The captain is bored with her duties at home and longs to be back on a starship. She accidentally smells flowers on an away mission that cause premature aging. Her daughter takes over as acting captain to care for her mother and picks up a repaired starship, the ISBI. The daughter hopes to lead an expedition to return home through unknown space, despite doubts from others about her inexperience.

1. Where No Sim Has Gone Before an ISBI Challenge
Chapter 3: A Taste of Boredom

2. Captain’s Log: I am so bored. There hasn’t been an interesting
mission in ages. All day long it’s been cook, clean, and keep the kids
and husband alive. Something needs to happen and soon or I’m
going to go as crazy as a loon.

3. The only interesting thing that’s happened Is Kes found a boyfriend. I’m just
calling him Justin since all these weirdos in Belladona have strange names.

4. I know I’m cranky, but the only away mission I’ve been on is to
Tresilion Prime. Makoto and the leader are old friends. I realize he was
trying to cheer me up…but all I did was

5. Eat some slop…

6. Do a couple of trick shots on the pool table…stare at some fugly art

7. And smell some flowers.

8. And I come home to find Kes dealing with some exploring photographer
who was annoyed he couldn’t take pictures on our world and complete
his mating rituals….I feel a headache coming on…I’m going to bed.

9. Maybe I can dream that I’m on a starship again…and teaching my girls
all about how to survive against all the odds.
Oh how I miss having a ship!

10. Acting Captain’s Personal Log: My mother needs to be relieved of duty. She
unknowingly smelled some of the purple roses of Tresillion which everyone
knows will cause a person to age prematurely. Dad’s heartbroken. Fortunately,
we were able to stop the aging process before she died, but mother’s mind is
going fast. She has some clarity right now, but that likely won’t last much
longer.

11. I immediately relayed a message to Starfleet command, and they were
apologetic. They assured me I could still attend the academy. In fact it
was paramount now that mom won’t be herself much longer.
They had been working for years to build an actual starship that could
travel the rift. They’d finally done it. I’ve come with mom, dad and Karin to
pick up the ship.

12. Mom loves the ISBI. It really is quite remarkable. There are some
repairs that needed to be made, so dad is going to take care of them.
Mom swears she saw hostile forces and is leading the landing party to
investigate. There was nothing out there…this planet is uninhabited.

13. The ISBI had two crewmembers aboard Gabriel Green a doctor…
he doesn’t seem like a very good one to me though. And Chastity
Gere…a security specialist.

14. Mom insisted we set up a camp…I tried to tell Gabriel and Chastity the
planet doesn’t have anyone on it. But Gabriel called me an impudent
brat and to listen to my mother. Mom thanked him for his support. What
does Chastity see in him?
Mom got an ax when he and Chastity were off collecting wood. Luckily
Karin was able to convince mom she would take care of those “aliens”

15. Karin tried again to explain things to Chastity and Gabriel. Dr.
Green is still not convinced, but at least he agreed to do a physical
examination once we all get back to the ship.

16. At least he offered to take first watch tonight. I’m exhausted.

17. Chief Medical Officer’s Personal Log: Mysha Bowman does
show signs of dementia. Fortunately I’ve finally arrived. These
primitives she’s been forced to live with just let her wander out
there onto an uninhabited planet and didn’t even try to tell
Chastity and I what was going on.

18. This remarkable woman was truly heaven sent.

19. Security Chief Personal Log: I swear almost every piece of plumbing on the ISBI
keeps breaking. I guess I should be grateful it’s nothing essential or electrical.
Our mission to date has been a total failure thus far. If only we’d gotten here
sooner Gabriel could have run a check on those flowers. This has got to be hard
on her whole family. watching her drift away like this.

20. I know I can barely
understand them, but I
can see why Captain
Bowman probably felt
blessed in spite of
everything that has
happened to her.

21. Hopefully Gabriel and I will be half as lucky.

22. Acting Captain’s Log: Justin and Carol are going to come with me
to the Academy! I was sure Carol would, but Justin. I mean I want
to believe he’s the one, but I didn’t want to put pressure on him.
We’re talking about going through a rift/time portal whatever….and
we don’t exactly have a science officer on this ship.

23. Carol and I have been spending as much time as we can on the
computers trying to prepare. Chastity’s been a lot of help…even if she
says she’s hopeless with the science stuff.

24. I wish Chastity could be happy. She deserves it. She’s so selfless and caring. I
wish she didn’t think she was a failure since they didn’t get the ISBI here in time
before mom smelled those flowers. Because she’s not. She’s really not.
Dr. Green’s no good for her at all. But it’s so awkward…Justin caught him
flirting with his mom. I can’t imagine what it’s like going home knowing your
mom’s cheating on your dad with your girlfriend’s medical officer….

25. I wish I could say I feel bad about making him fix the plumbing
dad keeps managing to break. *computer pause recording* Or
the fact that I know exactly why the plumbing keeps breaking and
I haven’t told him *computer resume recording*

26. Carol and I have also been watching all the videos in the library too. Everyone seems to
think that this mission to get the ISBI back to the Earth’s while exploring everything we can
along the way is going to fail now. You can hear it and see it on their faces now when I
make reports. I know something horrible happened to mom, and Carol and I don’t know that
much about Starfleet ships, protocol or anything about the planets or people we’re gonna
meet…but we can learn. We’ll get home. Captain Janeway got her crew home and she
wasn’t supposed to. I know we can make it too.

27. End of recording

28. Quick chapter is quick…but it had been forever since I updated this, and
seriously as I was going through the pics nothing happened.
Kes will be taking over as the Torcholder now. I despise college…so
we’re just gonna skip over me rushing through it and jump right back
into her taking over the ISBI. See you soon.