Hobbs: so far, the story is all in my head, and not written down. but the gist of the story segment is that, once my character FINALLY has command of a starship for the first time in a CENTURY (TOS era had him shoved into starbase logistics the minute he hit Leutenant), fleet sent three ships worth of Cadets and noobs out to see old fashioned scoutwork. the Ballpeen was being used as an engineer's trainer, cadet cruise, AND a shakedown for the new model. the other two were the USS Ti Malice Excelsior Ia, and a really up there in flight hours USS Oberon Miranda II