"Whats this?" asked Alistair as he stepped on to the holodeck.
"Zis, ohh zis is just a little somesing i cooked up to relieve some boredom. Fancy taking me on?"
"What exactly do I have to do?" asked Alistair walking round the huge area of space in the centre of the room.
"It iz really quite simple mon amis. We both select a starship, then give zem tactical commands and see oo comes out ze winner"
"I don't think I'd be much good at something like this."
"Come on mon amis, I am only a science officer, I ave no real tactical experience."
"OK fine then. What do I have to choose from?"
"Any Starfleet ship ever constructed"
"In that case, I'll take a Galaxy class ship."
"Ahhh, not a bad choice doc, but not a good one. Computer, load one Galaxy class ship and one Nebula class, refit."
The two ships appeared in the centre of the holodeck a fair distance apart.
"Computer, add an asteroid field and a class B nebula."
<Confirmed, battle field parameters completed. Ready to begin simulation.>
"You ready Doc?"
"As ready as I'll ever be"
"Computer, begin simulation"
The two ships hovered there in space doing absolutely nothing. Paul walked over to his control panel and tapped a few buttons and his ship began to move toward Alistairs more bulky ship. Alistair stepped towards his control panel and his ship began to strafe Pauls. It fired a volley of torpedoes and phaser fire hitting Pauls ship pretty hard. Alistairs chip continued to circle firing phasers as it went.
"Not bad for a newbie" said Paul who tapped in a few more commands. The Smaller Nebula class stopped and swiftly spun around to face Alistairs circling ship and launched a full volley of tri-cobalt torpedoes at the galaxy class. The torpedoes inflicted massive damage and blew off the port warp nacelle.
"Damn! that was a bad shot!"
"Your eadin for a warp core breach? What ya gonna do?"
Alistair tapped away at his console again and the saucer section began to seperate.
"You can't expect to win?"
"No, but I can make a run for it"
The Saucer section headed off towards the nebula at full impulse.
"Ohh no, you don't"
Paul's ship, sped off after the saucer section and followed it into the nebula. Paul glanced down at his panel setting up a new attack pattern. Alistair saw his chance and brought the burning star drive section back into action and set it on a colission course with Pauls ship. Pauls attention was caught by a huge explosion near the nebula with the soaucer section of Alistairs ship flying inside.
"What the?"
"You're dead"
"How?"
"You collided with my star drive section"
"Damn it! Zat was one crafty maneouveur! You sure you weren't born a tactical officer?!"
"Well it wasn't that crafty really. Not as crafty as you not telling me that you'd replaced the sensor pod on your ship with a weapons pod."
"My dear doctor, in battle, nosing is certain, you gotta learn to expect ze unexpected"
"Seems you need to do that Paul"
"I don't give up zat easily. Computer, load USS Armageddon, Vendetta class!"