Chapter 2: Take us out
Captain George walked out on the bridge and looked around. This bridge was larger than the other Excelsior class ships he's been on and had a conference room behind it with a large view screen in the front of the room. George looked over and saw his first officer walking towards him. George met him when he first came onboard.
"Ah, good to see you again Commander Riker." George stated as he shook his hand.
"Thank you sir. It's good to be here." Riker then looked around the room.
"Your station is right back here." George pointed to the back near the conference room doors at a large long console, like the old helm and navigation station.
Riker toke his position at the right hand side of the console in charge of tactical operation.
Back near the front of the bridge, Lieutenant Jr. Grade Demora Sulu was making preparations to leave space dock. Her father, Hikaru Sulu, is captaining the Excelsior, which is patrolling the Romulan neutral zone. Demora misses her father, and wishes that he could be the captain of the Enterprise, but instead she gets William George as a captain. She had never met him before and has nothing against him; she just wants to be close to her commanding officer. Maybe she could be friends with Captain George.
"Are we ready to leave Miss. Sulu?" Captain George asked.
"Yes sir, all engines are standing by." Sulu told him.
"Good, clear all moorings." George ordered.
"Moorings are clear sir." Commander Riker told him.
"One quarter impulse power." George ordered.
"Yes sir." Sulu stated as she pressed the impulse control to get them set off.
After a few more pressed buttons pressed the Enterprise passed through the space door and entered free space.
Captain's Log Stardate: 29329.83 The Enterprise is en route to the domory belt there we will travel to chart mysterious star systems that has been cloaked from our systems due to the minor gamma radiation generated by the belt.
Captain George completed his first command shift onboard the Enterprise with ease. They were traveling at warp six towards the domory belt.
Captain George entered his quarters and immediately laid down. He closed his eyes and drifted off.
On the bridge, the Vulcan science officer lieutenant Narafa'ka was in command of beta shift. Nara (For short) was one of the only Vulcan/Klingons. She always had a constant battle going on inside of her. She had managed to suppress her Klingon side, but whenever she encounters a stressful situation she may break someone's nose. She sometimes wished that her mother didn't choose to make her a 'logical' science experiment. On her home world of Vulcan the only real friend she ever had was the half Vulcan/ human Spock. He was the only one that knew how it felt to not be accepted by anyone. He taught her to suppress the emotional side of her genetic makeup. She would always be grateful to him.
"Lieutenant, we are getting some strange readings." The ensign at the science station told her.
"What kind?" Nara asked.
"It looks like a quantum singularity. But there's nothing like that in this system." The ensign told her.
"Hmm. Could be a Romulan ship. Helm drop to impulse and set a different course to the Domory belt and proceed at warp 7." Nara told the helmsmen.
"Yes sir."
The Enterprise slowed to impulse and changed course and speed up to warp 7.
"Is the quantum singularity procuring?" Nara asked.
"Yes it has changed course to follow us." The ensign told her.
"Yellow alert, energize defense fields, power up phasers and photon torpedoes and keep them locked on the singularity." Nara then pressed the com button. "Captain George to the bridge please."
"Sir, the ship is declocking. It is a Romulan Warbird." The ensign told her.
"Red alert. Shields up." Nara ordered.
"Sir they're firing!"