A long time coming

Posted on Tue Jun 29th, 2021 @ 2:42pm by Captain Taliserra Tigran & Lieutenant Anthony Edwards Ph. D

950 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: The Silent Scream
Location: Deck 1- Captains ready room
Timeline: 18th April 2395

Sifting through scattered Padds on her desk Taliserra looked through a series of department and crew reviews amongst other things, despite all that had occurred since her taking over as Captain her crew had performed well, the older hands teaching the newer ones the ropes and newer techniques and ideas being shared back.

Getting up she headed to her replicator for a fresh mug of tea before returning to her desk, sitting down she tidyied up the Padds before tapping her combadge. =/\= Tigran to Lieutenant Edwards =/\=

Edward for Tigran=/\= Anthony replied

=/\= Will you come to the ready room =/\=

=/\=On my way Captain.=/\= Anthony was a little surprised by the call and couldn’t think of a reason for the call so headed to the ready room. The computer opened the door as he got close so he walked straight in. “You called Captain?”

"Good morning Anthony, please sit." Taliserra motioned to the chair opposite our desk. "How is your department doing?"

Anthony knew this was small talk because he had only just lodged his monthly report about a week ago. "Well actually, it is going better now that HG is back, one of the things that our science team has been missing is an engineering scientist. She filled a large hole that was in my own training."

Taliserra smiled, she knew Anthony would be happy to see Hg back. "That's good. We are only a few days away from the Arbazan system, have you decided how we should conduct this survey?"

Anthony thought about it for about the fifth time in the last two days. He always did especially since the was so little known about the system they have been tasked to resurvey. "How to do anything with a system we know so little about is always an interesting prospect. The first task of long-range scans is of course to find out if anything has changed in the old records. Then after that a more intense local investigation of any actual changes of course."

"I'm hoping that nothing major will show up." Taliserra took a sip of her tea. "The crew have earned a nice simple assignment for a change."

It was now Anthony's turn to be negative as he laughed and said "Oh yeah a simple assignment would be nice. Right up until something goes pearshaped. Maybe if Command gave us a hard assignment it might turn out easy for once."

"I think we have more chance of seeing a Breen in the flesh than that happening." Taliserra chuckled slightly.

"Oh yeah, Princess Leia mask heads." Anthony said with a laugh. That is the first thing he thought of when he thought of the Breen, because except for the fluoro electric green stripe that covers their eyes. "I suppose that is more likely that a science explorer of our size to take on the easier missions, at least what they think is easy at least."

"Unfortunately I don't get to pick my assignments, would be nice to though." Taliserra had another sip then put her tea down and became slightly less jovial. "Now I called you in here for more than just a discussion about our upcoming assignment, I was going over the departmental reviews and I discovered something."

He knew that the departmental review Captain Taliserra had a problem with obviously his but he had followed all the guidelines as he always did. He looked at her puzzled. "What was the problem Captain? I followed protocols and logged it correctly or you wouldn't have got it."

Taliserra reached down and opened a drawer in her desk, she could see the uncertain expression in Anthony's face. "I discovered that one of the science departments officers is deserving of a promotion." She smiled and pulled a small black box from the drawer, placing it on the desk in front of him. "Try that on for size Lieutenant."

"Nice!" Anthony said, "For a second there I thought I was going to be turned into Starfleet's oldest Ensign cause I'd screwed something up." He added removing his open ring off and swapping it with the new solid and placed the open ring in the box. Thank you, Captain. It has been a long time coming but I expected that as a linguist when I signed up."

Nodding slightly Taliserra took the box back and put it back in her desk. "It has been a long time coming, you have certainly put in the work to deserve it. Keep it up Anthony."

"Of course Captain, always work hard and be good to your mother. Well if I didn't I'd get a thick ear. At least that was my father's famous words." Anthony said with a smile.

"You'll never get a thick ear from me Anthony," Taliserra said as she stood up. "unless you do something really bad."

Anthony laughed as he stood in respect as the captain had got to her feet. "I didn't from her either. It was easier to work hard. It also set me up much better for university study. Master and Doctorate study is much more self-motivated than bachelor study. I was told a story once by a lecturer at bachelor level that most people that get through high degree study were much more self-motivated and based more on personal interest."

"Hard work always pays off." She offered him her hand, "Congratulations."

"Thank you, Ma'am, as I like to say hard work is its own reward, though the extra pay is nice too." Anthony said and took Taliserra's hand.

Taliserra smiled slightly. "Dismissed Lieutenant."

"Aye Captain." Anthony said with a cheeky little salute as he left.

OFF:

Captain Taliserra Tigran
Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Anthony Edwards
Chief Science Officer

 

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