Posted by Captain Calvin Marius (Captain) in Genesis Lounge
Marius was not a particularly social man, but almost in a reverse of norms. He decided that as a Captain he needed to be more accessible not less. A typical person socialized with his peers, got drunk, talked about relationships, Marius did none of that as a junior officer, less as a department head and XO and now… well… every number was larger than zero.

He sat at a conspicuously large table, a bottle of whiskey at his left hand and a rocks glass with a single ice cube and three fingers of whiskey at his right. Before him he shuffled cards that didn’t resemble the normal deck. They were covered in pictures of strange animals and covered with numbers and words.

Marius

Kesh had once been a particularly social Caitian. She had even earned the nickname ‘The Fruitbasket Lady’ during her time as chief Botany Officer aboard the USS Athene many years ago. Then came her promotion to Science Chief that had made her workload too heavy to continue the trend of giving every new officer a customized fruit basket, and then came the incident and her demotion that had made it difficult to trust so easily, and then came the Dominion War that made it even harder, and then everything that followed that led to her resigning.

Much had changed since then, not the least of which was her return to Starfleet, driven by a genuine desire to seek that state of being where she had been ‘The Fruitbasket Lady’ so long ago. Sure, being an Engineer made it a little more difficult to shower crewmates with edible gifts, but the department was quite a bit more social than Sciences had been, thanks to so many hours spent lodged in small spaces with few crewmates, fixing what-have-you.

Sure, she wasn’t yet quite confident enough to actively stand out, but she did, at least, feel compelled to be a little bold.

“Is that Kwel’jak’tegaf?” The felinoid was in her usual uniform, taking a break from her duties in the lounge, and after getting her mug of hot drink, figured it was worth a shot to wander over by the seated captain to strike up at least some kind of conversation. She could tell right away that the cards Captain Marius had were not part of that odd Grizelian card game, but she’d learned that sometimes being deliberately wrong was a good conversation starter.

-> Kesh, Engineering