AQ/D01 - Ready Room

[Daniel Brooks]

==As per image on the wiki, however two extra items on display are a sword given to Captain Brooks by Commander Velaul and a model of his first Command a Luna Class USS Charon==

[Daniel Brooks]

==A week into Shore leave, DS9==

Daniel entered his office with a little black box and walked around the desk. Sitting down he opened a draw and placed it in the top, not closing it.

Tapping his commbadge he said, "Brooks to Kurasa, please report to my Ready Room. Brooks out."

He picked up a PADD, Dan sat and read through a report from one one of the medical officers who had put a paper in to be sent on about some research they been doing. It was fascinating reading and of course made the time between Brooks calling for the Chief of Security to their arrival seem a very short time indeed.

==Tag Kurasa==

[Shione Kurasa]

Shione had been very busy and very relaxed for the full duration of her leave.

She had spent every possible minute with her wife and daughter. They had filled every moment with laughter and affection and that was just what the Aquila's second officer needed. Jelaya and Aashaa were staying aboard. Their quarters were more than large enough and both her mate and daughter were busy with work and school, so as the time for a new mission approached she felt more than ready this time for whatever the CO had for her.

They had just finished dinner when the call came in to report and less than 5 minutes later she crossed the bridge and entered as ordered.

"Lieutenant Commander Kurasa reporting as ordered Captain. What do you need from me Sir?"

==Tag Brooks==

[Daniel Brooks]

The door to the Ready Room opened and in walked his Security Chief, Daniel watched as she reported in,

"Lieutenant Commander Kurasa reporting as ordered Captain. What do you need from me Sir?"

Dan kept silent for a minute or so and went back to reading the PADD in front of him before finally putting it down and saying,

"Take a seat Commander."

Once his chief had sat down he looked at the PADD again for a moment before saying,

"You know, sometimes our missions never bear the fruit we want... sometimes all the risks and the pressure we don't seem to get that final confirmation to that over bearing question."

He looked at Kurasa straight at her with his icy blue eyes with an intense stare at her,

"See, thing is. it not always about the destination, sometimes its the journey. Our last mission was quite the journey and I don't think you or even myself was prepared to come away with not much more knowledge then we did at the start. However...."

Dan paused and reached into the draw beside him before sliding the small black box across the desk to Commander Kurasa.

"I fell what you had done, how you risk yourself, trying to gain the intelligence we needed, how you lead an away team with a possible chance of death... without a second thought was immense bravery and I didn't think that should go unnoticed."

Brooks paused for the officer to open the black box as he carried on,

"You are hereby award for your actions the Gold Star medal. Congratulations." Brooks gave a broad smile.

==Tag Kurasa==

[Shione Kurasa]

Shione entered the CO's ready room assuming that they would be discussing Star Fleet's plans for their next deployment, but the Captain seemed too relaxed to be discussing such matters and besides Beno wasn't present.

She sat as the Captain directed and was truthfully surprised when his tone and subject matter turned to focus on the previous mission. Not being someone that expected to be recognized for her efforts she sat still and listen to Brooks describe how pleased he had been with the most recent away team mission.

It had been a very strange and as it played out; a possibly lethal mission  for the Away team. All of the team had performed ahead of what had been expected and momentarily losing her focus and thinking about how it ended she was taken aback when Roger slid a small black box across the table to her.

"I felt what you had done, how you risk yourself, trying to gain the intelligence we needed, how you lead an away team with a possible chance of death... without a second thought was immense bravery and I didn't think that should go unnoticed."

Brooks paused for the officer to open the black box as he carried on,

"You are hereby award for your actions the Gold Star medal. Congratulations."  Brooks gave a broad smile.

Shione was; at that moment glad for her Vulcan discipline as she immediately realized what it meant, and even so, seeing the golden award she admittedly did likely show how pleased and surprised she was;  but managed to recover her poise and smiled warmly, nodding in respect for the Captain's and admittedly; friend's generosity.

"Thank you so much Captain. Personally, I was pleased that we got everyone back safe and sound, and credit goes TO the team for their professionalism and composure during that short but as it turned out dangerous away team assignment.

As you know all too well Captain, sometimes it is good to be lucky but also in this case particularly; to have a Captain who knew when we needed to be pulled out and got us all back here safe and sound; so, thank YOU Sir for having our backs."

Shione paused to recapture her normal composure before offering her best smile for her CO and friend.

==Tag Brooks==