Posted by Fleet Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Deck 4 Garden- A Picnic

Posted by Civilian Sair Songz (Counselor) in Deck 4 Garden- A Picnic

Posted by Fleet Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Deck 4 Garden- A Picnic

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Cochrane turned and looked at the retreating form of Kel. “You know I’m not a scientist. Never have been, never will be. But I just so happen to command the single most advanced science vessel in all of the Federation. And doing that, you pick up a few things.” He looked back at Sair.

“Regardless of what species we are, where we come from, and where we call home… we are all made if the same stuff. Kobliad… Human… Tholian… Romulan Delatan Ferengi Cardassian Klingon Vulcan Tellerite Anticancer and Andorian and all the rest and even those we don’t know yet. All made up of the same stuff. And that stuff has existed since before we were us… and it will be there long after we are not us anymore. It doesn’t change, it doesn’t go away… it always there. The energy that makes us is always there and will always be there. Because I have it on very good authority that energy can’t be created or destroyed… only changed. And change? Well… thats the only constant thing in the universe.” He looked back at Kel as she disappeared around the pond.

“Isn’t that the truth. Though my people are so used to the changes being negative ones, I got to be a part of the single greatest happy moment our society has experienced in generations. That means something.”

“Maybe me and the boy here can go poke things in the pond and you can go give your mother a science lesson.”

Cochrane, CO

Sair gave him a warm smile and rested her hand on his arm for a moment. “Thank you,” she said.

Moving over to Koro, Sair kissed him on the forward. “Stay with the captain, Koro. I’m going to go talk with Eema.

The toddler nodded as his mother walked off and he looked at the man left with him and raised the stick he found. “Stick!” Notably, he used the Federation Standard word, and not the Kobliad one.

~Sair & family

“Stick indeed!” Cochranensaid with a smile. He stood up and held out his hand. He slowly walked Koro around the pond area and started pointing out things and saying the names, and encouraged Koro to say it back. When they started moving past the same things, Alex would point and pretend to be confused until Koro shouted out the correct word.

Cochrane, CO

The boy was intensely curious, studying not just the words Cochrane used, but each thing he learned the word for. But after a little bit, he lost focus and started poking the stick in the water, fascinated by the ripples he was creating. Su’ree…” he said, the word translating to something akin to ‘pretty’.

Koro peered deeper into the water, leaning over, balancing on the edge as he studied his reflection. The toddler grinned and starting giggling when he saw himself grinning.

~Baby Songz