The Ensign currently sat at the operations station on the bridge of Orion was a young woman called Grace Beck and while the ship was in drydock and the tactical station was not yet occupied comm duty fell to her. By the time the Commander had said "Open A channel to..." she had already accessed the list of likely recipients generated by the computer and was quick to select CMU 067 when the order was complete

"Channel open, Sir." she replied quickly

Nick was impressed by the efficiency of the Ensign at ops and made a mental note to keep an eye on her.

"Work bee sixty seven, please complete your task and return to the shuttle bay promply and prepare for departure." He closed the channel from the console on his arm rest. "New channel Ensign, to all shuttles and shuttle bays"

Ensign Beck tapped at her console. This command tool a little longer but it was not long before she called again "Channel open, Sir"

"All shuttles should be on thier final aproaches from the surface, all bays be ready to depart A.S.A.P." He tapped the close channel command again. "Ok helm, when the shuttles are ready and the Captain is on the bridge we will be departing with all haste to Vulcan. Please prepare 'warp acceleration curve Vulcan Alpha' and make sure engineering knows you plan to be flying fast" 

He tapped a few more controls to and seen the Conn. Officer's confusion pass as the flight plan Nick had worked out arrived at the helm console. It was designed to get the most out of the engines by accelerating up to the ship's max warp of 9.6 for 15 hours and then gradually decearating at the slowest rate posible for the engines not fail. It would get them to vulcan in the fastest posible time and would have to be handled by the computer for the most part. Most ships traveled at whole numbered warp factors or common fractions of them, this flight plan required more fine deceleration than that. He knew it would work, he had done the maths. ((I however have not done the maths yet but will edit in the flight time when I do get it done.))