Posted by Captain Kelly Bordeaux (Commanding Officer) in Where does she get those wonderful toys…Science Dept…When the past doesn’t match the future or the present

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Tenzing Trainor (Chief Operations Officer/Science Chief) in Where does she get those wonderful toys…Science Dept…When the past doesn’t match the future or the present

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Tenzing Trainor (Chief Operations Officer/Science Chief) in Where does she get those wonderful toys…Science Dept…When the past doesn’t match the future or the present
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Kelly wasn’t sure where the operations officer was on the sliding scale of the most recent conflict. She knew he had to be somewhere between burn the witch and can we convert her, yes we can but few people were all the way to the extreme of each group. Most were falling in the middle where they were not actively provoking her but keeping a healthy distance away. If Kelly had the time, she would have brought Jessa into the fold in microscopic increments but she did not have the time. During her last communique with Starfleet, she had been given strict orders. Get intell from the girl and learn how much was reality and how much was a fantasy about her claims. Usually, she would have been open with her crew about why she was going to be asking them to do things that felt odd; however, at times even she was not at liberty to say why she was giving orders. She had meetings lined up with most of the department heads individually forgoing her normal routine of handing out orders in a staff meeting. Today Tenzig Trainor was up and she was waiting for the chime at her door.

Kelly Bordeaux

Tenzing had lost the formalities years ago. After all, he’s had far too many run-ins with Q, has been to distant galaxies more than once, and has even found himself at odds with an extermination race. Trainor shuffled up to the Captain’s Ready Room and pressed the chime. Not knowing what the CO had in store for him, the man waited somewhat patiently to be called in.

Trainor
CSO/COO

“Come,” Kelly clicked off her console and clasped her hands looking at the door where the Operations chief had just entered. Of all her meetings in the past twenty-four hours, Kelly had been excited for lack of a better word about meeting with Trainor. The operations chief was a juxtaposition of looks and intelligence that did not marry up. Physically he looked like a newly minted academy cadet about twenty years old and ready to take on the world. The only feature that did not match up with this assessment was Tenzig Trainor’s eyes. While he was quick to laugh, smirk, or smile, Tenzig’s eyes held the weight of his actual age which was more in line with the rest of the senior staff’s. She needed this change from the hostile to the humorous although when she gave Tenzig his orders, he might get a bit feisty.

“Tenzig Trainor,” Kelly replied with an upbeat tone no one had heard in the past twenty-four hours. “Please come have a seat,” she gestured to him.

“I have been meeting with the senior staff about our current situation individually.” Kelly did not expand past this. If Tenzig was going to tender his transfer this would be the perfect opportunity. If he was going to stay he would be asking for orders.

“I know you are getting reports and data from various departments but I want to compartmentalize the information.” Kelly grew more serious than she typically was during meetings. “It is not to pit the crew against each other like some celestial Thunderdome but to cover as much ground as we can in the next week. We have been ordered to the Vespan System. It is remote and isolated and we are to hold there until we receive further orders. Normally I tell you everything I know when I know it but for now, this is all I have been granted access to give you. Okay now to the fun part,” she smiled slightly.

“I need you to help me figure out what this is and does.” On the table was a jar that Kelly opened and took the lid off. Dipping her fingers into the clear gel-like substance, she rubbed into the tips of her fingers very slowly and very gently. “It is odorless, colorless, and has the viscosity of kid’s slime and completely harmless based on medical scans.” Scientists tended to be over-cautious or under-cautious. They rarely tended to be in the middle ground. By touching it and explaining it, Kelly assumed it would be enough for Tenzig to do the same. “I know you have seen some crazy things in your travels but have you ever seen anything like this?”

Kelly Bordeaux CO

”…and we’re certain this isn’t some changeling?” Tenzing asked jokingly as he reached into the container to have a feel. After a moment, Trainor shook his head and removed his hand. “I haven’t come across anything like this, though the Ark Angel may have a similar occurrence in their database, but where was it found?”

The man didn’t want to be anywhere near it if it did happen to be part of a larger living space creature.

Trainor
CSO/COO