NARRATOR: Shuttling back to the Chesapeake...
CHESTER: *over comm* General, you have a priority ultra call from Admiral Manyara Emm.
BALA-AMIN: Oh, lovely.
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was, "Thank you, Chester. Put her through."
CHESTER: *over comm* Done.
EMM: *on screen* General Bala-Amin, your office has just extended diplomatic cloaks to rogue U.N.S. agents.
BALA-AMIN: No niceties? I was going to ask about your health, and whether you'd gotten a deck back under your feet.
EMM: Stuff the chatter, General! This is a matter of critical system security. You must detain the Neosynchronicity and everyone aboard until my agents arrive to claim our people.
BALA-AMIN: Their background checks were clean, which means if these are your agents, and I'm not saying they're not, then they're off-the-books, plausibly deniable, black-ops, cloak-and-dagger agents.
EMM: *on screen* Detain them, General.
BALA-AMIN: If that's an order, which it can't be because of our relative jurisdictions, then I suspect it's illegal.
EMM: *over comm* It is not illegal. In your office you can legally detain whomever you choose.
BALA-AMIN: Oh, that's right! I can. Of course, this delegation has been sponsored by the Plenipotent Dominion.
EMM: And you take orders from foreign powers, now?
BALA-AMIN: No, but I do have standing orders to start exactly zero wars with the psychobear of destruction at the galactic core.