The year is 2371, and my name is Commander Richard Alexander. My friends call me Richard. I was originally assigned to the Sumara's crew, because they wanted a Commander who would uphold the peace, between three Galaxies, and to carry that peace to other worlds, where no human has gone before. Someone who could deal with the diplomacy, and the communications, of now seven races of Aliens. Once it took us five years to cross the expanse. Now it takes...