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[[Image:Intrepid template 2.JPG|thumb|USS Eagle]]After the incident involving Lily Ventu's deliberate violation of orders and the senior staff's apparant complicity, Quinn was transferred off the base and to the USS Eagle, back under the command of Rear Admiral [[Drawoh, Rocar|Rocar Drawoh]]. Her first mission aboard the vessel involved an expedition to the [[ma:|Azure Nebula]] and she struggled in the role of First Officer as her confidence in her ability to command was soon eroded through several conflicts with other crew members. The end of the mission marked the first time she voluntarily spoke to a Starfleet Counsellor, confessing her feelings of loneliness and perceived inability to form permanent connections with others. | [[Image:Intrepid template 2.JPG|thumb|USS Eagle]]After the incident involving Lily Ventu's deliberate violation of orders and the senior staff's apparant complicity, Quinn was transferred off the base and to the USS Eagle, back under the command of Rear Admiral [[Drawoh, Rocar|Rocar Drawoh]]. Her first mission aboard the vessel involved an expedition to the [[ma:|Azure Nebula]] and she struggled in the role of First Officer as her confidence in her ability to command was soon eroded through several conflicts with other crew members. The end of the mission marked the first time she voluntarily spoke to a Starfleet Counsellor, confessing her feelings of loneliness and perceived inability to form permanent connections with others. | ||
She had begun to feel more secure and confident in her role as a command officer when the Eagle was dispatched to answer a distress call from a mystery ship, later identified as the Empress Orchid. While leading an away team to the vessel, Quinn made a decision knowing that it would cost the lives of four Starfleet officers | She had begun to feel more secure and confident in her role as a command officer when the Eagle was dispatched to answer a distress call from a mystery ship, later identified as the Empress Orchid. While leading an away team to the vessel, Quinn made a decision knowing that it would cost the lives of four Starfleet officers — and to her surprise it was one she did not regret upon reflection. The same could not be said of all the members of the away team and her decision swiftly opened up a massive rift between Quinn and her friend, [[Ramirez, Pedro|Pedro Ramirez]]. | ||
Old fears and new doubts were the result of the Eagle crashing and sinking in the ocean of an unexplored planet, the surviving crew marooned on a nearby island. Her old phobia of water resurfaced when she drowned in her office, saved only at the last moment by [[Brunsig, Walter|Walter Brunsig]]... and was reinforced when she promptly drowned again on the swim to shore. The crash also sowed the seeds of doubt over the wisdom of keeping Dylan with her aboard ship, as she initially believed he had died when she discovered that the hull over her quarters had been torn open. She had little time to dwell on those fears and doubts, when the island came under attack by sea-faring pirates — the surviving members of other crashes, banded together to steal resources and people. Left in command by Admiral Rocar, who took the only working shuttle to seek help, Quinn led the Eagle crew to take the pirate ship and rescue their kidnapped colleagues. | |||
Her official promotion to commanding officer was accompanied by a diplomatic, first contact mission for which she felt wholly unsuited — and there were several in Starfleet command who agreed with her, by the end of it. En route, the Eagle came under attack inside and out, by members of the ruling faction of the Mantarans. Due to some quick thinking on the part of the Eagle crew, and the Mantaran's overestimation of the capabilities of their stolen technologies, the Eagle emerged victorious, with the offending Mantarans — and their ambassador — under arrest. It was also the mission that cemented her belief that Starfleet's rules are there for a reason: she offered Pedro Ramirez the post of First Officer, knowing that he was unsuited, but as his friend, hoping he would grow into the position. It came as a surprise to no one but her that he was recalled by Starfleet, deemed unfit for duty due to psychological issues. | |||
Her life did not oblige her by settling down over the next few weeks and months. Her mother passed away in hospital, prompting Quinn to confess to Walter Brunsig that she loved him, the two began to pursue a relationship, she was promoted to Captain, and a scientific mission went badly awry when the wormhole they were investigating spat out several hostile vessels, resulting in severe damage to the Eagle. That, and the lingering system malfunctions caused by the crash, resulted in Starfleet retiring the Eagle for repairs, reassigning Quinn and her senior staff to the [[USS Drake]]. | |||
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* '''[[Ross, Harrison|Harrison Ross]]''': | * '''[[Ross, Harrison|Harrison Ross]]''': Ever cautious and still grieving for [[Brunsig, Walter|Walter Brunsig]], Quinn decides to try and stop dwelling in the past, moving forward into a relationship with Harry. | ||