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20:00 hours in Ensign Logan’s quarters with Zachariah Cobb teaching him how to play Kal-Toh

Posted March 28, 2021, 8:18 p.m. by Ensign Hawkeye Logan (Medical Officer) (Christopher Logan)

Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in 20:00 hours in Ensign Logan’s quarters with Zachariah Cobb teaching him how to play Kal-Toh

Posted by Ensign Hawkeye Logan (Medical Officer) in 20:00 hours in Ensign Logan’s quarters with Zachariah Cobb teaching him how to play Kal-Toh

Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in 20:00 hours in Ensign Logan’s quarters with Zachariah Cobb teaching him how to play Kal-Toh
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“Sir. As a suggestion to a newly member to Kal-Toh I say you go first. Like I said you are just new to this game. So you can go first captain.” He said to the captain. Logan was nice enough to actually let someone new go first. That’s what he was trained for. It is something that helps the newby of the game.

Logan

“Ah, erm…” Cobb mumbled, turning the metal stick over in his fingers, “that’s very kind of you, lad.”

Bringing the stick over to the base, he hovered it in several different positions, before choosing a spot on the outer edge and standing the piece up at a 45 degree angle. For a moment, his fingers remained in place, afraid that, if he let go, the piece would just roll away and onto the floor. Then finally, and with eyes closed, he withdrew his hand and reached for the whiskey.

“Your move, Mr Logan,” he announced, eager to see the Vulcan’s own strategy at play.

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

“Of course captain. But know I’m someone who has the logic with this game. Like I said it involves with patients and concentration.” As he said to the captain while putting his metal rod in place the shape changed into something that actually worked with the game. He knew that if he played it right the captain wouldn’t know what his intentions are in the game. While the young Vulcan has decided to make the shape to be formed he then said to the captain “your move captain. I’ve always like how the game transforms itself when someone places their piece in the right spot.” He said.

While the game was going he got up and got more Vulcan tea and more whiskey for the captain. He knows that the captain loves his whiskey and he knows that only humans can tolerate the taste of whiskey not Vulcan tea. As the young Vulcan got them from the replicator he then grabbed them both and came back to the game awaiting the captains next move. Logan then chuckled and said “captain if there were any other games that you humans choose to show me how to play I’m fine with it.” While he sat there saying that.

Ensign Logan

It was confounding. Bewildering. Downright maddening! How in the name of the gods had Logan managed to form such a shape from one, single piece? Cobb studied the sculpture from all angles, but there was no obvious clue as to how the Vulcan’s own move had been so superior to his own.
Reaching for the next piece, the captain was tempted to close his eyes and hope for the best. A kind of high-tech ‘pin the tail on the donkey’. But eventually he made his move and settled his silver t’an at right-angles to Logan’s own. Then drew in a breath as he waited to see whether it would change shape…

As he waited, he sipped gratefully at the whiskey and, after studying the younger man for a few moments, asked, “So, Mr Logan. How do your family feel about you serving on a ship like the Leviathan, eh?”

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

As the shape started to reform again it formed to the shape again but still the game continues. He then placed another rod of his down and the responded to the captain “Well sir. My family is very happy cause they know that I may progress myself in ranks slowly like all people would. I mean if you remember when Voyager was in the Delta Quadrant Lt. Thomas Eugene Paris was demoted to ensign but gained his rank back to Lt. As a Vulcan I don’t expect to get promoted right away. I know that it is to be worked for and to be earned and I want to earn my self the rank of Lt. J.G. and actually work myself up.” He then said to the captain. He then took a sip of his Tea and asked “Sir you don’t mind if I asked how you managed to be captain?” He asked as he took another sip of his Vulcan tea. The young Vulcan knew that asking a question like that would be illogical and irrelevant to the conversation. But he knew that it would be good to know when he gets up to the captain rank himself. “Honestly sir. My family would like to be happy when they hear from me saying that I reach captain of my own ship sir. That’s always been my wish to be is being a captain of a starship.” He said to the captain.

Ensign Logan

“Interesting,” Cobb mused as he placed his next piece, his confidence growing a little with every t’an that did not collapse the whole structure. “I did not expect such ambition from a Vulcan.”

“Well sir as a Vulcan you need all the ambition as you can. Being a vulcan is exemplary then humans. As of us you already know that we cherish to keep our feelings in where we dont feel anything. Like I said before.” As he sipped on this tea and places his rod. The game then said game over since the shape was completed.

He sipped at his whiskey.
“But then why should you not be ambitious?” he asked, rhetorically. “To advance one’s career is to improve with both knowledge and skill. A worthwhile goal for any species, surely.”

As for the Vulcan’s question of him, that took a little more thinking. And a lot more whiskey.
“I will be honest with you, Mr Logan,” Cobb admitted, “the command of the Leviathan was given rather than sought. There are still some in starfleet command who prize my abilities far higher than I value them myself. And an old and dear friend who refuses to accept he has paid his own debt to me a hundred times and more besides.”

Cobb ran a hand through his hair, then let out a slightly weary chuckle. “Or maybe I was the only man they could find who was as skilled as they were dispensable.”

  • Captain Zachariah Cobb

“Makes sense sir. Would you like to do another round or are you good with just one sir. Cause I am down on doing one more round sir. If your up to it. If you’d like too.” He asked the captain. Smiling.

As he went to the replicator and asked for romulan ale. And the replicator has got it for us. The game then resets itself to the point where the young vulcan gives the captain another try at the game.

Ensign logan.


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