04-21-2024, 01:54 PM
Peter listened as Beinn recounted how the Klingons were going to keep his people from joining the KDF.
Ostensibly for bureaucratic reasons; according to himself it was for reasons of feeling inferior to the children of San-Tarah - something which Peter doubted very much. If there was one thing Klingongs were not known for doing, it was feeling physically inferior to anyone else, even if it was the case.
He was definitely leaning towards the bureaucracy-reasons himself, as the most likely explanation.
But he wasn't going to point that out to Beinn. Not now.
"Not drunk yet. But getting there", d'Tor'an responded to his question, and he grinned. He was about to raise his own beer when Beinn beat him to it and shoved a glass of Klingon warnog at him with a fond wish and a prayer. Peter took the glass gravely, raised it.
"Qapla'!", he responded, and downed the drink, definitely feeling....something about it. It was not something he was used to, but...it wasn't all too offensive. He put the glass down, and then heard another voice behind him.
Black
Peter didn't actively resent the woman, but he was definitely wary of her. Things had gotten heated on the bridge. Exceptionally heated. And he had thought he'd seen something in the woman's eyes which he had never seen in the eyes of another Starfleet personnel before, no matter how upset they'd been with him.
It was nothing he could prove, of course, and the situation had been exceptional, so even if he had wanted to make something of that, he couldn't.
But it definitely had changed his opinion on her, which hadn't been all that bad originally.
For now, though, he turned around and looked at her, seeing a fresh face beside her. He immediately gave the man a friendly smile and an outstretched hand.
"Leftenant Commander Qi, I presume?", he asked, then continued introducing himself. "Peter Jensen, First Officer of the Philadelphia. Pleasure to meet you! Allow me to introduce", he took a step to the side, "Leftenant Artemis d'Tor'an, our Chief of Security, and Mr. Kal-Geal Beinn, graciously on loan to our medical staff from the KDF.", he finished the announcements.
Ostensibly for bureaucratic reasons; according to himself it was for reasons of feeling inferior to the children of San-Tarah - something which Peter doubted very much. If there was one thing Klingongs were not known for doing, it was feeling physically inferior to anyone else, even if it was the case.
He was definitely leaning towards the bureaucracy-reasons himself, as the most likely explanation.
But he wasn't going to point that out to Beinn. Not now.
"Not drunk yet. But getting there", d'Tor'an responded to his question, and he grinned. He was about to raise his own beer when Beinn beat him to it and shoved a glass of Klingon warnog at him with a fond wish and a prayer. Peter took the glass gravely, raised it.
"Qapla'!", he responded, and downed the drink, definitely feeling....something about it. It was not something he was used to, but...it wasn't all too offensive. He put the glass down, and then heard another voice behind him.
Black
Peter didn't actively resent the woman, but he was definitely wary of her. Things had gotten heated on the bridge. Exceptionally heated. And he had thought he'd seen something in the woman's eyes which he had never seen in the eyes of another Starfleet personnel before, no matter how upset they'd been with him.
It was nothing he could prove, of course, and the situation had been exceptional, so even if he had wanted to make something of that, he couldn't.
But it definitely had changed his opinion on her, which hadn't been all that bad originally.
For now, though, he turned around and looked at her, seeing a fresh face beside her. He immediately gave the man a friendly smile and an outstretched hand.
"Leftenant Commander Qi, I presume?", he asked, then continued introducing himself. "Peter Jensen, First Officer of the Philadelphia. Pleasure to meet you! Allow me to introduce", he took a step to the side, "Leftenant Artemis d'Tor'an, our Chief of Security, and Mr. Kal-Geal Beinn, graciously on loan to our medical staff from the KDF.", he finished the announcements.