Posted by Lieutenant Robert Mason (Chief Engineer) in USS Calypso- Transitions

Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in USS Calypso- Transitions

Posted by Lieutenant Robert Mason (Incoming Chief Engineer) in USS Calypso- Transitions
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SNIP

Siterra returned the shake and smiled. “I’ll know you’ll do the Calypso proud.” She eyed them both and took a step back. “Safe travels.”

Dira moved up onto the transporter pad and smiled. “Same to you. Let me know how you get on,” she said with a little nod of her head and something of an intense look.

What’s that about? Bob wondered as he assumed his own position on the pad.

“I will. It’ll be… what it is,” Elise commented, before adopting a rather neutral position.

Commander Myqian, XO

The transporter console made a series of beeps. “They’re signalling ready, Captain,” the operator said.

“Energize.”

The familiar swirls of light filled the transporter chamber as Dira and Bob promptly dematerialized.

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The tines of Bob’s fork clanked against the plate as he accidentally missed the bit of chicken he had been aiming for. A second stab found its target, and soon the meat from the space station replicator achieved the purpose of its brief existence.

Dira was seated across from him, PADD in one hand, and spoon in the other. Broth dripped from it before she chewed on her lower lip and set the spoon back into the bowl of soup. She set the device down with a slight sigh.

“So what was that about back there in the transporter room, anyway?” Bob asked. “You know, with ‘Elise’.” He wasn’t necessarily surprised that Dira and their now-former Captain were easy going, just based on the kind of person he had learned Dira to be. But Bob had still felt somewhat intimidated at the prospect of knowing The Captain, considering how he didn’t exactly get much exposure to her in Calypso’s Main Engineering.

– Robert Mason, CE

“Hmm? Oh, that,” Myqian said with a slight grin. “Well, there was an exceedingly brief moment when Command was considering a shake up of the Calypso’s senior staff and I was going to slip into the XO role there. Captain Siterra and I were actually pretty excited about the idea, but it changed very suddenly when the Ogawa’s need for an XO was more pressing. My background in psychiatry, obviously, was considered a no-brainer. So here we are.”

Commander Myqian, XO

There was an audible clang as the fork slipped out of Bob’s hand and hit the plate completely.

“You mean that she was actually going to show Franks the door?” It was quite the shock. If it was Bob’s place to make that decision, he would have done it much, much earlier, but that’s because he had directly observed exactly how stupid and useless Franks was. He didn’t expect the Captain to agree openly with his assessment, but after leaving Franks sitting in place for a year since The Incident it seemed like he was going to get a pass on being stupid. And that Bob was going to be perpetually screwed over by Franks for making the mistake of actually saying what everyone on that Away Mission thought aloud…

– Robert Mason, CE

OOC: Giving this a bump