Stardate 73725.8
Posted on Mon Mar 23rd, 2020 @ 2:13pm by Lieutenant JG Matthew Plumeri
720 words; about a 4 minute read
[ON:]
“Science Officer’s log, stardate 73725.8. LTJG. Matthew Plumeri recording:
Hurry up and wait. That’s the Starfleet way. My last ship posting was on Galileo a week ago. A small group of us were deposited at Concordia Station for three days. Then the USS Ijn Merak arrived and we were told this will be our conveyance to Starbase Twenty-Three. Another whole day of sitting around Concordia Station until we were ready to depart. And in the meantime, the news on the FNN was all bad. Falling back from Starbase 400. I could feel my blood boil too.
I’ll miss my friends and co-workers from Galileo. She is a good ship. Good crew. They do a lot of good. But when this posting came up at Starbase 400 for a Science Officer/Historian – oh man – I had to jump on it. I figured Starfleet would be crazy to submit my app to the CO. Show’s how much I know I guess? Anyway, we had a going away party and I said my goodbye’s.
Ijn Merak was finally ready to depart and we boarded her. Myself, your friendly neighborhood Scientist/Historian, two other Starfleeters transferring to DS6 and a few civvies going to SB23 with me. Ijn Merak was a Steamrunner-class ship. So, there wasn’t a lot of room and we were just the cargo at this point. Captain put me to work at Science I station recalibrating the scientific sensor array. Getting their Astrometrics and Stellar Cartography databases back in sync with the current versions. The time passed quickly while I was busy.
Space is big. And you really feel that when you are at warp for four freakin’ days. We passed through the Näol magellanic cloud in the Vargas nebula and had to drop out of warp while we crossed the region. That added to our trip another twelve hours, but I got some awesome-sauce data from the newly calibrated array. I earned my keep while I was there and covering the night shift. Hey, it’s better than just going cabin crazy. Holosuite was all booked and since I’m just a guest I didn’t feel like I should take a slot away from the regular crew. I got to chat with them, the crew I mean, about their last mission. They don’t have a Chief Science Officer, there is an Astrophysicist work in that capacity as ‘acting’ CSO but the orders haven’t come through. Most of the crew was quiet. I think most didn’t want the Federation to get into another conflict. Ships like Ijn Merak find themselves part of battlegroups and in support functions. I can see it on their faces that they don’t want to fight. We finally exited the nebula and could get back to warp. Two days later and we dropped out of warp and were here at Starbase 23.
I’ve already reported in for duty at the Endeavour and I’ll be assigned some temporary quarters soon. I’m in the lounge now while I record this log. I met Fleet Admiral Bremer and my department head Lieutenant Commander Coleman. I still have a bunch of boxes to tick off the new arrival checklist. Medical department is one of them. And I can’t wait to work out some of this cabin fever at the gym. As soon as I get the necessary crap-ola off my to-do list, I plan on finding the gym and just working out for fun. I want to meet my new crewmates and see the other co-workers in me department. But, I have to remember that, for them, they just got here. And they may still be stinging from having to leave SB400 behind. Right now, I don’t know who’s who yet. And I gotta take things as they come up.
Welp, I’m finishing up this beer and I’ve got an appointment with the QM to get my berth soon here. Probably have to share but I don’t mind. I travel light anyway. I should call home though. Computer? End and save that log”
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[OFF:]
Lieutenant JG Matthew Plumeri
Science Officer – Historian
USS Endeavour
NCC-72802
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