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At Starbase 243 - Promenade - Cafe Au Lait

Posted March 10, 2022, 10:38 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade T'Mara Michaels (Chief Science Officer) (S. Kimmel)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade T’Mara Michaels (Chief Science Officer) in At Starbase 243 - Promenade - Cafe Au Lait
T’Mara studied the menu and did her best to ignore Bajoran waitress. The waitress wasn’t doing anything particularly annoying but T’Mara felt the pressure to meet her expectations and select a Vulcan dish. The menu had a large variety of offerings clearly geared to appeal to the variety of species stationed or making layovers at the Starbase. The problem was that T’Mara disliked most of the “Vulcan” dishes. It had been this way since her days at the Academy. That had been her first exposure to a significant number of Vulcans and they, naturally enough, tended to associate other Vulcans which included T’Mara. Though they understood that as a Vulcan raised from infancy by Humans would be a bit different, some of them seemed to take her dislike for most Vulcan dishes as a personal affront. Others immediately understood the logic.

“It is illogical to eat foods that you do not like when there are other foods available that you do like,” T’Mara had said frequently.

T’Mara closed the menu and handed it back to the waitress. “Hot Earl Grey tea with honey and three medialunas.”

“I’ll have that right out,” the waitress said and T’Mara nodded in return.

She settled back into the chair and watched the foot traffic through the front window of the cafe. A new ship. A new mission dealing with anomalies … species presumably though their biologies might be so different that they might stretch the definitions of life… It all sounded interesting. But for the moment, all there was to do was the wait for Leviathan to arrive… and start a whole new crew dealing with a Vulcan that didn’t meet their expectations.

=/\= LtJg T’Mara Michaels, Science Officer

T’Mara glanced up from her PADD and noticed a tall, male Vulcan in a medical uniform watching her. A moment later, he approached.

“If it is permitted, may I join you?” he asked.

“It is permitted,” T’Mara said placing the PADD on table next to the remaining medialuna. “I assume that you have some purpose in wishing to contact me since there are empty tables in the immediate vicinity.”

“Indeed. You are a Vulcan on the Starbase that I do not know. My name is Simujah and I am a medical officer here.”

“I am T’Mara Miichaels. I will be assuming the Chief Science Officer position on the USS Leviathan as soon as it arrives. It is unlikely that I will require medical attention in the interim.”

“In all probability,” Simujah said. “Michaels. A human name, I believe.”

“It is. My adoptive parents are human.”

“That would explain the Terran dishes as well. A croissant unless I am mistaken.”

“An Argentine medialuna. It is delicacy very similar to the croissant,” T’Mara said. She interlaced her fingers and wondered if that was too human a habit. “Other than assessing a potential patient and unraveling the mystery of a Vulcan dining on a Terran dish, do you have another objective for this relatively awkward conversation?”

“Relatively awkward conversation… An interesting expression,” Simujah said. T’Mara glanced down at her PADD as it beeped an incoming message. “It is logical to maintain positive relations with others on the Starbase even if they are transitory and I find you to be an interesting individual. And I suspect that message is informing you that your ship has completed its docking procedure.”

“Your assessment of the message is correct,” T’Mara said. She began to rise from her chair. “I should join my ship now.”

“I look forward to meeting you again.”

=/\= LtJg T’Mara Michaels, Chief Science Officer


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