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Side sim: The Meeting in the Service Ducts

Posted June 17, 2022, 11:47 a.m. by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Medical Officer) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Lieutenant Siarram Ch’Thaanaq (Chief Engineer) in Side sim: The Meeting in the Service Ducts

Posted by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Medical Officer) in Side sim: The Meeting in the Service Ducts

Posted by Lieutenant Siarram Ch’Thaanaq (Chief Engineer) in Side sim: The Meeting in the Service Ducts
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“Written languages fascinate me. How a specific shape came to represent the sound of a letter or a whole word. Much like how specific hand gestures came to represent specific words in sign language.” Hannah waved her hands in a back and forth twisting motion just to draw attention to them, indicating what she had been doing while they spoke.

Siarram had just assumed she liked to talk with her hands in the metaphorical sense. He hadn’t realized the motions meant something. “Sign language?” He asked curiously.

Hannah nodded as if his question made sense. “Sign language is a type of manual communication commonly used by people who are deaf or unable to speak verbally. Different physical gestures, or signs, represent specific words. For example,” Hannah made two fists and held them side by side and then extended her thumbs to touch and stuck out her pinky fingers. Then she rotated them back and forth in opposite directions, “This means engine.” Then she held her hand open palms facing and moved them out, “and this is the sign for ‘person’. So you put them together and you have a person who works with engines, or an engineer. Then if we add this sign first,” she made a claw type shape with her right hand and tapped her right shoulder twice, “which means boss or chief,” and then she made the sign for engineer again, “We get Chief Engineer.”

Siarram seemed interested, watching the motions she made with her hands. “You just chain the signs together and it changes the meaning?” He asked, and then he thought about it and added, “Well, I suppose that’s no different than root words in spoken language. How would you make the word doctor?” He asked, following the theme of positions on the ship. Specifically, their positions.

Hannah nodded, “In essence, yes. Doctor is actually one sign without the ‘person’ qualifier though you can add it to this sign and it would still be correct.” She held out her left arm, palm up, then with her right hand she bent her fingers at the first knuckles and tapped her finger tips to her inner wrist twice in quick succession. “Indicating someone who will check your pulse. Nurse is made the same way, but instead of all four fingers tapping the wrist, you curl the ring and pinky finger in and tap the wrist with the other two fingers.” Then she demonstrated.

Siarram watched her hands closely and then this time, copied her. “That makes sense. In andorian, we would say shethla for doctor.” He enunciated the word very clearly.

Hannah’s head tilted to the right after he said it, like she was replaying it in her head. “Shethla.” It was accurate but it sounded like she’d covered her mouth and mumbled it. She rolled the sounds around in her mouth almost working to recreate them. Then she repeated it, this time it still sounded muffled but without the mumbling quality.

She smiled her thanks. “Thank you. I’m also on the rapid response and search and rescue teams. Reading a map and using it to navigate in an emergency isn’t quite the same as being familiar with the Jefferies tubes.”

Asimina, med

Siarram nodded. “Oftentimes those maps, while accurate, don’t quite capture the intricacies of the tubes. I’ve seen too many take a wrong turn, trying to follow the maps, and get all turned around. You like to be prepared in case of an emergency, don’t you? A logical decision.” He commented, remembering this was the doctor who had insisted on attempting to replicate his blood in case there was ever an emergency in which it was needed.

~Lt Ch’Thaanaq, CE

“I do. It cuts down reaction time and if someone is hurt or lost, being familiar with the area can reduce critical minutes until help arrives.” Hannah grinned, “It’s good exercise too. How are you settling in?”

Asimina, med

He smiled, “I’d want you on the team if I ever find myself hurt.” Then he shrugged. “It’s been busy.” Really, Siarram was just a bit of a workaholic, though he tried not to be. “I’m starting to have more time for hobbies, now that I’ve had time to settle in and get to know the rest of the Engineering staff.”

~ Lt Ch’thaanaq, CE

Her right fingertips touched her chin and moved outwards, “Thank you.” Hannah didn’t know if he was saying that just to be polite but she would take the compliment. “Saracen always seems to stay busy.” Her first day aboard had been a whirlwind. They had traveled through a rip in space-time and there had been a lot of casualties. She hadn’t even been checked in before she was put to work. “What types of hobbies do you enjoy, Siarram?”

Asimina, med

Siarram thought about it a moment, “I practice Vulcan meditation and martial arts, and I ehm…” He trailed off, looking… embarrassed? Instead he changed the topic back. “Meditation and martial arts work well together to keep me calm. Separately, certain… troublesome emotions tend to become overpowering.”

~ Lt Ch’thaanaq, CE

“Well that makes sense, you must train both your body and your mind for discipline. I would imagine otherwise one of those could distract the other from helping you. I guess that’s why I like rock climbing. When you’re up there you have to let go of all the extra stuff, focus on your breathing and your body and nature. You can’t allow your mind to become distracted by other thoughts or worries or your body to work on instinct, you have to focus and place each hand and foot exactly or disaster happens.”

Asimina, med

Siarram grinned, “My hobbies are a little safer than rock climbing. I’m not going to fall three hundred feet off a cliff in the gym. The most I might do is sprain an ankle trying to get a move’s form down.”

~ Lt Ch’thaanaq, CE

Most people would laugh, but Hannah only grinned. Hannah didn’t laugh in front of others, unless she really trusted them. She’d been told her laugh was ‘strange’ too many times. But her grin said enough, “Well I might be a bit of an adrenaline junkie too. At least on the holodeck the safeties kick in and the risk is minimal.”

Asimina

“I’m going to stick to the gym, I think.” Siarram said, shaking his head. “Engineering is enough adrenaline for me, some days. One wrong move and Boom!” He was exaggerating, of course, evident by his smile.

~ Lt Ch’thaanaq, CE

“Well if something does go boom we have state of the art burn chambers in sickbay. We’ll get you taken care of....” Hannah turned to look toward one of the tube shooting off from the junction. She bent low to look in, “Is that a…dog?”

Asimina, med


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