Posted by Ensign Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in CSO Office

Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in CSO Office

Posted by Ensign Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in CSO Office
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Sharah held back a grin, “Two actually.” She’d had Joseph in mind when she designed them. She missed him and had thought he would enjoy the idea of being in plane sight and no one noticing. She typed into her own PaDD and they showed up on Marsh’s. “They are not as sneaky as I would like. It’s possible someone might stumble on them, but they would have to be Very lucky.” This design had really pushed Sharah’s skills for design and botany. She was very proud of it and if Marsh approved she was going to show Oliver her work.

En. Fayth, Doctor

“MMmmmHmmm,” Marsh pursed his lips. “Keeping secret for yourself and your buddies?” He then looked down… “Oh, the keys to the castle, little old me gets the secret make out points.”

“Well Ensign you can’t make magic happen in a rectangle. You can only do so much so I wouldn’t be so hard on yourself.” He looked down again examining things closely. “Isn’t the risk of stumbling upon half the fun. Why would you take your partner to a public site to perform romantic acts if the thought of being caught wasn’t somewhere in your mind.”

“Its good Ensign, I’ll run it by the Captain but I can approve it on my own authority.”

Marsh

Sharah would never be caught in one of those nooks, unless she was tending the plants. She smiled slightly. She was eager to get started, but if she had to wait for the Captain’s okay she would. This was a side project she was really eager to see finished. “I’ve given the new design a month, to get ready, if I have to work alone. And we have all the materials and plants already on hand. I can start whenever you’d like, Sir.”
En. Fayth, Doctor

“I’m sure there will be plenty of people who would volunteer to help you.” He shrugged. “If not, it is an operating system of the ship. I can assign a team. Science, primarily botany, is responsible for the area. Ensign Mayweather and specialist Carson have degrees in that field so…” He left the rest unsaid.

Marsh

Fayth nodded, on a good ship lots of people helped in the arboretum. “I can certainly post a schedule or list of ‘to dos’ for those that want to volunteer to help. I am more than happy to have Mayweather and Carson’s help. It would cut the time back at least 2 weeks.”
En Fayth, Doctor

“Hmm,” he thought about it. “I’d like to keep the plant placement and design things under your direct supervision. If you are going to do the ‘to do’ list it should just be the grunt work. I wouldn’t want someone messing up the design with a misunderstanding or some over ambitious ideas.”

Sharah nodded, that’s what she was hoping for, do be able to over see the project, but she also knew she was young and had never undertaken a project like this on her own. She had saved Challenger’s arboretum, but there wasn’t anyone in charge down there and no one had cared what happened to it. But the design on Challenger was nothing like this would be. “The tasks on the to-do list would be very specific and not actually involving the placement of the design.”

“What are going to do with the greenery that you are removing and replacing?”

Marsh

“Some of it, very little, is not salvageable, so it will be put to enrich the soil. The others will be potted and can be taken by the crew for their personal quarters or placed in recreational areas of the ship if anyone is interested. Some of the plants maybe too old and can be saved for their seeds. There is actually very little that has to be removed. It maybe moved to a new location, but will just be replanted.”
En. Fayth, Doctor

Marsh made a face… to be reduced to fertilizer after a long career… as a plant.. but a long duty nonetheless has some impact on him existentially. “I guess one day we will all be reduced to our elements to enrich the next generation… Its better than going into the replicators and being broken down to our component elements.”

“You ever think about when you are closer to the end of your career than the beginning doctor?”

Marsh

Sharah stopped herself from asking if he’d recently spoken to a Lt. Rainns. Their future, had been the topic of many discussions the weeks leading up to her reassignment on Europa. “Quite a bit actually. Maybe more than I should. Why do you ask, Sir?” What had she told Joseph? It’s okay to make plans for the future as long as you aren’t trying to live it before it happens.

En. Fayth, Doctor

Marsh shrugged, “It just was a thought when I thought about the remodeling and dissembling of something that gave so many people pleasure without too much of a thought about the past. Each of us will have the moment where we have to measure our lives against the impact we will have on the universe.” He stopped the looked at her.

“What will you leave behind doctor?”

Marsh