p class="p1"Going from Captain of the seaQuest to First Mate of the seaQuest wasn't exactly Commander Ford's first choice, but then again, he knew that he would not have been given the command if it weren't to immediately give up the command to Captain Bridger. Still, he was usually cool as a cucumber under pressure, and now he was ordered to freeze and panic and not be himself. He would give the Captain a bad first impression of him, and who's to say the captain would then choose to make him his first mate?span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1"In the end, it wouldn't matter. The situation turned a lot more dangerous than he had expected, and he had legitimately frozen. Most of Admiral Noyce's plan did work. Captain Bridger assumed command, and dealt with the problem, and he was back on the team. Unfortunately, it came with a cost. People had died at that civilian station the Delta submarine had attacked. And Commander Ford had learned something about himself he had believed impossible. He wasn't always cool under pressure. He was cool under pressure because the super sub gave him every advantage. As soon as he lost his advantage, he lost his cool, too. He panicked and someone else had to pick up the class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1"In the end, it wouldn't matter. The situation turned a lot more dangerous than he had expected, and he had legitimately frozen. Most of Admiral Noyce's plan did work. Captain Bridger assumed command, and dealt with the problem, and he was back on the team. Unfortunately, it came with a cost. People had died at that civilian station the Delta submarine had attacked. And Commander Ford had learned something about himself he had believed impossible. He wasn't always cool under pressure. He was cool under pressure because the super sub gave him every advantage. As soon as he lost his advantage, he lost his cool, too. He panicked and someone else had to pick up the class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p