I don't own Star Trek but this is one of two stories I'm trying to get published into actual books and I don't own characters you recognize
The ensign was working frantically to get everyone evacuated before the bombs went off. She had personally made sure to give the evacuation code for starbase 239, and then started to direct people to either the escape shuttles or to transporter areas so that the ships that had volunteered to get people off the station could get people. Unknowingly for the ensign she would be the only person to get off that station in a lone escape pod because only one pod worked, and all personnel on both the station and the starships that were docked there were agreed that the ensign that had tried to save everyone that she could would be the one to survive the tragedy. In the meantime she was looking for her captain and finally found him.
"Captain Anegal we need to get to the escape shuttles now"
"ensign Jewel only one person can escape this all the escape shuttles and all but one pod are non functional and the ships can't escape in time"
"then that person has to be you captain"
The captain knocks the ensign out with a hypospray before she could protest and puts her in the pod.
"sorry ensign but it's been decided that you would be the one to survive this tragedy goodbye ensign and good luck"
With ensign Jewel safely inside the pod the captain pushes the button that released the pod from the station. Moments later the station exploded with all personnel inside and one pod outside transmitting an emergency beacon so that it could be found by other ships in the area that were friendly. Two hours later a Vulcan observation ship found the pod and her inside it still out cold.
"Captain that pod is transmitting an emergency distress signal, on a Federation frequency, it looks to be automated"
"life signs Lt?"
"one life sign sir"
"beam them directly to sickbay they may be injured, and ensign try to maneuver around this debris field whatever it was caused by"
"aye sir"
and so ensign Jewel was beamed directly to sickbay and the Vulcan doctor was a little shocked to see a Starfleet officer. Two hours later she woke up to the faces of the doctor and Captain.
"hello I am Captain T'lan of the Vulcan observation ship T'vral"
"ensign Jewel formerly of starbase 329"
"formerly ensign?"
"yes Captain, if I could talk to Starfleet command I'll explain everything to both at once"
And so they went to the bridge and contacted Starfleet command and the answering officer was obviously annoyed
"look I'm not trying to be rude but would you please make whatever you need quick we have a bit of an emergency on our hands with-"
"with the loss of communication with starbase 239? I know, I am the sole survivor of that base"
"what do you mean sole survivor?"
"ah forgive me ensign Jewel reporting in after surviving the destruction of starbase 239, I can give you a full report within the hour but basically the base was somehow blown up"
"what do you mean blown up ensign?"
"sir what I mean is that the base was laced with bombs that we could not have defused, most certainly not all of them before they all went off, so instead of trying to do that I started the evacuation procedure and was trying to get my commanding officer off the starbase when I was somehow knocked unconscious"
the responding officer just gave a defeated sigh
"understood ensign if we could have your coordinates we can get the nearest starship to you to get you back to earth for reassignment"
"aye sir"
And so five days later the T'vral rendezvoused with the USS FEREGUTE and ensign Jewel was beamed aboard the ship for the trip back to earth. Two weeks later she was at her new assignment on starbase 172.
She met her new captain at 1500 hours exactly as her orders told her unfortunately they would get off to a rough start and it would only get worse. And so for two years she was on that starbase though there was a brief stint on DS9, though she never got promoted, when after two years with a Captain that she argued with constantly she got a full explanation as to what had happened to the base she had previously served on.
"basically ensign if you had found the one bomb that could stop all of them you would have been able to save the entire base and still be with them now"
"thank you for telling me sir"
a few days later the Enterprise docked and unknowingly for Jewel she was about to be transferred onto that ship.
"Captain I don't think you understand something she does not take to orders well in fact a few days ago I had to write her up for disobeying a direct order when she went into the docking bay"
"that doesn't matter to me Captain I have her transfer orders right here and I intend to obey them good day"
and so for three years Jewel served aboard the Enterprise when one day they docked at station 135 for some routine maintenance and upgrades not knowing that her past was about to catch up to her. They were staying on board the ship when Data spoke up.