The ambassador and a bodyguard descend in a shuttle.

The spaceport might seem vaguely familiar. There are rainbow-haired people lined up to watch him. Some have video cameras and are jostling to get pictures.

He waves and smiles. He has several rows of teeth.

They will be all over the internet shortly.  

Having made the right eleven people immortal he is among the blue-haired people greeting the ambassador. So is Shasali, because it is very impressive of Anitam to have let an ex-red be blue.

"Hello, hello! It's so lovely to be here," says Ambassador K'riohgann(v)or.

"We're so delighted to meet you."

       "It was a thrill to learn we are not alone in the universe."

"We haven't actually picked up a warp signature from here that didn't belong to, ah, Isabella T'Mir's survey vessel. What happened?"

"We discovered a different, slower method of FTL! It sufficed for our colonization. We recently published the warp equations and have gotten to work on warp ships."

"Oh, how interesting, I think that may be the first time that's happened."

"We're so glad it did, the lack of FTL was causing immense suffering here."

"Very eager to colonize?"

"Amentans prefer to have large families. If we could we'd have a baby every few local years, and a spring without a baby is a desperately lonely one. Every country in Amenta was until recently implementing coercive population controls, at tremendous cost to the wellbeing of our citizens."

"I see. I'm so glad that's sorted out now."

"So are we! Apparently most species aren't like us but we're looking for any that are so we can give them colony planets before the situation gets desperate."

"That's very generous of you."

"Thank you! What's your world like?"

"Oh, I'm from a little moon called (t)Miorxen(u)ma," says Ambassador K'riohgann(v)or. "It's got a more oxygenated atomsphere and fantastic fruit salad."

"How'd you end up becoming a Federation ambassador?"

"Went to college on Betazed and decided it was for me. You?"

"Likewise, I suppose! - well, my college wasn't on Betazed. It's an exciting time to be an ambassador, one used to just hope they'd get assigned somewhere with good weather."

Ambassador K'riohgann(v)or laughs. "So what did your crew of the Season tell the folks back home about their little run-in?"

"They mentioned that they must have scared you very badly! I'm so sorry about that."

"The scientists are fascinated by the story about the ship halting in mid-vacuum."

"Some of our ships are equipped to do that! It can prevent collisions or pursuit."