Ah, yes; I remember. Of all of the officer types to fight against, the most obnoxious personality is timid. In a big, slow cruiser, an timid enemy ship is of little threat, but it constant taunts you by staying out of your weapons range. You cannot totally ignore it because it will steal your captured point if you leave it. The worst case scenario, I wait minutes until the timid ship runs out of CR and loses its engines, then I kill it. Aggravating as it is, I cannot blame the AI for doing that, I put a timid officer in a Tempest precisely for that purpose! That is, to capture points when it is safe or to avoid combat entirely if it is not.