Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) in CE Office Ensign Morton Reporting For Duty

Posted by Ensign V’Lat Morton (Engineer) in CE Office Ensign Morton Reporting For Duty

Posted by Ensign V’Lat Morton (Engineer) in CE Office Ensign Morton Reporting For Duty
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Once V’Lat had approached the office of the chief engineer he looked over his clothing, he tried to find any sign of mess or untidiness to find it his uniform was fine and he may just be feeling uncomfortable. After a few seconds, which felt like a lifetime to V’Lat he knocked on the door before asking,
“Ensign Morton Sir.”

He closed his eyes in wait of a reply.

Dagen was like his predecessor and mentor from long ago. He didn’t like his office door closed but always open. At the knock he looked up and saw a tall, young Vulcan standing there. Morton. That didn’t sound like a Vulcan name. There had to be a story there. In his calendar he knew there was transfer crew coming and he had just glanced at the list.

Dagen stood and brought up his fingers in a Vulcan gesture. “Live long and prosper Ensign Morton. Come in. Lets go over your file and see where you’d best fit. Are you familiar with the Genesis layout?” he asked. It was likely a mute point; Vulcans tended to have that sort of thing ‘filed’ away by now.
- Dagen Thor, CE

On the vulcan gesture V’Lat Attempted it but instead had is Index and Pinky finger extended with the ring and middle finger together “Eh, I never learned the hand movement. and yes to the question. I am relatively familiar with the Genesis’s layout, still trying to acquaint myself though” After saying this V’Lat smiled yet still concerned he may hear all the questions he had heard before a thousand times. He looked around the room, “May I have a seat sir?”

Ensign. Morton Engineer

‘A dyslexic Vulcan?’ Dagen wondered. “She’s not a big ship but she’s a good ship. And still pretty new.” He withheld the statement that he had helped in her construction. That wasn’t relevant. He gestured to a chair, then bent to take off it a small nanocalibrator and deuterium injector panel that he had been tinkering with. Setting them on the desk he said, “Of course.”

V’Lat in response took a seat, “Thank you very much sir.”

“Have you had a past assignment?” he asked. The Vulcan looked young. Real young. Did he ever look that young? “Did you go through the Vulcan Science Academy or Starfleet?” He knew they were cross functional and Vulcan had certain .. leeway.
- Dagen, CE

He smiled and gave a response that seems quite rehearsed “Starfleet Academy, I have never been to Vulcan. I bet there will be a few questions linked to that statement.” V’Lat analysed nanocalibrator and deuterium injector and looked at them with familiarity.

• Ensign. V’Lat Morton (Engineering)

Pulling a chair around so that he’d not be ‘behind’ it looking all officious, the pale Trill took a seat and pushed aside his unruly mop that had slumped to his forehead. “Oh, only if you do not otherwise continue. Please do. Where then did you grow up?” V’Lat would note that several components had been removed from the injector and were strewn about the top of the desk in a fashion that would drive anyone remotely OCD to distraction.
- Dagen, CE

OOC: Going to get you into the main sim soon ..

“Oh of course!” V’Lat Exclaimed “I was born on and raised on a starship, the USS Tauri. My biological parents died in a shuttle accident, a simple malfunction, something that could have been avoided with simple oversight. Well, enough of that for now, I was raised by human parents in the ship until I was 11 when they retired and moved to Earth. I loved Earth, it became home very quick, and everyone there is so nice.” The vulcan smiled with nostalgia, “But I think ships is where I belong.”

OOC: Thank you, hope I’m doing well at this. This is my first assignment at all.

Ensign. Morton, V’Lat (Engineering)

That was a lot to take in. Was Morton ‘gushing’? Not to mention exclaiming various terms that in all Thor’s hosts had never known expressed from a Vulcan. His story was similar to but different from Reia’s on being raised by humans. But how he was taken in by humans and not returned to Vulcan to relatives was a story in itself he supposed. And perhaps the episode brought in a ‘logical’ - or ‘emotional’ reason for his going into engineering. He put that aside for the moment, really not sure what to do with his ‘smile’ at the end. Asking him about all that background and all was likely more for the counselor to sort out and understand. Not to change mind you, but to understand.

“I find Earth to be ..” he shrugged, “.. okay.” The Trill smiled. “The blue sky always looks strange to me.” His fingertips tapped the tabletop lightly. “The Genesis is new, or pretty new and still considered state of the art for a small science exploratory ship. She’s a good ship for you to cut your teeth on and practice all those things from the Academy. Do you have any particular areas of interest or specialties or things that you want to work on while here?”
- Dagen, CE

He gave a bright smile in reply, “Oh yes, Cryogenics. I study cryogenic storage and quantum containment.” He tapped his lip as he tried to think of more fields he was good in, “I also worked on an alternative fuel, instead of Deuterium, Anti-Deuterium anti matter reactors we could use Tralphium, Anti-Tralphium reactors. It’s only seventy two percent as efficient I know, but it’s safer and cooler” he thought for a moment before he corrected himself, “Cool as in temperature of course.”

Ensign. Morton, V’Lat (Engineering)

Dagen had not heard of this more than simply glossing over it in the journals. While it was interesting, safety measures were in place to accommodate the current systems. It may be adapted in short range civilian traffic though until efficiency was better it wouldn’t hit Starfleet for some time. “So your principle engineering work relates to crossover with science and medical?” he inquired. Not that that was bad - indeed it was good, though he wanted to make sure. “Tell me more about what you’ve done in the cryo and containment? Who was your overseer at the Academy for this?” Dagen had taken a couple of refresher courses not that long ago there before coming onto the Genny - more notably he took them during furloughs from the construction project of the ship and had become reacquainted with some of the professors there.
- Dagen, CE

V’Lat waved his hand at the medical statement, “Not medical at all, more physics if I’m being honest. It was a junior professor, Doctor Ikam Vatet if I recall correctly.” V’Lat looked in excitement for a moment as he was just about to say everything “Tralphium’s cooler containment is a good temperature for quantum containment. I had double majored in quantum mechanics, failed my practicals and couldn’t qualify for a science officer but I learned a lot. I had come up with an idea to contain a giant quantum computer within a starship, three decks in size. Imagine a ship that could compute and win a fight before it had begun? This wasn’t the most significant factor.” V’Lat looked questioningly and asked, “Sir, are you familiar with quantum entanglement?”

Ensign. Morton, V’Lat (Engineering)

OOC: Bump
OOC: Back. All holidays out of the way for a while now. Which is good …
IC:
Dagen knew about failing things. His life had been a running list of them for a while only overcome eventually by his personal zeal of sorts in investing his all into anything he was involved in. “Such computing is always being sought, to be one ahead of another.” Indeed, in times past it was to be ahead of other companies or countries. Now it is up ahead of other star-nations. Each leap in computing technology was heralded as the be all and end all, until the next came. He had been around that block, himself some but no less with his past hosts. “I am,” Dagen replied to his question, then blushing; it was something he had said to Reia once after a particularly .. energetic evening. “I can well imagine a computer core spanning three decks,” he continued, as the Genesis had that. “What crossover passion do you have from your time in science?”
- Dagen, Eng

OOC: Bump :)