Commander Tolek of the USS Milford had just received word from Ensign T'Pemu that a communique' from Starfleet Command with news of who their new captain is, had just been received. Opening up the communique from Admiral T'Nea he found the complete Service record of Captain "3 of 11."

A glowing recommendations from Captains she had served under in the past were included as well. It seems she was involved in the Battle of Wolf 359 and was assimilated and spent 45 years as a borg. It seems that being part of the collective obviously slows the aging process thought Tolek to himself.

Looking at her picture he noticed a striking woman with black and grey hair. Very large grey eyes. Her Records show her to be in her 80's however, she looked no older than late 30's. Age does not often bring wisdom he noted to himself.

Looking further, he noted notes about her time with the Borg as chronicled and researched by none other than 7 of 9 (Anaka Hansen.):

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"3 of 11 tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 0-2 was assimilated during the battle of Wolf 359 from the USS Yamaguchi NCC-26510. Once assimilated it appears she served in the far reaches of the Delta quadrant at the secondary beachhead of Borg Space.
3 of 11 remembers the disappearance of the Borg Queen that corresponds to the time the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E chased a Borg Probe ship to Earth's Past.
At this time the secondary queen was awakened from stasis and 3 of 11 was sent to a further beachhead aboard a Borg Cube near Romulan space. It was there that the Romulans captured her Cube and while many drones were destroyed it seems 3 of 11 was found barely functioning screaming in agony.
It was later reported by a Romulan centurion that when they boarded the Borg ship they had disabled the Communications beacon in their area. This had the effect of cutting off 3 of 11 from the collective. She implored the Romulan Centurion to hot wire her cortical node to his tricorder. She than shunted the output of the tricorder into an inter-connecting-plexus node of the Borg Cube and thrust here Borg enhanced right hand into a raw plasma stream.
It seems her intent was to sacrifice herself to save the Romulans as the intense pain of the plasma stream was broadcast to all the remaining drones overloading their cortical nodes.
She was identified as Human and Praetor Sela was impressed with her bravery and sacrifice for the Romulans and saw an opportunity. In a rare peaceful gesture Praetor Sela contacts the now retired Ambassador Picard and offers to have the Drone shipped to Starfleet Headquarters in exchange for any and all Borg research and information.
Picard brokers an agreement and Starfleet concedes and gives a great deal of information to the Romulans. It is later learned that the Romulans now used that information to reverse engineer much of the Borg technology at the Vault.
The Drone in stasis was brought to Starfleet medical where she was worked on by the former EMH Doctor from USS Voyager and after weeks of surgeries and counseling returned to humanity."

Commander Tolek considered the implications and cost to get this Drone back. Leave it to the Humans to use their passions to bring one of their lost ones home. Tolek often observed that often the humans felt that the "needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many."

When 3 of 11 was assimilated she was Lt. Commander Joan Chappell from Milford NH. She was an advanced Tactical officer with aspirations for command. Once she returned to Humanity she felt the call of space again and re applied to Star Fleet Academy and was given an accelerated course in Star Fleet Command School. As she had done years before she graduated at the top of her class and received many commendations. As well as on Demerit for striking another officer.

Her First Command was aboard the Light Cruiser Laredo Victory Where she served with distinction after being forced to take over command during a borg incursion that killed most of the command crew. While in the Tactical track, it has been said about her, that her mind is very scientific and she could very well be the next Kathryn Janeway.

Commander Tolek was impressed with her service record. But was still dubious about letting Borg enhanced Humans command starships. Indeed he noted that there were in fact many complaints about her extreme shifts in emotionalism and then extreme lack thereof. As a Vulcan he understood how many crew members often have had a history of a hard time dealing with Emotionless commanders. And consequently sometimes they often had an even harder time with over emotional Commanders.

One final entry was the former USS Voyager's EMH report on Captain 3 of 11:

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Captain 3 is indeed a rare human.. The extreme pain she was in during her stasis and up to her removal of many of her Borg hardware. Her Heart, left lung, hip bones, vertebrae most of her skull are all borg designed replacements. Her skull cap was recast back to a more human shape and her left eye is much the same design I had used for 7 of 9.
Her right hand is mostly regenerated and grown from a clone but I suspect the trauma of the pain she endured from her ordeal in freeing the Romulans from the Borg has cause her to have no pain receptor usage in the hand. Consequently she has broken it on more than one occasion during rehabilitation in moments of frustration.
With only a few Protrusions like the one around here left eye she has much of her original Human shape. In later reports 3 has reported that everything seems to work in the "lower dept. in regards to sexual liaisons." An uncomfortable conversation to be sure. However, due to her hips being locked and most of her rib cage is metal as well thus, she will never be able to bare her own children. However, she has the option of ovum donation and surrogate mothers if she so desires. For now, her reproductive functions have been "turned off" with hormonal treatments to prevent her emotional promiscuity to cause any accidents.
Captain 3 has had to retain the most dependency of Nano probes by any human liberated borg of record. I have re-sequenced them and programmed them for her specific needs. It seems the Nano probes are enhancing here cellular structure and they have almost suspended her aging process. 7 of 9 has much the same issue but this is much more pronounced. It's indeed possible she could be very active to her 330th birthday.
Captain 3 is able to process food however she still requires time in a regeneration chamber. Like 7 we have adapted a bed that can serve as a regeneration chamber so she can have somewhat normal sleeping habits again.
3's emotional stability was at times questioned. Every Borg reintegration to their formal selves is often very traumatic. However, while I am not a ships counselor or a psycho analyst I will say she is the most adjusted Human I have encountered. She is quick witted at times when she allows herself and she does imbibe with her drinking habits that seem to be Borg enhanced. My Old friend and shipmate Admiral Chakotey tried to keep up with a bottle of romulan ale with her once… And has vowed he will never try it again."

Commander Tolek contemplated his new captain's record. On the surface she appears to be a fine officer. But emotionalism, Drinking, not the least of which a traumatic 40 years as a Borg Drone, and at what cost to get her back to her humanity not the least of which from Romulan hands? Tolek was questioning the wisdom of Starfleet's decision to give her command of anything let alone the Milford. There are always Possibilities, he thought, and resolved to meet his new captain with an open mind.