Posted by Lieutenant Commander Tenzing Trainor (Chief Operations Officer) in Captain’s ready room…well hello Tenzig Trainor

Posted by Fleet Captain Kelly Bordeaux (Commanding Officer) in Captain’s ready room…well hello Tenzig Trainor
Kelly reclined at her desk with her booted feet up on the edge of her desk. This was not generally a position she could use since she always wore a skirt instead of the pants most women in her position chose. Kelly never understood the need for a woman to fit in or look like a man in her field. She wasn’t a man. She was a woman so why not dress like one and still run in the boys club. The music in her earphones blared loudly as her foot tapped out a rhythm. Kelly could not carry a tune if it had a handle but that did not mean she did not sing. She just kept the music up loud enough to drown out her own voice.

Kelly Bordeaux

As the Captain continued to tap along, the music would suddenly stop. “Oh, El Capitan!” A voice boomed through her headphones, “Not very ladylike of you.” The voice on the other end laughed. Captain Bordeaux would immediately recognize the voice, as Q, from her lessons during the academy.

Kelly sat straight up which of course caused her ankles to separate before she quickly put her legs down.

“Oh pain in the ass. What are you doing in my office,” Kelly stood up looking around her office. Just because she could not see the man didn’t mean he wasn’t there. “LMNOP too busy to play?”

“Poor Captain Andone couldn’t tame this one,” Q snickered, through the Captain’s headphones, “But maybe you can!” Kelly would be able to hear an audible snap in the background. Appeared before her, a Starfleet Lieutenant Commander, about 27 years of age. Bordeaux would somewhat deem the man familiar, maybe from a report 8 years ago, but she’d have to dig through Starfleet records if she had the clearance.

The reference to Captain Andone, made Kelly looked at the man now standing in her office with a different lens. Captain Andone was someone Kelly respected the hell out of. As a Captain Andone was loyal, intelligent, and dedicated. She was someone Kelly strived to be like. Looking at the man, his face looked vaguely familiar. Not someone she had gone to the academy with. The man was too young for that but maybe he was an XO or in the dipcorp. She didn’t say anything but waited for the man to reply or Q to give another cryptic answer.

“Oh, and Trainor,” Q boomed, “This is a gift from me to you!” Another audible snap could be heard. The Captain would see the now named, Lieutenant Commander Trainor turn from a seasoned 27-year-old man to a fresh-eyed 19-year-old. “Or, maybe a curse!”

Just then the music in the Captain’s ears returned to normal, the only difference now, was the young Lieutenant Commander standing in front of her.

Trainor
Operations

“Coffee,” Kelly said not sure what else to say for the moment. People showed up unexpectedly all the time in her office but never quite like this.

Kelly Bordeaux CO