Standing in the middle of her dorm room at the Academia, Kiama looked a little forlorn. While she was excited about her graduation and being assigned to “her” very first ship, it still felt weird to leave this place behind. After all, it had been her home for four years and the first place where she had lived alone. Well, she had a roommate, of course, like everybody else. But until she up and left Betazed she had always lived with her parents. Not that she wanted to, but that was a whole different story.

So now with her diploma in hand, all left to do was to pack up her belongings and in three hours catch the transport to the new Starbase Event Horizon. What would await her there? What would her fellow scientist and the rest of the crew be like? What she had read about the ship and her current mission sounded very exciting, but those reports didn’t really tell you anything about what the crew was like; especially during off duty hours.

“Well, you better finish packing, or you’ll never find out,” she said to herself and then got to work.

At the end of fascinating journey, Kiama found herself just outside the docking port on the Event Horizon. A couple more steps and I will finally be aboard the Manhattan, she thought with giddy smile on her face and a sparkle in her black eyes.

Taking another deep breath, the slender Betazoid started to move purposefully forward and once she set her fist step onto the Manhattan, she had a hard time not to clap her hands and hop excitedly on the spot like a little child. However, a soft laugh escaped her lips as she walked slowly down the corridors towards her quarters. On her way there she tried to take everything in, yet at the same time found herself get lost in her own thoughts and her own imagination.

~Ensign Naim, Scientist