Eventually fed up of his complaining about the monkeys not leaving his planet, the monkeys bundled Howl into an oil barrel and shot him out past the further reaches of the galaxy, where his continuing mission of exploration each week is both sexy and Nightmarish
It could focus on the life of an engineering crew doing all sorts of irregular shit to keep an ill supplied frigate making supply runs that gets pulled into high adventure plot, but always in the background as implausible and horrible bullshit orders come down from the bridge.
No, it would be an R&D ship like in Discovery, only designed by committee and incomplete, like Enterprise...And the bits that ARE there are obsolete/worn out, like in DS9 season 1.
I would be the science officer, I think, at least these days. The engineer would always be looking to cut costs at the expense of safety, the first officer just sits in his office and sweats, and the medical officers have Covid 19. I don't know who the security folks are, because man, do they come and go. Don't even learn their names, you'll only get hurt.
The weapons officer is explaining navigation to the navigator, who isn't paying attention because she's hitting on that hot new ensign. The ensign is trying to grow a mustache to look more promotible.
There are - and I can't stress this enough - NO alien human hybrids.
Cramulus is the morale officer and Altered is the counselor.
The Captain hasn't been seen in years. There in fact has not been contact with any elements in the federation, and not because we've gotten flung out to the gamma quadrant, it's just that star fleet is annoying as hell, so we ripped the commo circuits out four years ago.
