Captain's Log, Stardate 66212.78
Over the past few days, the pirates have become increasingly bold in attacks. Numerous engagements with Starfleet ships have been reported and it has been noted in every instance that the conglomeration of technologies on board the pirate ships suggests a serious security breach within every government in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. However, with Starfleet so thinly stretched across so much territory and becoming more so as pirates tie up the limited resources that are left, investigating the breach in Starfleet has become problematic. Finding a mole in the best of conditions is hard enough; finding one as things currently stand pose a whole series of obstacles even more difficult. Fortunately, Starfleet Intelligence has already identified a possible leak and it is merely up to the Churchill to do the legwork. I can only hope that the ship doesn't become as badly beat up as my previous assignment or I'll have quite a bit of explaining to do to Command.
Clarke sat at his desk in his ready room, researching Admiral T'Por, the focus of his investigation. Having never met the Vulcan, it was intriguing to read about his accomplishments prior to his rise to admiralty, as well as his indirect involvement in getting Clarke rescued. Though Clarke found it somewhat odd that he and his ship had been chosen to look into Admiral T'Por's activities, especially given the potential for conflict of interest, it appeared that someone felt the need to keep the investigation internal to Starfleet but also to try and ensure the investigation objectivity by utilizing the closest thing they had to an outsider.
At first glance, T'Por seemed to have a fairly clean and accomplished record, though obscure. He was by no means the public face of Starfleet, but he wasn't a lightweight either, having helped contributed to coordinating major operations throughout the quadrant. It was the small irregularities, however, that seemed to have sent red flags to Starfleet Intelligence: a handful of sudden, unexplained disappearances over the past few months, accessing of seemingly random and irrelevant files, communications at curious hours of the night. In other circumstances, these things might seem more permissible and dismissible, but with the pirate threat on the rise, no one could be to cautious.
After finishing yet another report on T'Por and his history, Clark leaned back and took a sip of kava juice. The Churchill would need more solid evidence to prove or disprove the allegations being made against him, which would require a trip back to Earth to do so, something that Clarke was not too happy about, but if the investigation required it, so be it.