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.