05-13-2025, 05:22 PM
== NRC Lt Tom Krandall, Tactical (Helm) ==
The Vulcan seemed...well...very Vulcan. The formality, lack of any emotional content or allowance for anything that might inhibit efficiency in action, they all were quite Vulcan. The surprise was in hearing he was, in fact, the Acting CTO.
For just a moment, Tom Stared at the Ensign. It was certainly not unheard of, but it was unexpected. His brain also took that split second to point out to him that he had walked right into that one. His brain then registered that he should close his still open mouth, which he did.
"Well, I guess that answers my question." He glanced at the helm controls, "These are actually fairly nimble old girls. You might be surprised at what you can do with them in a combat situation. You just have to do a little prep work for the allowance of drift subroutines into the impulse driver coils."
Tom held out his PADD, "Here, the preflight is complete...sir." He smiled as he did so, mildly amused at how the universe just loved to toss him a curve ball now and then.
Powl then walked away and Tom sat down to begin customizing the console and entering his subroutines. As he did so, he brought up the current manifest and gave a nod and a mild chuckle to himself as he confirmed the image to the name and said to himself, "Glad to meet you...Mister Torok Powl. I'm going to remember that name for a while."
The Vulcan seemed...well...very Vulcan. The formality, lack of any emotional content or allowance for anything that might inhibit efficiency in action, they all were quite Vulcan. The surprise was in hearing he was, in fact, the Acting CTO.
For just a moment, Tom Stared at the Ensign. It was certainly not unheard of, but it was unexpected. His brain also took that split second to point out to him that he had walked right into that one. His brain then registered that he should close his still open mouth, which he did.
"Well, I guess that answers my question." He glanced at the helm controls, "These are actually fairly nimble old girls. You might be surprised at what you can do with them in a combat situation. You just have to do a little prep work for the allowance of drift subroutines into the impulse driver coils."
Tom held out his PADD, "Here, the preflight is complete...sir." He smiled as he did so, mildly amused at how the universe just loved to toss him a curve ball now and then.
Powl then walked away and Tom sat down to begin customizing the console and entering his subroutines. As he did so, he brought up the current manifest and gave a nod and a mild chuckle to himself as he confirmed the image to the name and said to himself, "Glad to meet you...Mister Torok Powl. I'm going to remember that name for a while."