Posted by Lieutenant Commander T’Aria (XO / Navigation Officer) in Main SIM: Captain’s Yacht. Tag Everyone

Posted by Ensign Kastarak (Doctor / Counsellor) in Main SIM: Captain’s Yacht. Tag Everyone

Posted by Lieutenant Commander T’Aria (XO / Navigation Officer) in Main SIM: Captain’s Yacht. Tag Everyone
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(Snip!)

“Good! Now here’s the elephant in the room. Who is with me?”

Chris

After being in contact with their team on a secure channel, Umbri spoke up. “You have the full support of Security, Captain. The rest of my team is on their way,” they said.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Umbri Zayne, Weapons Officer

Kastarak hadn’t even thought he had a choice, he had assumed it was an order. Was it an order? Was the captain’s question rhetorical? He decided it was.

“Excellent !” Chris said.

“I will make the necessary preparations with Mr Symar relating to whatever orders you give him and me”, he said.

– Ensign Kastarak (doctor / counsellor)

“No. Kastarak. You have a choice. I’m not ordering anyone. This is strictly voluntary. If you don’t want to come, then that’s fine. You’ll stay here, have a vacation and when and if we get back, you’ll be welcomed on the Chernov. Again. It’s your choice.”

Chris

William finally finished his cup of tea with a sigh “I will be coming as well, It’s highly probable that the Captain will somehow get himself severely injured and lose consciousness… Again” If that was a joke it was a very dry one “I’d like to make sure you don’t finally get yourself killed, or lose more limbs” Now that was more clearly a joke.

CSO, 2O

T’Aria listened as the officers seated around the table, those she considered family, acquiesced to Taggart’s request. Though her instinct was to decline and dissociate herself from the recklessness of a bedraggled Admiral, she knew she could not. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few… Vulcan philosophy, tainted with Prisu’s Northern lilt, forced her to consider another perspective. Her crewmates comprised the ‘many’ and each consenting gesture endangered another of their lives until the only way to protect the ‘needs’ (lives) of the ‘many’ was to accept the mission. They had to risk their lives to save them… and the victim.

Shivers chased up her spine and froze her in place, urging her to reconsider the logic.

Accepting the mission meant endangering ten lives. Declining meant endangering millions. T’Aria realised the threat their mission’s failure had on Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. Admirals had some of the highest clearance in the UFP, surpassing most civilians in security. Like most civilians, they could assume the victim had limited knowledge of sensitive information. But that was risky. If she possessed ample knowledge – or just enough to give the Klingons an advantage over Starfleet and civilian security – then her security was also the security of the UFP. T’Aria knew it was an over-exaggeration that had little bearing in reality, but it was a risk, and even the lightest risks were worth considering. Besides, the Admiral had already demonstrated a degree of instability in the lengths he would go to protect his daughter from harm. If they were to avoid war with the Klingons, then someone (or someones) removed from the situation needed to handle her rescue.

And those ‘someones’ just happened to be the Chernov.

T’Aria glanced at every officer situated around the table before she turned to Taggart and quirked an eyebrow, “it seems you already have a voice of reason. I don’t suppose you could use a friend?”

— T’Aria, XO

With T’Aria now supporting the captain and joining the mission, Kastarak tried to understand the reasons why. There must have been a logical reason why T’Aria – a fellow Vulcan whom Kastarak admired and modelled his own logic on. He valued his collegiality and, indeed, friendship with her. Like T’Aria (but unknowing of her thoughts), Kastarak thought of the maxim of the needs of the few outweighing the needs of the many. He had a different angle, however – one that was probably more grounded in Vulcan hubris (though Kastarak would not admit to that, not even in his own thoughts). His reasoning was this:

The captain, whom Kastarak had gotten to know quite intimately in therapy, had difficulties in regulating his emotions. From nurses Sutalo and Zhang, Kastarak had heard of the hot-headed bickering that kept going on in Engineering. Commander Grey was most likely also unregulated emotionally, from the few instances he had met him. It seemed that Grey kept mostly to himself, and most likely had emotional concerns he needed to work on. It was not a pretty gang to look at.

As such, that gang had been tasked by Section 31 to use a Romulan bird-of-prey to enter Imperial Klingon space to retrieve one girl or woman that was related to a high-level admiral in Starfleet. The life of this girl – or the information in her brain – must be so important that Section 31 would risk a war. The peace of the quadrant depended on this gang being able to survive the mission and execute it success.

But the gang was hot-headed and, simply put, too emotional. With T’Aria joining it, it meant that she most likely saw that there was a need for logic in the mission, a cool, rational head to help advise the team on the mission. It must have meant that the needs of her (being few) were outweighed of the needs of the many (the team in the first instance, but the Federation and the Klingon Empire in the second). That meant, he had an ethical, a logical duty to join her in balancing emotion with good, trusted infallible logic.

He was compelled to join.

“Of course, captain,” he said, his face showing no expression whatsoever. “I will join the team.”

– Ensign Kastarak (doctor / counsellor)

Bump 11.06.2022

“Good. So Blaze. Create the fake contamination leak. We’ll be there in 2 hours to “assist” with it.” Thank you all!”

Chris