[ No one on the bridge has ever seen anything like this before, and once scans definitely indicated that the creatures were not, in fact, endangered space whales, suggestions were lobbied back and forth as to what to do about it. It was hard to argue that they should indiscriminately fire to kill...whatever those things are, considering that most of them were just tailing them more or less harmlessly, but the fact that Chris had followed La'an's suggestion for yellow alert with alacrity sort of undercut that assessment. ]

Ortegas. [ Erica's dark eyes snap back to him, waiting to hear what he wants her to do. ] See if you can disable that big one. I'd rather not kill any of them if we don't have to, but I'd also prefer them not take a bite out of my ship.