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Not an epic arrival

Posted Dec. 7, 2021, 4:16 p.m. by Lieutenant Nicolas Dean (Chief of Security) (Russell Watt)

OOC: Ok this was originally a lot more epic, then I closed my browser instead of turning off the laptop when I left work on Monday - and lost the epic version of this. It featured a Beatles song, him making pottery and musing about the things he lost in his life. I’ve tried to reconstruct it for your reading pleasure, but have been unsuccessful, so here’s a far less epic version of it.

IC: Nicolas stumbled as he stepped off the transporter padd.

“You all right, Sir,” the transporter operator asked.

“Yes,” Nicolas replied with a grin, “long trip, you know the drill.”

The transporter operator grunted, he didn’t know it, but then again he was just here to ask a question, he had no back story, no purpose beyond just standing there for a scene while a character with a backstory passed through. He might be back for a future similar scene, while the brass headed off on an away mission somewhere, but apart from that, no hope for a future scene. Damn it he didn’t even know his name .. and didn’t he deserve a name? He was having a crisis and did that mean he should see the Counselor? Did nameless transporter operaters get to see the Counselor? Or drink in the lounge, or use the gym or sleep with a nameless ensign to produce little nameless ensigns? He could do with a pal and a confidant, and there was a Lieutenant who had at least spoken to him

“Sir do you have a moment,” he called out as Nicolas left the transporter room for the rest of his story, and the NE transporter operator waited for the next named crewmember to pass through.

Nicolas paused, did the transporter operator speak to him? No, it must have been his imagination … he continued his travels through the ship to find his quarters and then the XO and his staff. A CRIT team, what was that? He was keen to speak to the Lieutenant in charge of that to find out the go with it.

He got into the turbolift, said “Deck 4” and waited for the short trip to the deck that housed his quarters.

  • Nicolas Dean, COS
  • NE Transporter Operator with an identity crisis

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