03-19-2025, 02:44 AM
Jenny watched without amusement as Tomer backed down. Though she felt like she'd earned a sense of pride in forcing the man to accept that he wasn't actually in charge, she also knew she'd opened herself up to all sorts of grief from the civilian Powers That Be the moment the assignment was completed, regardless of result. Given the attitude the Trill diplomat had shown, having not actually bothered to introduce himself to her crew, Jenny had the distinct impression that his continued presence aboard was going to be A Problem. Unfortunately, she had no justification to confine him to quarters.
Yet.
Slipping back into her seat, Jenny reclined and pondered her next course of action for a moment, cigarette still held between her index and middle knuckles, wisps of smoke rising from it and being sucked straight into the ventilation system above her head for purification and recycling.
Making her decision, Jenny returned her chair to an upright position and placed her hands on the table before her.
"If there's nothing else, I think we should consider this briefing over. Mister Chertstone, increase speed to Warp Nine. You are to spend every waking hour not on duty practicing for the race; if the Wairara take this as seriously as Mister Tomer believes, I need your A-Game. I'll be monitoring your progress, and if I see you so much as think about anything other than your duty or the race, I'll revoke your flight status so fast you'll think you'd been run over by a Borg Cube."
Turning to the more senior members of the crew, Jenny continued.
"Jadaris, Arwen, I want you brushing up on everything you know about chroniton particles and any other spatial anomalies the race might pass through, and come up with an ingenius way to protect the Glennis from it. I know we're on a tight schedule, so it doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to work. And make sure Miss Bowman and Mister Campbell have the knowledge they'll need to work the modifications in the field.
Peter, I want your team in the holodeck getting used to working as a team. I don't need to remind you that this is high-stakes, and while I'd rather you won, the priority is making a good showing and coming back in one piece. Actually, that reminds me; Artemis, I want you to arrange some survival excercises for the team in case something goes wrong during the race. Abandon ship procedures for the Aeroshuttle, EVA survival, that kind of thing."
With her crew given their orders, Jenny dismissed them with a wordless shoo-ing motion. Eight days, that's how long they had until Jenny's second First Contact mission as Captain, and hopefully it went better than the previous one had...
Yet.
Slipping back into her seat, Jenny reclined and pondered her next course of action for a moment, cigarette still held between her index and middle knuckles, wisps of smoke rising from it and being sucked straight into the ventilation system above her head for purification and recycling.
Making her decision, Jenny returned her chair to an upright position and placed her hands on the table before her.
"If there's nothing else, I think we should consider this briefing over. Mister Chertstone, increase speed to Warp Nine. You are to spend every waking hour not on duty practicing for the race; if the Wairara take this as seriously as Mister Tomer believes, I need your A-Game. I'll be monitoring your progress, and if I see you so much as think about anything other than your duty or the race, I'll revoke your flight status so fast you'll think you'd been run over by a Borg Cube."
Turning to the more senior members of the crew, Jenny continued.
"Jadaris, Arwen, I want you brushing up on everything you know about chroniton particles and any other spatial anomalies the race might pass through, and come up with an ingenius way to protect the Glennis from it. I know we're on a tight schedule, so it doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to work. And make sure Miss Bowman and Mister Campbell have the knowledge they'll need to work the modifications in the field.
Peter, I want your team in the holodeck getting used to working as a team. I don't need to remind you that this is high-stakes, and while I'd rather you won, the priority is making a good showing and coming back in one piece. Actually, that reminds me; Artemis, I want you to arrange some survival excercises for the team in case something goes wrong during the race. Abandon ship procedures for the Aeroshuttle, EVA survival, that kind of thing."
With her crew given their orders, Jenny dismissed them with a wordless shoo-ing motion. Eight days, that's how long they had until Jenny's second First Contact mission as Captain, and hopefully it went better than the previous one had...