It's been an eventful year for Rebecca Byrne.

Up until Wolf 359 things had been going great, Beck loved her job and loved Starfleet and loved its mission; she had breezed upward through the ranks collecting commendations as she went, until she found herself stationed at the tactical console of the USS Melbourne when the Borg attacked at Wolf 359.  She was at her post when the ship was sliced to ribbons and started coming apart around her, and although she barely even remembers what happened between then and waking up in a starbase medbay, she was told she'd saved eleven crew members' lives during the emergency evacuation and earned herself a promotion to Lieutenant Commander and a post as the chief tactical officer of the USS Phoenix.

Soon after, on board the Phoenix, the events of the episode "The Wounded" were not nearly so straightforward and unanimous as Captain Maxwell had described when he explained himself to Picard on the Enterprise.  Several of the ship's officers had strongly objected to Maxwell's actions, and refused to fire on the Cardassians.  Beck was the most senior of them, and therefore she spent the events of that episode in the Phoenix's brig.  She was still there when the ship finally returned to Starbase 211, and once Starfleet had sorted out the whole affair they told her she'd earned another promotion, this time to the rank of Commander and the post of First Officer of the Phoenix.

I need a cup holder, and a EVA-type phaser rifle holster for the bridge.

Live long and prosper, Commander Byrne.

Ah, a fellow Wolf 359 survivor.  Not that Devon will ever talk about that.  Also don't expect her to know anything at all about regulations and everything will be fine.

Operations Officer: There is a hazard to ship operations in the destination sector, what is it?

I'm waiting on the Commander.

I don't want to be rude.

I like her. We're going to get along great!

That's the spirit!  Vulcans love overly emotional humans, right?

<.<

Now where is my XO? Someone go find her, please.

"Captain to transporter room. Please lock on our XO's signal and beam her to the lounge."

I think we need to address the issue of the cloaking device... is it borrowed from the Klingons, with  Kotar along to operate it and look after it?

Speaking of our XO: are we going to advertise for a new one?

Or is it borrowed from the Klingons, with  Kotar along to operate it and look after it?

Very plausible. This is the going rumor now that the senior officers are in the know about USS Phoenix's second treaty violation inside six months!

All right, I don't want to hear anyone saying that Devon doesn't show enough respect for Starfleet regulations.  :P

In reply to Lieutenant Commander Iren Thatyil (msg # 84):

If the XO remains indisposed, that makes Iren the next highest ranking officer … feel free to use that observation however you like!

Make us pay for being so clever and crafty?

Well, that's a given.  Players always have to pay when they get clever and crafty.

Now I let your own clever ideas be the instrument of my revenge! Bwahahaha!!

It takes a lot of juice to run a big sprawly game like this with multiple threads. Often more than the GM can keep up with. Then it becomes a chore and gets put off, and finally abandoned.

Seen it many times.

But it was fun to be a Klingon for a while.