A/N: No reviews? It will have to get better then that or I might just post the story as I have it now in Dutch. I don't mind if you don't like the story I would like your opinion anyway. If you do like this story please let me know and I will continue posting.
Just a warning there are things happening in this story that i'm sure are considered impossible even if it is science fiction but it takes to much trouble to change it.
Chapter 2
It took two more months for the Serantoga to be completed and prepared for its long trip. And the crew needed to be fully manned, even though there were no aliens in the command staff there were a number of them below that from numerous world that participated in the federation. When they finally departed space dock and Trip felt the full burden of command on his shoulders he noticed the difficulties of being in command, having to make judgment calls without conferring with your superiors, he was truly alone. He did invite people to his private mess, but the going between Trip and his chief engineer weren't always as smooth since Trip tended to think more as an engineer then a captain, and Rick the new chief science sometimes joined. Mostly it was just Trip and Malcolm sometimes joined by Hoshi and Travis. The crew was beginning to get used to each other and the interspecies cooperation went relatively smoothly.
Two months later they had mapped and gathered data on comets, star formations and some uninhabitable planets but know they encountered their first inhabited planet of this mission. This planet was not yet known to the federation and a scan showed that the population seemed to have an advanced technology looked sort of humanoid and where in the process of developing warp drive they had just broken the warp 2 barrier. When they hailed the planet they were invited to come take a look, they weren't the first off world visitors.
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