The USS Insurrection; Tales of what starfleet covers up.

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As the sleek Ambasador class USS Insurrection slowly orbited the Planet Relan IV, Starfleet sent out a THIRTY SEVENTH request for the Insurrection to return to DS12.

Captain Laurent smiled, Laughed, and ignored it.
For the Thirty Seventh' time.
He, and his crew, were no longer starfleet.
Officially, the vessel was registered NCC93018-Stardust, however, with a landing trip on the planet, and non orbital repairs, including a re-paint job, it read:
INSURRECTION
No call numbers.
No USS.
Not Starfleet.

The entrance to his ready room opened, and Jodi-lynn Franklin walked in the door.
She had once been the chief engineer of the Stardust. She had once held the rank of Commander.
She was now, simply, the Captain's Wife.

He turned from the viewport looking down on the orange-blue planet, towards her.

"Starfleet is sending the USS Intrepid to "Escort" us back to spacedock." She said Quietly.

"Let them come. We've seen worse." He replied.

She didn't respond.
She didn't have to.
They were both thinking the same thing.
About thier last mission.
About the last thing they did as starfleet officers.
About thier Daughter.

...
It went something like this...

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Star Trek: USS Insurrection; Book 1; Chapter 1: The machinery of Insurrection.
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USS Stardust(Before Insurrection), Stardate 8901.7; Captain's Log.
As a Gesture of goodwill, Starfleet has sent us, the USS Stardust, as well as Admiral Morrow's ship, the USS Dubious, to the planet Relan IV.
Newly a member of the federation, the Relanans requested Federation support to quell growing rebellions, and terrorist attacks on the pro-federation government.
We will arrive shortly.
End log.

Captain Laurent tossed the recorder on the incredible mound of "paperwork" that he called a desk.
None of it had been here before he left, to go hob-nob with the Admiral.

"Damn paperwork. You finally get ahead, and after a few short hours, it finds away to catch up with you." He muttered to himself.

After a large sigh, he decided to attack some of it.
There was a request from engineering to drop from warp-space in a few hours for routine core maintenance.
"Well... let's see... we're... two hours out of Relan... I think it can wait till then. Although... I swear Jodi sometimes babies those engines more then our Daughter..." He spoke to no one, as he always did, when doing paperwork.
He tossed the pad into the recycler, and grabbed a new one.
The next padd was a request from Ensign Alantra Franklin to join the landing party to Relan IV.
He smiled.
His daughter was finally sick of escorting people to the brig.
Maybe it was time for her to come on an away mission...
...besides... Security might be necessary.
He issued orders to have her added to the party, and discarded that padd.
The next padd was from sick-bay.
"Hmmm... what have we here?" He asked, talking to himself, as always.
23 cases of that damn cold...
One Broken Foot... a minor fracture to the collarbone...
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AND 242874 Requests for Laurent, Captain to report for his routine physical, or face bieng put on the captain's disciplinary list, and lose his raquetball game to Doctor Lauren Van den Haus next week.
"Hmm... Now THAT is an amusing prospect."
That padd, also, found it's way into the recycler.
The last padd had the hydroponics report in.
It was pretty typical for late-spring.
The Tomatoes were almost ready to be harvested... most of the flowers in bloom... and Lt. Sytok had raided the mint patch again.

He laughed a bit. Sytok was a VERY eccentric Vulcan. He ate mostly meat, however he did eat one plant: Mint leaves.
Sytok had long ago been disavowed on Vulcan, after hunting down several of the predators for food uses.
Sytok was generally ignored by his Vulcan comrades, despite the fact that he had 37 DIFFERENT degrees in at least 9 branches of science.

"Well... Enough of this... I'm going to the bridge." He said, again, addressing no one.
He knew there was more to this mission than Starfleet told him.
Why else would they send and ADMIRAL?

