Stardate 2358
By: TheHGW
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Stardate 2358.42 Security Chief's Log I really hate my job. I had the strike team ready. It was a standard low altitude combat drop. We were supposed to go in three groups. Lt. Shan, that magnificent blue skinned bastard, was going to hit with two crewmen to secure the mining platform. Thirty seconds later Ensign Rand hits with his team to take out any resistance. Then a minute after Shan hits, Chief Talok and his engineers arrive with the charges. All nine then dive off twenty seconds later and the platform explodes and we beam the lot out of there in free fall. It's not a complicated operation. Those men have done this in their sleep. We've trained, and practiced and we've prepared for a low altitude drop several times. So why in the hell did the Captain decide to walk right by us and decide to take the helmsman, chief engineer and some cadet who's not even supposed to be on this ship in the first place! Come on Cap, that's like giving the handoff to the punter! We are paying these guys to be the meanest, nastiest bastards in the fleet and you pick three noncoms? How'd that op go for ya Cap? Oh yeah, they blew up the planet. Chief Talok wants me to express his most sincere and logical rude gesture.
Security Chief's Addendum So the acting captain wanted to save the High Council. No problem, I buzzed Lt. Krendall and told her to get her Search and Rescue crew to the transporter pad. Simple operation, ten man crew beams down to recover the target. Three stay outside the cave and set up a transporter booster. Five set up force fields in the cave itself to prevent the cave from squashing any of the high council. Krendall and Chief Sorot use the map from the Ship's Computer to get to the target and extract them. Two minutes in and out. Just like a dozen other rescues in the last few months. But no! Acting Captain abandons his post, leaves Krendall waiting outside the transporter room with her crew. Captain beams down, gets bunches of the High Council killed by not establishing a force field securing the structure, ignores protocol by not establishing a safe extraction site, and in the process gets his mom killed. Great job acting Captain. I've already sent off a recommendation for Court Martial for him completely leaving the ship.
Security Chief's Log Starfleet is reviewing the Court Martial I asked for. Meaning it will be a few months before they look. I've added another charge, the Acting Captain had that uppity cadet blown out of a escape pod for insubordination. Now call me old fashioned, but the traditional punishment for that charge is to throw them in the brig. And I've got a lovely brig that could hold a dozen Klingons on PCP. This command crew is a nut house. They've got cadets running everything, seasoned officers being replaced at the whim of incompetents, and nobody's following the regs.
Our Acting Captain had a meltdown on that uppity Ensign that's been causing so much trouble. The kid got back on the ship via a transporter and confronted the Acting Captain on the bridge. Our Acting Captain assaulted the Ensign in front of the entire bridge crew and then relinquished command. That Ensign then assumed command. Now maybe my math is off, but there are 430 crewmen on this ship. That makes for 37 officers, minus our MIA Captain, our dead Chief Engineer and our Science Officer that just wrote himself a Section 8. I'm only a Lt. Commander, seventh in the chain of command for this starship, but I think I outrank the Ensign. Even taking the staff officers out of the mix, that still leaves 22 officers that stand between this kid and that chair. But the bridge crew is backing him. This ship is an asylum being run by the inmates.
We tracked down the rogue ship that destroyed Vulcan. I organized a rescue party for Captain Pike, brought up two squads of my best men. Lt. Shan was leading the first team, Chief N'Tal was bringing up the second squad. I don't know why that Nausicaan decided to join Starfleet, but I found uses for him. He's not good for much more than fighting, but he is REALLY good at fighting. Straight up plan was to beam two teams of ten onto the rogue ship. The ship isn't crewed by many according to scans and a quick and focused strike by a dedicated military force should quickly overwhelm it.
Starfleet turned down all my Court Martial requests, no reason was given. I turned in my resignation. This ship has 430 crewmembers but only the officers do anything. One day they are going to beam down into a death trap and then we'll be lost. The new Captain looks like he is going to get a good number of my men killed. So I've taken another job offer. Some guy named Vader promised me action, so I took his offer. Just wonder how I will in white. |