"Speaking freely, sir, I don't report to you in this matter."

"Everything's quiet, sir," he reported in a low voice.

"Receiving those coordinates, sir," Baila reported from the communications station.

"In my opinion it can not, sir," Nelson reported, formally.

"Course computed and laid in, sir," he reported, moments later, his voice professionally confident.

He says, sir," reported the helmet phones, "that all you say is true.

"Everything all set, sir," Corporal Conrad reported in a whisper.

"The target has stopped again, sir," the sonarman reported.

"All tight, sir," he reported to the captain, and the Z12Q began to retrace her path in space.

"Not yet, sir," she reported, continuing to consult her monitor.