03-01-2026, 05:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2026, 05:29 PM by Peter Jensen.)
Peter looked up as the door opened, expecting to see the Captain. Instead seeing...Wright? He raised an eyebrow but quickly lowered it again and acknowledged her.
Her presence at a senior officer's briefing was...unusual to say the least, but surely the Captain had some reason to include her.
Truth be told, Peter had been quite impressed with her work, and saw great promise in her. Not that he was going to tell her in so many words for the time being - it was better to keep the egos of the most junior of junior officers from inflating too much.
Just the right mix of acknowledgement, positive reenforcement and praise, as well as constructive criticism was the way to go.
"Midshipman", he said with a cordial smile. "Please take your assigned seat". Then he thought he saw something on the young woman's face and raised his eyebrow again.
"Pray tell...is something the matter?", he asked. "You look like you're about to wrestle an angry Nausicaan", he said, trying to put her slightly at ease with a bit of humor. Since the meeting had not yet started, there was still time for that. He could empathize with how overwhelmed he thought she'd feel right now. If he had been called into a senior officer's briefing as a Midshipman...he would have looked much the same, he thought.
== Taggity! ==
Her presence at a senior officer's briefing was...unusual to say the least, but surely the Captain had some reason to include her.
Truth be told, Peter had been quite impressed with her work, and saw great promise in her. Not that he was going to tell her in so many words for the time being - it was better to keep the egos of the most junior of junior officers from inflating too much.
Just the right mix of acknowledgement, positive reenforcement and praise, as well as constructive criticism was the way to go.
"Midshipman", he said with a cordial smile. "Please take your assigned seat". Then he thought he saw something on the young woman's face and raised his eyebrow again.
"Pray tell...is something the matter?", he asked. "You look like you're about to wrestle an angry Nausicaan", he said, trying to put her slightly at ease with a bit of humor. Since the meeting had not yet started, there was still time for that. He could empathize with how overwhelmed he thought she'd feel right now. If he had been called into a senior officer's briefing as a Midshipman...he would have looked much the same, he thought.
== Taggity! ==