The Captain

Doc · **Sat Aug 02, 2003 3:29 pm The Captain**

The Captain

Alone but surrounded, loved and hated both

You fill the center seat.

You are the Captain of your ship, your crew

Their lives depend on you, your decisions.

All eyes and ears are on you now

Red lights flashing, sirens blaring.

The heat of battle... a distress call from a near-by colony

Your ship is closest and you respond

You ship rocked by enemy fire, consols exploding, your ship being torn apart

You have but only a second's breath to decide

Do you withdraw and save yourself, your crew, your ship

Or do you try to defeat your enemy, with certain death spelled out for you.

Your crew is loyal. No one will argue either way.

You must decide to run or fight, before it's too late for either.

Your ship is strong, quick, nimble, but heavily out-gunned.

Lives depend on you and your decision

If you run,you endanger the coloy below you, but you save your crew

If you fight, you will most likely lose the battle, and the lives of those around you, but you may hold of the enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

You must weigh the outcomes, the lives

Sacrifice two thousand colonists to save two hundred crewmen

Or sacrifice your crew to give the colony a fighting chance

It's ethics against tactics

Tactics say retreat, survive to fight another day

But ethics state "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"

You must decide

Logic versus Honor

Time is up, decision made: you and your crew are an Acceptable Loss

You must do everything you can to save the colony, even if you must die to save them

That's what it is to be... The Captain.

Melodramatic · Rear Admiral Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 4577

^OMG!!!
I love it

Very well done, its really good.

sabertooth1217 · **Sat Aug 02, 2003 3:48 pm**

how long did that take you to right buddy? its very well written.

Doc · **Sat Aug 02, 2003 3:51 pm**

All in all, about an hour

sabertooth1217 · **Sat Aug 02, 2003 3:54 pm**

wow i can not right anywere as good as that good job

Doc · **Sat Aug 02, 2003 4:08 pm**

thank you

Voy_Girl · **Wed Aug 06, 2003 2:45 pm**

It's a good peom!

Please write more of them.

sabertooth1217 · **Wed Aug 06, 2003 3:02 pm**

i would like to read more of them as well.

Doc · **Sat Aug 09, 2003 10:55 pm**

Keep you eyes open for another work here. I'm going to be putting some of the novel---a Star Trek novel of course---up, get some feedback on it.

syd2002 · **Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:32 am**

Nice one man!

Voy_Girl · **Sun Aug 10, 2003 1:33 pm**

Doc · **Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:08 pm**

I'm not sure. I'm in the middle of the 1st chapter, but I've written a prologue to it. It's about 7 pages long!

Voy_Girl · **Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:57 pm**

Doc · **Fri Aug 15, 2003 4:52 pm**

Wow!!!

Ok, so it's not a novel yet <it's at 233 words>, but it is a long book.

sabertooth1217 · **Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:03 pm**

is there a way on microsoft word to count all the words on a book to say to see how many you have?

sabertooth1217 · **Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:04 pm**

nvm i found out. i have 5,039. in my fic way to shot from a novel lol

Voy_Girl · **Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:16 pm**

Something useful:

* Novel - 50 000+ words
* Novella - 20 000 - 50 000 words
* Novelette - 10 000 - 20 000 words
* Short story - 10 000- words
* Drabble - Exactly 100 words
* Short-short 50- words

Doc · **Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:27 pm**

Stupid computers!!! My coumputer shut itself down and won't come back up! All I get is a 'blue screen of death'.

Fortuately I saved my book on a disk.

Doc · **Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:30 pm**

OK- Joke!
---What does a computer and an air conditioner have in common?

---Neither one works properly if you open Windows!

John Connor · **Sat Aug 30, 2003 9:24 am**

Its really good

Lxe · **Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:22 am**

that is so beautiful.
the decision is made for all time. that is something I can relate with. do you follow your head or your heart? in the end it 's up to you.

Lxe · **Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:35 am**