Breakdowns (Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers)
Chapter One
Stardate 53704.8, Earth Year 2376
Domenica Corsi hated landings.
How many times had a rough approach or a bad
setdown offered reasons for her never to set
foot on the deck of a spacecraft again? Corsi
had lost count, though she recalled a few
instances with clarity. The entry into the
steel-gray atmosphere of Svoboda II, a buffeted
drop through a storm of howling wind and
dangerous coatings of ice, almost ended her
first command of a security detail before it
even started.
Getting that beat-up two-seater settled on
Pemberton's Point all those years ago had been a
chore, too; a landing she would have aborted had
it not been for Dar's insistence. Then there was
the time that her father allowed her to pilot
and land that transport, and a rented transport
at that. Her attempts to dazzle him on touchdown
almost cost them the vessel as well as its
shipment of Bolian spice nectar, a cargo
precious enough that its spoilage would have
ruined the family business.
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