"Yeah, I've heard that saying too," Jim says with a small smile.
In the year that he's been in command of the Enterprise, there's really only one story that stands out so far. It's not a happy one. It's also complicated, even when telling it to someone who is familiar with the political background of the whole shebang, so he has to consider how to simplify it while still keeping it understandable.
"Our first mission on the Enterprise was when we were still cadets. The main fleet was busy elsewhere when we got a distress call from the planet Vulcan, one of my home planet's closest allies. Starfleet pulled basically the entire Academy to crew seven available ships for what was supposed to be a humanitarian mission. They thought it was a natural disaster; I guess they figured sending us would be good field experience. Turned out it was an ambush. The other six ships didn't figure it out in time. Hell, the only reason Enterprise was spared was because Nero - the Romulan commander - had a personal vendetta against our first officer. He took our captain hostage and destroyed the entire planet with a kind of... superweapon."
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In the year that he's been in command of the Enterprise, there's really only one story that stands out so far. It's not a happy one. It's also complicated, even when telling it to someone who is familiar with the political background of the whole shebang, so he has to consider how to simplify it while still keeping it understandable.
"Our first mission on the Enterprise was when we were still cadets. The main fleet was busy elsewhere when we got a distress call from the planet Vulcan, one of my home planet's closest allies. Starfleet pulled basically the entire Academy to crew seven available ships for what was supposed to be a humanitarian mission. They thought it was a natural disaster; I guess they figured sending us would be good field experience. Turned out it was an ambush. The other six ships didn't figure it out in time. Hell, the only reason Enterprise was spared was because Nero - the Romulan commander - had a personal vendetta against our first officer. He took our captain hostage and destroyed the entire planet with a kind of... superweapon."