Duty, Honor, Redemption (Star Trek: All)
Prologue
Captain's Log: Stardate 8130.5
Starship Enterprise on training mission to Gamma
Hydra. Sector 14, coordinates 22/87/4.
Approaching Neutral Zone, all systems
functioning.
Mister Spock, in his old place at the science
officer's station, gazed around at the familiar
bridge of the Enterprise. The trainees, one per
station and each under the direction of an
experienced crew member, were so far comporting
themselves well.
It was a good group, and the most able of them
was the young officer in the captain's seat.
Spock expected considerable accomplishments from
Saavik. She was young for her rank, and she
enhanced her natural aptitude with an apparently
inexhaustible capacity for hard work.
Spock listened with approval to the cool
narration of the captain's log. Saavik, in
command of the Enterprise, completed the report
and filed it. If she was nervous - and he knew
she must be - she concealed her feelings well.
Her first command was a test, but, even more,
every moment of her life was a test. Few people
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