Requesting this appointment had been easy and there seemed to be enough people who at least knew Jon that they were willing to help them out with the kids. Today was important because she was meeting with the Chief Science Officer about officially being added to the department roster as a civilian scientist.

For someone with her career experience and years of dealing with unknown situations, Melaia was strangely nervous. But then again, this was the first time she’d been back to work in two years and it had been a decade since she’d last been a scientist. The interest and mentality for science had never left her but she’d had so much time in a command level position that the way she operated had shifted and she knew she’d have to work hard not to let it take over. It wasn’t her department after all.

At the appointed time, Reez found herself at the CSO’s door, dressed in black trousers and a medium blue tailored tunic. With her black ankle boots it felt as close to a Starfleet uniform as she could get. She missed hers old jacket, but this was a new chapter in a different book and she was actually excited about it. With a steadying breath, Mel pressed the chime.

~Melaia Reez, soon to be civilian scientist