Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sara Lovejoy (Chief Engineer) in Meeting to Captain Taggart -ATTN Captain-
As the Lt. went to her office with the captain, she thought that it was best if they talked in her office due to the fact that she has to go back on duty afterwards. She was concerned that something like that was gonna come up again. But it wasn’t that. She was actually expected a promotion from Lieutenant Junior Grade but it was a sudden thing that she didn’t get. So she not upset or anything she was just curious on what happened and everything. But on the same note that the fact that the alert came up to into engineering that some sort of the error code. She was completely unsure of how it came around cause it was unusual. “Captain. Just out of curiosity, but I was wondering how come I didn’t get promoted or anything. I’m not mad or anything I’m just curious.” She said to him as she was curious. “Also wondering how an error code like this came up. Do you know what kind of error code it is? It was something that was unexpected and I don’t understand.” She was wondering and curious about that as well.

Chief Engineer Lovejoy

Chris came in and looked around. She’s done a lot he thought to himself. He was a little shocked at her questions but didn’t show it. “I will answer both of your questions Lieutenant. I will answer the second one first though if you don’t mind? And I am grateful that you voice your concern. Please keep doing that.”

“To be honest, I don’t know how that code came to be or what it means. As a command officer you have to take courses in engineering, science, etc.. That’s because as a command officer you are expected to know how to run an entire ship. That being said, these courses are basic. I know enough about engineering to reroute or route power and which systems are more crucial and critical. I know the properties of the Warp core and disrupter dish, etc, but I don’t know how to maintain them, fix them or anything. Just how they work, why they work and how it relates to the overall workings of the Chernov.”

“So obviously someone that has a background such as yourself would make a far better Command officer than a surgeon as far as really knowing how to keep a ship operating mechanically. I hope that makes since. The other thing is someone can be a SME or Subject Matter Expert in a given field of a degree or career. But because you’re a SME or the Chief or even the Captain, doesn’t mean that you know all there is to know about everything in your given or chosen field.”

“As a doctor when I was just a general practitioner, I knew a lot about medicine but not everything. As I grew with experience, so did my knowledge. But often times those experiences that helped me down the road didn’t exist at one point in time. Meaning I would have a medical emergency come in that I have either never seen or heard of before and I did not know what to do. I had to look for others for help and sometimes, that help came from someone that was Junior in rank, but they’ve faced that situation before. So for me, I learned early on to take advice from anyone as long as that advice was valid of course.” Chris took a deep breath. “I did lose patients because I and others did not know what to do. You can’t save them all. But as I learned from that, then the next time someone came in with the same symptoms, then I would know what to do and be the hero that they needed. I hope you can see the correlation between what I’m saying and your job Lieutenant. So please do not beat yourself up for not knowing that specific code. Because the next time it happens, you’ll know exactly what to, be calm and professional about it and the ensigns around you will think that you’re very smart and wise.” He winked at her with a smile after he said that.

“Now to answer your first question. The one about your promotion or lack thereof.” He paused a bit before going on. “Who said you weren’t getting one?” He winked and smiled again. “Lieutenant. There is a promotion ceremony slash party that will be taking place soon.” His voice became a whisper and he leaned in close and put his hand up to the other side of his mouth. “Just between us and the NSA,.... you’re in it.” Then he went back to his normal stance and voice volume. “So I’ll be sending a communique to every department head tomorrow about you they believe should be promoted and to send us their progress reports and evals to make the calls. Then the XO and I will be doing the same for the Department heads. But we’ve already discussed you. So keep this quiet until it happens please.”

“So do you have anymore questions?”

Captain Chris Taggart CO