Federation starship Enterprise, caused the explosion by firing a phaser at the station’s reactor core while transporting out. Yet the Federation used a virtual reality environment called a holodeck to cast doubt on this evidence. Instead, the Federation would have you believe that it was Dr. Apgar who attempted to kill Riker. They claimed that Dr. Apgar fired a Krieger wave at Riker hoping to kill him and make it look like a transporter accident but instead the wave rebounded off the transporter beam and hit the reactor.
Here are the real facts:
I ask you only to look at the facts and judge for yourself.
Here are the real facts:
- Commander William Riker is a notorious Lothario who is infamous throughout Starfleet for his irresponsible and unscrupulous sexual appetite.
- All accounts agree that the night before the explosion, the two men had a physical altercation over Riker’s behavior with the doctor’s wife, Manua Apgar.
- Mrs. Apgar testified that Riker assaulted her. No evidence was ever brought forth that she lied in her account and there is no reason at all to doubt her claim. In fact, the counselor of the Enterprise, who is an empath, admitted that she could not sense any deception from Mrs. Apgar.
- The holodeck simulation that recreated the crime was done aboard the Enterprise. Tanuga IV apparently does not have similar technology since they couldn’t run the simulation on the planet. Therefore, the Tanugans were unable to independently verify the recreation and had to take Starfleet’s findings at face value.
- The crime recreation was set up by Enterprise personnel only with no participation from the Tanugans. Not only that, but the crew members who set up the simulation all reported directly to Riker in his role of first officer. Of course it was is in their interest to exonerate their superior.
- The judge at the extradition hearing was the captain of the Enterprise and Riker’s commanding officer. This captain clearly had an interest in getting his first officer off the hook.
- Sitting right next to the captain during the hearing was the Enterprise counselor. This counselor was the ex-girlfriend of Riker and the two continued to maintain a close and intimate relationship. In fact the two would later get back together and marry. Yet this relationship was never disclosed to the Tanugans. The Tanugans were also never told about the counselor’s empathic abilities and her exoneration of Mrs. Apgar.
- The theory posited by the Federation makes no sense. Their simulation states that several hours prior to the explosion Dr. Apgar activated a planet-side generator which emits energy charges every five hours, twenty minutes and three seconds. The station then turns the charges into Krieger waves. So for Dr. Apgar’s alleged plan to work, he had to know that RIker would transport off the station exactly five hours, twenty minutes and three seconds after the generator was switched on. Split-second timing was required otherwise Riker’s death would not seem like a transporter accident. Riker’s own testimony shows that the two men argued at some length before Riker suddenly signaled for his beam out. The exact moment he would leave was unknowable by Dr. Apgar.
- One last point: Dr. Apgar had devoted years to researching Krieger waves. Wouldn’t he know that they would boomerang off a transporter beam? Yet the Federation theory of the crime relies on an eminent scientist being ignorant of basic physics.
I ask you only to look at the facts and judge for yourself.
