Posted July 14, 2018, 10:06 p.m. by Civilian Kenzie Easter (Lt Easter’s niece) (Russell Watt)
“Stay in my quarters until I get it cleared by the captain,” Uncle Mike had said.
And so, Kenzie did so. She went to his desk, and tried to look up things on his workstation. She was wanting to catch up on the latest week of episodes of Unreal Desperate Housewives of Betazed. Maryanna was a real piece of work, though she did have a point, Kassandra reading Maryanna’s husband’s mind without Maryanna’s permission was a real low act, and Kenzie hoped that both the psychic and physical sparks would fly when it cane out into the open. The fact that they were all actresses was known to Kenzie, and that the drama was all scripted in broad terms didn’t bother her, it just showed what could happen. Besides, they were all showing that the 24th century meant that people didn’t have to do what their parents expected of them.
Parents! Yuck! Mumsy and Daddykins wanted Kenzie to take over the family business. She was the oldest child of the oldest child of ten siblings. She knew that it was expected that she would take over the family business one day, and that’s why she was given the name Kenzie, which they shortened every chance they could to Ken. She was having none of that, but she had her parents wrapped around her little pinky, and she played the role of spoilt heiress perfectly. She never wanted to be involved in the business.
Hauling freight across the Federation? Yuck!
Sitting in meetings talking about trading routes, staffing levels, customers and the like? Double yuck!
She never wanted to do that for a living! She wanted adventure! She wanted to be … no, not a lumberjack, why would you think that?
She wanted to be a Marine, roughing it with the lads, throwing bombs at the enemy, marching in unison and so forth.
So she hatched a cunning plan.
Step 1 Tell Mumsy and Daddykins that she was going on a camp with friends. They okayed it without any problem, she asked them while they were in the middle of one of their long boring meetings.
Step 2 Find out where Uncle Mike was located and visit him. He was her favourite uncle, and with him being just 10 years her elder, they were more like brother and sister than uncle and niece. She learnt he was on Earth Spacedock and she went there to see him.
Step 3 Convince Uncle Mike that Mumsy and Daddykins said that she could stay with him for at least six months. He was in a meeting with a ‘Commander’ or ‘Commodore’ or something when she saw him, but he was almost as easy as her parents to convince what she was saying to him.
Step 4 Make sure that Uncle Mike can’t contact Mumsy and Daddykins. Mumsy and Daddykins were heading off planet on a delivery, and couldn’t be disturbed. And besides, she knew that Uncle Mike would trust her. flutter eyelids
Step 5 Stay on Earth Spacedock with Uncle Mike and watch the Marines training, so she knew what she’d have to do. Maybe she could help them! She knew that Starfleet officers stayed in the one place for years, and she knew that Uncle Mike would be on the Spacedock for a long time.
Steps 1 - 4 went smoothly, step 5 though was derailed, it turned out that the meeting with the Commander or Commodore was to transfer Uncle Mike from the Spacedock to a ship called the Ogawa. It turned out that it was a medical ship, which meant no marines to watch and to train with and to help. She was trapped, and went with him to the Ogawa.
Uncle Mike was at this point in the process of meeting with the captain, his department head, and also getting cleared both physically and psychologically for duty. He informed her that she would at the very least have to be cleared medically as well. But until then, he told her to stay here.
He didn’t tell her not to touch anything, however, so she technically was following his orders, but now she was opening a channel and told it to contact “Uncle Mike.”
The computer voice told her “there is no one on board the Ogawa by that name.” And so, after blowing a lose hair from her mouth, she said, “Computer, contact Lt JG Michael Easter.”
The computer opened the link, and then the voice of her uncle came over the open channel
=/\= Lt JG Michael Easter. =/\=
“Hi Uncle Mike. I’m still here, waiting as you asked me to. Have you asked Willow about me yet? When are you coming back here? Can I please watch Unreal Desperate Housewives of Betazed, please?” she asked. She nibbled at the chocolates she had with her as she waited for a response.
“Uncle, are you there?” she asked in the silence that followed.
-Kenzie Easter
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