==NRC Petty Officer Oleah "Leah" sh'Sjöress==
Leah was shocked when the Captain replied so quickly with credentials to get into the Borg database.
"Wow," the petty officer officer remarked as Cortez ended the comms. "I wonder if he is always so shéùkhin (quick) to comply with requests. He must trust you already." As she spoke her tone was dry and it was difficult to tell if she was being judgemental or simply making a comment. She said nothing else on the matter as they watched the codes unravel the equation.
“Leah, look at this,” Sebastian said, breaking Oleah away from thoughts. She understood calculus as well as any Starfleet officer, and recognized that it was a puzzle to solve. Linguistics itself, and unlocking a translation operated quite a lot like algebra, to be a good linguist, one had to understand math. However, she wasn't a physicist, so the complexity of the equations and what they were mapping out was lost on her. But, as linguist, when Cortez asked the computer the questions about language and math, she understood the answer better than any computer.
"If these people are advanced enough to inscribe this kind of equation onto their equipment, then they must have a way of communicating that is more than just math," Oleah insisted. "Maybe it's spoken, it could be sign or gestures, maybe it's telepathy. Medical could potentially tell us more about the likelihood of telepathic abilities, even while they are unconscious, though it would be difficult if not impossible while they are in stasis. But, there is more to them than math, I promise you that," she said confidently.
"I mean think about it - Starfleet doesn't have Federation Standard stamped on the outside of every piece of equipment for the hell of it. When they do, it's often just to name something that is visible, or for engineers to readily identify - or in some occasions, when we are making contact, it's for the purpose that we are explorers and want people to be able to translate our language and communicate," she explained. "But Starfleet and its purpose are rare. There was nothing like it known in the quadrants before Humans came along. And I can tell you that the Imperial Guard wouldn't have even made it this easy to open any of our ships' data recording devices."
The suspicion raised in her voice as her antennae perked on alert, "If answering this math equation does unlock this device, it's almost too easy."
==Tag Sebastian "Pedro" Cortez"==
Leah was shocked when the Captain replied so quickly with credentials to get into the Borg database.
"Wow," the petty officer officer remarked as Cortez ended the comms. "I wonder if he is always so shéùkhin (quick) to comply with requests. He must trust you already." As she spoke her tone was dry and it was difficult to tell if she was being judgemental or simply making a comment. She said nothing else on the matter as they watched the codes unravel the equation.
“Leah, look at this,” Sebastian said, breaking Oleah away from thoughts. She understood calculus as well as any Starfleet officer, and recognized that it was a puzzle to solve. Linguistics itself, and unlocking a translation operated quite a lot like algebra, to be a good linguist, one had to understand math. However, she wasn't a physicist, so the complexity of the equations and what they were mapping out was lost on her. But, as linguist, when Cortez asked the computer the questions about language and math, she understood the answer better than any computer.
"If these people are advanced enough to inscribe this kind of equation onto their equipment, then they must have a way of communicating that is more than just math," Oleah insisted. "Maybe it's spoken, it could be sign or gestures, maybe it's telepathy. Medical could potentially tell us more about the likelihood of telepathic abilities, even while they are unconscious, though it would be difficult if not impossible while they are in stasis. But, there is more to them than math, I promise you that," she said confidently.
"I mean think about it - Starfleet doesn't have Federation Standard stamped on the outside of every piece of equipment for the hell of it. When they do, it's often just to name something that is visible, or for engineers to readily identify - or in some occasions, when we are making contact, it's for the purpose that we are explorers and want people to be able to translate our language and communicate," she explained. "But Starfleet and its purpose are rare. There was nothing like it known in the quadrants before Humans came along. And I can tell you that the Imperial Guard wouldn't have even made it this easy to open any of our ships' data recording devices."
The suspicion raised in her voice as her antennae perked on alert, "If answering this math equation does unlock this device, it's almost too easy."
==Tag Sebastian "Pedro" Cortez"==