To: Crew, USS Broadsword, NCC-80864, Akira class
From: Adm. Yurboss 

Take the newly commissioned Broadsword for a trip around the solar system, and put it through its paces. 

Adm. Yurboss
Starfleet Command

[Captain Thomas, striding proudly onto the bridge of the newly commissioned Broadsword]

Capt. Thomas looks around the bridge, noting the empty places for his hand picked crew. Smiling, the Captain sits in his command chair, and begins composing his message to the crew.

[Leaving the Turbolift onto the Bridge]

He strides off the turbolift and salutes the Captain and says: " Lt K'Lutz Reporting for Duty, Sir" With his other hand he flourishes his orders and offers them to the Captain. 

[Chief Tactical Officer Lieutenant VanArsdale, striding ... oh, wait, he tripped ... now he's back to striding, onto the bridge]

The Lieutenant straightens his tunic as he exits the turbolift onto the stainless steel look of the Akira Class starship's bridge ... nodding at a few Engineers who were working on a few consoles, he moves toward the Tactical Console, relieves the officer there ... and adds in his command codes to activate his access to the console. With a slight nod to the others, he calls out: "Lieutenant Jacob VanArsdale, reporting for duty."

[CSO Alexis, reporting to bridge] 

CSO Alexis walks onto the bridge and gives the captain a nod and a smile. She takes over SCI 1 as she thinks about the mission to come and hopes for some action.

[CMO Kil'R, sitting at her desk in sickbay]

Looking over the medical files for the crew, Dr. Kil'R suddenly remembers that she needs to report to the Captain.

"Dr. Kil'R to the bridge. Sorry to be late reporting in, Captain. I'm in sickbay, ready to get this run underway."

{If good response, close communication nicely, if bad response...}
"Thank you, sir," Dr. Kil'R replies with a snide tone.
{end conditional}

Dr. Kil'R goes back to work studying the crew's medical profiles.

[Dr. Kil'R, from sickbay]

A voice emanates from the bridge's communications system. "Dr. Kil'R to the bridge. Sorry to be late reporting in, Captain. I'm in sickbay, ready to get this run underway."

[Captain Thomas, in the command chair on the bridge]

Captain Thomas sees everyone entering the bridge, and hears the CMO's comm. Deciding this is the perfect moment, he stands to deliver his welcome aboard speech.

"We have a new ship to fly here, and a great crew to fly it. I look to all of you to do your jobs as well as I know you can. You are a fine crew, though you don't know it yet. We may be small, but we are strong. With this crew, and this ship, we will quickly be known throughout the Federation. Now, let's see how this Broadsword cuts through space! Helm, engage course."

[OPS Lt K'Lutz at his console on bridge] 

Quickly moving to his console, he receives permission to get under way and transfers the course approved for leaving this station. He then casts free power couplings, and docking clamps and balances the power load for "normal operations" flight. "Captain, I have received permission and bearings for departure. We have docking clamps away and docking power removed. Power systems stable, ready at OPS to depart."

[CSO Alexis on the bridge at SCI 1]

A bust of adrenaline rushes through her as she listens to Captain Thomas speak. Eager to begin the journey she turns back to face the displays at her station as the Broadsword hit warp speed.

[Standing at Tactical on the Bridge after the ship launched]

There is a momentary beeping at his console ... and VanArsdale looks down in shock. A distress call is coming in ... he reads out the distress call, and immediately looks up at his Commanding Officer, "Captain ... we're receiving a distress call from a nearby freighter, they're caught in a nearby asteroid field." He prepares to go to yellow or possibly red alert ... but only on the Captain's orders. 

[Captain Thomas, in the command chair on the bridge]

Capt Thomas turns to the CTO and asks, "Can you pinpoint the location?"

After getting the heading information downloaded to the helm, the CO orders the ship to the location of the distress call at maximum speed, and calls for red alert.

"Capt. Thomas to all crew. We are entering a possibly dangerous situation with a mostly untested ship. Stay sharp, and make sure you double check everything. This is not a drill."

20 minutes later, the Broadsword is approaching the freighter, caught near the edge of an asteroid belt.

"OPS, when we're in range, begin beaming survivors directly to sickbay. CTO, fire phasers at all asteroids heading toward the freighter. CSO, how long is that ship going to last in it's current condition?"

[At Tactical, on the Bridge as the U.S.S. Broadsword enters warp toward the Freighter]

After having fed coordinates to the Operations console at the Captain's request, VanArsdale powers phasers for some close-range "surgery" of an asteroid field. As the Broadsword arrives at the intended area, and he receives his orders, he locks phasers on the asteroids nearest the Freighter ... of course trying to protect them, and opens fire at a trajectory to prevent the phasers or the asteroids from harming the Freighter itself ... he stands and watches the red energy strike outward, hopeful.

[OPS Lt K'Lutz at his station beaming injured to the ship's Sickbay]

Quickly taking the data from the CTO's Feed, he programs their locale into the transporters and begins beaming them directly to sickbay. At the same time he uses the ships comm. system to warn the Doctor in Sickbay : "Doctor, you have 35 casualties that are being transported directly to your location" He then turns to the captain : "Captain, 35 casualties beamed to sickbay, sir"

OPS Lt K'Lutz from Bridge]

A Voice comes over the comm system: "Doctor, you have 35 casualties that are being transported directly to your location" then the comm shuts off.

[Dr. Kil'R, in sickbay, standing over a patient]

Dr. Kil'R mutters something about nasty plasma burns, heals her patient, and moves on to the next. Seeing that this one has 3 broken legs, she pulls out the osteo-regenerator and begins healing the bones while running her tricorder over the next patient.

"Why didn't they give me a full medical staff before we left starbase?"

The computer responds, "Insufficient information for query, please restate."

Dr. Kil'R laughs, then looks over to her sole assistant, on the opposite side of sickbay, working just as hard as she is, thankful that the one she has is one of the best.

[CSO Alexis, at science station]

Checking sensors and shield integrity. "Captain, I estimate we have about 3 minutes to get them beamed aboard and get out of here."
She smiles as she works the controls at her station, completely at home on the bridge of the starship.

[At Tactical on the Bridge, finishing off the assault on the asteroids]

VanArsdale gently brushes his hands over the Tactical Console. The quite sensitive instruments within the console respond to his "typing," and the phaser blasts end ... effectively clearing the way for them and the Freighter. 
"Asteroid threat ended, sir ... the area should be clear for now," he reports to the Captain ... and partially the bridge. Not a bad test for the ship's weapons systems, he muses, but at what cost?

[Capt. Thomas, on the bridge]

After hearing all the reports from his crew, Captain Thomas orders a course out of the asteroid belt. Moments after they leave, an explosion rocks the ship. A quick look to Lt. K'Lutz confirms that the explosion came from the freighter.

An hour later, the Broadsword docks at the starbase they had left only hours before, and offloads the wounded. Captain Thomas opens a comm to the entire ship to congratulate them.

"Great job, everyone. We had a job, and we did it. Thankfully, this time there were no fatalities, but in the future there might be. I have complete confidence that, when that day comes, we will be ready. We, the crew of the USS Broadsword, will be ready for anything."