Penny for your thoughts
"
By: Ian Hunter, Commanding Officer, [PC]
Teilani Dane, Chief Medical Officer, [PC]
Stardate: 58208.11 0800
Hunter, who looked like he was deep in thought broke his attention away from the image of Qul Tuq below.
"Oh, sure Doctor," he replied.
"So how is life on the bridge nowadays?" she asked.
Hunter smiled, "Just fine Doctor."
He watched as she took a sip of tea, "...and how are things in Sickbay?"
"Not bad Sir." she replied sitting down. There was an irry silence between the 2 of them.
"Penny for your thoughts Sir," Teilani asked trying to make some conversation.
"Hmmm? Oh," Hunter paused and then leaned back, "I was just...you know thinking, you know, Commander Wright is down on the station. His review hearing was at 1000 hours."
Hunter shifted in his seat.
"I am sure he will be alright Sir." she replied positively.
"Of course," nodded Hunter. "But I hear review boards can be pretty stressful."
"They are not as bad as a court martial and I m sure the Commander has a good explanation for it all." Teilani said.
"How about you? I hear you have a new nurse on staff," he said trying to keep a dead-serious look on his face.
"Yes indeed, its... a wild one." Teilani responded while finishing her tea. “She managed to colour code all the hyposprays including the meds. She is soo totally out of place"
"How is it possible she even got on this ship?" asked Hunter shaking his head in dismay.
"From what I gather it had something to do with her father," Teilani answered. "Some high ranking Admiral or so."
"I'll do some checking," said Hunter leaning back, "is she competent? I won't permit a risk to the crew like that."
"Nor do I Sir," she responded. "She is qualified, I mean she did finish the academy but she needs a lot of guidance. She blundered during a holodeck training, so I have ask James, Doc McIntyre, to help her adjust."
Hunter nodded and after a brief silence he handed her a PADD, "Did you see this?"
Teilani accepted the padd and started to scroll through it, "hmmm some new hires and some transferrees. Quit a large group Sir."
"We're still not up to full compliment yet," commented Hunter.
"What is actually the minimum requirement to keep the Zion flying?" she asked.
Hunter chucked, "It depends on whether the CMO can pilot the ship too."
She smiled. "Oh No Captain I am not falling for that, flying in a old fashioned sail ship was more then enough for me. Besides I doubt that the crew would accept a female doctor at the helm so to speak.
"Oh," said Hunter, "perhaps they'd trust Doctor McIntyre more...."
"I think so too," Teilani said, a little insulted. She browed the padd a little further.
"Speaking of flying the ship, I see we have a new flight officer coming on board."
She nodded. "Yes he will be waiting at QT. It will be good having some new faces on the ship.
"It looks like we'll finally be getting a science department too," he said with a gesture.
"Do we actually need so many science officers," Teilani asked, "I'm counting about 5 of them."
"Four," he said stirring in his seat, "Sarik has not been able to return from Vulcan due to hostilities in the region. And, we badly needed a good stellar cartographer, I guess we're getting a pretty good one."
"How do you know?" Teilani said, handing Hunter back the padd.
"They both served on the USS Atlanta and came highly recommended."
Teilani cocked her head. "Good to hear then."
"As for the rest of us," said Hunter with a sigh, we receive our new order at 1100 and are leaving Qul Tuq straightaway. "Command had hinted, it might be our longest mission yet.
" Well I better get back to sickbay then and make sure we have enough in storage." Teilani said while getting up. " I surely hope Ms Goldman has not re-arranged my office while I was gone."
"Yes, tell her to shape up or ship out."
She grinned. " I will tell her you said so mon Capitain!!. "Goodday."
Hunter stood up, "Good day then Doctor," he said.