Captains Log-

The ship and the crew performed well on our first mission in this new area of operations. The mood of all the messages and communiques we’ve been receiving from command sound…tense. The Admirals at HQ and the Commodore in charge of the sector still have not told us a definitive timeline on our mission or when support or additional vessels will be made available.

I’ve noted that the Chancellor and the Headwind are both over a week away at maximum warp, and on urgent assignment that they can’t postpone or divert from regardless. Any larger task force won’t even be mounted or formed up until the diplomats get us some answers… or Kirk forbid there’s another attack…then they’d likely rush every old bucket within a 100 lightyears out here just to prove we’d actually put up a fight. The news mentioned ‘ongoing negotiations’ with the Tholians but nothing else on the diplomatic front so far today.

Lt. Ingram has proven himself to be an asset at the Tactical console regardless of the colour of his uniform Chuckles at his own blue tunic…And the XO has almost daily proven himself to be a capable leader and expert tactician. As such, I’ve chosen to promote them to LCdr and Commander respectively.

Its almost curious to consider how they are both former fighter pilots, and successful ones at that. Perhaps I should forward their service records and psych profiles for Professor Glantz to use in sociological research, his new theory about stressful yet team oriented units and low frequency yet high intensity jobs creating highly adaptive and successful leaders across history is intriguing and seemingly well supported at this point.

LCdr Joe has also been a model second officer so far in his first few weeks on the job, I will be officially forwarding a nomination for him to be the first cetacean to recieve a Legion of Merit award. I have worded the citation to also reflect his nearly 20 years a cetacean ops department head to cover the ‘significant impact or invaluable assistance” criteria the award requires.. Without him and our 2 other cetaceans working 12 hour shifts for the past months and a half our ability to travel outside of estabished warp corridors would be greatly deminished.

The rescue of the crew of the Shuswap has raised morale slightly, as it turned out a total of 117 Starfleet crew had been rescued after the Tholian attack(there was no other words for it, they had just ambushed the 2 vessels, as the Shuswap data recorders soon proved). The CC rescuing 83 and the Solvang picking up another 34 who had made it to escape pods before the Kozlov had been destroyed. I hope the Ambassadors can work this out soon though, we are spread pretty thin out here. Sigh

Computer end log.