Posted Sept. 10, 2021, 9:57 p.m. by Ensign Demil Lis (Scientist) (Amdirgol S)
Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade V’alura Belmont (Chief Science Officer) in CSO’s Office - Ensign Lis - Check in
A love of space. V’alura knew that love well. Everyday she got to look out into the black and think to herself, what wonders will we find today? And everyday she got to head into the science labs to study and learn about everything they found out there. The new En was going to fit right in. “There’s no pressure if you don’t want to.” V’alura assured him. “I tend to be real informal about things but refer to me however you feel most comfortable with and I’ll return the same courtesy to you.” V’alura lived most of her life as a civilian, and referring to someone by rank all the time felt stuffy to her. But it is what it is, and now that she’s the CSO she’ll have to get used to many new things.
“Alright, what next.” She reviewed her mental interview notes, “What next. . . ah, that’s it. So.” She smiled and motioned toward the window looking out into one of the science labs, “There’s always something going on in the labs. A good chunk of it relates to our current mission, but our teams consist of enlisted and civilian scientists. There will be plenty of opportunities in-between missions or during down time to begin new research or continue past experiments. So. . .
“What sort of projects or research would you create or pursue?”
Lt. Jg. Belmont
icc: here’s your chance for a creative response and flex those Star Trek Science Writing muscles! And if you need help or have any questions feel free to reach out to me
“I started a promising study of genetic predisposition for linguistic ability in my senior year. It’s produced some interesting results so far, but I’d like to explore the subject more. I also have been wanting to conduct research on a potential common linguistic origin for several different species, similar to the common biological origin of the Progenitors. I have a suspicion segments of the Progenitors’ language were somehow passed down to their ‘offspring’. As for projects, I’ve been working for years on developing a constructed language from the earliest roots to a modern equivalent. I’m sure that starship science computers would make that significantly faster usingsimulations and such. Of course, I’d put those all aside in favor of any mission-required projects.” His voice grew in excitement as he talked about his pet project. In fact, it was an even larger project than he’d let on. He’d had to build the entire Fai’ela culture from the ground up, and develop it through millennia. Then, he’d built the language, using the culture as a framework to inform the linguistic evolution. He had accumulated several hundred teraquads of data on this project, and it wasn’t half done yet.
“Is there anything you would like me to work on, Ma’am?”
Ens. Lis
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