Story:Star Trek: Sovereign/A New Mission/Prologue

Story so far: The Dominion War is over and peace has been restored to the Alpha and Beta Quadrants now its time for Starfleet to begin to go back to what it was founded on Explore Strange new Worlds and to Seek New Lives and Gases Anomalies, but unknown to everyone someone is watching.

A Sovereign-Class ship is berthed at the Earth Station for more work on her engines as a shuttle flies towards the ship.

Inside the shuttle a Starfleet female Captain is sitting in the co-pilot chair looking at a PADD and then looks at her new ship and smiles.

"Shuttle Craft Darwin to Helena Control requesting permission to dock asked Captain Brianna Martin as she looks at her new Command.

Permission granted Shuttlecraft Darwin Shuttle bay 2 and welcome aboard ma'am, says the flight control officer.

She smiles.

"Thanks launch control," Brianna says as she inputs commands into her console.

The shuttle enters the shuttle bay as more worker bees fly around it.

The bridge is buzzing with life as the Captain walks onto the bridge and Lieutenant Mitchell sees the Captain.

"CAPTAIN ON DECK!" Lieutenant Mitchell shouts as she snaps to attention.

The entire crew snaps to attention.

"As you were," Captain Martin says as she looks at the crew.

She walks over to the tactical officer.

"Welcome aboard the Sovereign Captain I'm Lieutenant Jamie Mitchell your chief security/Tactical officer," Lieutenant Mitchell says as she looks at Brianna and shakes her hand.

Brianna walks to the three chairs in the center and sits her center chair and spins a bit in it.

"I like it," Captain Martin says as she smirks at Lieutenant Mitchell.

Mitchell looks at her.

"I'm glad you do ma'am this ship is the state of the art ship we've got a full complement of photon and quantum torpedoes and we run a start up test on the phasers banks and they work great and main engineering is working on our warp drive," Lieutenant Mitchell says as she looks at Captain Martin.

Brianna looks at the PADD.

"I read the reports the port side plating buckled during the last warp test," Captain Martin says as she looks at her.

She gets up from the chair.

"I think I'll make my way to Main Engineering to see how things are going, you've got the bridge Lieutenant," Captain Martin says as she looks at Lieutenant Mitchell and heads to the turbo-lift.

In Main Engineering the Engineering crew is working around the port conduits of the warp plasma relays.

"Double check those figures, Ensign." The Sovereign Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Renee Mitchell says as she instructed, pointing at her young assistance.

He looks confused.

"But sir we're suppose to have the injectors not running at 16% and what's wrong with that," The young ensign says as he looks at Commander Mitchell.

Renee looks at him.

""I know a deviation of 0.0005 in the matter—anti-matter flux doesn’t sound critical—and under normal situations it wouldn’t be—but what if our new captain were to order immediate acceleration to warp 9 while at the same time calling for full power to weapons and shields and structural integrity fields?"

Grinning, Mitchell explained.

"That’s right—that 0.0005 deviation could become very critical! Granted, it’s only one chance in 10,000 that it blows up, but if it does…if we’re lucky—all that would happen is that we’d drop out of warp—our dilithium crystals fused. If not—BOOM—core breach and we’re all gone!"

Then, handing the padd back to the junior officer, Mitchell instructed.

"Recheck your calculations and come to me when you get that matter—anti-matter flux deviation down to 0.00005 or lower," Commander Mitchell says as she looks at him.

"Yes Sir. Thank you, Sir." The ensign replied with a smile as Mitchell’s pep talk had its desired effect.

He leaves to go work on the port plasma conduits.

"Kids," Renee chuckled as Commander Mason entered the Engineering section, nodding his head in approval as he saw the bustle of activity; the ship’s engineering officer at the center of it.

""How’s everything going, Commander?" The Sovereign’s Executive Officer asked, his lips turning up into a rare smile.