Ready Steady

Posted on 29 Jun 2015 @ 12:10am by Commander Andreus Kohl
Edited on 29 Jun 2015 @ 12:11am

491 words; about a 2 minute read

Circa NIMBUS, MD 02


[ON]

Captain's Log, Stardate 67552.0.

In the next hour, command of the USS Nautilus will transfer from me to it's next Commanding Officer. I will be stepping away to return to my posting aboard USS Galileo. A much-deserving command officer will be taking my place to lead and guide the crew of the Nautilus and their Miranda-class home.

The senior staff of the Nautilus is a new one, promoted from the junior ranks to ensure some semblance of continuity. They did everything in their power to make us visitors from Galileo feel welcome aboard their ship. Although they are a new senior staff, one can't call them untested anymore. As much as it may have been a simulation, the Klingons did not hold back in their simulated attack on the Nautilus. My crew went into the hell of war, and my crew kept our ship's heart beating and kept our sword-arm swinging until the bitter end. We even took out a bird of prey, all our own.

I wish Nautilus' new commanding officer exciting journeys ahead, with a supportive crew by her side. I suspect I have new exciting journeys of my own as Galileo's Second Officer and Chief Science Officer as well.

Log end.

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Andreus Kohl's Personal Log, Stardate 67552.0.

Wait. Stop. I'm not ready. I'm not ready to go. I'm not ready to give up command of Nautilus. It's not fair. It can't be fair, can it? I only just got started. I only dipped my toe in command -and I was a shouty, moody mess for the most part, admittedly- but I still need to get my whole foot in. My whole leg in, my whole self in. I'll do it right this time, I promise.

I've been sitting here trying to think of ways. Trying to think of ways and means to stay here. There must be emergency measures that would require me to stay in command for a while, no? I could release a deadly space plague into the environmental systems, perhaps. Starfleet Command would have to quarantine Nautilus. No one would be allowed on or off the vessel. They would have to leave me in command, right?

Or if that doesn't work, I could commander the Nautilus, and fly us to the Gamma Quadrant. If I wipe out the population of a Dominion planet -strafe the sky with torpedoes- that would mean war. And war could mean just enough confusion that they- that they forget? Maybe they would forget I was still on the Nautilus...? Maybe? And they would need every ship available on the front lines...?

Or if that doesn't work, I could go after the Nautilus' next Commanding Officer... I could...

No.

Stop.

I'm not ready to go.

[OFF]

 

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