A War Story: When a Laptop Dies

I was running Helm on an unfamiliar laptop that (unknown to me) had no external power supply. Up against a large formation of enemy ships, Artemis was executing a tight turn just as my Helm laptop died. Can you guess what happened?

Artemis continued to turn. Enemies continued to close in and fire, quickly surrounding us. With no helm control we could not warp. Artemis kept spinning in a tight circle. Suddenly three officers became very busy. The Engineer had to keep switching power between forward and rear shields, and the Science Officer had to call out which targets had the weakest shields bearing as the Weapons Officer kept switching weapons lock onto different targets. Only Communications was unaffected by this emergency.

The obvious solution would be for Comms to restart their computer as Helm , but that didn't have the feel of good old classic Science Fiction like Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, etc. The Captain decided to wait for me to find a power supply and reboot my Helm laptop. In the end there was nowhere near enough time for that.

The situation was wonderfully stressful. We might have been able to fight our way out, but as our spinning ship took more and more damage the Captain decided that Artemis was doomed. She waited until all of the enemy ships were right on top of us and ordered Weapons to fire our last nuke. Artemis went out in a blaze of glory and took the whole enemy fleet with it.