01-18-2025, 08:24 PM
Callan had just asked the captain about the ship when the door chime sounded. Captain Braggins had opened her mouth to answer his question but instead responded that the person at the door should enter.
As the door opened, Callan saw the form of a tall powerfully built figure. As they stepped into the room Callan was surprised to see that it was some huge reptilian, and wearing an engineering uniform, if that was what you could call it. The young Scot tried to keep his expression neutral even though his insides momentarily turned to jelly and the hairs had all stood up on the back of his neck and arms. There was something primal and in the genes of most mammals to fear large reptiles, like the predators of Earth’s past.
"Commander Jadaris, thank you for arriving so soon.” Captain Braggins said as she invited the Gorn to join the group. “Midshipman Campbell was just asking me what state the Yeager was in following her maiden flight. To put it simply, the Yeager was launched before she was ready; Starfleet hadn't run acceptance trials, she'd not had a shakedown cruise, and more than half of the internal volume of the ship was temporary structures. When we responded to a distress call using the Slipstream Drive, again something that hadn't been tested, we knocked several key systems out of alignment including the slipstream tunneling projector. We had a brief scuffle with a Cardassian warship, which put a rather large hole in the back of the primary hull, damaging the torpedo autoloaders and our aft sensor array. Fortunately for us, Starbase 214 has an excellent spacedock facility, and it only took a week to repair the damage and put the finishing touches on; they say she'll be done today, tomorrow latest."
The captain relating the list of damage the Yeager had sustained on her inaugural mission came as a welcome distraction for Callan. He knew more about the USS Yeager and her origin story than he did about her captain or crew. He had read the ship specs front and back on the journey from DS9 out to Starbase 214. Cross referencing with anything else in the database even told him that some people had given the ship an unofficial nickname as well. The ship was an unusual hybrid mix of two different ship classes, stitched together in the middle and with a Slipstream drive slapped on for good measure, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there were complications, but it was surprising that Starfleet had launched such a ship without fully testing all the systems and signing them all off first.
He was sure there’d be many people that would feel that being assigned to such a ship to be the worst assignment there could possibly be, but Callan was too much an engineer to think of this as anything other than a challenge to be met head on. He felt quite excited at the prospect.
They call the ship Frankenstein’s Daughter, and here we have Nessie’s son, or something, Callan thought. And my senior officer. A Gorn. Well shape up Cal, this will make the assignment interesting. He took a moment to consider, and another moment to suppress the instinctive fight or flight response to the situation.
He wasn’t sure if he should speak or wait to be spoken to, and knew that he was just a midshipman and as green as could be, but he didn’t like uncomfortable silences and wanted to appear amenable despite having such an unusual senior officer and unorthodox starship assignment.
“That’s good news that the repairs will be finished so soon, Sir. I’m sure we can see to any finishing touches needed. I’m looking forward to getting a crack at it.” Callan said in an optimistic tone and glancing up at the Gorn Commander. Having never met a Gorn before he wasn’t sure how to read their expressions or body language. He hoped they would be able to at least talk to each other clearly to work together.
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As the door opened, Callan saw the form of a tall powerfully built figure. As they stepped into the room Callan was surprised to see that it was some huge reptilian, and wearing an engineering uniform, if that was what you could call it. The young Scot tried to keep his expression neutral even though his insides momentarily turned to jelly and the hairs had all stood up on the back of his neck and arms. There was something primal and in the genes of most mammals to fear large reptiles, like the predators of Earth’s past.
"Commander Jadaris, thank you for arriving so soon.” Captain Braggins said as she invited the Gorn to join the group. “Midshipman Campbell was just asking me what state the Yeager was in following her maiden flight. To put it simply, the Yeager was launched before she was ready; Starfleet hadn't run acceptance trials, she'd not had a shakedown cruise, and more than half of the internal volume of the ship was temporary structures. When we responded to a distress call using the Slipstream Drive, again something that hadn't been tested, we knocked several key systems out of alignment including the slipstream tunneling projector. We had a brief scuffle with a Cardassian warship, which put a rather large hole in the back of the primary hull, damaging the torpedo autoloaders and our aft sensor array. Fortunately for us, Starbase 214 has an excellent spacedock facility, and it only took a week to repair the damage and put the finishing touches on; they say she'll be done today, tomorrow latest."
The captain relating the list of damage the Yeager had sustained on her inaugural mission came as a welcome distraction for Callan. He knew more about the USS Yeager and her origin story than he did about her captain or crew. He had read the ship specs front and back on the journey from DS9 out to Starbase 214. Cross referencing with anything else in the database even told him that some people had given the ship an unofficial nickname as well. The ship was an unusual hybrid mix of two different ship classes, stitched together in the middle and with a Slipstream drive slapped on for good measure, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there were complications, but it was surprising that Starfleet had launched such a ship without fully testing all the systems and signing them all off first.
He was sure there’d be many people that would feel that being assigned to such a ship to be the worst assignment there could possibly be, but Callan was too much an engineer to think of this as anything other than a challenge to be met head on. He felt quite excited at the prospect.
They call the ship Frankenstein’s Daughter, and here we have Nessie’s son, or something, Callan thought. And my senior officer. A Gorn. Well shape up Cal, this will make the assignment interesting. He took a moment to consider, and another moment to suppress the instinctive fight or flight response to the situation.
He wasn’t sure if he should speak or wait to be spoken to, and knew that he was just a midshipman and as green as could be, but he didn’t like uncomfortable silences and wanted to appear amenable despite having such an unusual senior officer and unorthodox starship assignment.
“That’s good news that the repairs will be finished so soon, Sir. I’m sure we can see to any finishing touches needed. I’m looking forward to getting a crack at it.” Callan said in an optimistic tone and glancing up at the Gorn Commander. Having never met a Gorn before he wasn’t sure how to read their expressions or body language. He hoped they would be able to at least talk to each other clearly to work together.
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