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The Deltan - Dagen and Reia

Posted June 7, 2022, 3:35 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) (Gene Gibbs)

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“Well, I have voracious appetites for my marriage and my job it seems. I certainly don’t steal all of your meat. You need to keep up with me and my higher metabolism sweetheart so maybe you should order a rack of ribs to go.”

“It has taught me to be quicker at eating,” he said, “and savor the things that I can.” A rack of ribs? Those things were deadly, but then she would be the one getting all greasy.

She turned back to her father in law and gave him a mischievous look.

“Well between amazing things I do for the Federation that I really can’t tell you about, I just spend time among the crew. There is a lot of time between missions. I basically spend it studying where we’ve been and where we’ll be. It also helps being the comms officer.” she explained.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

“Oh, Comms,” he said. “Now you’ve hit on something. Have you ever done ham radio? The humans call it that. I’m not sure where it came from and how using a radio related to a form of food. Trill call it CCat .. short for Chatter Chatting.”
Dagen’s mother relaxed and nibbled. “Dear, we may be ordering supper here,” she said with a smile.
“I’ve done that. Does the Fleet have that? Sounds like something you’d like, you know, even listening in, one can learn a lot about others. I have a call sign and everything for the local CCat chapters. It’s organized you know into local clubs and chapters they like to call it to sound more than it is. “We are called the Twilight Whisperers. I’m the Grey Warbler.” Dagen couldn’t hold a straight face but his dad sounded rather proud of that.
- Dagen

Reia picked up and held her coffee cup to her lips for what seemed an unusually long time before actually taking a drink. Better to hide one’s laughter.

The thought of a gray warbler brought to mind a fat noisy bird such as one might find on an American holiday table in centuries gone by.

“That does sound very interesting actually. Quite similar to things we’ve had on Earth for centuries.”

“I have read up on that history. It is fascinating. Did you know the Klingons never adopted such a thing, and the Romulans quickly adapted it to a kind of surveillance method, much like Earth’s early internet, especially things like Handbook.”
“That’s Footbook dear.”
“Of course, you’re right. Strange names these. As I was saying, the Andorians never adopted such things as it was too easy for them to speak an offense, or words to be taken as one when not face to face. And the Ferengi used something like that to hone their skills in bartering and quizzing on their Rules of Acquisition.”

Leaning forward she made certain to catch Dagen’s father’s eye.

“And you’re right, you can learn a lot about a person, or race, just by listening.” she gave a conspiratorial wink before turning back to her shrimp.

  • Reia

He picked up one of the last slices of bacon. “You are a tease.”
Dagen squeezed Reia’s leg and nodded toward his dad.

The meal, virtually done, brought a question from Dagen’s mother. “Dear, we cannot possibly ask them about this, but you have to take us around for some shopping and to walk off this splendid lunch.”
Dagen & family …


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