Star Trek Prometheus--In the Heart of Chaos by Christian Humberg

Author:Christian Humberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

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NOVEMBER 28, 2385

U.S.S. Prometheus, in slipstream

Isabelle Courmont had been aware that things would be radically different for her when she gave up her successful practice in San Francisco and signed up with Starfleet. She was, after all, a civilian who had only left Earth’s solar system once during the previous forty years of her life, that being a trip to Vulcan.

She had been driven by two different motivations. Since her separation from her husband two years ago, she had finally felt the old familiar wanderlust again that she had experienced as an adolescent and as a young woman. Back then, she had satiated that hunger with journeys all over Earth, to the moon, to Mars, and finally to Vulcan. Living with Max, a holoartist who was entirely satisfied with living in San Francisco, this wanderlust had dwindled and had been replaced by journeys into the world of virtual arts.

But then he had left her for a terribly dumb ginger-haired Orion starlet, and throughout the following months, Isabelle had realized that the biggest part of her life on the west coast of North America had been Max’s life, and not her own. Without him, she had only her work as a psychiatrist with neurotic members of the arts and entertainment industry, and an apartment that was far too big for her with empty walls and an amazing view of the San Francisco Bay and the grounds of Starfleet Academy.

After the Borg attack in 2381, the heartfelt urge to help others added to her wish to change her life around and to get away from the confines of San Francisco. She had followed the news and learned about the suffering of both the devastated planet populations and the uprooted refugees. She had also learned about the numerous war traumas that men and women aboard Starfleet ships had suffered while fighting against the relentless Collective.

One thing had led to another, and Courmont found herself on Starbase 22, where she initially helped station counselor Brian Ellis with tending to the Prometheus crew after their battle for Vulcan. That was how she had met Captain Richard Adams, who had been a broken man at the time. Not only had he lost a quarter of his crew, but also his wife Rhea. She had been the captain of the U.S.S. Red Cloud and had also fought above Vulcan.

Courmont had helped Adams—who had been an ill-tempered and difficult patient to say the least—to accept the gap in his life, and to continue in spite of it. One year later, after the Prometheus had undergone a complete overhaul, she had been surprised to receive Adams’s invitation to transfer to his ship.

Her travel lust had been sufficiently satiated by then. She had visited Betazed, New France, and Denobula Prime; she had spent her shore leave on about a dozen unknown worlds on the Tzenkethi border, and finally, she had been allowed to see Bajor for herself and to marvel at the famous wormhole from the Promenade on Deep Space 9.

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