All Good Things....

Posted on 25 Jul 2016 @ 10:33am by Captain Jonathan Holliday

468 words; about a 2 minute read

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First Officer's Log, Captain Jonathan Holliday reporting.

This will be my final log entry as Executive Officer of the USS Galileo. As per my recent orders from Starfleet Command, I have been recalled to Earth to take up a position at the Academy, it seems that the Admiralty have had to tuck their tails between their legs, and ask me to return to a teaching role in order to keep the fleet from falling apart when the latest cadets can't find the button to fire torpedoes...which for the record is clearly marked 'fire torpedoes.'

When I first took up this posting three years ago, I was full of distrust and simmering rage at having been assigned to a science tug, rather than to a vessel more suited to my tactical training. Those feelings however have been somewhat tempered - and I now find myself feeling more than a little uncomfortable at the idea of stepping off that Bridge for the final time.

It is not often that an officer can come aboard as a Lieutenant Commander, and within a few years have been made a Captain, and for a time, a Commanding Officer also - I am proud of the work that I have achieved here, and I hope that whoever takes my place in that second chair gives this ship as much of their soul as I have tried to do.

Galileo is a good ship - small, cramped, and in some ways insignificant amongst the rest of the fleet, but for me, I can think of no finer ship - and no finer crew.

I will be departing this posting in the coming hours aboard a shuttlecraft bound for Earth. I am sure that Starfleet will waste no time in assigning a replacement officer here, and in time, I am equally sure that it will be as if I was never here at all. Such is the life of an Executive Officer, and one that I am happy to have lived.

Let the record show that this vessel and her crew served under me both as XO and CO with distinction, valour and courage even in the face of extraordinary danger and hardship. At no point did I feel that my life was truly in danger, because I knew I could count on my crew and comrades.

I ask that the crew continue in that fine tradition, and the oldest tradition in Starfleet - to seek out new lives, and new civilisations, and to go boldly into the final frontier.

I envy you people - out here on the fringes of space. Scientists and researchers yes, but with hearts as brave as any soldier I have met.

Goodbye.

End log.


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CAPT Jonathan Holliday
Executive Officer (former)
USS Galileo

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