Finally managed to get a crew together and do some bridge training on the weekend. That's quite the temporal anomaly in the Hamak Sector mission - somehow, we lost six hours overall on Saturday! :-)
Other than (1) a weapons officer's over-exuberant use of nuclear weapons at "danger-close" range in one scenario, and (2) attempting the fore-mentioned Hamak Sector mission on a higher difficulty setting than the crew was ready for, we had good success overall. As the licensee of the software, I was captain, and at one point my helm officer even said to me, "Hey, I'm starting to think you know what you're doing!" High point of my weekend, really.
Forgot to mention one of the coolest bits - in one of the random scenarios we ran, we got "given" four NPC Destroyers. We ordered all of them to protect us, and we had a lovely fleet zooming around the map.