Stardate 1709.4

Inspection of remains from Outpost 4 show severe damage from an plasma based weapon, probably matter/antimatter based...

supplemental: the apparent yield of this weapon is much higher than our torpedoes, even our phasers...

At this time, the Photon Torpedo wasn't around yet (although the phaser effect in this episode looked like the photon effect used later). I seem to recall reading at one time that the Romulans had developed Cloaking Devices and Photon torpedoes, but had to get warp drive from the Klingons.

Cont. The Romulan ship is visibilty cloaked, and we're relying on motion sensors to track it. It's now heading for a comet...

cont. Hoping to catch sight of the Romulan ship as it passed through the comet tail, but they doubled back on us and fired the weapon at us.

Cont. the Romulan weapon has a limited range, sciences are going over the sensor data to find out why, meanwhile the hunt goes on...

this will give me a chance to introduce the developement of a federation photon torpedo as a result of this encounter.