Personal Log, Cdt. William Laiden

[William Laiden 0]

Personal Log

Stardate 0404.01

Cdt. William Laiden

 

"Begin recording,

 

I was anxious about my first day at the academy. Reading the guidelines of conduct, I knew that I could succeed and graduate. I entered the Halodeck where training would begin, with great anticipation. I knew that I must succeed, make a great first impression.

 

Our Commander asked what position we would like to begin our careers in, I was split between tactical and ops. I finally chose ops because I wanted to be in the position to get all crucial information to my Captain quickly.

 

Our mission was to go into the nebula; the reason eludes me as I record this. I knew that this was not a good idea as soon as I saw the radiation levels in the ship rise. Our helmsman did his best, but we took a direct hit from an escaping plasma stream that breeched the hull on several decks. I erected force fields to contain those areas, but we lost a man. I felt so bad about my failure.

 

The Commander was in a state of shock, I called sickbay to report to the bridge, I got no response. The comm. system may have been malfunctioning, although I saw no indication on my console.

 

I suggested to turn back and leave the nebula, we had lost too many people, the captain agreed; the helmsman made an about face.

 

Right when I thought that it was going to be OK, that my suggestion was going to save us all, the most horrible tragedy occurred, most likely programmed in though, to test us. A huge plasma stream disabled the shields and collapsed the bulkheads keeping the bridge together, the bridge had breeched. Air started escaping from my lungs as I started to faint. I’m not sure if it was me, or another officer, but the force fields regained enough power to reactivate. I recompressed the bridge, but to my utter horror, I heard no request for a damage report. I looked behind me to see nobody sitting in the command chairs; both the Captain and Commander were sucked out. With simulated fatality reports pouring in from all decks I knew I had to take command, as none of the other cadets knew what to do. I announced the situation, and assigned myself as acting captain.

 

With warp engines down, port thrusters down, no indication or shielding, I thought about abandoning ship, I ran option through my head as we continued out of the nebula. The ship suddenly exploded in a glorious, but disappointing shower of burning failure. I had taken too long to make a decision. I had put my head out to try to salvage the simulation, but failed with my teachers watching. I hope that my next sim tonight will give me the opportunity to shine.

 

End recording."

Edited April 2, 2004 by William Laiden

[Ki'rok 0]

None of the other cadets knew what to do???

 

Whoa, tiger.....slow your roll... :rolleyes:

[Cptn Moose 0]

Excellent job, Mr. Laiden!

[Grom 0]

Yes, great job!

 

Good to have you here. :rolleyes:

[Vex Xiang 0]

Great writing :rolleyes:

[Crewman #6 0]

Great work Laiden! I remember that sim (I was an assistant medical officer, as I recall), and its bascially as you described it. In short, all hell broke loose! Good writing.

 

-Cadet Nathan Dow

[William Laiden 0]

Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Probably nothing could have been done to succeed.

[Travis Kroells 0]

Hells a bad word that makes me cry and that makes me sad so I have to go destroy something and then Ill feel better and that one thing where nobody lives is a kobyashy Marru or something like that its bad cuz you cant win with means you lose nad when I lose I feel bad and probably in a couple of hours after I sleep Ill freak out and delete these posts but by then vanroy will laugh at me and Ill get PM's about this but its fun cause I can ramble and its the most Ive put in posts for a while so it is content over quantity but now my head hurts cuz I had to think so thanks a lot

[William Laiden 0]

That was a huge run-on sentence Kroells, try useing periods, or possibly commas! ;)

[Tovan 0]

good job Ladien so where was the part about me taking possession of the warp core ? ha ha ha hah a