Title :Legacy
Author: Keridwen
Disclaimer: this should be self explanatory, if not - put it in a review - I will answer in one of my next few posts.
Chapter One: My Story: How it all Began
It is here by mandated that the role of Captain aboard any Starfleet class vessel, military or otherwise, shall be altered to conform to the needs of an ever-changing United Federation of Planets. Therefore, the role of starship Captain shall be as follows:
1 Diplomatic envoy wherever stationed.
2 Official federation voice in said area.
3 Shall maintain the right to commence with police action on said planet(s).
4 Shall be regarded with the honors of a Federation Ambassador.
Due to the above changes, the role of the Chief Engineer shall subsequently be altered to fit the needs of an ever-changing Federation.
1 The Chief Engineer shall be in charge of all shipboard operations.
2 He/She/It shall make all emergency and tactical decisions regarding the safety of the ship and crew.
3He/She/It will receive orders and assignments and will brief the appropriate departments on actions to take.
Having passed this resolution by a majority vote in the council, said mandate shall be instated on stardate..........
Nargris Hsresit President Ntv. Zeon 9
This was the resolution that changed my life forever.
Earth, Mars, Vulcan, Centaurus, Janus, Vega, Antares, Altair, Betazed, Diaspor and all the planets of Deneb immediately retaliated, but they could do very little. For the moment the minority was running the united Federation of Planets. The more militant faction of the federation, Quonos, Reigil, Andor, Teller, Vashath, Colomn, and Zeon held the floor over the originating twenty members. Of course the newest planets were not going to vote against the Klingons and the Andorians although there was supposedly great peace within the planets of the Federation: especially the Andorians who had been secretly running a chain of well trained intergalactic hit men.
So the vote passed.
In the end, what was a first year academy cadet, sick of politics, and wiped out from exams going to do? Transfer out of command school was not the first thought that came to my head, but it was the plan that succeeded in the end.
I realized, at about that time, that I was never going to be able to fulfill my greatest dream. I took that dream and I mushed it down deep inside my head. Deep, Deep, Deep into the recesses of my brain, so far deep that a Vulcan would have a hard job prying it back out.
I entered engineering school.
Engineering had been my second great passion, and soon it became my first as I shuffled through old and new manuals. The semester we went over the warp drive, the very heart of a starship, I had to take sleeping pills just to let my body rest for a few hours. Kate, my best friend, was going through the Starfleet medical program at the time, and had to come and tuck me in at night - although I don't know where she found the time to do so - to make sure I wasn't going to die of fatigue. "I've never heard of it Liz," she would say, "The average person today usually doesn't die from lack of sleep, but you have a nack for having to be the first at everything, so I am not taking any chances."
To this I would mutter a reply, and doze off for a few hours of fitful dreams of warp drive repair. I wanted to get in there, feel the ship move under my feet. Feel her come alive for the first time and work the power out of her until she reached warp 9.9 and flew forever.
One morning after one such restless night, I ended up dozing through the alarm I pulled myself to the fresher a full twenty minutes late for my final simulation run before graduation. This was one class I, Shanley Elizabeth Kirk, did not want to miss...
Author: Keridwen
Disclaimer: this should be self explanatory, if not - put it in a review - I will answer in one of my next few posts.
Chapter One: My Story: How it all Began
It is here by mandated that the role of Captain aboard any Starfleet class vessel, military or otherwise, shall be altered to conform to the needs of an ever-changing United Federation of Planets. Therefore, the role of starship Captain shall be as follows:
1 Diplomatic envoy wherever stationed.
2 Official federation voice in said area.
3 Shall maintain the right to commence with police action on said planet(s).
4 Shall be regarded with the honors of a Federation Ambassador.
Due to the above changes, the role of the Chief Engineer shall subsequently be altered to fit the needs of an ever-changing Federation.
1 The Chief Engineer shall be in charge of all shipboard operations.
2 He/She/It shall make all emergency and tactical decisions regarding the safety of the ship and crew.
3He/She/It will receive orders and assignments and will brief the appropriate departments on actions to take.
Having passed this resolution by a majority vote in the council, said mandate shall be instated on stardate..........
Nargris Hsresit President Ntv. Zeon 9
This was the resolution that changed my life forever.
Earth, Mars, Vulcan, Centaurus, Janus, Vega, Antares, Altair, Betazed, Diaspor and all the planets of Deneb immediately retaliated, but they could do very little. For the moment the minority was running the united Federation of Planets. The more militant faction of the federation, Quonos, Reigil, Andor, Teller, Vashath, Colomn, and Zeon held the floor over the originating twenty members. Of course the newest planets were not going to vote against the Klingons and the Andorians although there was supposedly great peace within the planets of the Federation: especially the Andorians who had been secretly running a chain of well trained intergalactic hit men.
So the vote passed.
In the end, what was a first year academy cadet, sick of politics, and wiped out from exams going to do? Transfer out of command school was not the first thought that came to my head, but it was the plan that succeeded in the end.
I realized, at about that time, that I was never going to be able to fulfill my greatest dream. I took that dream and I mushed it down deep inside my head. Deep, Deep, Deep into the recesses of my brain, so far deep that a Vulcan would have a hard job prying it back out.
I entered engineering school.
Engineering had been my second great passion, and soon it became my first as I shuffled through old and new manuals. The semester we went over the warp drive, the very heart of a starship, I had to take sleeping pills just to let my body rest for a few hours. Kate, my best friend, was going through the Starfleet medical program at the time, and had to come and tuck me in at night - although I don't know where she found the time to do so - to make sure I wasn't going to die of fatigue. "I've never heard of it Liz," she would say, "The average person today usually doesn't die from lack of sleep, but you have a nack for having to be the first at everything, so I am not taking any chances."
To this I would mutter a reply, and doze off for a few hours of fitful dreams of warp drive repair. I wanted to get in there, feel the ship move under my feet. Feel her come alive for the first time and work the power out of her until she reached warp 9.9 and flew forever.
One morning after one such restless night, I ended up dozing through the alarm I pulled myself to the fresher a full twenty minutes late for my final simulation run before graduation. This was one class I, Shanley Elizabeth Kirk, did not want to miss...