Sittin on the dock of the sol

Posted on Sat Apr 18th, 2020 @ 9:57am by Crewman Lily Song & Lieutenant JG Stephanie McMillan

Mission: Dead Moon
Location: The Bar, Starbase 01 - Earth

Starbase 01 was busy as always, and at the bar it seemed was more-so than usual. The vast majority of the tables in the bar area where occupied with various small groups chatting away. The background noise featured all sorts of gossip on a variety of topics ranging from the weather on Risa to rumours of a captain going against orders. Even fainter in the background was slightly odd choice of music, some 20th Century soul music was playing.

Dr Song was sitting alone away from the bar at a small two person table looking out across the stars.

Stephanie strode into the bar, clad in her uniform though like her favorite instructor, her sleeves were rolled up. The place was nice enough, somewhere she could kill time until her next posting arrived, but it was also packed, even at the bar. She found a table only occupied by one other person once she ordered her drink.

"Excuse me? Is this seat taken? This place is pretty packed." She asked.

Song looked around slowly and looked up at the approaching woman and replies "Sure." before adding "is it usually this busy?" as she turned her attention back towards the vastness of space.

"I'm not sure, to be honest. I never spent this much time here before now." Stephanie replied, sitting down. "Lieutenant JG Stephanie McMillan." She said in introduction.

Lily took a sip of her drink before turning back round to Stephanie, "Dr Lily Song." She said offering her hand for a handshake.

Stephanie took it, nodding. "Nice to meet you. You assigned to the Starbase or also waiting for your next ship?"

Lily looked surprised by the question at first then realised she was wearing her uniform. Letting out a subtle laugh she responded with, "Waiting for my first ship to come in, I think it was the Astraea."

"Oh. That's...huh." Stephanie took a sip of her drink, "Well, that so happens to be the ship I'm waiting for. My orders say I'm going to be Assistant Chief Engineer, but I think someone's pulling my leg. JGs don't pick up Assistant Chief."

"Assistant Chief, huh." Lily started with a couple of seconds later adding "Congratulations, I'm just joining the science teams, my specialism is Botany"

"Thank you. And congratulations to you on your first cruise. You always remember your first ship, trust me." Stephanie replied, hoisting up her glass. "As for me and botany, well...I can keep a warp core going on adhesives and spare parts, but I could kill an artificial plant. But that's still quite interesting stuff, I just wasn't very good with it."

Lily bursts out laughing at the prospect of killing a artificial plant. After a few odd looks from other patrons of the bar she stops laughing. "Thanks" she says a little hoarsely. A moment later what appeared to be a flash of light occurred somewhere not to distant from the starbase.