Captain’s Log
Stardate: 47439.8 (June 10, 2370)
“A Tangled Web”
Work on both the Preserver Database and the Chronoton Radiation continues to yield breakthroughs. In particular, Commander Faren was able to make significant progress getting a handle on the shielding and possible defensive algorithms to mitigate damage from further Chronoton weapons hits. In my efforts with the Database, we unlocked the oldest files, which dated up to 200 years ago. All reports of these works are documented and sent to the respective Starfleet departments as appropriate.
Six days have passed since the incident at the Mirai Station. I have a not heard from any Starfleet Council representative, until today. Perhaps I am losing my touch, but I didn’t suspect what was to come when our orders were to rendezvous with Admiral Garve at the location of the USS Takal. I must say that I have a particular fondness for this Tellerite, although I would not call our relationship close. It is in his nature to make jokes of uncomfortable situations and so he did pay a comment to my recent experience. Were our positions reversed, I may have done the same.
That aside, I do take exception with the orders that have been issued in regards to my command. Some, and I have my guess as to who, in Starfleet Command have decided that the incident at the Mirai Station highlights an oversight on my part. My command is being questioned and monitored voluntarily by Commander T’lir. Who will then report to Commander Faren, should it be determined that I am unfit. It is a petty suspicion, but I doubt these measures would have been enacted had my Chief Medical Officer not gone so far as to call out a Regulation 121A during the whole transporter split incident. Lieutenant Kehla and I have yet to discuss this matter.
Yet, in spite of their obvious doubts, the Jemison has been personally requested to undertake a new mission. The most sensitive objective we have been given with a crew of cadets. We are to track a leader of a group of Maquis, Kellin Voll, who has somehow acquired the ability to deploy a Tholian Web. The Tholian ambassador insists this matter be dealt with quickly and by the USS Jemison. Due to the particular associations that this ship had during the Tholian war, it is of a somewhat legendary status among them.
I made it a point to clarify our primary objective with Admiral Garve, the technology of the Tholian Web is to be recovered or neutralized, the matter of the Maquis is secondary to the mission. In light of the monitoring of my command, and the personal connections that my first officer must be dealing with, it seemed a prudent point to leave my options open. I have no love for the Maquis and their actions, however I cannot in good conscious condone some of the methods of upholding their ideals, many things that I have done myself in years past. Whatever my classified history might imply, there are certainly some lines not to be crossed, we will soon discover what kind of person this Kelin Vol is.
The opportunity to issue Commander Faren an away mission with his own choice of crew has finally arrived. I do not doubt that he will show himself to be a capable leader. Should I be judged unfit for command of the Jemison, this will put him in a better position to take my place. I would much rather Faren inherit her, than any other Starfleet might issue. For his part, I do sense some personal conflict, given the subject of our mission however, that is not unexpected. His choice of team consists of Lt Kehla, Ensign Domara Ekhot, and Lt Connor Helmsworth. The last of which is an interesting young man, Denobulan and yet so eager to explore the universe that he is willing to adopt a nickname given to him in the academy as his official name. I look forward to hearing the mission report from this team. More and more I realize that the crew of the USS Jemison is an odd and unique one. It will be a bitter time when I part from her, whether that time is soon or comes later.
