Lietuenant Junior Grade Mulder, my preliminary candidate for First Officer, entered the holodeck for an unannounced Kobayashi Maru test. He retrieved a Romulan phase-cloaking device from Veridian IV just prior to an attack by the Romulans. When he arrived on the bridge he found myself, Captain Kolk, killed. Significant damage was sustained to the ship, and the Romulans demanded the Fearless' surrender. Mr. Mulder attempted to call the Romulans' bluff before he had all the facts, and before he understood the nature of the enemy. He beamed down to an alien planet without sufficient safety measures, leading to his death and the destruction of the Fearless, not to mention the fact that he caused Romulans to bombard a pre-warp planet merely 20-kilometers from an indigenous settlement. Needless