03-08-2025, 09:00 AM
"Captain Braggins, I must protest your decision to send...Junior Officers to participate in the race. The Wairara consider it a sacred event, and will no doubt consider it a calculated insult."
Well, talk about counting eggs before they've hatched. What does he know that we don't?
Jadaris waited as Midshipman Alden defended the Captain's reasoning, allowing himself a smile as the Midshipman reminded him of the way things used to be when he had a lot less pips.
Drawing from some of the experience he had, Jadaris said,
"Mister Tomer, given your experience in diplomacy, if this is a First Contact scenario, then we all have no clue what constitutes an insult to this species except by trial and error, or by asking nicely. Speculating on the beliefs of a First Contact species without accurate information is a nice way to set yourself up for a gaffe. What if the Wairara consider a ship crewed by veteran pilots to be cheating, or a concerted effort to win without being sportsmanlike? In this case, acceding to the experience of the Captain is what defines First Contact diplomacy, since we have such limited information. That being said, giving our junior officers the opportunity to prove themselves may be the unpredictability that pulls off a diplomatic win."
Jadaris wanted to add that veteran pilots who were young would be considered better assets, but pushing Tomer's buttons further might result in an ego core breach in the briefing room, not to mention that Jenny might take offense about being called old. He was also tempted to comment that if Tomer didn't like junior officers racing without him, there was always stealing a shuttle to go compete yourself, but he figured Artemis didn't need more headaches, not when her midshipman could create more for her. However, Jadaris did add,
"Just so that its out there, but I believe I'm the only person in the room who's flown a shuttle into a temporal anomaly during their Star Fleet career. And its not something you want to do by yourself, or even a two person crew. We barely managed to rescue most of the crew of the Renaissance from that temporal cloud we encountered, but a diverse team able to think on the fly I believe would have been more successful."
That time, Jadaris had stolen a shuttle while he was temporarily driven crazy by an imzadi bond that was attenuating in that temporal cloud. The loss of Ki'sa Orano had since caused him to lock down mentally and emotionally, and though he eventually got over the loss, he had undertaken steps to prevent that from occurring again. Especially the part of stealing shuttles and using prefix codes to escape tractor beams.
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Well, talk about counting eggs before they've hatched. What does he know that we don't?
Jadaris waited as Midshipman Alden defended the Captain's reasoning, allowing himself a smile as the Midshipman reminded him of the way things used to be when he had a lot less pips.
Drawing from some of the experience he had, Jadaris said,
"Mister Tomer, given your experience in diplomacy, if this is a First Contact scenario, then we all have no clue what constitutes an insult to this species except by trial and error, or by asking nicely. Speculating on the beliefs of a First Contact species without accurate information is a nice way to set yourself up for a gaffe. What if the Wairara consider a ship crewed by veteran pilots to be cheating, or a concerted effort to win without being sportsmanlike? In this case, acceding to the experience of the Captain is what defines First Contact diplomacy, since we have such limited information. That being said, giving our junior officers the opportunity to prove themselves may be the unpredictability that pulls off a diplomatic win."
Jadaris wanted to add that veteran pilots who were young would be considered better assets, but pushing Tomer's buttons further might result in an ego core breach in the briefing room, not to mention that Jenny might take offense about being called old. He was also tempted to comment that if Tomer didn't like junior officers racing without him, there was always stealing a shuttle to go compete yourself, but he figured Artemis didn't need more headaches, not when her midshipman could create more for her. However, Jadaris did add,
"Just so that its out there, but I believe I'm the only person in the room who's flown a shuttle into a temporal anomaly during their Star Fleet career. And its not something you want to do by yourself, or even a two person crew. We barely managed to rescue most of the crew of the Renaissance from that temporal cloud we encountered, but a diverse team able to think on the fly I believe would have been more successful."
That time, Jadaris had stolen a shuttle while he was temporarily driven crazy by an imzadi bond that was attenuating in that temporal cloud. The loss of Ki'sa Orano had since caused him to lock down mentally and emotionally, and though he eventually got over the loss, he had undertaken steps to prevent that from occurring again. Especially the part of stealing shuttles and using prefix codes to escape tractor beams.
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