Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Janna Kingston (Assistant Counsellor) in Lounge-Taking a Late Break

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in Lounge-Taking a Late Break

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Janna Kingston (Assistant Counsellor) in Lounge-Taking a Late Break
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Va’rek wandered into the lounge and took a seat at the bar. He was going over something on a PaDD while deciding on a beverage order. He’d been quite wrapped up in work for many days, having fallen down a theoretical rabbit hole which he was trying to prove with mathematical work before trying an actual experiment.

-Va’rek, Engineer

“Drink Lieutenant?” Ann asked.

• Ann

“Okay,” Janna said to Hammor as she slid her dish towards him. “I dont’ know if you’ve had ice cream, but it’s basically churned and frozen sweet liquid, most often dairy, so it’s all creamy. This is vanilla flavoured and vanilla is a dried long pod that adds a warm spiced depth to sweet dishes. This particular kind doesn’t just us an extract but the insides are scrapped out and added to the ice cream to give it an even better and deep flavour.”

~Janna Kingston, Assistant CNS

Hammor nodded and took a small scoop on his spoon and ate it. He was thoughtful for a moment and then said “The texture I like… but definitely not a… what did you call it?… a ‘vanilla’ guy. Nope, not my bag.” and he shrugged. “More for you, then.” and he picked up a fork and took a bite of cake, sliding it forward slightly so Janna could have some as well.

“Oh good, I get my cheery,” Janna said with a grin as she plucked out delicately off of his cake.

“So… is there a ‘Mr. or Mrs. Kingston’ around somewhere? Thought I’d ask as I like to avoid stepping on anyone’s toes as much as possible.” and he smiled as he took another bite.

Hammor

Janna burst out laughing. “No one you need to worry about.” She twirled her spoon between her fingers. “And here I thought this was just a friendly welcome to the ship dinner,” she said with a wink.

~Janna Kingston, Assistant CNS

Hammor smiled and said “Still is… I just like to be prepared for… potentialities.” and he winked back and took a bite of the cake. After chewing slowly and looking at her, he grinned and then looked away as he took a drink to wash the bite down. Looking back at her, he said “I will say… this is by far the finest ‘just a friendly welcome to the ship dinner’ I have ever had. I better find more reasons to run into you outside of your welcome wagon duties. Such good company is hard to find.”

Hammor

She couldn’t help but grin, as she cut her spoon into her ice cream. “Well, not to toot my own horn, but I’ve always thought I was good company if people could get past the counsellor job title. It depends though. Some assignments have been harder than others, bt I’ve enjoyed the Athena despite the difficult circumstances upon which I boarded.”

~Janna Kingston, ACNS

Hammor nodded in understanding, and then said “So what has been your hardest assignment? As in… have you been posted anywhere that you would absolutely refuse to go back to?” and he took abite of cake, but his eyes stayed on her.

Hammor, Ops

Janna seemed to ponder this over for a moment as she ate her rather delicious pie. “I wouldn’t say that I would never got there again, but before the Athena I was assigned to an outpost and it proved difficult at times. Now, part of that was that I kept having my PhD supervisor change on me, but also it was a busy station and I had some accidents there that reminded me that I have to be more careful than others do. Other than that and at rather stubborn CO at one point who caused a lot of interpersonal issues for the crew that I then had to deal with, it was no better or worse than any of my other assignments.”

“You?” Kingston asked, cutting off a creamy dollop of ice cream.

~Janna Kingston, ACNS

Swallowing a particularly tasty piece of cake, Hammor nodded. “Easy. USS Harbinger Dawn. You know it?” he asked.

“Great ship. Fantastic crew. And teh Skipper is one of the best officers I have ever served under. But it’s a flagship, so it is always having political and behind the scenes garbage going on, and I just couldn’t stand it. I mean… at one point I had to ensure that the shuttle bay was scented with hibiscus just so one Admiral could say that it was, and I quote, ‘The sweetest smelling ship in Star Fleet’. I kid you not.” and he laughed. “Do you have any idea how hard it is to get hibiscus oil into a non-sticking particulate and then send it through the life support to a single section of the ship?” and he laughed again. “No… no more of that, thanks. I’ll just be happy with constant threat of death, thank you very much.”

Hammor, Ops

Janna laughed. “You say that now,” she said with a grin as she pointed the tines of her fork at him. “But just you wait. And luckily, in the off chance that it catches you by surprise, us lovely counsellor folk are always on stand by.”

“Actually, despite my joking, I’m surprised how much I do enjoy it here. I was promised a quieter posting on a smaller ship, but was redirected last minute here. And it was a bit terrifying at first. But the crew really took me in as one of their own and it’s been good.”

~Janna Kingston, ACNS

Hammor smiled and said “Well, they do seem very welcoming and friendly… present company included.” and he smiled at her and then took a bite of cake. After swallowing, he said “So is there anywhere else you would want to be stationed? Like, if you had your pick of anywhere… would you stay or would you go somewhere else?”

Hammor, Ops