Posted by Lieutenant Guy Freeman (Chief Counseling Officer) in One year later… XO Psych Review (tag CNS)

Posted by Lieutenant Simon Starr (Executive Officer) in One year later… XO Psych Review (tag CNS)

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“I’m happy for you, sir.” He coughed and kept rubbing his forehead.

“As to myself, I guess since the academy, my entire career has been on the ark angel. I have to admit, there’s still things I can learn here. I guess I’m still working toward my more long-term goal, and I think going into command was the right decision. I started in Security and I’ve always thought about going into the JAG office eventually, but I want some practical experience first,” Simon explained. “My personal time has been on trying to find my brother, that’s sort of my main focus at the moment outside of my duties at least,” he continued. “And I’ll be honest, it’s been a mixture…” he said, stopping as he noticed that the counselor was looking more unwell than when the session first began. “Are you sure you are OK counselor, you look terrible. Do you want me to call sickbay?” he asked, noticing that he seemed to be ill. “After all, I want the person declaring me fit for duty to be fit for duty themselves, Lieutenant,” he said.

Lieutenant Simon Starr, XO

“Yeah, yeah, I am fine. I went for a check just before our session.” He grinned and grunted. The XO seemed to be his type: not too much confident of himself, a good dose of adventures and a story that remembered his “so returning to your… life.” Guy kept writing on his clipboard “how does- how does your brother’s search problem affects your daily life? It does not bother your role of First Officer? You know, you have strict obligations and you cannot permit that a problem, personal or not, affects your decisions involving the crew.”
His health seemed to downgrade time to time: he just hoped that the session would have ended as soon as he could. But with the XO it was not case to rush. The Captain wanted the best? He was to give the best Officer he could manage to find.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

“Well, I admit I told the captain about it when I first boarded the ark angel, but it’s been six years. I typically keep any of that work to my downtime. I feel I can say enough time has passed since he went missing where it isn’t my main focus all the time anymore,” Simon answered. “As for the daily life, I keep it to working on it a day in every four, the others I spend around the ship, getting to know the rest of the crew that don’t visit the bridge too often, that sort of thing. I always found it helpful to spend time on one thing, but not to consume yourself in it. I guess that’s the security officer still in me saying that you need to be ready for action at a moments notice,” he told Guy, smiling slightly at the last part of his statement.

Liuetenant Simon Starr, XO

Guy kept writing. Then he looked at what he wrote and made like a nod “alright. Let me know another thing, what do you expect from this kind of life, the life of Starfleet officer? Of course meant in the near future as you are already living the “Officer” life. Are you planning to rank up and get yourself in service as captain on a ship?”
As he noticed, Mr. Starr seamed to be already to be fit. But to be sure, Guy wanted to ask some more question even if it meant, less time to rest.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

“Eventually, maybe,” Simon replied. “But I definitely do not feel like I’m ready to take on that position just yet, counsellor,” he said with a smile. “After all, I only recently became the XO here. So, there are still things for me to learn before I can say that I’ll be serving as captain. That doesn’t mean to say it’s not something I’ve thought about, just I don’t think rushing to that position is the best of ideas,” he answered. “Of course, I do want to get to Commander in rank though,” he chuckled out a little.

Lieutenant Simon Starr, XO.