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Chapter 2:
USS Dubious:
Admiral Morrow wandered around the briefing room, parading a standing list of do's and don't's, as he had been for the past three hours.
Jodi leaned over, and whispered in Laurent's ear: "I thought "briefings" were supposed to be brief..."
Admiral Morrow stopped his parade, and glared at her.
"Problem Commander?" He asked, in an unhappy voice.
Laurent glared at him.
"Any questions, or concerns that you have with my crew, or most especially my wife, Admiral Morrow, should come through me first." Laurent said.
"Strong words for such a short captain." Morrow replied.
Jodi glared at him, and promptly kicked him in the... nether region.
Admiral Morrow passed out.

USS Stardust:
Laurent walked onto the bridge.
"Jodi will not be joining us for our briefing..." He said casually.
Sytok looked up, puzzled.
"Why not?" Sytok asked.
"She's otherwise detained." Laurent replied.

USS Dubious-Brig
Jodi sat there, for the second straight hour.
Assaulting a senior officer...
...hefty charges...
It was funny at the time...
...now it was merely a bleak memory...

USS Stardust- Briefing room
Sytok stared at the display screen, trying to comprehend what he was seeing.
"Captain... If I'm getting this right... your plans are not to assist Admiral Morrow in the assault on this planet... but to stop it?" Sytok asked, quietly.
A few of the senor staff looked from Sytok to Laurent, questioningly.
"That's right, Sytok. Admiral Morrow, and Starfleet are wrong in this front and political move. I intend to stop them, AND get Jodi out of that brig." Laurent said, somewhat quietly.
"Well... let's get planning then." The Dr. Lauren Van den Haus whispered.
A few cheers went around the table.
"Well said, Doctor." Sytok said.
A few laughs went around the table.
And then business came to the table, and all were silent, as Laurent explained his plans of attack.
One: To assault the dubious, and rescue Jodi.
Two: To assault the Attack force from the dubious, in an effort to stop that attack on Relan.
Three: To do the right thing.

USS Dubious- Bridge
Admiral Morrow stared at the stardust.
"How long, do you think, before Laurent turns on you?" Captain Black asked.
"He already has... he had already turned on me when he accepted this mission. In fact, he means to stop this mission. Starfleet wants him "eliminated."" Admiral Morrow replied.

One hour out from Relan... the first Phaser beam went flying...
...but it wasn't the Stardust that shot it.
The Dubious had opened fire on the Stardust.

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Chapter 2(Jail break!)

USS Stardust:
"WHAT THE HELL?" Laurent exclaimed.
"Captain! Computers on the fritz!" Alantra exclaimed from the ops console.
"SYTOK!" Laurent exclaimed.
"Starfleet command over-ride, captain. Admiral Morrow has instructed stardust that it's crew has commitited mutiny." Sytok responded.
"SYTOK! NOT NOW! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING, I WANT IT TO SHOOT BACK!" Laurent yelled over the new-found roar that happened to be called "Deck de-pressurization".
"Working on it captain....wait for it...wait for it...Bingo... Starfleet Captain's Honor Overdrive Alpha. According to the stardust Due to the incomming fire, the Command Over-ride was simply a tactic by the dubious to temporarily disable us. I've got us back to full capacity." Sytok responded.
"Bingo? Sytok...when did you learn to speaak normal people tongue?" Alantra muttered.
"ALANTRA...NOT NOW! We've got an admiral to kill!" Laurent yelled.
"DAD! STOP YELLING!" Alantra yelled back.
"THAT'S CAPTAIN DAD TO YOU, YOUNG LADY, AND IN CASE YOU ARE FORGETTING, YOUR MOTHER IS ON THAT SHIP!" Laurent retaliated.
"I know that dad. Let's get her BACK!" Alantra replied.

USS Dubious:
"Admiral Morrow? The stardust...is... safe?" An ensign said quietly.
He stared at the readings.
Damn that sytok, he would figure out something like this.
"Whatever. Blow that ship to smiterines." He said.