The Ship

Part 2 of

The San Antonio chronicles

Graduation of the newest batch of cadets at Starfleet Academy had just ended and the cadets finally got a chance to relax all but one. Lieutenant Commander Lea Anne Miller was packing in her room for during the ceremony the dean of the academy Admiral Riker gave her something that everyone found very odd, she had received orders to report to the Mars shipyard by 1600 hours on Thursday other orders would follow after that.

Lea Anne Miller grew up in a small town in Oregon not to far from the Portland area. Her family was very excited the day she got accepted into the academy everybody knew she was going to get in since the first day of her freshmen year. Growing up in Sandy Oregon wasn't that bad every school she went to she was always the popular one and very smart, when she was in first grade she was reading and practicing math at a 6th grade level by 5th she was doing things that only high school seniors couldn't even dream about, and by high school she was qualified to join Starfleet as a freshmen.

But in small towns news always spreads around quickly and soon enough her quiet life of popularity was not so quiet anymore and the whirlwind of Starfleet began.

The next day she reported to the shuttle bay at Starfleet to be transported to the mars shipyard to report to her station. As she arrived, Admiral Riker was standing there with a p.a.d.d with her next set of orders, he handed her the p.a.d.d and she stopped and read it.

Lieutenant Lea Anne Miller your orders are as follows, you are to report to The USS San Antonio where you are to be their chief tactical officer and head of security for the ship your captain whom you will meet upon arrival of your duty station is Captain Robert Moore and your first officer will be Commander Maxine Moore good luck. And with that she was on the shuttle craft heading for Mars.

As soon as she arrived at the station she was overwhelmed, she had never seen a ship of that size and class she flew over the bow of the ship and over the bridge and saw the ships designation USS San Antonio NCC 759480. It was the newest class ship the Archer class starship was the sister class of the intrepid starships however it did not have the variable geometry nacelles like the intrepid class.

Lea arrived in the shuttle bay and was met by the first officer Commander Moore.

"Welcome Lt. Miller, the captain is in his ready room going over the personnel files he said as soon as you were on board the senior bridge staff were to report to the observation lounge for a meeting." Said the commander and with that she tapped her communicator and said, "shuttle bay 2 to the captain the last of the senior staff is here and I am bringing her to the observation lounge, Moore out."

Captain Moore and the rest of the staff were already there and sitting down at the desk when the Commander and Lt. Miller arrived, they sat down and the meeting began.

"Alright, let's get this started by first introducing ourselves I will go first. I am Captain Robert Moore, and this is my wife and First Officer Commander Maxine Moore."

A Vulcan with a Lt. Insignia stood up and looked around the room he saw a klingon, a romulan, an android and two human females one of which was already introduced.

Then he spoke "I am Paik of Vulcan I am the chief ops officer."

"I am Ensign Alexander Greshenko and I am the helms officer and backup tactical officer." The klingon said.

The romulan stood up and spoke "I am Lt. Commander Jalnar of Romulus and I am the Chief medical officer for the ship."

The other female stood up and said "I am Lt. Lea Miller and I am the tactical officer and chief security officer for the San Antonio."

Then the android spoke and said "I am Dante and I am the engineer for the San Antonio."

"Good" the Captain said "now lets get onto business our first mission is to patrol the neutral zone between the cardassian and federation border Ensign plot a course at warp 6"

"Aye aye captain" the ensign spoke and with that they were on their way.

The exit from space dock went very well and the ensign for his first time piloting a starship wasn't that bad. They did some tests before leaving the system to go to the border between cardassian space and federation space but other than that every thing was going fine.

The captain pleased with his new crew and the way they were working went into his ready room and went on looking at the personnel files he had yet to finish, as he was doing so he looked out of the window and looked into the vastness of space and thought to himself "what an adventure."