Posted by Lieutenant Simon Starr (Executive Officer) in One year later… XO Psych Review (tag CNS)

Posted by Lieutenant Guy Freeman (Chief Counseling Officer) in One year later… XO Psych Review (tag CNS)

Posted by Lieutenant Simon Starr (Executive Officer) in One year later… XO Psych Review (tag CNS)
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“I’m happy for you, sir.” He coughed and kept rubbing his forehead.

“As to myself, I guess since the academy, my entire career has been on the ark angel. I have to admit, there’s still things I can learn here. I guess I’m still working toward my more long-term goal, and I think going into command was the right decision. I started in Security and I’ve always thought about going into the JAG office eventually, but I want some practical experience first,” Simon explained. “My personal time has been on trying to find my brother, that’s sort of my main focus at the moment outside of my duties at least,” he continued. “And I’ll be honest, it’s been a mixture…” he said, stopping as he noticed that the counselor was looking more unwell than when the session first began. “Are you sure you are OK counselor, you look terrible. Do you want me to call sickbay?” he asked, noticing that he seemed to be ill. “After all, I want the person declaring me fit for duty to be fit for duty themselves, Lieutenant,” he said.

Lieutenant Simon Starr, XO

“Yeah, yeah, I am fine. I went for a check just before our session.” He grinned and grunted. The XO seemed to be his type: not too much confident of himself, a good dose of adventures and a story that remembered his “so returning to your… life.” Guy kept writing on his clipboard “how does- how does your brother’s search problem affects your daily life? It does not bother your role of First Officer? You know, you have strict obligations and you cannot permit that a problem, personal or not, affects your decisions involving the crew.”
His health seemed to downgrade time to time: he just hoped that the session would have ended as soon as he could. But with the XO it was not case to rush. The Captain wanted the best? He was to give the best Officer he could manage to find.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

“Well, I admit I told the captain about it when I first boarded the ark angel, but it’s been six years. I typically keep any of that work to my downtime. I feel I can say enough time has passed since he went missing where it isn’t my main focus all the time anymore,” Simon answered. “As for the daily life, I keep it to working on it a day in every four, the others I spend around the ship, getting to know the rest of the crew that don’t visit the bridge too often, that sort of thing. I always found it helpful to spend time on one thing, but not to consume yourself in it. I guess that’s the security officer still in me saying that you need to be ready for action at a moments notice,” he told Guy, smiling slightly at the last part of his statement.

Liuetenant Simon Starr, XO

Guy kept writing. Then he looked at what he wrote and made like a nod “alright. Let me know another thing, what do you expect from this kind of life, the life of Starfleet officer? Of course meant in the near future as you are already living the “Officer” life. Are you planning to rank up and get yourself in service as captain on a ship?”
As he noticed, Mr. Starr seamed to be already to be fit. But to be sure, Guy wanted to ask some more question even if it meant, less time to rest.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

“Eventually, maybe,” Simon replied. “But I definitely do not feel like I’m ready to take on that position just yet, counsellor,” he said with a smile. “After all, I only recently became the XO here. So, there are still things for me to learn before I can say that I’ll be serving as captain. That doesn’t mean to say it’s not something I’ve thought about, just I don’t think rushing to that position is the best of ideas,” he answered. “Of course, I do want to get to Commander in rank though,” he chuckled out a little.

Lieutenant Simon Starr, XO.

“Hm.” Guy thought “tell me about your family. If you want, in particular of you brother, your relationships with the relatives and stuff. Family is important and sometimes it is source of issues.”
The Lieutenant asked gently. He knew what family issues meant, he was living nowadays a problem that his family had made purposely and not because they wanted to, but because they felt it was necessary to limit Guy’s ability. In his opinion, all officers needed to be cleared about this question before boarding checks could be passed.
“Yeah… those piece of-” he stopped before he could continue “-jerks. Not anything else.” The Lieutenant whispered

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

“Well, we all grew up on a farm in England, and it was a rather simple life, to be honest. We all got on pretty well, then just over six years ago, my brother left - no goodbye messages, just disappeared. We woke up, he had gone. It hit mother and father hard, and we still haven’t heard back from him since. He could be dead, but it’s the lack of closure that troubles us the most, I think.

So, when I said I was joining Starfleet, they did get a bit worried that I would be far away from home. I’ve managed to stay in contact, until we came out here and out of contact. I keep them in the loop, but they don’t know I’ve been promoted to XO yet. Last time I was able to contact them was just before our long-range exploraiton began,” he told the counsellor. “However, when I graduated from the academy, they were still proud of the accomplishment, even came to the ceremony and we enjoyed a meal together.

“That’s a good thing.” Replied Guy to the XO coughing a bit afterwards “My parents did not even presented at my graduation. It was like I never had one. They just told me at home: congrats. Nothing less nothing more.” He almost teared at the sole thought “anyway, keep going.” He said pulling down his uniform.

I did tell them in the unlikely event my duties reveal anything new about my brother, I’d let them know what I could,” he explained. “That was the last time I was on Earth,” he sighed. “And now I’m the Executive Officer on the ship, a year out of the Academy, and I’ve only prepared a subspace message for when we’re in range of a relay for them that is still waiting to be delivered,” he told the consellor. “A lot has happened in a year…” he thought out loud to himself.

• Lieutenant Simon Starr, XO

The Lieutenant was writing something, something long as it took 3/4 seconds before he could look straight to Mr. Starr and tell something to him “alright, so I suggest to put the family question under your bed until we aren’t out of this situation. Whenever it will be possible, send them your greetings, they surely will be relieved. BUT, now your job is the crew and the ship.” He finished his tea “I have nothing else to ask. Here I have your form filled ready to be sent. But I want to ask you a last question, and there it is: there’s something that I don’t know that may affect your position and commanding abilities? Be sincere, otherwise, you are cleared for duty. I don’t see any “bad” reason to hold you.”
Guy knew that when it was time to talk about the outrageous and the worst, many retreated like troops assaulted by a big horde of enemies. He was not the lazy counselor, but as he knew for experience people would have hesitated and took time before speaking if they had something to tell. Otherwise, a straight and dry “No I don’t” would have replaced the reply. Sometimes the fast response was true, but for the majority of cases, his thesis showed to be successful.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer