Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on Thu May 19th, 2016 @ 1:17pm by Commander Sinek & Lieutenant Ventarus Nosplet

Mission: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Location: Engineering
Timeline: After Meeting With Petty Officer Takethen

Lieutenant Commander Sinek had no issues keeping himself busy. He knew that with the Captain Telvan down, Angel would be the acting captain. Since he was the Second Officer, Sinek would have to assume Executive Officer duties to lift that burden from the one he chose to love.

He had already spoken with Angel, read the report filed by Petty Officer Takethen, as well as interviewed her. His main concentration in his field had been the beginnings of planets and their star. This included the beginning of life on those planets. Now, he had somewhat a beginning of a new life. Or was it an resuming of an old life. He found this entire resurrection ordeal fascinating.

To find more answers, Sinek would have to go to the source. The CSO had only met Lieutenant Nosplot once before his death. He had found the man strange, a bit eccentric, and organized in an unorganized fashion. Is the current Lieutenant Nosplot the same man?

Walking into Engineering, the Lieutenant Commander searched for the Chief Engineer anew with life. He found him elbow deep in work, attempting to get more efficiency out of the Hera .

"Lieutenant Nosplot," Sinek evenly spoke. "It has been a long time since we last met."

"Oh! Uh, hi Commander." Ven said, startled by the man. "I guess it was longer for you than for me. I hear you got a promotion since last we talked. Congratulations sir." The last time the two had spoken, it had been in Ven's messy storage hold that he called an office.

"Thank you, Lieutenant," answered the monotoned Vulcan. "I am attempting to come to terms with your death and subsequent resurrection. Do you remember what happened?"

"Well, I was beaming from the pod to transporter room three when suddenly I showed back up in the pod and all this started happening." Ven felt a shiver run through his body. "Its odd to...well...I uh, guess I don't have words for the experience. Just odd." If anyone could understand his failure to understand his emotions on the subject it would have to be a Vulcan. "I am still coming to terms with the fact also sir."

"As a Scientist," the Vulcan began to explain, "if I had not seen your lifeless body and read the reports, I would ascertain you never were dead. However, there was a body; their were reports. I am left to wonder..." Sinek was now thinking aloud, which was unusual for a Vulcan. They would often meditate on something, sometimes for hours, analyzing it from every logical angle, arriving at the one true logical angle. "What happened to the body we launched in the torpedo casing?"

"I am not sure I want to know honestly. Seeing my dead body might be more than I can take." Ven said honestly with another shiver.

"Do you remember anything from the time of your death until the Petty Officer brought you back?" Sinek probed. He had heard the ancient beliefs, that most consider myths today, about life after death. In this case, they would not be wrong. Not entirely correct, but not wrong. The Scientist within Sinek was searching for evidence to prove or disprove the theory.

"Ameila said she tried to implant some memories, but I don't think they took." Ven explained. "I literally remember beaming myself out of the pod and ending up right back where I had just came from. Then things got crazy."

"So no memories," Sinek confirmed in his thoughts. "What about your duty skills? Are you still capable as an Engineer?" The Vulcan was, after all, the Second Officer. If someone lost their ability to adequately serve their post, he needed to know.

Ven shrugged a little and glanced down at the ground. " I would suspect that would be up to you to determine Commander. I don't feel that I have lost any abilities or knowledge. If anything, I feel slightly more confident and less scatter-brained then I use to." Ven glanced up at Sinek, "Maybe the side effect will be positive?"

Ven was good at what he did. The one thing that Sinek had trouble understanding the first time they had met was the man's logic in organization. Things were often scattered throughout Lieutenant Nosplet's work space. Since the man was in charge of all of Engineering, one could imagine what that might have looked like. Sinek's logic ran along the old adage of A cluttered desk equals a cluttered mind. The Vulcan would accept the side effect of less scatterbrained.

"Well Lieutenant Nosplet," Sinek dryly commented, "I officially welcome you back to your post. May you be as efficient as ever."

"Thank you Commander, I will not let you down sir." Ven said with a slight air of confidence that was not typical of the shy man.