Captain's View

Aboard the starship Nimitz, a young lieutenant takes command with the support of her peers.

Summary
The USS Nimitz (NCC-74215) sat adrift in space. The senior officer in the engine room, Andrea Riffin, took reports from the rest of the crew indicating that they are leaking plasma, communications are down, and that there is a hull breach on the bridge.

Meanwhile, the USS Baldwin (NCC-2013) emerged from a temporal conduit and detected Nimitz adrift in space. Richie beamed over to the engineering section, where he is reunited with old friend, Katy Cassoday, and is introduced to Lindsay Curtis.

Once Nimitz was brought back to operation, Baldwin detected three Jem'Hadar ships. The two ships successfully defeated the Dominion ships and proceeded to Starbase 375.

Having observed how Andrea handled the situation, and with a measure of support from Katy, Richie recommended that Andrea be given command of Nimitz, which Starfleet command accepted.

Andrea was given her first mission. Nimitz, Baldwin, Ottawa, and Hood were assigned to a patrol to keep the Dominion from expanding past Betazed. After 5 days with no "action," 20 Jem'Hadar attack ships attacked the patrol, disabling Baldwin. Andrea quickly came up with a statigic four-prong attack, hiding Nimitz behind Ottawa while Ottawa utilized the multi-vector assult mode.

Background

 * From Baldwin's perspective, the first act of this story occurs immediately after the events of Time's Eagle

Links
Captain's View Full text of the story, at the USS Baldwin series home