(Omal addresses a question brought up by a conversation Mark and I had where we agreed that the colonists from Sirius to Atlantis were not ready to complete their goal of ascension. Too many other factors made such a dream impossible at the time.) 

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Omal: Judy, you have a question?

Judy: no.

Omal: okay, Russ?

Russ: yes Omal, you get a report about a conversation that Mark and I had about Maxxus and Naxxus?

(Ed. note: these were the names of Mark and myself when we were brothers in a past life on Atlantis)

Omal: it could be on my desk under a pile of paperwork. Well let me put that correctly, it could be on my desk under a pile of discs.

Russ: okay, Mark and I had a conversation concerning our association back in Atlantis.......

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: and at the time we finally had a little bit of a discussion on whether I was right in my assertion at the time that we proceed at a different pace than Mark was. And we finally came to the agreement that our race at the time was too new to deal with any sort of ascension of what we were actually planning to do so theoretically I was correct in my taking it to where it went. Theoretically, what do you think?

Omal: I think that you are both correct and both incorrect and I will elaborate. Your perception that your race was not ready is correct in the fact of what occurred later on as an example. Mark was correct in his stance by the fact that they were the seed, were there and if they had continued on that path, the possibility was there for a more rapid rise to a different level of existence. However, the disease was already spreading so it was something that if a small faction had wandered off by itself and found a new home, they might have made it but there again they might not have made it because they might of brought the seeds with them. You were both wrong in the fact that accelerated manipulation of a species is a avenue that goes through the development and rise of any species. Again Maxxus was wrong in the fact that by being narrow-minded and keeping a race pure, it did not dilute the seeds of destruction.

Russ: uh-huh, thank you.

Omal: you’re welcome.

John: can I ask one quick question here? You refer to Mark as Maxxus?

Omal: uh-huh.

John: is that how........

Russ: past life.

John: okay, well I wasn’t sure whether that was…

Omal: are you prepared to pay the price for the one last question?

John: no, I’m going to shut up real quick.

Omal: Russ, what is the price for one last question?

Russ: 25 push-ups.

John: oh man, I don’t know if I can do 25 push-ups. I don’t know if you can coerce me into doing 25.

Russ: Omal did it, he did 25 for me.

Omal: and I clapped......

Russ: and he clapped.

Omal: in between each one.

John: you don’t really want me to do 25 push-ups do you?

Omal: do you want to ask the question?

John: no.

Omal: okay.

Russ: farewell Omal.

John: thank you.

Omal: for you Trek fans, live long and prosper.

Skip: good night Sir