Posted July 14, 2019, 5:25 p.m. by Cadet Kai Oliver Kingstone (Scientist) (Jay Luistro)
I always had a dream, a dream set in the deep planets of the eternal and chaotically silent space. A harsh place where even a single error could lead you to death.
I still remember when my father, had took me onboard his ship for the first time, to make my sight my dream and see what would I face in the future. All those brittle and colorful buttons with their noise were my favorite. The personnel seemed nice and well educated, their uniforms worthy of a Starfleet Officer. It was this what I was seeking?
I was still so young and innocent, but my heart was a heart of a brave and I knew that one day that dream would come real and that day is today.
Still remember when I told my old dad and my wise mom that I wanted to enter Starfleet Academy: they told me that I was crazy and that nowadays the risk was increasing and that I could perish in any moment in the eternal cold with my fellow mates. They added that the separation was hard and that the family was beyond anything else. I’ve asked then, why they joined Starfleet when they were younger, and so I silenced them and my father had no words to say back as he had never knew why he joined it.
The last day before departing for the Academy, my father came up to me and told me that, if he ever joined the Starfleet was to seek glory. To seek a new opportunity to help people and unite nations. And he added that if he would have not joined Starfleet he would have never met my mother. They cried and gave me the last slice of my favorite cake, that I ate while going.
I did not cried in that moment. I felt… emotionless, but I regret that I did not cried for a last time to tell them that I loved them.
Now that I’m boarding the ship, my new assignment, the USS Endeavor, I feel like I need to get back and restart everything again. Because even with all those stuff you studied at the Academy, you don’t know what can go wrong, if you learned everything at perfection and with wise and patience. You start forgetting what Long Range Scanners are for. How to operate a tricorder. What’s the difference between Alcubierre’s original warp bubble and our bubbles. But I tell to myself, that If I came here and now I am boarding a ship, it is to prove, first, that I am proud of my choice and my role I’m getting. Second to tell my parents, that if I followed their steps is because I admired them, and it was my dream to be like them. And third, to have a unique experience and be part of something huge. A part of a puzzle of millions of people, with the intentions of creating a peaceful reign where all the species can live in harmony.
I personally find myself nervous to get in and do a presentation of myself to my new crew mates. I personally feel worried and sad for my parents who are old and soon they may be not here anymore. I get anxious at the idea of leaving earth for months maybe for years. But this is an adventure and I want to get deep into it, and make myself finally an adult. It makes me feel excited to start my new carrier and get in my first ship. It makes me feel like I had worked for 20 years to get this moment, my first entry. All those feelings are like a storm of snow and lightings inside of me, and the only way to calm it, it is to get into that transporter and beam myself inside, meet my fellow mates and start my journey. Until the life permits me to make it so.
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